Kids are going to love this, said one theatre-goer at last night's preview performance of Evolution Theatre's production of Charlotte's Web.
“And their parents...
Although banned in Kansas in 2006 because “talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural”, Evolution Theatre Company is staging Charlotte's Web, a children's st...
Among the various early 20th century -isms that helped shape the direction of modern art was the most alt-worldly of them all — Surrealism.
Tearing its way out...
Visitors to Auckland Art Gallery exhibition, Tu Toi Ora: Contemporary Maori Art, literally step into tangata whenua's creation story, says curator Nigel Borell....
For their last album, Sludge Pop, indie group Soaked Oats incorporated lots of synths deep in the mix that fatten out the sound a bit more.
“The themes running ...
What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly by a feeling of bliss — absolute bliss! — as though you...
A summertime photograph shot with a cellphone that Gisborne artist Conor Jeory bought for the quality of its camera has won him a Canon Powershot G7X Mark III. ...
■ Smash Summer Sesh 8
Featuring Threat.Meet.Protocol, The Murder Chord, Blame Thrower, Dead Model, Hagseed, No Brainers, Unruly, and The Rabbits. Smash Palace,...
Don’t be fooled by the comfy hammock. Brothers Jock and Sam Barns-Graham, founders of the Revive festival that starts on January 2, are working hard to ensure ...
Christmas and Boxing Day have gone, the rellies and mates are still here, but the Rhythm and Vines, and Revive festivals are days away — so what to do, what to ...
On a volcanic island in the northwest of the Solomons in 1943, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force’s 36th Battalion’s men took a creative approach to their Chri...
They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're altogether ooky,
The Addams Family . . .
So when Lucas Beineke (Mike Seymour) from the regular ...
A line-up of top musicians forever influenced by the music of alternative/electronica/experimental/art rock band Radiohead, and who have found each other, possi...
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 ...
by Lindsay Bahr, AP Film Writer
No matter how you cut it, The Witches is a really disturbing tale.
Not that one should expect anything else from Roald Dahl, but...
This week
Live on the Lawn
G ‘n I. Marina Park, Lawson Field Theatre river bank. Tomorrow, 6pm. Bring a picnic and relax on the lawn.
Mia Jay
Smash Pa...
While Warner Brothers and director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors, Die Another Day) prepare to turn former Gisborne Herald reporter Angus Gillies' Ngati Dread...
Young siblings, and multiple music competition winners, Christine Yesol Jeon (cello) and Samuel Woosol Jeon (piano) perform over two dates next week as part of ...
A cherry-red Gibson SG 6 with a double-cutaway, curvaceous, bodacious, chamfered mahogany body and signed by AC/DC's duck-walking Angus Young now belongs to Gis...
Queen by New Zealand playwright Sam Brooks, Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Agatha Christie's whodunnit The Mousetrap...
A more mature, darker sound than previously heard from Hamilton indie-folk band Looking For Alaska can be experienced on their new album, Light and Shadow.
As ...
Abrasive modern punk for a dystopian future, is how Sam Mentink (aka Samari) describes Klang, a techno party with a political edge.
And now Auckland's infamous...
by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer
If you’re going to make a movie about wish fulfilment, 1980s America is about as good as you can do for a setting outside the Arab...
A pen of writers (the jury is still out on the collective noun) filled the Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club conference room on Friday for the long-awaited launch ...
Her family’s love for Christmas was the inspiration for former East Coast woman Caii-Michelle Baker’s recently released song, I Love This Time of Year.
Based in...
This week
Kaituhi Rawhiti: A Celebration of East Coast Writers
Launch event, Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club. Friday, 5.30pm.
Landslide — Fleetwood Mac...
Modern materials that range from moulded resin to digital prints feature among contemporary works in Toihoukura, Maori visual arts school's exhibition, Tokorau,...
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.
I...
This week
Dick Move
Plus support acts Sit Down in Front, The Rocket Jocks, and Nicky Valentine. Smash Palace, tonight, 8pm. Tickets $10+bf from undertherad...
When surf/artist Brett Summerlee lost a mate to suicide he and another friend wanted to do something to support mental health workers.
Miharo Gallery owner Ros...