Gisborne artist Yung Maac has released his highly anticipated single On Me, after taking a year and a half break from music. Having recently joined 24K Media as their first signed artist, he delivers a synth beat by Grammy Award-winning producer Sky...
Morocco! The very name can conjure up the smell of spices, or the sights of carpets, leather, bright ceramics, or blue-tinged houses crowding hillsides above sandy, stony valleys. And most of that is true. Spices are certainly a major part of Moroccan...
Saturday, October 5Gisborne Harbour Market. Come along for some bargains. Behind the Courthouse on Reads Quay, 7am set-up, start 8am, finish 2pm, $10 car/stall. Car/stall inquiries; Gisborne Host Lions Club: Charlotte 021 141 8754, Malcolm 027 568...
Designed to curve over the Turanganui River and end at a point near the former rock Te Toka a Taiau, the bridge that remains a concept has earned its architects a second international award. Auckland architectural firm Monk Mackenzie won the 2018...
A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, better known as The Importance of Being Earnest, a farcical comedy by Oscar Wilde, is Evolution Theatre Company's next big production. Auditions for the play in which two young gentlemen create alter egos named...
An end to the humidity and return of the sun and clear blue skies with a high of 30 degrees is forecast for Friday - perfect conditions for a spot of Crooked Weather in the Dome Room’s garden bar. The indie duo’s sound meets world music and...
There are no post-summer holiday blues for husband and wife David Belfield and Sanet Cloete — the GPs have just begun their retirement. They talk to Gisborne Herald reporter Wynsley Wrigley about 40 years of practising together in New Zealand and...
Never before published photographs of Depression era men working on Darton Field led to the Gisborne Herald’s Wynsley Wrigley looking into the history of what became known as Gisborne Airport. Newly discovered photographs of Darton Field — now...
A journey towards physical, emotional and spiritual healing is at the heart of Hikoi, an exhibition of work by Toni Rangi, Yvonne Tana and Jeannette McDonnell-Rata. The three artists last exhibited together 16 years ago. Hikoi came about when Rangi...
A cherry-red Gibson SG 6 with a double-cutaway, curvaceous, bodacious, chamfered mahogany body and signed by AC/DC's duck-walking Angus Young now belongs to Gisborne man Shaun Kingi. Kingi won the Australian hard rocker's weapon of choice in...
The change in ownership of Waipaoa Station has seen the medium-term future of the Waipaoa Station Farm Cadet Training Scheme secured, and the new owners have plans to develop Waipaoa, along with their other holdings in that area. Phillip and Lucind...
A lifetime of painting, drawing and printmaking means artist Norman Maclean’s studio has become a little crowded over the years, so to free some space he is holding a clearance sale.“I’ve reached the stage where I can’t see the point of...
Musical theatre isn't a hobby, it's a way of life, says Musical Theatre Gisborne vice president Peter Grealish, one of three dedicated MTG members to be awarded life membership last week. Pianist and four-time musical director Trish Tattle and...
General surgeon and gastro oesophageal specialist Peter Stiven talks to The Gisborne Herald’s Kim Parkinson about why he chose to work and live in Gisborne. General surgeon and gastro oesophageal specialist Peter Stiven said it’s a misconception...
TODAY is World Polio Day, a time when Rotary and UNICEF — organisations that have long spearheaded the global effort to eliminate polio — remind us that the world is tantalisingly close to eradicating this preventable disease. In 1988, when...
Accomplished musicians Amanda Maclean, Catherine Macdonald and Trish Tattle have joined forces for Musical Theatre Gisborne’s production of Mamma Mia!, on stage in July. They talk to Kim Parkinson about their musical backgrounds and how the...
SPONSORED CONTENTLOOKING for something special for those balmy evenings we are all waiting for? A new boutique stocked with labels for the spring/summer seasons has come to your rescue — Truly. Truly, a play on the names of owners Trish Maclean and...
Let’s get cracking on a wonderful year of gardening. It’s time to start turning some of your gardening dreams into reality, whether it’s growing your very first indoor plant or creating a vegetable patch. It’s time to get gardening...
An old courthouse in Dunedin is where stonemason Reuben Tait first fell in love with stained glass. He was working on the historic building, and on Iona Church in Port Chalmers. While there, he met Peter Mackenzie who restored leaded light...
FEW New Zealand roads would be as remote. From the coast east of Opotiki, you twist up the gravel of the Motu Road, once an epic stage of the Rally of New Zealand. At Toatoa, where the post office and school have long gone, you veer onto the even...
Phrygian Gates, the intriguing title of a work by John Adams, is part of the Reflections & Connections concert programme pianist Liam Wooding will perform at Tiromoana on Sunday. Presented by Musica Viva Gisborne, the programme features pieces on the...
This super easy, two-ingredient ice cream may be the simplest dessert ever. After stumbling upon a no-churn coffee ice cream recipe from Nigella Lawson, Tayla Pearce adapted it to flavours she would enjoy. This ice cream is the ideal way to end...
Like many Gisborne people Craig Franks took off on his “OE” 30 years ago, but a meeting with a Canadian billionaire meant he never came back. Gisborne Herald reporter Debbie Gregory finds that, apart from annual visits home to catch up with...
“There are so many really great mid-week meals in Shared Kitchen that you can whip up when you're short of time, ingredients, or dollars. We love to use seasonal produce because it's fresher and helps keep the cost down,' says Ilaria. So what are...
The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of filth disposed haphazardly, Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said. Contemporary artist Inga Fillary shares Heraclitus's fascination with dirt, rust, human biota and other entropy and now a small selection...
Gisborne Ukulele UndergroundGisborne Bowling Club, tomorrow, (7.30pm). Group and solo performances and audience strumalongs. Ukes not essential. The Thinking Person’s IdiotFresh from a sold-out show in the Nelson Fringe Festival, Justin ‘Rusty’...
Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsea) can be grown from seed or potted plants and will eventually reach around 5-8 metres tall when mature. There are also dwarf varieties of pohutukawa that grow to a much more compact 1-3 metres and can be planted into...
When your business focuses on helping people look and feel great, you can’t have a scruffy garden around it. If you went down Cobden Street near Chelsea Hospital over the past month you would have noticed frantic activity as Skin Deep Clinic’s...
The persimmon season is in full swing with luscious golden fruit hanging on the trees. My fabulous foodie friend Christine sent me this yummy recipe for an autumn salad with persimmons and hazelnuts. Ingredients:¾ cup fresh tangerine juice1...
People might be torn between the two top acts from two very different codes on the same night next week — which is possibly closer to the spirit of a UK couple’s knife-throwing, sword-swallowing, magic and daredevil juggling show Death Do Us...
For the first time in Rhythm and Vines' 18-year history, the music festival will be live-streamed to the world on live, interactive streaming service, Twitch. In a year where festivals around the world have been postponed or cancelled, the world will...
If what we use today is made with art, and not thrown together by chance or caprice, then we shall have nothing to hide, says Italian artist Bruno Munari in his book Design as Art. But hiding stuff is a big part of Gisborne furniture designer and...