Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Let's have a jazz week. Why not? And let's start in the driest possible way. Apologies in advance. The Tauranga Jazz Society is having its annual meeting on August... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny This is about a pothole. A big pothole. More an excavation than a pothole, it could gobble a car rather than just wreck a rim and a $200 tyre. And it's about moaning. Terminal moaning. Both... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Driving past the Greerton Hall roundabout last week, I had to take a second look when I saw a building site where the Tauranga RSA once stood. Before the RSA occupied... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Control Tower: 'Wind zero niner zero at ten…” Pilot: 'Enter left downwind, runway 07/25.” Control Tower: 'Cleared to land.” It could have been an ATR putting... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Every day is a celebration at the moment. I like it. Last weekend was International Blues Music Day, a perfect excuse to bask in something musically lowdown 'n' dirty.... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last Friday marked the end of commercial greyhound racing in New Zealand, when the final race concluded at Hatrick Raceway in Whanganui. Minister for Racing Winston... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'What's in a name?” If I'd asked that question, I would have been blessed with literary immortality. But, alas, woe is me, it wasn't. The phrase, from Romeo and Juliet, suggests... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Farewell New Zealand's busiest drummer During the past two weeks I've written about Loserpalooza. Let's move on. Which I'm sure comes as a relief for many whose... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Greerton Marist's authoritative 37-17 victory over Te Puke Sports in the BOPRU Baywide Premier final on Saturday secured the club's first Baywide Premier title. They... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny 'Erinaceus Europaeus. Hedgehogs.” Here we go. 'What do you know about hedgehogs JB?” I don't know anything about hedgehogs. Nor do I particularly care about hedgehogs. For... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Last week we talked Loserpalooza. Let's continue... Recapping quickly, Loserpalooza is Tauranga's annual alternative one-day music festival, now in its eighth year,... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Watching cricket from my couch last week reinforced my opinion that the Twenty20 game has pushed one-day internationals off the radar for all but diehard cricket... Read More