Bring a tropical holiday feel home to your garden by planting a mandevilla. They have brilliant colours, large trumpet-shaped flowers and glossy leaves that put on a fabulous show from spring right through to autumn. And don't forget your veggie...
Gisborne's Dion Williams, the newest ‘Life Member' of the Gisborne region's surf lifesaving organisation, honoured at 'Awards of Excellence' night
Te Kohe Tuhaka had never finished reading a Shakespearean text, let alone acted in one of the English master’s plays before he got the call up to audition for the 2017 Pop-Up Globe season. The former Lytton High School student, known for his...
Tairāwhiti's favourite cosmic, psychedelic surf rock group is back with a new single. Oceanspace have transformed their live performance of Gypsy With a Mortgage at Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival last year from fleeting to formed as a digital single...
Two bored kids. One rainy day. Enter a cat in a red-striped hat and a penchant for repetitive and often rhyming lines. The Cat in The Hat interrupts the rainy afternoon with his unexpected visit to Sally and her brother’s home. Their outspoken pet...
In an exclusive audience with David Bowie — the rock legend happened to be sitting in an otherwise empty Auckland bar — Napier musician Roy Brown approached him with a cracker opening line.“I said ‘Hey, David Bowie, my name is Roy Brown...
A moustached nude male poses with a bowl of marbles in his lap for a life drawing class in a Hale and Pace comedy skit. To the comic’s horror, his marbles bounce onto the floor when a buxom artist enters and leans over to preen herself. Although...
Sarah Ann Featon may be unknown in Gisborne today. But in the late nineteenth century, the Gisborne botanical artist was a best-seller, a prominent citizen in the community, and had her work presented to Queen Victoria. The watercolour artist will...
One day Sally Cameron was reading a book about New Zealand chef and cookbook writer Annabel Langbein.“I thought ‘she’s pretty cool, I like what she does’.”Sally, in her early 20s, wrote her a letter (it was the ’90s). Annabel suggested...
On a sunny Blenheim morning, 180 of us from all over New Zealand — including six from Gisborne — were waiting with excitement and huge anticipation for the arrival of a very special steam train. The appropriately named “Wine Station'' was...
Comedy night returns on Saturday with Gisborne expats and a stranded Scotsman. Hosted by former Gisborne radio DJ, Richard Dryden, A One Night Stand aims to pack Evolution Theatre to the rafters with laughter. Dryden spent two years working for The...
In celebration of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, Shaan Te Kani meets “Gizzy girl” Nikki Kennedy who is reaching new heights using innovation, design and business to help promote te reo Maori . . .?In celebration of Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, Shaan Te Kani...
A marriage of voice and piano brings heartbreak to the ears this weekend as baritone Will King and pianist Nicholas Kovacev will grace the living room at Tiromoana, at Wainui. King will perform the Schubert song cycle Winterreise, or Winter Journey...
Tairawhiti Museum presents, as part of its Sunday afternoon concert series, a performance by award-winning clarinettist Ben van Leuven and pianist Otis Prescott-Mason. The duo will perform a broad programme that ranges from the romantic music of...
by Jake Coyle, AP Film WriterThe American West is about as well-trod territory as there is in movies, but Kelly Reichardt keeps unearthing new treasures. Her latest excavation, First Cow, is her most sublime yet. Like many of Reichardt’s previous...
Kiwi broadcasting legend John Campbell has hooked up with Auckland rapper Melodownz to down kava in the first episode of a new web series. Campbell revealed he was going into the session after getting up for the day at 3.30am, as he usually does, to...
Across Te Urewera Forest, the terrain resembles a vast and undulating green korowai, mantling countless ridges, where some mountains slope steeply while others are crumpled like used tissues. Beech forest dominates the southern end, while rimu and...
Diana “Dobbie” Dobson was at the centre of an unfolding global story as the press attache for transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympic Games. As the first port of call for journalists from around the world, Dobson and New...
The last of Tairawhiti Museum’s Sunday concert series for the year stars Te Koki guitarists duo Sirisan Sobhanasiri, right, from Thailand, and Christopher Everest from New Zealand. The duo promise a diverse programme that features music from the...
Silky smooth and bursting with passionfruit, this tropical tart will win everyone over. Swirl cream on top or decorate with seasonal fruit for an absolutely delicious dessert
The disability community has many voices in Tairawhiti. Shaan Te Kani tunes in to the latest call being made by local whanau to fill gaps in disability support and services for the elderly . . .Those with the quietest voices, often have the greatest...
It’s a long way away, Italy. We were late starting, so the total time, including waiting in Hong Kong, wasn’t as long as I’d been expecting, but even so, I had time for a thick novel, a long struggle with the “Times” cryptic crossword, an...
AFTER exiting the blood and shouting of battle, Scottish general Macbeth (played by Joe Martin) and his friend Banquo (Martin Gibson) encounter three weird sisters on a smoky heath. The women sow the seeds of over-reaching ambition in Macbeth’s...
POWERVIOLENCE punk still features on jazz musician Alex Boulton’s musical radar, although these days the New Zealand School of Music student prefers swing, pre-bop and bebop. Boulton was a fan of the hardcore genre when he lived in Australia but...
“A snapshot of the Gisborne to Wairoa railway line (images from Gisborne Rail Action Group and Gisborne City Vintage Railway) shows that most of the line remains in good condition with only some sleeper replacements, culvert clearing, basic bridge...
The Gisborne Herald’s Matai O’Connor went along to the launch of Beneficial 360, a community-focused initiative that wants to help people transform their lives. He spoke with the creators to find out about it. Transforming lives and breaking the...
Among artist John Walsh's works in an eclectic exhibition at the Paul Nache Gallery is a large canvas called Sailing With The Ancestors. A woman at the bow of the waka hourua (twin-hulled, ocean-going canoe) leans forward slightly as if to peer more...
The vegan version of these chocolate chip cookies is just as delicious, none of us can decide which version we love the most. Store these cakey cookies in an airtight container for five days. You could warm them briefly in the oven to give them...
Remote Jack's Bay with its pristine white sands is unbelievably beautiful, especially on a calm, sunny autumn morning. I envied the 20-30 bach owners with their properties right on the beach in this secluded south-eastern corner of New Zealand's...
THERE'S nothing wrong with overeating on Christmas Day, right? Surely this one occasion is not going to be the end-all to your health and weight-watching?This line of thinking may be true in some respects but unfortunately, and you may already be...
Twenty teams, 48 hours, a five-minute outcome — the 48hours guerrilla filmmaking competition is back on. The 20 film crews registered in Gisborne include 10 school teams from Gisborne, Opotiki and Havelock North for the annual competition in which...
5+ A Day says now is the time to enjoy spring’s bounty and discover new ways to create colourful, flavoursome meals the whole family will enjoy. Sue Pollard, CEO of the New Zealand Nutrition Foundation, says spring’s seasonal produce is full of...