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The spirit of Christmas
Her family’s love for Christmas was the inspiration for former East Coast woman Caii-Michelle Baker’s recently released song, I Love This Time of Year. Based in a snowy, festive setting a long way from the seasonal summertime occasion on the East...
Not sorry at all
Self-described as possibly the world's second-most popular Polynesian comic storyteller, Tofiga Fepulea'i is on his way to Gisborne with insights on fatherhood, family, and some thoughts on what it's like to be raised Samoan in New Zealand, in his...
The king is back
Having performed Schumann’s song cycle Dichterliebe in January, one of 65 poems composed by a lovelorn knight-poet who plans to stuff them, along with his pain, into a huge coffin, which 12 giants will throw into the sea, baritone William King...
From Tahiti with love
Former chef Rebecca leader is not just a great cook. Turns out, she also has green fingers
All the thrill of a comic book
by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterIf you’re going to make a movie about wish fulfilment, 1980s America is about as good as you can do for a setting outside the Arabian Desert. Wonder Woman 1984, Patty Jenkins’ time-travelling sequel to 2017’s...
Huntress with heart
Former police officer Tui Keenan makes her television debut on Tuesday night in a show called Hunting with Tui, about a woman who became hooked on hunting and wants to use it to help at-risk people. She spoke to Murray Robertson . . .The Maori...
An artist of the floating world
A BIT of a cuddle settled Lina Marsh’s dog enough for the artist to press a clay tablet onto an inked patch of fur. The fur print tile is now part of Marsh’s mixed media sculpture, He Tumu Herenga Waka He Taura Herenga Tangata (like the post...
The Guide briefs
Operatunity presents The Luck of the Irish. May contain ballads, fiddle, humour, quirky ditties and Irish jokes. War Memorial Theatre, tomorrow, 11am. Tickets available from www. operatunity. co. nz. Tickets include lunch with the performers. Dub-funk...
A single source of light
American spaceman Buck Rogers first appeared in a 1929 comic as an Air Force pilot who wakes up from a 500-year sleep to find his homeland is overrun by Mongols. Some time during the 20th century, space traveller's moniker was given to Gisborne art...
Man of steel
The tall hedge towered over by metal petals, wings and a steel helix suggests the perimeter contains a compound full of ore-based extraterrestrials. In fact, the hedge and recently installed cyclone wire gate are to stop people wandering in to...
Taking on a ghost
Gisborne’s Helayna Ruifrok got the running bug nine years ago and has been ticking off runs and races, distances and personal bests ever since. At the end of February she took on the Old Ghost Ultra — an 85km run on the Old Ghost Road in the...
Habit-forming
A warm hug of a play, is how director of Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Nunsense, Beatrice Papazoglou, describes the musical comedy.“The appeal for me was it’s unadulterated joy. It’s a warm hug of a play for an audience whether...
Your best summer skin
We’re all familiar with the ‘slip, slop, slap & wrap’ SunSmart campaign that began in the 1980s, but now — with extensive research, development and the latest in technology — being SunSmart goes to a much deeper level, says The Beauty...
Train tucker
The delicious cuisine served on board the Indian Pacific is one of the highlights of this iconic 4352km train voyage across Australia. Your own five-star restaurant travels with you . . . just down the corridor. Justine Tyerman persuaded one of the...
The brightest fell, to land here
The graphic for the hard-out New Zealand duo Skinny Hobos’ The Merchant of Tirau act’s single features a typical Kiwi villa in neon green and orange. Out front is a neon sign that reads The Merchant of Tirau. It’s a clear reference to...
Rhythm and Vines — the acts
To paraphrase a line from a song by Broods, one of the guest acts at this year’s Rhythm and Vines, everything’s looking peach. For some reason international acts won’t be able to make it to the three-day music festival but with the largest ever...
Spicy drumettes perfect for picky people
These little chicken drumettes are about as easy and flavoursome as they come. Marinate them overnight if you have time, to really get the most out of the spices. I can’t tell you how many times we’re asked for this recipe. It never...
Try terrariums
Terrariums, open vessels or indoor containers, whatever you choose to call them, one thing is for sure — they're amazing! And the best thing about them is that anyone can make them. You can create many different themed worlds that can be enjoyed...
What's on in Gisborne
Saturday, August 22Camellia & Daffodil Show, Showground Events Centre, 1.30–4pm, run through Poverty Bay Horticultural Society. Wrights Winery Spring Party, 7pm, Gisborne Wine Centre (transformed into spring garden), music by DJ The Missing Link...
Unity’s Popcorn killers spill the beans
In comedian Ben Elton’s satirical play Popcorn, two psychopaths invade Tarantinoesque filmmaker Bruce Delamitri’s home. The pair’s across-state killing spree has been condemned in the media as a copycat version of the one in Delamitri’s...
A bowl full of goodness
When it comes to a student diet some things can be left wanting — like nutrition — when money is tight. But twin sisters Sophie and Emily Martin have taken their love for food, cooking and cafés to print, with their book about balance, The...
Street artist Mr G hits Gisborne
Mount Hikurangi rises up at the centre of street artist Graham Hoete’s almost 30 metre-long mural he is spray painting this week on the Farmlands’ wall in Lowe Street. The maunga is flanked by a birds-eye view of Uawa-Tolaga Bay’s historic...
History and treasures on the shores of Lake Constance
Lake Constance is a multi-national body of water, ringed with enchanting towns and leisurely lakeside attractions. On my latest swing through Europe, I was curious to sample a few nights on the shores of Lake Constance and she didn't disappoint...
Mess and stunts
What drives someone to walk on broken glass, swallow fire or juggle a chainsaw?In Rollicking Entertainment’s Seven Deadly Stunts, real life married couple David Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache celebrate seven notorious stunts from carnival...
The art of seeing
A portrait artist who works in pencil, charcoal and coloured pencil, and a mostly figurative painter with oils and acrylics, Kath McLaughlin will share her techniques in a workshop next week. Participants need only bring pencils 2B, 4B and 8B. Paper...
Music with meaning
SITTING in his dad’s Cortina outside Farmers — the only store to have an escalator in the whole of Nelson town — Bryce Wastney remembers the sound of the cassette tape whirring, then a magical voice coming over the tinny speakers. It was circ...
Actors sought for Shakespeare rom-com
The year is 1969 and our boys have come home from the war to discover a battle of the sexes is just beginning in Evolution Theatre Company director Dinna Myers' concept for a production of Shakespeare's rom-com, Much Ado About Nothing. All the...
Reawakening, new direction
Whakaoho — stirring, arousing, awakening — is the apt name of Toihoukura Maori visual arts school's first physical exhibition of the year. Usually held at the end of term one, the Covid-19 lockdown meant the exhibition of undergraduate...