A sunflower is not just one flower. The sunflower is a huge flower, but the head or fuzzy brown centre actually contains 1000–2000 individual flowers. Each of those individual flowers will produce a sunflower seed.■ There are more microorganisms...
Gina Holmes set out to train as a farmer. Instead she became a primary school principal. Gina dreamed of teaching since she was five years of age but, as life would have it, she found herself doing a cadetship on a farm here in Gisborne. That was when...
Baby Done is another of the recent run of New Zealand comedies — but it’s got certain extra advantages. The film stars Rose Matafeo, and it’s written by the team behind the fondly-remembered Fantail — writer Sophie Henderson and director...
Prize-winning Australian pianist Tony Lee and bassoonist Long Nguyen will launch this season’s Tiromoana summer concert series on Sunday. Lee is one of the most highly awarded pianists in Australia — and the first Australian musician to be...
Gisborne teacher Katie Knight tells her story, and that of her dyslexic son Rio who is now getting the help he needs to thrive
A SIX-week “hand building with clay” course is now available under Gisborne potter Seymour May. The technique involves working with clay with simple tools rather than the pottery wheel.“Hand building is a great way to learn about clay and its...
Kitini Taihuka has made rapid progress in his new sport, weightlifting. His road to a more active and healthy lifestyle is no less remarkable, and shows what can be achieved with a wholehearted approach and the support of friends and family. John...
His sax practice used to drift over a sandy, lupined empty section in Gisborne’s Cobham Place when the subdivision was still in development. When the upwardly mobile moved to a Barker’s Hill subdivision, musician Harry Lyon’s family moved with...
The National Kiwi Hatchery Aotearoa in Rotorua plays a vital role in saving our precious national bird. The facility incubates kiwi eggs and hatches chicks to save them from being eaten by predators in the wild. Out of every 100 kiwi eggs laid in...
WE ALL know eating vegetables is a good way to improve health. And for many years the focus has been on just eating more vegetables, be it fresh, frozen or tinned. But what if there was a quicker and easier way to get more benefit from our...
Phasing out all single-use plastics is the new goal of Plastic Bag Free Tairawhiti (PBFT).Single-use plastic bags were an obvious starting point but the focus will shift to other forms of single-use plastics, says spokesperson for PBFT Bess...
Choose a spot in the garden that receives full sun to part-shade and is well-drained. Enrich the soil with Yates Dynamic Lifter Organic Plant Food. Dig the planting hole twice as wide and to the same depth as the root-ball. Remove the shrub from the...
Paintings by European masters, Japanese art treasures and ancient Buddhist sutras are among the surprises Justine Tyerman discovers on a rainy day in a quiet corner of the Izu Peninsula in Japan. The Uehara Museum of Art in Shimoda was a rainy day...
A Whatatutu girl who can’t breathe or eat on her own has broken through her physical barriers and started school. Turanga Health’s Hayley Redpath meets Marita McLaren and discovers that out of a daughter’s illness, a mother has found a career...
East Coast punk band Sit Down in Front back with another single . . . and Tiki Taane
I WAS a little sceptical before I started my trial of Weleda’s Citrus 24h Roll-On Deodorant. I’d tried other natural deodorants in the past and always been a bit disappointed. I’d always end up going back to using the same old deodorants loaded...
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London might be closed due to the impact of the alert response to Covid-19, but the National Theatre Live’s own pandemic response brings the play Coriolanus to the small screen. Tom Hiddleston (Betrayal, The...
Fusion cuisine is one that combines elements of different culinary traditions. Fresh dates, crunchy nuts and crispy biscuits make for an irresistible delight that will make you crave more. 500gm pitted dates (chopped)100gm cashews (chopped)100gm...
THE twitterings of a spoof blog site set off gossip about a headliner for this year’s Rhythm and Vines music festival but, as the subject of the rumours might have said, the information is pretty shady. In fact, festival founding director Hamish...
A study and career preparation course with EIT Tairāwhiti has set a Tokomaru Bay woman on the path she has dreamed about. The Level Three and Four courses taken by Jaedi Davies this year has given her the skills and confidence to enrol to do...
Gisborne woman Ngahuia Mita has developed a knowledge of Tairawhiti waka, and in particular Maori connection to the ocean and why it is so important to health and well-being. She talks to Kim Parkinson about her life and work, which has been boosted...
With burlesque queer as the theme for a music video from New Plymouth vocal loop artist EJ Barrett's single, Paint Me A Picture, Tairawhiti TV producer/director Tee Wells knew the ideal setting for the shoot.“I thought ‘There's only one place we...
The jangly-guitar and rolling beats of the 1960s South Californian surf music sound is instantly recognisable in Gisborne band Set Waves' debut album. Song titles such as Shoot the Curl, Kook Don't Steal My Wave, and Acid Drop tap into the American...
HIGH in the lush green meadows of the beautiful Engadine, I met a famous chef and television star. I was visiting an organic farm in Vnà, a tiny alpine village of 50 people in the Lower Engadine in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The farmer, Fadri...
From Super Rugby stadiums to the theatre stage in Haiti and the ethio-jazz clubs of Addis Ababa, Lucien Johnson and his saxophone have performed in many different places far from his Wellington home town. The musician performs in Gisborne next week...
Heidi Rice as Donna Sheridan“Glitter is in my veins,” says Heidi Rice whose childhood love of Abba music, and her more adult affection for the musical Mamma Mia, helped land her a lead role in the Musical Theatre Gisborne (MTG) production. Rice...
■A 63-year-old Swedish woman discovers her husband of 40 years has been having an affair. With her world turned upside-down, she takes a temporary position as a youth leader at a soon-to-be-closed recreation centre in a struggling town.■...