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April is prime planting time

At this time of the year, there are so many varieties of vegetables to choose from to tempt your green (or not so green) fingers and your taste buds. The secret is in the soilIt's very important to give vegetables and herbs the best possible start so...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or telephone 869-0630. This weekContra Dance workshop: St Andrew’s Church Hall, Saturday (1-3pm), $10. Music from the Movies: Movie soundtrack highlights from 2001: A Space...

Change of pace for successful Gisborne swimmer under lockdown

'I'm pretty happy to get another year. If I'm bigger, stronger, faster, I'll have more of a shot of making it.'

Maru the Maori heroine of video games

As part of Tairawhiti Tech Week 2018, Shaan Te Kani met up with Ngati Porou innovator and tech developer Maru Nihoniho who has plenty of advice for rangatahi, young people. She’s a woman, a mother-of-three and she’s Maori. It doesn’t sound like...

Bad-gal business

With lyrics about hitting and running hard to become a champion, Gin Wigmore's female power anthem, Girl Gang, could have been written with the intention of helping to promote a global sports tournament. It wasn't — but the Kiwi pop star is happy...

Gig Guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz or telephone 869-0630. On this weekQueen Bee: Sings hits from the 1960s. The White House, Sunday, 1pm. Free entry. Sonic Awareness: Jazz charity concert raising funds for the...

Go gardening above ground

A no-dig garden is just that — a arden bed made up of layers of organic materials that does not require backbreaking digging and tilling. Esther Deans, inventor of the ‘no-dig' garden, recommends her method for all gardeners but says it is...

Gig Guide

THIS WEEKThe Boss — Bruce Springsteen Tribute War Memorial Theatre, tonight, 7.30pm. Tickets from ticketek or Gisborne i-SITE. Reb Fountain IRIS TourWith touring plans curtailed in 2021, Reb Fountain welcomes the opportunity to bring her latest...

The Shadow Box

We forget there was a time when terminal illness was not talked about. Cancer for instance was known as the c-word and only mentioned in hushed tones. Around the time playwright Michael Cristofer scripted The Shadow Box in the mid-1970s, though...

From The Gisborne Herald to Three and the AM Show

“One of my favourite memories as a journalist was spent up the East Coast actually,” says Amanda Gillies. “I used to love sitting at the marae because you're embracing something that is so Kiwi and so New Zealand.“The Maori community were so...

Guide briefs

Love your Local Venue Day— Tomorrow is Love Your Local Venue Day. Live music venues are a vital part of the local scene so get out there over the long weekend and celebrate their contribution. SFRQ finals date change— The East Coast...

Hogan back with a spring in his step

JOE Hogan is back. The 1979 world croquet champion has changed his mallet, got glasses to improve his playing vision, renewed his enthusiasm for top-level competition, and gained a new lease on life thanks to successful treatment for prostate...

Spanish flavour on the piano

THE first of two piano concerts that feature Spanish brothers Daniel Gomez-Villarroya and Oscar Gomez-Villarroya will be held at Tiromoana on Wednesday. The concert is part of the Tiromoana summer series that features young rising stars of the...

Windows . . .

My friend and I were puffing up a steep hill in drizzly rain and mist, performing the masochist ritual we punish ourselves with every morning, regardless of the weather. I was grizzling about how a recent earthquake had tilted the hill to make it...

Memories of Africa

I READ the news today — oh boy!I opened the paper today, the headline read “Twelve-year-old girl shoots giraffe.”“What? Why would anyone want to shoot a giraffe, for heaven’s sake?” I yelled at the printed pages. I read on:“Miss Aryann...

Networks an asset in new role

From humble beginnings milking cows on the family farm at Whangaparoa, former Gisborne District Police Commander Superintendent Waata Shepherd is extending his career in another field. He talks to Marianne Gillingham . . .Waata Shepherd has been...

From Waiapu to Wairoa

Choral music selections that range from works by 16th century English composer William Byrd to 20th century composer John Rutter will be part of the Choir of Waiapu Cathedral’s programme for a concert in Wairoa this month. Put together by musical...

Inside The Luminaries

by Karl Puschmann, NZ HeraldThe Luminaries has been described variously as “a dazzling feat”, “the consummate literary page-turner” and “an 800-page doorstop”.My favourite description, however, being someone who gave up on local author...