The Gisborne Herald talks to Erica McNeil, general manager of the Poverty Bay A and P Association, about the future of an iconic Gisborne event and running a successful non-profit organisation . . .With a background and experience in sales...
Thirty years have passed since Musical Theatre Gisborne staged Footrot Flats and now director Theresa Campbell is in search of performers to do it all again. This time though, the musical based on the nation’s favourite cartoon characters will be...
If dark humour is for you, Unity Theatre's new play will tickle your funny bone. The Norman Mclean-directed A Skull in Connemara opens next week. The deadly Irish comedy from acclaimed playwright Martin McDonagh (writer and director of Three...
FOR listenability, pop hooks and original flavours, New Zealand singer-songwriter Ciaran McMeeken is up there with Ed Sheeran and Bon Ivor. The opening tracks My Kin, and That Feeling, on his self-titled album start quiet, then hit their straps as...
For the play Kings of the Gym, Unity Theatre director James Packman needed someone who was 50 and unfit to play physical education (PE) teacher Laurie Connor, says actor Trevor Shaskey who landed the role.“I said ‘why are you asking me?’”The...
While bananas are typically used in sweet dishes in New Zealand, Preeti Maheshwari has a delicious recipe for people keen to try something new. Raw banana kofta curry is a popular Bengali dish in India. It is an exotic twist on a traditional malai...
Tonight’s performance of Evolution Theatre Company’s well-received production of the comedy Sylvia is cancelled. The production which continues its season on Friday, and ends on Saturday, features Tirzah Russell in the title role. Found in a park...
Our train from Glasgow to Liverpool involved a minor hiccup — when we booked online with Virgin Trains we were informed that the service to Liverpool was unavailable due to line maintenance. However, by transferring from the Northern Express to...
Garden plants can be propagated in many ways. Propagating by rooting stem cuttings is a very common way to create new houseplants, but it can also work for many garden plants. With a little skill, ingenuity and permission from the person who owns...
GERMAN composer Carl Orff was, by all accounts, a bit of a creep — an active Nazi, a bad friend, difficult husband and neglectful father. But a tarnished reputation was not all he left when he died in 1982 . . . with his most famous cantat...
Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0635Guide pick of the weekThis weekSmash Palace — The Gisborne Musicians Network has its first fomal outing in the form of a meet-up (6pm) followed by a jam...
Charlie Turei says he has decided to retire now “because I’m old enough to”.It is appropriate that Charlie ends his career in Gisborne and that will happen on September 27 when he makes way for new area fire commander Peter Clark, who has been...
Former Lytton High School football star Israel Whitley talks to The Gisborne Herald’s Andrew Ashton on overcoming the health issues that forced him to give up his dream, and how he made it big in a new career. After two suspected heart attacks...
100 days project contributor Sarah Kane-Matete’s solo show opened yesterday at Tairawhiti Museum. The Manila-born painter and Filipino tattoo designer was part of the project in which artists created a work each day for 100 days. The 100 days...
Imagine seeing through Blue Velvet director David Lynch’s lens, a posse that embodies a crossover of punk, Rocky Horror and theatrical rock with a smattering of psychobilly, the nostalgia of bad-ass car culture, B-grade art, in-your-face burlesque...
How rock‘n’roll, how punk is this? Dad Carl Newman and son, Sit Down In Front frontman, Cory are camping at Tolaga Bay. They have just finished dinner and have served up dessert. How mean would it be to have cream with this? says Cory...
I’m writing this article to encourage other single people to follow their dreams of travel. With Google and a good travel agent, it’s not as hard as you might imagine. I did my big OE at the age of 52.I started with a map of China knowing my key...
A GISBORNE woman dominated the Phoenix Variety Country Music Club’s Classic Gold Awards in Rotorua at the weekend. Lesley Nia Nia took away 19 trophies from the annual music competition, for awards including the classic, the female solo and most...
Graphically rich, 2D watercolour-style animation The Swallows of Kabul (Les hirondelles de Kaboul) from French helmers Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec, is one of several films selected from the touring French Film festival for a Gisborne...
STARMAN David Bowie has left the planet but his legacy continues with what his long-term producer Tony Visconti calls the star’s parting gift, Blackstar. Bowie died on January 10 after living with cancer for 18 months. Released on Bowie’s 69th...
While not an avid cyclist, Jo Ferris ticked off the marathon Alps 2 Ocean and gives e-bikes a gold-card credit for age-related adventurists . . .In ticking off a marathon bike ride from the alpine remoteness of Aoraki Mt Cook to Oamaru’s coastal...
The Pope, a leprechaun and an alleged IRA leader walk into a bar...The late Graeme Mudge’s characteristically light touch and sense of humour near smiles out of the mural he gifted Peel Street pub, The Irish Rover, in the early 1990s. Mudge, an...
Gisborne’s Rosa Briant treks alone through dense bush in search of a secret location in Panama . . .Panama, on the Gringo Trail, is more of a bridge country used to pass from South to Central America, or vice versa, via the San Blas Islands. Most...
SCHOLARSHIPS: Arts patron Dr Jack Richards (second left) continued his support of EIT Maori art and design scholars this week with scholarship for four Toihoukura post graduate students towards their masterate studies. The four students were...
2 - 3 strips pancetta or smoked bacon⅓ cup diced shallot1 tablespoon fresh lemon thyme leaves⅔ cup diced Fuyu persimmon¼ teaspoon ground cinnamonSalt and freshly-ground black pepperCamembert or goat’s cheese1 to 2 tablespoons pure maple...
A REBELLIOUS surfie poet throughout the 1970s and into the ’80s, Gary McCormick met musician Paul Ubana Jones in Raglan and invited him to Gisborne. Jones had only recently immigrated to New Zealand so he moved his family down here to live on the...
The “mechanicals”, a group of labourers in rehearsal for a play to be performed within Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has long had the potential to be reinterpreted for a stand-alone play. With her satire, Revenge of Amazons...
A string of bespoke pennants designed by Gisborne-based surfer/graphic artist Daryn Mcbride put up for silent auction raised $275 towards a new trailer for the Gisborne Boardriders Club. When Mr Mcbride heard the club planned to raise funds for...
The national, pay-it-forward fundraising strategy run by Boosted Live’s Save Our Venues NZ group has helped Gisborne live music venues the Dome Bar and Smash Palace reach their target goals. The Covid-19 response has threatened the future of many...
Backdropped by the forest-clad Kaimanawa Ranges and Tongariro National Park, and gracing the shoreline of Lake Taupō, Turangi is a year-round basecamp for sublime outdoorsy adventure. It’s home to one of the most iconic regional experiences...
When young punk band Sit Down In Front take the stage to rock out their original songs, drummer Rikki Noble power-hammers the living daylights out of his skins. So for many it will come as a surprise to learn the piano is his main instrument.“I...
Gisborne artist Michael Crowley is a finalist in the prestigious Adam Portraiture Award for his portrait Whakapapa, of New Zealand Olympic skier Simon Wi Rutene. Crowley’s painting is one of 45 finalists, chosen from 351 entries in the biennial...