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Dungeons and Dragons put the funny in fantasy

by Jocelyn Noveck, AP “You’re not a lot of fun, are you,” notes barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) to brave fighter Xenk (Regé-Jean Page) in the new Dungeons & Dragons film, making two jokes at once. The first is that Xenk, a paladin...

Soft pastels Alford’s medium of choice

LightscapeS, a solo exhibition of works by local painter Zoe Alford, opens at Tairāwhiti Museum tomorrow. The collection of new paintings includes images of seascapes, beaches, farmland, a vineyard, Eastland Port, and the old Midway Surf Lifesaving...

Sinkhole opens up as sewer main collapses

Part of Lytton Road will be closed for the best part of a week after contractors were called out to a sewer block on Tuesday night. They discovered the sewer main had collapsed and caused a sink hole at the edge of the Lytton Road – Stout Street...

Quick wit, comic timing

Get to know Kita Mean, the winner of the first series of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, as she performs her show Delightfully Camp! at Lawson Field Theatre next month. Kita Mean has performed all over the world, from her own backyard to the US...

Resonators bringing a party spirit

Join Aotearoa’s “finest family band” for an evening of lively entertainment at the War Memorial Theatre next month. The Harmonic Resonators are touring on the big stage in 2023 to promote their second album Rongo Ki Te Oro (Listen to the...

ROCKING THE PASSION

Gisborne actor/director James Packman was so persistent in his quest for rights to stage the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, his name reached composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s office in London. Packman had made regular inquiries to...

Hard-earned win ends tough week

One win from four games is nothing to shout about. Yet the manner in which Gisborne Boys’ High School first 11 beat Rotorua Boys’ High School in the playoff for fifth at the six-team Super 8 secondary schools cricket tournament did them credit...

GOLF ROUNDUP

Patutahi THE late Bryan Johnson would have nodded his head in approval at the performance that won his trophy at the Patutahi Men’s Open on Saturday. Indeed, Patutahi stalwart Johnson would have been impressed with a tournament that embodied...

Tokomaru Bay community has its say at inquiry Zoom meeting

Lack of equitable resources to clean up beaches, emotional and physical damage caused by forestry slash and impacts of extreme weather events on the people of Tokomaru Bay were shared at a ministerial inquiry into land use community hui yesterday...

Know where copper is coming from

by Dr Andrew Cribb, East Coast Farm Vets With the abundance of feed across the district, it’s easy to forget about trace elements, and copper in particular has been on our radar while pregnancy testing cow’s. A national survey in 2021 showed...

The battle in your brain

by St John Craner Environmental challenge is a much wider concept when you think about it. The biggest environmental battle you face is the one inside your own head. It's the environment you live in day in, day out. Author Robin Sharma said, “The...

Nash's downfall a loss for Labour but not a crisis

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins would have been the most harassed person in Parliament yesterday as he first watched one Minister trying to explain her comments in the House and then had to fire another who joined the House at the same time as he did...

Thanks NZDF

The New Zealand Defence Force played a crucial role in supporting our rural and isolated communities in Tairāwhiti after Cyclone Gabrielle. They hit the ground running in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, facilitating the establishment of...

The Posie Parker stoush: some positive lessons for our election

Maxim Institute executive director What does politics produce when mixed with violence and intimidation? Sadly nothing constructive, plus a humungous helping of anger, division, recrimination, spleen and confusion. Oh, and...

Permitted to disagree with my opinion . . .

Opinions? Have I missed something? I was under the impression that opinions were something everybody was allowed to have, and that everyone else respected our right to have. Sharing these opinions was considered to be a form of debate that gave us...

Growing the organic macadamia industry

The people behind Torere Macadamias are so passionate about macadamias they have developed a 10-year NZ Macadamia Industry Growth Strategy (2018-2029) to increase organic growing of macadamias from 10ha in 2018 to 1000ha in 2029. The company is...

When the going gets tough...

Tokomaru Bay farm manager Colin Skudder made the headlines after Cyclone Gabrielle when he cut a track across his farm to ferry nurses, technicians and other hospital workers from Tokomaru Bay to Te Puia Springs Hospital. The hospital was cut off...

‘Exceptional quality’ at weaner fair

by Trevor Brown PRICES were buoyant at yesterday’s Matawhero weaner fair where 2736 steers and bulls went under the hammer, many from the Wairoa and Ruakituri districts. There was a large bench of buyers, most from outside this district, and they...