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Something to get twitchy about

For the first time in Rhythm and Vines' 18-year history, the music festival will be live-streamed to the world on live, interactive streaming service, Twitch. In a year where festivals around the world have been postponed or cancelled, the world will...

Beyond the bubble

If what we use today is made with art, and not thrown together by chance or caprice, then we shall have nothing to hide, says Italian artist Bruno Munari in his book Design as Art. But hiding stuff is a big part of Gisborne furniture designer and...

Ten easy gardening shortcuts

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Getting high . . .

Gisborne physician Sari MacKenzie shares her adventures while trekking the Annapurna Circuit from Besisahar to Pokhara in Nepal considered one of the best treks in the world . . . here’s the first of a series about her 17-day, 273km expedition...

Taste of Naples

Auckland bistro The Engine Room’s Natalia Schamroth and Carl Koppenhagen share a recipe inspired by a magical meal on holiday in Italy. This time last year, we happened across restaurant La Scialuppa, in the marina beneath Castel dell’Ovo in...

From The Globe to The Bach

AFTER several years of in-school immersion in Shakespeare’s plays, Laurel Mitchell took on the role of a budding Maori radical in Unity Theatre’s production of Kiwi comedy The Bach. The play involves four characters thrown together during...

Relishing . . .

Nan’s Cucumber and Pineapple PickleINGREDIENTS:6 peeled cucumbers with seeds removed6 onions2 tins 16oz crushed pineapple (medium tins)3 lbs (1.36kg) sugar2 pints (950mls) vinegar2 tbsp plain saltMETHOD:Mince cucumbers and onions (I cheat and put...

Hold down and repeat

TAKE a single tom-tom drum beat. Donk. Bend it, shape it, anyway you want to through audio-production software and you’re on your way to creating a multi-layered composition from a single note. With the software’s analogue imitator, instrument...

Gig guide

Got something going on? Let The Guide know at guide@gisborneherald. co. nz, or call 869-0630. This weekHow I Met My Father: Comedian Rhian Wood-Hill’s storytelling show, The Dome Room, tonight (8pm), $14 presale tickets at Eventfinda, $18 at the...

To hell with ‘age-appropriate’

Eyebrows were raised to the ex-hairline and there was much tut-tutting among our friends as they inspected the double bed neatly made up in the back of the JUCY Cabana station wagon and the little kitchen tucked into the rear of the...

Untitled

“You look like you have it all together”Why, because I look successful? Look happy? Look like I know what the hell I am doing?Don’t you know that looks can be deceiving?Don’t you know that I awoke at 3am in a crying fit?Struggling for breath...

Moonwalking with the man in the mirror

COULD Michael Jackson impersonator Dantanio Goodman be the King of Pop’s man-in-the-mirror?Having impersonated the artist who brought us immortal hits such as Thriller, Billie Jean, and Beat It, the South African theatre performer and recording...

Charcoal and words the people’s choice

The fine line between vandalism and street art, cultural appropriateness, and cultural appropriation, were among ideas behind Mark Peters’ submission that won the people’s choice category in the 2018 Te Ha Art Awards. Peters explored the theme of...

Learn the art of book binding

Artist Peter Harris’ upcoming book-binding and embossing workshop is set to demonstrate a passion for art and craftsmanship, mixed with a bit of No. 8 wire ingenuity. Peter is the curator and founder of Dreamspace gallery and studio on Carnarvon...

Connecting with her heritage

Gisborne girl, Hinemihiata Lardelli has ventured to Naples, Italy, to volunteer with an organisation that manages the environmental protection of a marine reserve that was once part of a bustling ancient Roman city but is now an underwater...

Exposing fast food propaganda

NEW Zealand’s fast food culture is in the frame for a selection of photographic prints Gisborne photographer Drew Hill will exhibit in Hong Kong next month. Fast food wrappers, some with “takeaway DNA” still stuck to them, provide a waxy canvas...

FLASHES OF BRILLIANCE

Heading back to the car after the launch of the MRI machine at medical imaging research centre Matai Research, a Gisborne Herald reporter and photographer were buttonholed in the corridor by a young boffin. He spoke in Science and was hard to...

Applications open for writing grants

The New Zealand Society of Authors is offering research grants to support writers around the country to research for fiction or non-fiction writing projects, and applications are open now. Four grants of $5000 each are available, and one of them...