Cuba

3 Articles
Maximus
3 Min Read

There’s an old saying that you should never work with animals or children, and it’s been proved many times: witness countless Hollywood films like Kindergarten Cop and Daddy Daycare. Cujo. Critters. Lassie. Woof, woof: barking mad. I rest my case. There’s another saying too, that goes something like – you should never publicly declare your love for something or else someone will promptly take it away…

Maximus
2 Min Read

The subject of Manners Mall has not yet, it seems, gone away. The Council is still to hear oral submissions on Manners Mall, and one strong anti-abolition-of-Mall campaigner, Maria van der Meel, feels so strongly about it that she has set up a competition for Wellingtonians on that universal medium: Facebook. Sign the WCC petition Join the Facebook group “Save Manners Mall” The City is Ours…

Maximus
1 Min Read

So I was thinking to myself, as you do on a fine summer’s day like today: what is it that makes Cuba St so special, whereas Manners Mall just doesn’t cut the mustard?  Is it the paving? Grey bricks just aren’t as warm and friendly as the orange hues of Cuba. Is it the architecture? Cuba’s sure is older, while Manners is newer: but is that…