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Opotiki panoramas

The Dunes Trail and Onekawa Te Mawhai Regional Park trails explore spectacular beach and coastal environments. Jim Robinson takes us for a ride and a walk . . .Since opening seven years ago, Opotiki’s Dunes Trail has become one of the eastern Bay...

Smashing it at the Smash Summer Sesh

Tis the season of festivities . . . and festivals, which we can do in New Zealand. Besides, with Covid messing up the live music scene, bands are frothing to take the stage again, says Smash Summer Sesh organiser Rori White (he used a stronger term...

Inspiring the next generation

Picture book illustrator Josh Morgan visited Manutuke School on Monday to read, sing and share his craft with the next generation.“It's cool to inspire kids and show them there is stuff you can do from doing silly drawings,” Morgan said. The...

On the road again

Bits and bobs, smatterings of newer songs and much older songs will make up Marlon Williams' concert, says the alt-country troubadour of his return to Gisborne in March. This will be Williams' first solo tour in more than six years. Playing solo...

Te Tairawhiti Poetry results

The results are in and the winners are . . . all of us!I’ve had many thanks from the poets, their parents and poetry lovers throughout Tairawhiti for giving the chance to read and write during the lockdown. It was a community effort that paid...

Chop it, chop it good

With three Gisborne musicians in socialist party punk band Dick Move, the band’s album tour show, Chop!, at Smash Palace next week is a kind of homecoming, says former Gisborne woman Lucy Suttor. The first-time shredder had no idea two other band...

Bloody nightmare, with laughs

by Mark PetersFrom the success of his stage design for Unity Theatre’s production of Calendar Girls to creating a set for Musical Theatre Gisborne’s upcoming The Addams Family, Graeme Nicoll has become the master of finding economic but...

Tips from Witi to help Gisborne elderly record memories

WHALE Rider author Witi Ihimaera will take a break from his holiday in Gisborne next week to make a presentation at a kaumatua/elders’ computer course. In a session called Memories, Mr Ihimaera will help participants to identify and write about...

Still looking for honeymooners

Gisborne woman Valerie Saville and her Australian husband Elwyn had only been married for 70 days when their aircraft disappeared 59 years ago in an area referred to by some as the country's “Bermuda Triangle”.Also still missing since February...

Something to sing about

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wasn't ever well-behaved enough to please the church – the Archbishop of Salzburg's steward even once kicked him down the stairs – but managed to find a patron of sorts in Baron Gottfried van Swieten. A few centuries...

Thirty and still ‘smashing’ it

The oasis in the industrial subdivision, is how Smash Palace pioneer Phil Parker coined Gisborne's eclectic venue three decades ago. Named after the 1982 Roger Donaldson movie about a troubled former race car driver who runs a car-wrecking yard...

From Tokomaru to the ‘Tucker’

Gisborne Herald reporter Maika Akroyd caught up with fellow Ngati Porou Wayne Karauria to korero about his sea-life journey from Tokomaru Bay to the R. Tucker Thompson, where he is now one of its captains . . .Ngati Porou sailor, Wayne Karauria has...

Outside the yellow submarine

Classic rock with instruments and face-melting guitar lead breaks comes this way with Wellington three-piece Sea Mouse. Mousey though is hardly an epithet that describes the trio's hard and fast sound that brings to mind bands such as Led Zeppelin...

The artists and the sea

A combined passion for surfing and art brings the work of screenprinter Tony Ogle and artist/graphic designer Daryn McBride together in a combined exhibition that opens tomorrow at Miharo Gallery. Both artists’ work focuses largely on coastal and...

Kapa haka, a way of life

BENEATH her mountain Ahititi and surrounded by the flowing waters of Waihirere, Louise Kingi acknowledges where it all began. The rural settlement of Waihirere, which is 16km inland from Gisborne, is a kapa haka stronghold and is where Louise grew up...

A head for art

Skulls, bright colours and heavy metal fascinate Holly Davis who is inspired by the festive hues seen in Mexico’s Day of the Dead.“I’ve always been drawn to that style and to making something feared or seen as gross beautiful,” says...

Walk not for the faint-hearted

Faint-hearted? The Camino de Santiago is not for you . . . unless you want to change. Camino Skies tells the story of six people from New Zealand and Australia walking 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago. Two of them, along with film co-director...

A little miracle

It’s a sobering story. Eight hundred years ago New Zealand was covered in dense forest brimming with unique birds such as the enormous moa, the mighty Haast’s eagle, and the beautiful huia. Then people arrived, accompanied by rats, rabbits, deer...