Saturday, July 30TRAAMPS, open mic for music, poetry and song, 2pm, The Bandroom, Childers Road. The Nukes, 7.30pm, The Vines, Bushmere Estate, $25 door sales ($20 pre-sales ph 027 478 2900 or email write@gems. co. nz). West Auckland ukulele/banjo...
Once you've tasted homemade condiments, where you're in charge of the flavour profile, you'll never go back to store-bought, says Caroline Dafgard Widnersson. Too often, commercial versions are loaded with extra salt, sugar, allergens and...
Gisborne Unity Theatre is looking forward to their next production, Weed, which is sure to turn heads. Auditions for the comedy are at the group's Ormond Road threatre this Saturday and director James Packman says he is excited to finally have the...
IT WAS a tricky decision — sleep in, have a leisurely brunch and chill-out by the pool, or get up early, meet guide Fhan, drive for an hour then hike 20-30 minutes uphill in the sweltering tropical heat to see a waterfall. It was the last day of an...
Imagine if there was a transcript of moments leading up to Caesar's assassination, or a document with the words Jesus said when he lay on the cross, or what the leaders from around Aotearoa said in the days before Te Tiriti o Waitangi was...
Photography means looking at something in a different way, says Elenor Gill, whose work is exhibited along with that of Kate Snow at Zest Cafe.“A photograph, like any art form, is like a new view of the world. I look for something that grabs my...
Gisborne Anglican Church leader Stephen Donald has stepped back from his role. He talks to Debbie Gregory about his life and his plans . . .After close to 40 years of lay and ordained ministry, regional dean in Eastland and priest-in-charge of...
Completing a New Zealand Diploma in Fashion at EIT’s Tairawhiti campus was the first step towards living the dream for two Gisborne women, who are joining forces to establish their own fashion studio in Gisborne. Marlana Nepe and Ash McKenzie...
Rhythm and Vines' pool party is an opportunity for festival-goers to get chilled and amped before hopping on the exclusive pool party bus out to R&V. Held at Emerald Hotel, the R&V pool party runs from 28-30 December and this year will include acts...
Sound advice from her mother set Bree Munro on the road of service to others.“When I was young I wanted to be a marine biologist because I wanted to save the animals. My mother said I wouldn't want to do that on a protest boat, but I could do it...
WAIROA hip hop band Rugged and Wylde is a finalist in the 2017 Waiata Maori Music Awards. The band, Zach Stark and Ratima Hauraki, was established last year and has a goal to “push the boundaries of hip hop in Aotearoa, put the whole East Coast on...
Helen Harris has held some high profile jobs in New Zealand and the Pacific, from managing staff on a police mission to the Solomons to working on counter-terrorism during the Rugby World Cup. Andrew McKenna finds she has never lost the pull of home
PAPER birds appear as a motif in at least two of artist Maiko Lewis-Whaanga’s paintings exhibited at Verve Cafe. Through her sumi-e like paintings of koi (a coloured form of amur carp), variations on the swiftly-drawn circle enso, whales in...
While Warner Brothers and director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day) prepare to turn former Gisborne Herald reporter Angus Gillies' Ngati Dread trilogy into a TV series, this could be a good time to get a set of the books. Footsteps...
ORIGINALLY called Godzilla before they changed their name to Gojira, the French heavy metal band was the inspiration for Gojira covers band Diekaiju. The Gisborne metal act at first adopted the Japanese name Daikaiju (large strange beast).“We...
Musician Rongomai Callaghan will perform at Miharo Gallery's Wet Paint show and auction on Friday evening but New Zealand band LAB's song, Controller, sets the theme for the challenge. Contributing artists have only one hour to create a work...
FROM sheep shearing on the East Coast to a role as tumuaki director Maori at Auckland War Memorial Museum, former Gisborne and East Coast woman Linnae Pohatu’s career trajectory was determined from her earliest days. For the past three years...
A Childers Road fence hung with multi-coloured pennants did not look as festive as intended on returning from a chat with Gisborne artist Conor Jeory about his own bunting project. For his show Billionaire Bunting, at Verve Cafe, Jeory plans to hang...
Last in Gisborne in 2018 to conduct the world premiere of Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead’s orchestral soundscape, Turanga-nui, Hamish McKeich will take up a new role next year with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. As newly appointed principal...
Thelma Karaitiana grew up in a world foreign for many today. A humble woman who has committed much of her life to the preservation of Maori culture and language, still considers herself a student of te reo. She shares her experience with Delilah...
GISBORNE dealer gallery PaulNache is marking the start of the New Year by reaching over the Tasman to bring a pair of Melbourne artists to town. While both Matt Arbuckle and Merryn Lloyd are painters, there are myriad differences in how they use...
There’s still a few weeks of spring to enjoy, so sow and grow during the month of November. Try planting your own mangoes and watermelons . . .Home-grown mangoesAs mango season begins, you might start dreaming of being able to grow your very own...
IAN Smail gets excited when he sees a set of cast-iron wheels, the older and rustier the better. For him such wheels hold enormous potential as the foundation for his latest building project, recreating replicas of historic “living vans”.They...
Three years ago, Ahmad Almasri left Jordan to make his home in New Zealand. He was deeply shocked at the mass shooting of his Muslim brothers and sisters in the country he now calls home. Ahmad talks to Mark Peters about what it is to be Muslim in...
75g melted butter1 cup feijoa pulp2 big eggs¾ cup sugar2 cups SR flour¼ cup orange juiceGrated orange rind1 tsp cinnamon• Heat oven to 175 degrees and butter muffin tins.• Mix wet ingredients into dry.• Spoon into the muffin tins.•...
The tag line for the latest biopic about an American icon reads: “Find out what it means.” Good luck with that. After more than two hours of the new Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, it is not clear what it means, wasting a lot of superb screen...
Butter chicken is one of the most searched recipes online to cook and enjoy at home, says author Olivia Andrews in her cookbook Three Veg and Meat. Her version below has far less chicken than your average butter chicken, but is still high in...
The stage is set for Evolution Theatre Company's production of David Auburn's drama Proof and the cast of four Gisborne actors await their audiences. The play centres on Catherine (played by Danielle Siata) daughter of Robert (Hugo McGuinness)...