With a year of highlights behind him and the tantalising possibility of the Olympic Games ahead, triathlete Tayler Reid is poised to hit the ground running for potentially his biggest season yet. He talks to Grant Miller. Tayler Reid has been on...
Shameless self promotion, confesses former Gisborne musician Maurice Priestley in his email about recording The Spines in his PriMau Production studio. Priestley is now based in Wellington, which is where he has worked for the past 15 months with The...
Medical physicist Samantha Holdsworth's incredible career path
The full-noise, high-energy show, Tina – Simply The Best was due to stride across the War Memorial Theatre stage in March but was postponed because of the Covid-19 alert response. Sure, we don't need another hero, but Tina Turner tribute artist...
Whether it’s fabulous flowers, lush new foliage or the promise of delicious spring produce, enjoy all the gardening delights that October has to offer. Protecting feijoas from insects and diseasesDeliciously sweet and fragrant feijoas can be...
Not much gets in the way of true love, but a pandemic and poor timing are exactly what held apart a newlywed doctor and a PhD researcher from Bangladesh. Last March Nafisha Tasmin was ready to sit her exam allowing her to practise as a medical...
Although this is called “basic water kefir”, in my mind there is nothing basic about it. Think about the complex arrangement and symbiosis between the water kefir grains, transforming a plain sugar water mixture into a bubbling, living probiotic...
A very New Zealand work created for Wellington’s Capital Choir will make up part of the Gisborne Choral Society’s first production for 2017. Shaky Places is the aptly-titled song cycle of 14 contemporary New Zealand poems set to music composed by...
Mike Baker feels like he's living the dream on his own slice of paradise in Okitu. He says he and his wife Janice, still pinch themselves every day, waking up to their view of Wainui beach after moving to Gisborne three years ago. Mike is...
Amie Williams is passionate about technology in education and has become a Manaiakalani facilitator this year. She was also selected to be a Google Innovator and joined an elite community of 36 educators in Sydney in May. She talks to Kim Parkinson...
Living and studying in the pandemic-riddled United Kingdom would be challenging for most but for Ngati Porou wahine Roimata Claasen, it was all in a day's work. She gained her MBA (Master of Business Administration) at the prestigious Oxford...
JUST a hop and a skip down the road from Gisborne, Mahia may not seem an exotic holiday place, but to a family of Aussies it’s about as appealing as it gets. We stayed at a friend’s holiday house off Mahia East Coast Road, at the end of...
"THERE'S a live orchestra?" a nearby audience member asked during interval at the opening of Musical Theatre Gisborne’s Beauty and the Beast last night.“That’s magic.”And magic it was. Driven by upbeat Disney energy, technicolour, fairytale...
The technical, experimental prowess and intelligence of Radiohead is the inspiration for the English band’s tribute act Hail to the Thieves, says guitarist Ben Throp. The complex, nuanced sound, and time signature changes in Radiohead songs make...
Te Aitanga a Hauiti Centre of Excellence Trust is an Uawa-based organisation dedicated to developing their iwi and community. Shaan Te Kani learns about what the trust is doing to help its people thrive . . .Ka tipu te whaihanga, e hika, ki Uaw...
Jenny Harding’s high-end store Starforme has seen it all throughout her career, managing to survive the economic downturn through the immense loyalty of her customers. As a thank you to her customer base, she throws an autumn and spring fashion...
UNDERWATER! “The spectacular film of a million thrills” shot in Superscope, and starring Hollywood sex symbol Jane Russell, screened at the Kings Theatre on August 8, 1955, the day Gisborne Borough was designated a city. On that day Gisborne...
Guitar-jangle pop band The Chills’ much anticipated album Snow Bound ploughs into our lives tomorrow — the day before the Dunedin band performs in Gisborne. Accompanying them will be Reb Fountain who released ahead of going on tour with The...
Paintings press against the walls in the narrow entrance to artist Catherine August’s home while her living room-studio is crammed with portraits, works in progress, ornaments, prints, a bird cage with a bird in it, sewing materials and furniture...
It's not often readers get to peek behind the curtain and see what goes into a novel, but Tairawhiti will be treated to just this when two authors come to town this Saturday. Authors Kirsty Powell and Kerry Harrison stop by Muirs Bookshop to talk...
The first-ever national Creative Fibre Education Event is to be held in Gisborne next weekend, with an opportunity for people to have a go at different crafts. Event spokeswoman Lynne Boulter says everyone involved is ready for a weekend of...
When pop-folk duo Looking For Alaska last performed in Gisborne, the act was made up of Aaron Gott and former Gisborne Girls’ High School student Amy Maynard. Maynard described their debut album as “kind of like Mumford and Sons meets Of...
Gisborne’s newest community theatre company is moving into production week for its first show, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize-winning Our Town. The play is set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Evolution Theatre Company’s managing...
A Whakapapa of Tradition: A book that examines the rapid evolution of Maori carving from 1830 to 1930 has won Auckland University senior lecturer in art history Ngarino Ellis the Te Mahi Toi, art category, award at the Nga Kupu Ora Awards for Maori...
THE idea for a “water is life”-themed exhibition had bubbled in raranga (weaving) student Airini Forbes’ mind since July. Part of her inspiration was the “cleaner water” rally in Gisborne in March. The gathering was one of 21 around the...
New Orleans-schooled pianist and Waiheke Island jazz festival founder David Paquette is now patron “saint” of the Poverty Bay Blues Club (PBBC).In the US patrons of the arts are usually funders, but because his role is as figurehead for the PBBC...
The pop-up shop Frame and Fortune, run by Gizzy Collective, will stay open until Christmas Eve. The pop-up, located at 111 Gladstone Road, is an initiative that gives local artists a space to showcase their talent. With just two weeks left before the...
A student fills a bowl with cereal, takes it to his desk, and starts writing in his journal. The song Whatever it Takes is being played loud and there’s a couch with cushions. Journalist Sophie Rishworth went to a Year 13 English class last week...
Tim Warrington finds himself bewitched by the charms of a countess he meets in Venice . . ."There is no such thing as ‘Spaghetti Bolognese’.”Our cruise manager announced this during her nightly briefing in the forward lounge. I’d been on the...
Tucked away off the Napier-Taupo Road is an enchanting garden to rejuvenate travel-weary souls. Trelinnoe Park is a 12 hectare woodland on the Napier side of Te Pohue that has been charming visitors for decades, but is overlooked by many rushing...
At this time of the year, there are so many varieties of vegetables to choose from to tempt your green (or not so green) fingers and your taste buds. The secret is in the soilIt's very important to give vegetables and herbs the best possible start so...