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The boys are back and bringing metal

After a three-decade hiatus, some of Tairawhiti's most talented musicians are returning to the stage as Troops of Doom for another round at Smash Palace. In a Wild Hogs-esque style, the band are dusting off the metal regalia and stepping out of...

By the Danube

Gisborne’s Phil and Sue Newdick continue their travels in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Brno in the Czech Republic . . .As there was no train connection from Poland into Slovakia, we opted for another bus ride to Bratislava. It was a bit of a worry to...

Gig Guide

This week in Gisborne

Kaitiaki viewpoint

Gisborne artist Hannah King's drypoint etching Kaitiaki Viewpoint features in a virtual exhibition of works by printmakers from around the world. King's print communicates through the tui messages via the media in response to the needs of the land...

Sun, sand and murder auditions

SUN, Sand and Murder Musical Theatre Gisborne’s next musical whodunnit. The popular event offers patrons dinner and the opportunity to solve a murder mystery. Auditions for five male and five female characters aged 35-70 will be held at the Musical...

Classroom on the water

Tolaga Bay school students took the opportunity to gain NCEA credits through a more hands-on approach — sailing the Tairawhiti Waka Hourua and interviewing locals about Tuia 250. Reporter Maika Akroyd sailed with them to learn more. The saying...

Full moon party

Electronic and house music will be mixed up with Afrobeat, hip hop and moombahton when BrazilBeat, and friends take over Smash Palace tomorrow night. Moombahton is described as a fusion genre of house music and reggaeton, the latter of which evolved...

Giving and learning at an orphanage and at school in Punjab

At the end of 2019 I headed back to India to visit an orphanage in Amritsar and a school in Ferozepur, Punjab. I am passionate about learning more about the world around me, how children learn, how environments and poverty can affect learning, and...

Here come Herman's Hermits

“It’s all about the songs and we were very lucky to have had a lot of hits in the 60s that people still want to hear today,” says the band's original drummer, Barry Whitwam. Herman’s Hermits perform at War Memorial Theatre, Saturday, 7.30pm...

Warning: contains nudity and laughs

Deep down in some small recess of Julie McPhail's soul was a tiny wish the turnout for auditions for Unity Theatre's auditions for Calendar Girls would not be big. She was keen to take on a role in the comdedy. As it happened, the number of...

God loves you

Kaumatua, Justice of the Peace, school chaplain, locum hospital chaplain, husband, father, grandfather, son and now the new pastor at St David’s Presbyterian Church, Richard Rangihuna speaks to Sophie Rishworth . . .Being one of 18 children taught...

Mistletoe, Mayhem and Murder

by Jack MarshallIt’s Christmas Eve and the firm Macmillan and Sons is having a party. Staff are getting up to mischief, and unfortunately, someone has to die. In this office, like many work environments, “almost everybody has got a reason either...

All about community

FOR a quietly spoken bloke, Barry Kingi-Thomas is a fighter on two fronts, but in a good way. His working life is divided between his job as a fulltime firefighter and as martial arts instructor. He and his wife Bev started Gisborne’s first MM...

All we are saying

Lyrics sung in Portuguese to a percussive beat and electronica could well be a first in these parts but that is what you can hear from tomorrow when BrazilBeat Sound System release their new bass and reggaeton-driven single, Saying. The new single...

Rangatahi

by Anna CooperTuis swoop,their wings chopping the silence,the night shift relieved,by the police helicopter. A girl,at the A&P Show,hair in two pigtails,the part-line exposed,a line burnt down the centre of her head,matching the jersey of GGHS...

A taste of India

Preeti Maheshwari shares a guilt-free version of pea kachori

Creamy smoked moki dip

Regional fishmonger Real Fresh bring you a mouth-watering moki dip using their Ahia smoked fish — from the people of Ngati Porou. Ingredients:200g Ahia® Smoked Fish, such as moki1 large (200g) starchy potato, such as Agria300ml milk2 cloves...

Exhilarating race for the Oscars

Cops might do well to position their speed traps near movie theatres wherever the new film Ford v Ferrari is playing. They might fund their whole year’s budget busting speeders peeling out of the parking lots. This infectious and engrossing story...