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Atmospheric and personal

Locals are in for a global treat next week when French for Rabbits take over the Dome Room as part of a six-show tour around New Zealand. Singer/songwriter Ebony Lamb and Gisborne's very own Keira Batten-Coogan will open up the show. Like many great...

What's on this week in Gisborne?

Saturday, September 15Gisborne Parkrun. Timed, weekly 5km run or walk, for all abilities. Meet at Waikanae Beach Playground for 8am start. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/EV Test Drive. Test drive an Electric...

The last post

Billy has four guitars, says a cartoon on the late Peter Te Kani's Facebook page, the last of the musician's posts before he passed away on June 26.“Suzy has one bass,” continues the gag. “What does Suzy have that Billy doesn't?“A gig! Suzy...

A soul of fire

The balcony scene comes to mind for most people when talking about Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, says young actor Bo Jarratt. It is also one of Bo’s favourite scenes in the play. Cast as Juliet Capulet in Unity Theatre’s upcoming production...

Artist in progress

Two styles of painting are evident in emerging Gisborne artist Virginia Pahura’s work. With its blocks of bold colour one style is almost poster like. The other is more impressionistic and explores in bright, sometimes lurid colours the play of...

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Is this a man in tights I see before me?

Multiple murderer Macbeth from Shakespeare’s blood-drenched tragedy isn’t known for his one-liners. Nor does doomed Moorish outsider Othello have the Venetian court laughing all over the shop with pull-my-finger gags. Gloomy fruit-loop...

Entertainment Guide listings

This weekNick Saxon LiveAustralian-based entertainer with dancing guitar tones and soulful melodies. Smash Palace, tomorrow, doors open 6pm. Free entry. Winter Concert SeriesHarry Grigg (vocal) and Xing Wang (piano) will perform at the Tairawhiti...

Short skirts and big hair — Tina to a T

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...

Amazing avocados: October offers many gardening delights

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...

‘I need to see my wife’

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...

Creating a happy home for your gut microbes with probiotics

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...

Singing of Shaky Places

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...

Life on the water

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...

Teaching Tech

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...

East Coast stood her in good stead

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...