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Designer doc

Most people — generally men — wear ties around their necks, jerseys on their top half and trousers on their lower half. But Sanet Cloete (Belfield) wears ties as a skirt or sits on them, drapes jerseys over her knees and throws trousers on...

Big day out for words that don’t go to the edge of the page

Radiating Awesomeness is the name of a live poetry jam planned for Gisborne’s part in National Poetry Day next week. National Poetry Day falls on Friday August 24 but Te Wananga o Aotearoa tutor and poet Jodie Reid will host Radiating Awesomeness...

What's on in Gisborne

■Endeavour bar, Cosmopolitan Club. Tomorrow, 7.30pm. Prize pool up for grabs. $2 entryWrights Wines, Wharerata Road, Manutuke. Saturday, 1.30pm. Book to secure a table.■Dome Room. Saturday, September 12, 8pm. $15 from undertheradar ($20 on...

At home in the bush

The life of outdoorsman Hamiora Gibson (Sam The Trap Man)

Play it again, Jan

American Blues Review describes Australian singer-piano player Jan Preston as ‘technically strong, full of character, dripping with life” and now the blues/boogie musician and her husband will perform at the next Poverty Bay Blues Club...

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Mammoth mission to repair damage

Two years on from Tolaga Bay floods

Recipes for health and vitality

WITH the worldwide revolution toward healthy food and healthy people, The Revive Cafe cookbooks need a top spot on the recipe bookshelf. Aucklander Jeremy Dixon is behind the delicious, healthy and easy recipe books that are inspired from his two...

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Shared Kitchen is a collaboration between longtime New Zealand food personality Julie Biuso and her daughter food blogger Ilaria Biuso.“It’s a recipe and knowledge-based site, full of great seasonal recipes with all the tips alongside to make...

Looking and feeling your best

It’s our biggest organ, it’s the first thing people see, and it often determines how we feel about ourselves. Sophie Rishworth spoke with Juve owner and para-medical skin therapist Sally Wright about how building blocks of treatments over time...

Outstanding in his field

RAY Kitchen remembers his father Allan being in the Rotary club in Whanganui. He recalls the projects such as working bees at the YMCA camp off the Parapara — the road from Whanganui to Raetihi. It would have been 25 years since he had anything to...

Another storyteller in the whanau

Rongowhakaata kaumatua Stan Pardoe discusses his world and his life

Gain from pain

Life is not about what you have, it's about what you do with what you have, Eru Findlay says about his life. Eru grew up in Kaiti, lived on Dalton Street and went to Waikirikiri School.“Our playground was the metre box . . . I was a child of the...

When Gisborne becomes G-town

With at least 50 international acts lined up for New Zealand’s longest-running music festival, Rhythm and Vines, the world is well and truly coming to Gisborne. The headline act for the festival’s first night is Chicago rapper Juice WRLD who has...

Keeping food simple and quick

Choosing favourite recipes is a little like being asked to pick a favourite child, says Simon Holst. In the end, he and Alison Holst tried to select recipes that are especially simple, and still interesting.“We’ve then reworked them, numbering...

Out of Berlin

From the 23 quartets 18th century genius Wolfgang Mozart wrote in his lifetime, six of them inspired Joseph Haydn to tell Mozart’s father his son was the finest composer in the world. Mozart’s E-flat Quartet is the third of that set of six Mozart...

Gig guide

India Sweets and SpicesDome Cinema, tonight, 7pm. COMING UPDiablos CaravanAn evening of acoustic guitar performed by three of New Zealand's finest players. Dome Room, Friday, March 25. Tickets from undertheradar. co. nzMotel CaliforniaPlaying all the...

Hunting, fishing . . . and healing

Travis Tawera knows firsthand the darkness of suicide and depression. But he found a pathway to healing by providing kai for his whanau and community, and being in the outdoors. Now the Waipiro Bay hunter gatherer wants to share this with other men...