by Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
Who we are with our parents and who we are in a romantic relationship can seem like different people.
For Harper (Mackenzie Davi...
To paraphrase a line from a song by Broods, one of the guest acts at this year’s Rhythm and Vines, everything’s looking peach.
For some reason international act...
Steam! Spies! Sabotage! Interactive murder mystery Steam, Spies and Sabotage has it all.
Set during World War 2 with characters that include Resistance personne...
If he lived until mid-December, Beethoven would be 250 years old this year.
In a nod to the German genius’ birthday, the NZTrio will open their Gisborne concert...
by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer
Superman, that boring lug, has thankfully flown the coop.
Writer-director Thomas Bezucha’s Western thriller Let Him Go reunites Di...
He’s designed graphics for the Makorori First Light Longboard Surfing Classic T-shirts. He’s exhibited works with surfer and screenprinter Tony Ogle, and he’s ...
Sea Mouse, with Gisborne support act Set Waves at the Dome? Summer must be on its way.
Described on music.net.nz as a combination of Jack White and Led Zeppelin...
Crystal Palace ft Sly Chaos, Yancey & Willy Mav
Dome Bar, Saturday. An intimate showcase of drum and bass and electronic music.
St Andrew’s Concert Ser...
Big river jazz pianist David Paquette comes direct to Gisborne from Wairoa next week and with him he brings not just his New Orleans-based music and swing with ...
It’s overwhelming, says Toihoukura student Lacey Bartlett about reaching her final year of study — and the exhibition Huia Mai Te Ora, which is made up of Maori...
Decades of Memories
Celebrate sounds from the 60s-80s in a new musical concept. Lawson Field Theatre, November 14 at 3pm and 7.30pm. Tickets from Gisborne ...
A 1980s Maori protest song used to revitalise the 2020 Maori Party movement will be re-released — 35 years after it first hit the airwaves.
Released in 1985 by ...
More than 50 previously unseen works by Impressionist artists are brought together for the first time in Art on Screen’s film, Secret Impressionists.
The film o...
To have such an exposition of genius laid out for us so beautifully and far-reachingly in the course of an otherwise ordinary lunch-hour’s duration seemed to me...
Baby Done is another of the recent run of New Zealand comedies — but it’s got certain extra advantages.
The film stars Rose Matafeo, and it’s written by the tea...
This week
■Gisborne International Music Competition
War Memorial Theatre. Semi-final tomorrow, 10am, 2pm, 7pm. Final on Saturday, 7pm. Admission free.
■Uni-Fi ...
So many artists live, or have lived, at Makorori Beach they could be a movement of their own except they’re not — but that hasn’t stopped them having a collecti...
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...
This week
■ Gisborne Floral Art Society Christmas exhibition
Lawson Field Theatre, Saturday, 9am-5pm and Sunday, 9am-4pm. $5 entry, cash only.
■ Summer Soundch...
Prior to the opening of a new click, collect and deliver business, a group of people — each with a dubious background — gather on a tropical island for a team-b...
Some of New Zealand’s brightest opera stars living and working in London have had a tough year because of cancelled events, finding themselves in the predicamen...
In a sense, Gisborne heavy rock/metal band, Uni-Fi’s debut album has been seven years in the making — and it is set to be launched in a live show next week.
Uni...
by Lydia Burgham, NZ Herald
It’s hard to imagine two more perfect actors to play feuding brothers in rural Australia than Sam Neill and Michael Caton.
The legen...
by Mark Peters
Stetsons and Wrangler jeans are floodin’ through the door/And it’s sink or swim as soon as you hit the floor, say a handful of words from Chely W...
The organ overture to a live performance of The Phantom of the Opera at Auckland’s Aotea Centre was an epiphany for seven-year-old Sean Scanlen.
Well, according...
by Toby Woollaston, NZ Herald
At the beginning of I am Woman, a young, fresh-faced Australian, Helen Reddy, exits a New York tube station past an advertisement ...
Queen is a scream, enthused Sharu Delilkan in her review of New Zealand playwright Sam Brooks’ award-winning play.
“Queen is a sass. Queen is a laugh. Queen is ...
Among Boys’ High students’ boundary-pushing whakairo works showcased in an exhibition last week was student Jiaxi Du’s piece that was dominated by Chinese motif...
This week
Choral Capers
A joyous and eclectic outburst from the Gisborne Choral Society. St Andrew’s Church, Saturday, 2pm. Koha entry.
The Sensational...
What we’re gonna do right here is go back, intones the intro to The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s 1972 funk song Troglodyte.
“Way back, back into time.” And that is exac...