Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It's not a ghetto. Not yet. Not a slum. Not quite. Not teeming with disadvantaged and displaced. More of a shantytown - makeshift dwellings from assorted 'crap” - cardboard, corrugated... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz I must say, I do like me a bit of weird. There is real appeal to art that pushes boundaries, that makes grand creative gestures. Part of the appeal is simply the pushing... Read More

Moments of Tranquillity with Dani Sheridan The online world can make us feel the only way to achieve significant changes is to choose the strongest, most expensive or invasive option available. While treatments such... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Netball New Zealand has received a torrent of attention from the country's media in recent months, mostly centring on the showcase premiership competition's deficit of... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny I'm living in fear of sarcopenia. Sounds like a Sicilian Mafioso hitman. Scarface Sarcopenia: 'You dirty rat, you killed my bruddda!” kind of guy. It's worse than that. Sarcopenia... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz A few weeks ago I wrote that not much happens in September. That wasn't quite true. While it may be a little quieter than the following months, and perhaps because... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Bay of Plenty Rugby management can be well pleased with the crowd that turned up for the Bay of Plenty Steamers' NPC clash against Manawatū at Tauranga Domain last Saturday. Unfortunately,... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Most of us have our price, a breaking point where we can be bought and sold. In this case the price was just $21.80. A bribe, a sweetener - a $21.80 bowl of pork and prawn wonton noodle... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Everyone I know has the flu. It's a bit miserable. We seem to have arrived at the 'hunker down for a couple more weeks, spring is nearly here” part of the year.... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Two full houses at a couple of footy games, some 160km apart, grabbed my attention last Sunday. Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland was full to overflowing, with the New Zealand... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Last week it was festivals. Let us continue. Why not? In one of those strange lulls that sometimes settle over the Bay, it's actually a pretty quiet September musically.... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny Can a person be of two faiths? Can you be both 'Proddy” and 'Tyke”, as my intolerant old Nana labelled Protestants and Roman Catholics in my intolerant 'them and us” hometown? Without... Read More