Fibre works hard to keep your digestive system moving like clockwork, support optimal gut health, lower cholesterol and clear any excess hormones from the body. Simple ways to include a bit more fibre into your daily diet are:' Half a plate of leafy...
The origins of pounamu in Arahura Valley is told in the play He Kura E Huna Ana that Wellington theatre company Taki Rua will stage at the War Memorial Theatre this month. Written by Maori language advocate Hohepa Waitoa, the play is set in two time...
British High Commissioner speaks to The Gisborne Herald about the importance of seeing things from a different perspective
A consignment of scores of Michael Jackson’s music is on its way from the US to Gisborne for a newly-formed combined school orchestra. Made up of musicians from Gisborne’s secondary schools, the combined orchestra is the brainchild of the...
The song Pulled in the musical The Addams Family points to the gothic humour in the show. Tortured by love for a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family, princess of darkness Wednesday Addams sings about her pain while torturing her brother...
Kiwi artist Zara Alen says she is proud to have represented her country in the Avis Charity Auction held in Sydney earlier this month. Reporter Maika Akroyd talks to Zara about how she came to be involved in the auction and the Avis Art of Discovery...
As a follow-on from Chris and Teddy’s Excellent Drawing Class that focussed on a “right brain” approach to drawing, the next class takes a different approach. Gisborne Artists Society co-ordinator Chris Smith and portrait artist Teddy Toro...
Time back in Gisborne allows busy international fashion designer and salsa dancer/teacher, Sheryl May, opportunity for a recharge
DESCRIBED as everything from a reunion for New Zealand’s heavy metal “family” to the first metal festival of the year — anywhere — the annual Hell SmashFest feast of heavy music is back, this time with a line-up of eight bands. Industrial...
Here's Rebecca's yummy pesto recipe using fresh basil picked from the garden with the help of her grandson Harry. The recipe makes about 750ml. 4L freshly-picked basil tips (if you just pick the tips it encourages the basil plants to become bushier)½...
Phil and Sue Newdick travel on from the Baltic States into Poland — first enjoying two days in the relatively quiet eastern city of Bialystok, before heading to wonderful Krakow in the south . . .We had opted for another bus ride from Lithuania to...
Stepping out of the classroom and into history, a group of Year 9 students and staff from Ngata Memorial College have brought the past forward by restoring two carved gateways in Tikitiki, learning their history and preserving them for...
The Gisborne Artists Society and Gisborne Potters exhibition opens tomorrow and is the one opportunity the creatives have to show what they have produced over the year. Stars of this year’s show include Gisborne Pottery Group members Jamie Quirk...
A spin on the iconic kiwiana toy, Buzzy Bee, is one of two pieces by Gisborne artist Conor Jeory that have been accepted for the annual Molly Morpeth Canaday Award. The three-dimensional art form is the focus of this year's award and provides...
The final performance in Tairawhiti Museum’s Sunday afternoon concert series will be presented by Claudia and Sophie Tarrant-Matthews. The sisters are studying piano and violin at the New Zealand School of Music and will perform works such as Pablo...
When best friends Erin, Bonnie and Lana ditched their corporate careers to start Three Birds Renovations, they were rookie renovators with big ideas. Today, with many incredible house transformations under their tool belt, they're a power trio...
Dodging donkeys is not quite as dangerous as running with the bulls but it’s not entirely without risks. Our guide warned us to take evasive action whenever we heard the call ‘balek, balek’ (Arabic for ‘get out of the way’) as we walked...
We all know the saying about the child in the candy store. Well, that’s what it was like visiting Juve’s Christmas one-stop skin and beauty shop. My head was on a swivel, gazing at the beautiful array of skin products, makeup, jewellery, gift...
WHEN Catherine August first contemplated studying art four years ago, she couldn’t even “do art”.Now she is the “ruanuku”, or the top undergraduate student of the Toihoukura Bachelor of Maori Visual Arts programme. Each year EIT’s School...
Gisborne students will get a taste of world-famous German composer Carl Orff through a special workshop this weekend. The workshop, titled A Taste of Orff will provide an introduction to the Orff approach with lots of hands-on music-making...
Author, blogger and social media foodie Sasha Gill writes from a firmly-held conviction that we can all benefit from a little bit of vegan in our lifestyle. Sasha Gill was attracted to vegetarianism as a teenager for health reasons and has made...
Blacklight illuminates bleached coral reef chunks in Conor Jeory’s photographs of an endangered blue undersea world. On show at Verve Cafe the images in Views from the Trophy Room are montages of the Gisborne artist’s paper mache coral clusters...
THE meat was still sizzling as it was carried on a stake from the fire to the table. A young woman inspected the lamb somewhat anxiously, tasted a piece and then gave it the thumbs up. Beatriz de Smet d’Olbecke, from Coyhaique in Chile, had seen...
Never mind Freddie Kruger in his Dennis the Menace skivvy; show the stretch-faced Scream phantom the hand, and stick it to The Ring — because here comes The Deadset 5. Presented by Gisborne metal act Harbinger for Halloween, The Deadset 5 is not so...
Sitting in a small room in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton, guitarist Rob Shirlow is chuffed and grateful his band Bitter Defeat has been heard by New York audiences and British radio listeners. New York magazine, Big Takeover, featured the five-piece band's...
FROM juicy mandarins and crisp nashi pears to hearty pumpkins and nutritious greens, autumn produce offers plenty of tasty options.“Throughout the cooler months it is important to eat at least five servings of fresh fruit and vegetables to stay...
Our guide Vieng asked me why I had to touch every flower I saw at Pha Tad Ke Botanical Gardens in Luang Prabang.“I’m just making sure they are real,” I replied as I stretched to touch a particularly bright red flower and nearly fell into...
A RECORD crowd descended on The Dome Bar and Cinema on Sunday for a screening of documentary film Dancer, but many missed out.“Over the four sessions we have turned away 120 people, sadly," said cinema owner Sally Shanks."The film seems to...