Sarah is the General Manager, Marketing at Positively Wellington Tourism and also Festival Co-Director of Wellington's annual culinary celebration, Visa Wellington On a Plate. Sarah grew up in a 'hospo family' and as such, an interest in food is in her blood.
Digging around for one-off bargains is Bel's favourite kind of shopping, but with an interrogator's light shining in her eyes, she will admit, yes, she even enjoys supermarket shopping.
Nothing lifts her heart like that red SALE sign in a shop window, except perhaps the thrill of clicking "Add to Shopping Basket". Her nose for a bargain battles with her magpie-eye tendencies, which may explain the strange look on her face each pay day.
Bel blogs about shopping and style.
Email: Bel@Wordonthestreet.co.nz
Jarrod is one half of Billy T Award winning musical comedy act Mrs. Peacock and the sole member of non-award-winning and mostly non-musical comedy act Jarrod Baker. When not doing comedy he has been known to act, write, be on the radio, make webcomics, and tend to his menagerie of chickens and cats.
Jarrod blogs about comedy (obviously), theatre and film.
Email: jarrod@wordonthestreet.co.nz
A native Wellingtonian, Martyn Pepperell is a music journalist. Outside of wordonthestreet.co.nz, his work has been published through ATM (UK), Back2Basics, Café Culture, Critic, City Voice, Daily Notes Sonar (EU), Fishhead, Groove Guide, Idealog, New Zealand Musician, North and South, nzlive.com, Pulp, Rip It Up, The Press, UNO and Wellington Woman. Martyn is also a radio-host, and a freelance copy-writer. He loves all of his vocations and really likes coffee.
Martyn blogs mainly about music, dance and art.
Email: martyn@wordonthestreet.co.nz
From his first ever job dishwashing at the Brer Fox café (now French fine diner Le Canard) at age 15, to reviewing restaurants and bars in The Dominion Post, Nick Churchouse has seen, sampled and served a fair wedge of Wellington fare. Battle-hardened at The Southern Cross in his uni holidays, raised on tales of rowdy dinners at the Green Parrot, and having worked in many an establishment since, he has been checking in and out of Wellington’s kitchens, dining rooms and drinking halls for 20 years. It's a hard job but ... actually no it's not.
Nick blogs about the good things in life - eating and drinking.
Email: nick@wordonthestreet.co.nz
Sarah Bennett lives in and loves Wellington. A writer, publisher and food-obsessive, her first food reviews appeared in Lonely Planet's Out to Eat London in 1999, and since 2003 she has been reviewing Wellington's restaurants in her guidebook, The Best of Wellington (independent & advert-free, and now in its fourth edition). Sarah is also co-author of Lonely Planet New Zealand; and (with husband, Lee Slater) Let's Go Camping: 66 great places to pitch your tent or park your van; and The New Zealand Tramper's Handbook.
Sarah focuses on reviewing food - glorious food.
Email: sarah@wordonthestreet.co.nz
Every month we'll have a Wellington personality blogging about their insider tips and the things they love about the capital of cool.
Antonia is a born and bred Wellingtonian. An actor, writer and producer and passionate food lover she helped put together Visa Wellington On a Plate. She guest blogged for us in 2010, sharing her crazy adventure to create a Wellington Pop Up restaurant in Sydney for 2 weeks –it’s a Welly assault!
Megan is a California transplant who’s happy to try everything twice… or more. Except oysters because it turns out she’s allergic. On other shores, she was a social justice attorney. On these, she plays drums and writes. Megan blogs about anything that makes Wellington her new, favorite home, and that might include food, beer, music, bike-riding and art. It won’t include oysters. That would be messy. She also blogs for Cycle Wellington because she appreciates a good journey as much as a destination.
Spending her formative years in Dunedin turned Renee into a lifelong lover of live music. Calling Wellington home for the past three years, she spends her days as a faceless bureaucrat, and in her spare time likes to make noise and friends. A natural roamer, she's explored many corners of the world indulging her weird taste for foreign pop music. But she’s happiest in Wellington in the front row of a live gig. Renee is one of our guest bloggers.
Kate spends most of her spare time training and playing for Richter City Roller Derby. Aside from Roller Derby, she loves eating, cooking, drinking, fashion and photography and dreams of one day owning a pug dog that she can park outside of Wellington cafes.
Steph was our first ever shopping/fashion blogger and has now left us for new things.
A sucker for all things quirky, luxurious, beautiful and just damn cool, Steph works at BATS Theatre during the day so she has pocket money for pretty things and swanky places. She mixes her labels with her vintage so expect the same from her blogs. When she isn’t working or shopping she’s hunting down the newest music, nesting, sewing up a storm, or seeing the best shows Wellington has to offer.
A love of Wellington, music, art, theatre and all things creative motivated this young wannabe-hipster to write for Texture (the old Word on the Street) for over a year.
But alas, Karyn has broken the shackles of her bureaucratic nine-to-fiver and relocated to Auckland to kick around in a different neighbourhood with her audacious dachshund Wolfgang.
We've still kept some of her awesome blogs though.
Darren used to write for Texture (the old Word on the Street) being the man about town. From break-dancing Euro-Cubans to High Tea at Martha’s Pantry, if it was in the least bit interesting, he was there to write about it.
He has now moved into other areas of the media but we've still got some of his great blogs and he'll be around doing the odd review from time to time.
Kiran used to be a writer for Texture (the old Word on the Street) but has now moved on - but we've still got some of her awesome blogs and she also reviews gigs and films from time to time.
Tina is a know-it-all about Wellington and works at Positively Wellington Tourism doing a bunch of things including looking after Word on the Street. Some of the blogs are her own and some of them - especially the reviews have been written by one-off reviewers.
Email: tina@wordonthestreet.co.nz
Brew bars aren’t new, (Trappish monks started them) but perhaps due to the festive flavour upon us (rugger), the space around my workplace is hotting up. Or...
One half of musical comedy act Mrs. Peacock and sole member of mostly non-musical comedy act Jarrod Baker.
Locally-raised journalist & writer, he began his working life elbow-deep in restaurant dishes & learnt most of his descriptive language from irate chefs & maitre'ds.
Digging around for bargains is Bel's fave kind of shopping, but she will admit: she even enjoys supermarket shopping.
