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Delicious any time of the year

OK — so it’s too late for Christmas but you can make her yummy cake for New Year instead, says Nan. Ingredients:340gm butter4 eggs450gm flour (3 cups)1 tsp mixed spice½ tsp salt2 x 400g mixed fruit1 400gm tin crushed pineapple1 cup sugar½ tsp...

Uma lava is other people

Three damned souls are brought to Hell, which turns out to be plain room where two declare their innocence while the third demands they stop lying to themselves in Jean-Paul Sartres' play No Exit. It is this character who decides they are to be one...

Good Vibes

The Good Vibes music festival will be one of New Zealand’s first major live tours to hit the road in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. While there were some minor changes to the line-up, the winter tour will stick to the dates as announced earlier...

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT

A ribbon of foamy white streams from, or through, the mouth of the face stylised in the manner of a Maori carving in painter Dayna Chaffey’s work that won Miharo Gallery’s Wet Paint challenge on Friday. The concept of the challenge is to create...

Hine’s mint treat

Hine Nikora Porou was back in the kitchen last week baking school holiday treats. Among other delights, she whipped up a few batches of mint chocolate chip cookies, ‘a favourite family treat’.She learned the recipe in cooking classes at...

Gig Guide

HarbingerBringing Metallica back to Smash Palace, Saturday., 9pm. Tickets from trybooking. com or $20 at the door. COMING UPAlbi & The WolvesAlternative indie folk tunes, Smash Palace, May 8, 7pm. Tickets $25 at eventfinda. co. nzAotearoa Prog Alliance...

Tasty tomatoes

Once you grow your own tomatoes, you will never want to go back. Smart planting means picking a good spot. They’re easy to grow and if looked after well, yield plenty of delicious fruit for months, writes Henri Ham, owner of Awapuni Nurseries...

East, of the Sun

Painting outdoors one day with the late Juliet Bowen, Gisborne artist Zoe Alford announced her frustration with watercolours. For many years, the two artists would venture once a week into natural surroundings at dawn to sketch.“I got annoyed with...

The good oil . . .

• Up your relationship with omega-3 fatty acids — that means consuming more oily fish such as salmon or sardines, walnuts, ground flaxseeds or flaxseed oil and chia seeds.• I recommend taking a good fish oil supplement such as @bepurebenwarren...

Film guide

■A man and a woman in their 60s meet while walking their dogs and develop a tentative romance. Stars Alison Steadman.■A documentary about a London lawyer and his wife who redefine later life by motoring across rural India in their battered 1936...

Stumbling through Arthurian legend

by Dominic Corry, NZ HeraldAfter a string of savage initial reviews, a less-than-stellar opening weekend at the US box office, and a widely-mocked David Beckham cameo, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was hastily deemed a blockbuster bomb. It’s...

Bring in the strings

Bookings are open for the New Zealand String Quartet, Four Suits and a Soprano performance that will replace the Ten Tenors who are unable to come to travel due to restrictions. The musicians promise a night of classical, operatic and pop...

Festival brings colour back to the capital

Another wave of artists, stages and creative zones has been announced for Wellington’s popular street festival CubaDupa. The festival has been cancelled for the past two years — coronavirus restrictions in 2020 and security concerns around the...

Tantalising tangy desserts

If you love tamarillos, these fruity desserts are for you. While it can be difficult to get your hands on this delectable fruit year-round, now is the perfect time to head to the local farmers’ market or raid your neighbour’s tree (after asking...

Jewel in Invercargill's crown

History bounces the red ball between Keith Richards and Mick Jagger as to who made the infamous reference to Invercargill being the “a-hole” of the world. It was 1965 when the Rolling Stones performed at the city’s Civic Theatre. Regardless of...

Out of the black and into the blue

Artist-surfer Daryn Mcbride thriving rather than just surviving during lockdown