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

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Last week, I touched on India's return to Bay Oval in November, when they will face the Black Caps in two ODI encounters. The November fixtures, on Friday 13 and Sunday... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It was like a flurry of ageist jabs to the solar plexus. Where it hurts. Youch! A boxer will tell you it's unpleasant. Causes something called phrenospasm - a convulsion of the diaphragm,... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz One festival finishes, another arrives. Busy times... Last week was Loserpalooza at Totara Street as well as the announcement of the full programme for the Tauranga... Read More

Abundant Life with John Arts | abundant.co.nz Sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass, strength and function through the ageing process and is seen as a critical factor in an ageing body. The question is whether taking a... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The Bay Oval is set for another bumper season of cricket, highlighted by the visit of the current superstars of the game. India will return to the Blake Park international... Read More

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