Surf, art and coffee have come together for the good of mental health this month at Lowe Street's JBC Cafe. Faces of the Coast opened on Friday night with a solid turn-out. The paintings are on sale to raise money for Mahia Wave Warriors to aid in...
The meat, potato and two vege combo of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and drums make up Majik Pixie Juice but from there the band leaves convention behind like it’s a dead planet. Made up of former Gisborne blokes Jim Anderson, Murdoch Anderson...
NGATI Porou warrior chief Major Ropata Wahawaha, who fought on the Government’s side against Te Kooti, was one of several Maori whose portraits were painted in great detail by Czech artist Gottfried Lindauer. Painted in highly realistic style the...
Evolution Theatre Company's Rising Stars, ages 12-15, are taking the stage to present Poe Poe Poe!, a story about the life and works of America's most famous morose poet, Edgar Allen Poe. The play runs for 45 minutes and features some of Gisborne's...
The seven-headed soul monster Fat Freddy’s Drop is among the first tranche of New Zealand acts announced for this year’s Rhythm and Vines music festival. Never before has the opportunity been so wide open to saturate the fest’s stages and big...
This marinated cabbage is a keeper, and perfect to make the day before to cut down on stress if you’re entertaining. If space is at a premium in your fridge, store in plastic bags and tip into a serving bowl for the mix to come to room temperature...
Garage rock infused psychedelia. Dome Room, tomorrow, 8.30pm. Tickets $15+bf from undertheradarSmash Palace, Saturday, 9pm. $5 at the door. PA selection of live blues music. PBC, Tuesday, March 3. Doors open 7pm, music 8pm. $5 door sales, R18. Dome...
The silly season is almost upon us and leading the way is touring company Operatunity’s pantomime, Cinderella. The English tradition of the panto involves overacting, cross-dressing, slapstick, terrible jokes and audience interaction. Will...
Stealing pies from the school tuck shop, karma, burning sausages on the BBQ or just having a bad day are among real-life situations that make up songs in Gisborne punk rock act Sit Down In Front’s new album Confessions Of A Pie Thief. The album is...
IT WAS time to tackle another of the tramping tracks this beautiful country offers so instead of heading south, for once we decided to explore the Far North. Te Paki Coastal walk is a hidden gem. It’s a three to four-day hike that can be tramped...
A group of Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club members were keen to get in the saddle, for a change, and check out the historical main road between Mahia and Gisborne. Gillian Ward writes about the (mostly) downhill 25km adventure
The TBs (tramping boots) were nonplussed at the first sight of the black sands at Piha Beach. Accustomed to the golden sands of the East Coast, they were aghast at this strange dark substance beneath their soles. I’d never witnessed such agitated...
A 60-strong hip hop dance troupe The Royal Family have just ended a European tour with a stopover performance in China, and now they are coming here. On Saturday night the high-energy company will showcase styles such as dance hall, house, gangst...
Part myth, part legend, 100 percent western. Jock Hume, best known as The Singing Cowboy, is saddling up for a trip to Gisborne. Despite the cancellation of the A&P Show where he was set to perform, Jock rang up The Herald saying he was coming to...
Want to tick off those healthy eating and weight loss New Year resolutions that keep on missing the mark for you? Dietitian Kelly Pelham throws all the fad diets out the window and suggests a non-diet approach this year . . .Are you sick of making...
A warm hug of a play is how Beatrice Papazoglouu, director of Musical Theatre Gisborne's production of Nunsense, recently described the show. And a warm hug it is but with laughs, lots of laughs. The intimate nature of MTG's refurbished theatre...
Not quite as many people as stars in our galaxy attended NASA astrophysicist Dr Natalie Batalha’s mind-blowing lecture A Planet for Goldilocks: The Search for Evidence of Life Beyond Earth this week, but the audience nearly filled the War Memorial...
With 15 acts out of 31 entries in the East Coast heats of the annual Smokefreerockquest, Gisborne Girls’ High School dominates the field in numbers but the top 12 bands selected by the judges is anyone’s guess. Held at the War Memorial Theatre...
Staying in Gisborne for the Easter break? Don’t forget two top shows that sparkle with comedy and music are on over the weekend. Wanderlust Opera’s production of one of the world’s most popular operas, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, fills...
Two Gisborne designers and neighbours at Wainui Beach collaborated for a runway show in Rotorua today. Energised by the fresh salt air of the coastal waters, jewellery artist Nerida Johnstone, and fashion designer, Julie Puddick, draw inspiration...
10 feijoas4 apples — Braeburn, or use Granny Smith for a more ‘tart’ taste500g sweet short pastry1 egg yolk, lightly whiskedPreheat oven to 180ºC. Grease a 22cm pie or tart dish and line it with pastry — keep the pastry thickness consistent...
100 years ago this month, Gisborne, New Zealand and much of the world was being devastated by the Influenza Epidemic. Wynsley Wrigley looks back at this deadly disaster, seemingly unknown to many people today, and how it impacted on Tairawhiti...
A piano ballad co-written by East Coast Music Ltd founder Tyna Keelan and up-and-coming Wellington singer/songwriter Angelique Te Rauna is in the running for an APRA Silver Scroll award. Composed and performed in te reo Maori, the song Ka Ao is about...
Deer milk is no longer just for your porridge, with the launch of a world-first skincare range which claims to harness the protein-rich milk’s beautifying properties. The New Zealand Herald’s lifestyle team tries it out . . .Cow, goat, sheep or...
Time magazine once quipped that the supergroup, a band whose members were previously successful as solo artists or as part of other groups, was little more than an “amalgam formed by the talented malcontents of other bands”.Now Gisborne is about...
To have such an exposition of genius laid out for us so beautifully and far-reachingly in the course of an otherwise ordinary lunch-hour’s duration seemed to me like a miracle, said Peter Mechen in his review of pianist Ya-Ting Liou’s recent...
TWO years in the planning and six months of effort is coming to a climax as a Gisborne ballet school prepares to present the classic ballet The Nutcracker at the War Memorial Theatre next month. Staged by Proctor Productions, with dancers from the...
IT'S NOT easy to conduct an interview while you are adjusting the monitor on a baby asleep in a bassinet, cuddling her twin sister on your knee, comforting a seven-year-old complaining of a sore throat, feeding a tribe of hungry mouths after school...