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Getting high . . .
Gisborne physician Sari MacKenzie shares her adventures while trekking the Annapurna Circuit from Besisahar to Pokhara in Nepal considered one of the best treks in the world . . . here’s the first of a series about her 17-day, 273km expedition...
Taste of Naples
Auckland bistro The Engine Room’s Natalia Schamroth and Carl Koppenhagen share a recipe inspired by a magical meal on holiday in Italy. This time last year, we happened across restaurant La Scialuppa, in the marina beneath Castel dell’Ovo in...
From The Globe to The Bach
AFTER several years of in-school immersion in Shakespeare’s plays, Laurel Mitchell took on the role of a budding Maori radical in Unity Theatre’s production of Kiwi comedy The Bach. The play involves four characters thrown together during...
Relishing . . .
Nan’s Cucumber and Pineapple PickleINGREDIENTS:6 peeled cucumbers with seeds removed6 onions2 tins 16oz crushed pineapple (medium tins)3 lbs (1.36kg) sugar2 pints (950mls) vinegar2 tbsp plain saltMETHOD:Mince cucumbers and onions (I cheat and put...
Hold down and repeat
TAKE a single tom-tom drum beat. Donk. Bend it, shape it, anyway you want to through audio-production software and you’re on your way to creating a multi-layered composition from a single note. With the software’s analogue imitator, instrument...
Coralie at the keys
Recordings of Victorian-era composers Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas billow with a full orchestra accompaniment. For the Gisborne Choral Society (GCS) production of the duo’s work The Yeomen of the Guard, Gisborne pianist Coralie Hunter is...
Good mate Toogood to open for The D4
Hard-rock band The D4 will close out their nationwide tour in “rock and roll mother f***ing” style, when they play at Gisborne’s Smash Palace on Saturday night. After a 10-year hiatus, the internationally-acclaimed Auckland rock and rollers...
Petitioning to keep us 5G free
As 5G technology is set to roll out in Gisborne soon, a high-energy debate is under way about how safe the technology is. Sophie Rishworth spoke to the working group who want to keep Gisborne 5G free . . .A Gisborne-initiated petition * to put...
Rainy day in Izu
Justine Tyerman finds a forlorn little girl in torrential rain in a remote area of the Izu Peninsula in Japan. Outside in a garden, sitting hunched against the driving rain, the young girl looked so downcast and alone. She had a hypnotic effect on...
Pictures from inside the bubble
Given New Zealanders were confined to their respective bubbles during the Covid-19 Alert Level 4 response, the online VF48Hours: Lockdown filmmaking challenge's theme was both apt and particularly challenging. But Gisborne team Cowps Productions not...
Heading for the pass
Gisborne physician Sari MacKenzie shares her adventures while trekking the Annapurna Circuit from Besisahar to Pokhara in Nepal, considered one of the best treks in the world. Here’s the third of a series about her 17-day, 273km expedition which...
Gentle as a lamb, (yeah, right)
On the phone Julie Lamb cusses like a trooper but in performance she sings like an angel with a hint of grit. Kick-arse funky pop originals with tight storytelling, is how Lamb describes the Julie Lamb Outfit sound — and for added groove the...
To hell with ‘age-appropriate’
Eyebrows were raised to the ex-hairline and there was much tut-tutting among our friends as they inspected the double bed neatly made up in the back of the JUCY Cabana station wagon and the little kitchen tucked into the rear of the...
Moonwalking with the man in the mirror
COULD Michael Jackson impersonator Dantanio Goodman be the King of Pop’s man-in-the-mirror?Having impersonated the artist who brought us immortal hits such as Thriller, Billie Jean, and Beat It, the South African theatre performer and recording...
Charcoal and words the people’s choice
The fine line between vandalism and street art, cultural appropriateness, and cultural appropriation, were among ideas behind Mark Peters’ submission that won the people’s choice category in the 2018 Te Ha Art Awards. Peters explored the theme of...
Learn the art of book binding
Artist Peter Harris’ upcoming book-binding and embossing workshop is set to demonstrate a passion for art and craftsmanship, mixed with a bit of No. 8 wire ingenuity. Peter is the curator and founder of Dreamspace gallery and studio on Carnarvon...
Connecting with her heritage
Gisborne girl, Hinemihiata Lardelli has ventured to Naples, Italy, to volunteer with an organisation that manages the environmental protection of a marine reserve that was once part of a bustling ancient Roman city but is now an underwater...
Exposing fast food propaganda
NEW Zealand’s fast food culture is in the frame for a selection of photographic prints Gisborne photographer Drew Hill will exhibit in Hong Kong next month. Fast food wrappers, some with “takeaway DNA” still stuck to them, provide a waxy canvas...
FLASHES OF BRILLIANCE
Heading back to the car after the launch of the MRI machine at medical imaging research centre Matai Research, a Gisborne Herald reporter and photographer were buttonholed in the corridor by a young boffin. He spoke in Science and was hard to...
Applications open for writing grants
The New Zealand Society of Authors is offering research grants to support writers around the country to research for fiction or non-fiction writing projects, and applications are open now. Four grants of $5000 each are available, and one of them...
Carefree in Killcare
LIKE most patriotic Kiwis, I am loath to praise anything remotely Australian and have, until now, maintained a lofty opinion that no Aussie landscape could possibly compete with New Zealand’s beaches, lakes, mountains and national parks. But...
Bringing the beat back
BrazilBeat Sound System is bringing South American sounds for their event Réveillon at Globe this Friday. Réveillon comes from the word réveil, meaning “to wake” and is celebrated on New Year's Eve around the world with varying traditions in...
Paying tribute to a Unity Theatre star
There were many in this community who knew Bevan Turnpenny through his work as a hydrologist, employed first by the East Coast Catchment Board and Regional Water Board. His legacy as a physical geographer with a passion for all things Gisborne and...
Getting The Chills in springtime
Described by The Guardian as sounding like “the embodiment of autumn”, Dunedin band The Chills announced yesterday their winter outing, The Snow Bound Tour. The tour takes in Gisborne when the indie band performs at the Dome in September. The...
Songs from the organ loft
The curiously titled work Dick's Maggot features in the easy listening titles in the varied programme British organist and pianist Ian Miles will perform in Gisborne next week. More catchy than catching, the title is nothing to worry about...
Twelve decades of talent
It has taken two years of planning by calligrapher Raymond Crafts and potter Heather Van Wyk, but the pair have finally come together for The Creative Gene exhibition at Tairāwhiti Museum. The brother and sister duo come from a long line of...
To the lighthouse
Sculptor Michael Parekowhai’s $1.5 million art piece that resembles a state house on Auckland’s Queens Wharf was unveiled at a public opening on Saturday. Called The Lighthouse, the work was commissioned by real estate firm Barfoot and Thompson...
Star Wars fever burning hot
SUCH is the anticipation around the new Star Wars film that, even though there is not yet much to see, critics have actually been reviewing the trailer. Said to be the last teaser before Star Wars: The Force Awakens is released next month, the...
Wish you were here. No wait. We are.
Sitting in a bunker, here behind my wall . . . in perfect isolation . . .Among rock gods helping us get through the self-isolation of lockdown, English psychedelic rock act and creator of the concept album The Wall, Pink Floyd, is now streaming...