Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid The new cricket season has started to emerge with the twin announcements of the NZC Major Association 2025/26 contracted players and the home international schedule. A... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz A couple of months back I wrote about legendary Kiwi prog-rock band Think. Their fabled 1976 album 'We'll Give You A Buzz' has been issued on vinyl and a thing of beauty... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny It was a clean surgical excision, a gob-size bite, from a still bagged mince and cheese pie. And the bloke with the gobful, was gazing intently into the cavity. Why? 'It's a pie,”... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid Kiwi master blaster Finn Allen made cricket watchers throughout the globe sit up and take notice when he blasted a big century in the opening match of MLC (Major League... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny He's probably the nicest person I've never met. No, never met him, probably never will. Kiwi Ryan Fox. Golfer. Winning golfer. And above all, nice bloke. Nice may sound underwhelming... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz Tauranga continues to surprise me with the amount and variety of music on offer. I've said this before and though I hate repeating myself, I know I'm doing exactly... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid While Covid changed the world, it also brought a myriad of small changes throughout society. Bay of Plenty senior club rugby adapted, then took another approach in... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Climate extremes in New Zealand, since instrumental records became available in the 1850s, show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees Celsius recorded in Rangiora on February... Read More

Roger Rabbits with Jim Bunny What has Donald J Trump got in common with 'Stew” the wether sheep whose pronoun is ”it"? Well, lore has it both Trump and Stew are draft dodgers. Fancy that! Trump dodged the... Read More

Music Plus with Winston Watusi watusi@thesun.co.nz It's back - time for Loserpalooza 2025. Totara St will come alive from midday for 12 hours on Saturday, June 21, with the sounds of 24 bands each playing for 30 minutes... Read More

Sports correspondent & historian with Sideline Sid For three decades, the chant 'This is the Warriors Year” has echoed out of Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland's industrial heartland in Penrose. Just maybe, the big... Read More

Skin Secrets with Sue Dewes from Tranquillo Beauty In today's world of holistic wellness, self-care is no longer a luxury - it's a necessity. At the forefront of this trend is our innovative wellness facial, a treatment... Read More