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Music award changes reflect evolving industry
ErnieJ’s breakout album is copping great reviews, Lazy Fifty’s debut album, Fifty Shades of Lazy resurrects good old-school rock while young punk act Sit Down in Front topped this year’s Smokefreerockquest East Coast regionals. The annual live...
New season needs new actors
Evolution Theatre Company is on the hunt for celestial bodies to audition for When Sun & Moon Collide this Saturday. Written by arts laureate Briar Grace-Smith, When the Sun & Moon Collide centres on the mysterious disappearance of two Danish...
The life of Emily Webb
Among the lives of the Gibbs and Webb families we follow over 12 years in the Evolution Theatre Company’s production of Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is that of young Emily Webb. Played by Maia Ingoe, Emily’s courtship with George Gibbs...
We’re not in Kansas now, Charlotte
Although banned in Kansas in 2006 because “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural”, Evolution Theatre Company is staging Charlotte's Web, a children's story that is just as popular with grown-ups who read it as kids, except, maybe, in...
Nan’s Christmas pudding . . . times 2
Nan has come up with a couple of steamed pudding recipes just in time for Christmas Day . . . you can make them a few weeks ahead and freeze them, or whip them up the night before. This recipe has been used in our family for as long as I can remember...
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
Following her performance as a sweet rose with a soul of fire in Unity Theatre’s 2019 production of Romeo and Juliet, actor Bo Jarratt has gone to the dark side. She has taken on a role in the Norman Maclean-directed production of The Crucible that...
Reflections of the sea
When I walked into Tony Ogle’s studio, I literally took a step backwards. The visual impact of his work was staggering. The vibrant colours and the crisp, sharp definition of the images leapt off the canvas at me. The realism took me by surprise. I...
Prepare to be wowed by The Nutcracker Prince
Audiences will witness something magical when promising young actors bring The Nutcracker Prince to life at Evolution Theatre. About 30 tamariki from ages six to 11 will transform themselves for the performance, directed by Julie McPhail and Beth...
Cruising with The Koi Boys
When a trio of Maori singers was selected to perform in TV singing competition The Voice Australia, they took their name from their regular venue, the Koi bar, and became The Koi Boys. The Koi Dining and Lounge Bar was where Gisborne man Matai Smith...
Monkey man
Brian Campbell has been thinking about the ills of the world. Then he put them on to canvas, into the boot of his car and drove them to Hastings for his exhibition, Head Above the Water, opening this week. He has an eye for humanity's hypocritical...
Keeping the fire burning
WHEN the ancestors of Te Aitanga a Hauiti arrived in Uawa many generations ago, they lit ‘Te Ahika’, the long burning fire, at the cove of Opoutama (Cook’s Cove).They named the place after an event in Hawaiki, the ancestral homeland. The fire...
Life turned up
He’s unplugged the Marshall stacks, dusted off the acoustic guitar and hit the road for the Wild East. Hard rock act Shihad’s frontman Jon Toogood is slouching towards Gisborne next month to be borne onstage at Smash Palace where he will perform...
Looking on the bright side
1. Weed control — weeds will compete with the new lawn so should be controlled two weeks before sowing lawn seed (this allows the weeds to die completely). Yates Zero Weedkiller can be used as a general spray over the area to kill any weeds and...
What's on in Gisborne?
Saturday, June 22Gisborne Tutu parkrun. Wear a colourful tutu on your run/walk. Meet: Waikanae Beach Playground, Grey St, 7.45am. Kid, dog and pram-friendly. See http://www. parkrun. co. nz/gisborne/St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale. Plenty of bargains. In...
Painting powerhouse
Broken surfboard, paint it. Rock, paint it. Deer skull, paint it. If it has a surface, Walter “Bub” Dewes (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu) is happy to make it into art. His exhibition, Year of the Mask, is a nod to lockdowns and fabric-covered...
Nan’s famous Christmas cake
Nan’s Christmas cake was such a hit last year, we’re publishing the recipe again — but this time, we’re making sure you have a few weeks to get organised to bake this magnificent festive treat. INGREDIENTS:340gm butter4 eggs450gm flour (3...
Taste of the top,Playing level at national workshop extends locals
PLAYING for the country’s top youth wind ensemble was an exciting and eye-opening experience for three Gisborne students. Blaze Hubbard and Rebekah Hakiwai (Gisborne Girls’ High School) and Micah Russell (Gisborne Boys’ High School) travelled...
Return of Super Turtle
You've pogged too much at the Christmas groaning board, the backyard cricket has retired to the shade, and your mates are back in town but the season is in the doldrums. What to do? What to do?Toe tap, rock out, pogo, head bang to the Summer Sesh...
Top man Mr G, baye kil
EAST Coast sheds and water tanks became canvases for portraits by aerosol artist Graham Hoete when he headed up State Highway 35 after completing his mural on the Farmlands building in Gisborne. Among works he sprayed up in Ruatoria is a portrait of...
THREE WATERS WORRIES
Bill Turner, who was engineering and works manager with the Gisborne District Council for 17 years, has grave misgivings about the Three Waters reforms. He talked to John Jones
The shady garden
Gardening in the shade is often thought of as a Sisyphean endeavour, swimming upstream against all odds with limited plant choices and no hope for colour. But that notion couldn't be further from the truth. Learning how to work with — not...
Shaky Gisborne
History supposedly never repeats ... but last week's big quake reminded a local, retired ambulance officer of another big Gisborne quake in '66
Called back home
Gisborne’s new Salvation Army Officers knew they were destined for a life serving God. Gisborne Herald reporter Matai O’Connor talks to Kevin and Janette Waugh about their journey so far . . .Kevin Waugh changed careers a few times before...
A little bit country
Their performance of Kostas Lazarides’ Timber, I’m Falling in Love, and Texan country musician Creed Fisher’s Come Hold Me, has won a Gisborne trio a first placing in this year’s New Zealand Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the...
The perfect salad for entertaining
A beautiful summery meal that won't take long to throw together. I love the Asian flavours in the dressing combined with the sweetness of the mandarin juice. Dusting the tofu in cornflour gives it a little crunch and subtle flavour. I would also...
What's on in Gisborne
Saturday, January 28Enterprise Cars Bay Bonanza Fishing Competition continues, 5am. For information Ph 868 4756. Larsawn Sawmilling Showjumping Championships, 8.30am, Showgrounds Park, free. St Andrew’s Car Boot Sale, 9am–12 noon in car park...
A FRUITFUL TIME IN CAIRNS
The first thing I noticed when we flew into Cairns were the trees. The hills around town are cloaked in rainforest, and the Daintree is the oldest in the world, predating the Amazon by 40 million years, give or take. We got into that up close, but...
Good memories
Central School deputy principal Sherrill Beale has retired after 30 years at the school. She talks to Kim Parkinson about her career and her passion for netball. The thing I will miss most is the kids,” says Sherrill Beale, surrounded by a team of...