Reports of major flooding, weather warnings and watches — whose bright idea was it to continue with our planned trip?Mine of course, despite learning just before going, of “horrible” conditions beyond Matawai. In part it was too late to...
Nikau Gabrielle Hindin (Ngapuhi, Te Rarawa) is an artist based in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay who, just as New Zealand went into isolation, learned she had received the 2020 $10,000 Dame Doreen’s Gift from the Blumhardt Foundation. Hindin, who is...
NOT many musicians rock a guitar that is part swordfish but Gisborne Blues and Roots festival guest Grant Haua does. The body of his cigar box guitar is a cigar box but the neck is all broadbill.“It’s still a bit rough,” he says. “The sword...
A career first as a science teacher then as principal of Gisborne Boys’ High School has never felt like a job for Greg Mackle because he always had a passion for it.“It just so happened that I decided early on that I really loved teaching. I...
Among winners announced for this year’s National Waiata Maori Music Awards was Te Kaha-based musician Rob Ruha’s song, Ka Manu. With the combined voices of Ruha, Maisey Rika, Horomona Horo, Majic Paora, Troy Kingi, Ria Hall, Seth Haapu and Bell...
Big, bawdy, bumbling John Falstaff is so much at the heart of Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor award-winning actor Katie Boyle is surprised the play isn’t named after him. Boyle plays not only the indelicate, impecunious knight...
An international print exhibition designed to present “the complex nature of the printmaking process in the fullest possible manner” has accepted all three of Gisborne artist Hannah King’s submissions. Artists from around the world were invited...
From cartoon to the stage, Footrot Flats’ characters are larger than life, as the actors in Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production have found during rehearsals for the upcoming show. WalPlayed by Walter Walsh, gumbooted, black-singleted Wal is...
JESSE Morris's latest tour celebrates the release of his new single, Freedom Has No Measure, a track co-written with a volunteer teacher from Cambodia’s island village of Koh Rong where Morris spent time living, writing and volunteering. All...
Trois PapillonDeux Papillon (Two Butterflies), a challenging work for two flutes and piano by 19th Century Polish composer Emil Kronke, inspired the name for Gisborne Girls’ High trio, Trois Papillon. With Sarah Palfi on piano, and Rebekah Hakiwai...
Smokefreerockquest judges saw double in this year’s competition when repeat offender Keira Batten Coogan made it into the national finals. It only takes a minute speaking to the Gisborne Girls’ High School Year 12 pupil to know she’s more...
The Kearney family — Nell and John and their four children — arrived in Gisborne from Palmerston North in 1957. John had secured a job with the Public Trust here, and the family set up house in Kaiti. The four children — Cynthia, Ian, Patrici...
Gisborne Herald reporter Sarah Curtis caught up with Gisborne lawyer Jacqueline Blake, soon to be a District Court judge
Tech is booming and Projectworks chief executive Matt Hayter wants more Gisbornites to join the “gold rush”. Reporter Jack Marshall spoke with Matt about how he started programming and how others can start their careers. Forget Mark Zuckerberg...
If you’re downsizing or have a small garden, a pint-sized tree might be the answer. There are plenty of options to plant as we move into the warmer months. Small space treesTrees are a vital part of the urban landscape. They provide valuable shade...
by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterHow fleeting world domination can be. It can disappear in a snap. It has been two years since the last Marvel film, an unfathomable chasm for an ever-churning movie machine. In between, Marvel has made its most ambitious...
Dome Room, tomorrow, 8pm. Tickets $20 from The Aviary or the Dome. Savvy, G'zukers Goodtime Band, Barleycorn and a cast performance of Jerusalem for a Gisborne Cancer Society fundraiser. Unity Theatre, Saturday, 4pm. Tickets $20. Message Heather...
Jacked up on lattes and Pilates, mums and dads go nuts in the mosh pit, Year 10 student Jackson Clarke performs a mean guitar lead break from atop a dead electricity substation transformer and Sit Down in Front’s singer Cory Newman sings about how...
The iconic Uawa Foodmarket is under new management with Brian and Dolly Mitchell retiring after 26 years. The Tolaga Bay couple reflect on their years at the shop with Shaan Te Kani. It’s the end of one era . . . and the beginning of another. For...
A sensual, cerebral, sesquicentennial celebration — such is the billing for a variety concert springing from the combined 75th birthdays of local musicians Catherine Macdonald and Gavin Maclean this Saturday, May 28. With a mixture of fun and...
The frontman of acclaimed New Zealand band The Feelers, James Reid, will perform in Gisborne at Smash Palace on Wednesday, November 28. As the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for The Feelers, he has established himself as one of New Zealand’s...
IAN Ruru launches his $3000 drone in a light breeze from the top of Kaiti Hill. The conditions are perfect, he says. He controls the machine from a hand-held device, similar to an Xbox or Playstation console, as it lifts vertically from the ground...
THIS is probably every kid’s favourite meal and it’s no different for my son Jonti — he just loooves it. It does take a long time to cook but I think that is the secret to its success, the longer you cook it, the better it will taste. I...
New Zealand Society of Authors is pairing established writers and school students who have a penchant for putting pen to paper. The Youth Mentorship Programme offers four secondary school students (aged 15-18) to be mentored by one of New Zealand's...
Justine Tyerman heads to Cape Irozaki, the southernmost point of the Izu Peninsula, Japan, where she is told of happy events ahead . . ."Skiing field,” the sign pointing to the sand dune read. “Great! I’ll have a go at that,” I thought...
by Mark PetersStetsons and Wrangler jeans are floodin’ through the door/And it’s sink or swim as soon as you hit the floor, say a handful of words from Chely Wright’s country song Sea of Cowboy Hats. Although other demands meant Gisborne singer...
Afrobeat and Latin rhythms stream around the world as BrazilBeat Sound System’s lockdown house party broadcasts live from its Gisborne studio every Saturday. BrazilBeat’s Nego Beto and Mara Weiss have turned their DJ setup and percussion...
NEW Zealand researchers have found sex could be the secret to a healthy prostate. A new report, Prostate Health . . . Sex, Lies and Misconceptions, released by Christchurch-based natural health researcher Warren Matthews, says men as young as 40...
A regular accompanist for young musicians performing in the Gisborne International Music Competition, pianist Somi Kim’s concert at Auckland Town Hall tonight will be livestreamed at 8pm. Kim performs the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F with the...
If feeding a giraffe needs to be crossed off your bucket list, you don't have to travel all the way to Africa. I was teeming with excitement about joining one of the giraffe encounters that Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch holds twice a day. We...