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Top 10 herbs

Get your ‘chive on' with this handy little herb. Not only is it easy to grow and care for, chives provides a refreshing flavour to your morning scrambled eggs (yum!) or a light onion taste to your salads – without the onion breath. Another...

Pronounced fit for service

Murray Ferris is a social animal. Not surprising really . . . his dad was a Lion. It’s the sort of crack that would draw a groan even from Murray — teller of a thousand radio fishing report jokes — but it’s also true. The Rotary Club of...

Pianoland

Variations on a Nursery Tune, a work that combines variations on a well-known piece with phrasing heavily borrowed from other famous works, heralds pianist and Lytton High music teacher, Sean Scanlen's Piano Extravaganza debut.“At times I think I...

Francie Kemp’s crying eyes wins top bid at Miharo Gallery’s first Wet Paint project

A pen, pencil and ink drawing of crying eyes attracted the highest bid at Miharo Gallery's first Wet Paint project auction on Friday. Karl Bothamley, a keen collector of artworks, particularly by local artists, bought the work. Created by Francie Kemp...

'Smiles don’t mean we forget'

The spiral universe

A spiral sculpture that could be the curled head of an exotic string instrument has appeared on Nob Hill by the Wainui Road-Rutene Road intersection. The work is by former Gisborne artist Mace Robertson who creates an artwork on his parents’...

Oil workshop

Artists who love land and seascapes will be interested in the course being offered by the Gisborne Artists’ Society. Accomplished painter, Roger Shanks will next month run a one-day workshop at Lysnar House behind the museum. Morning and afternoon...

Howlin’ at the moon

Australian bluesman Shaun Kirk’s songs range from stompin’ and rockin’ to rock-blues-soul and now he’s returning to the Dome to celebrate the release of his self titled EP. Kirk will rattle them domes with a showcase of his new tracks in what...

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...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or tel 869 0630This weekThe Timeliners: Neil Worboys, Maurice Priestley and Stephen Carlyle play acoustic rootsy blues, tomorrow, Smash Palace (6-8pm), free. Gisborne Ukelele...

Healthy planet . . . happy you

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...