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Tom Hoye, Surfer, Shaper And Emigre, 1945-2021 Santa Cruz to Margaret River — a classic surfing life. Tom at Injidup in 1971, just after arriving in WA. Surfline By Tom Blaxell Many surfers in Western Australia will be saddened by the loss of master surfboard maker Tom Hoye. Tom applied his considerable skills in WA for 50 years, to a devoted following. He leaves an advance orders book extending out for two years. Tom came to Australia from Northern California at the start of the 1970s. Born ...

What’s loose in the store and smashing goods to the floor? Staff and customers at a 7-Eleven in the Thai city of Nakhon Pathom, near Bangkok, were stunned this week by the intrusion of a giant Asian water monitor, which barged through the store and scaled shelves next to the beverage cooler, drink cartons cascading down in its wake. Shrieking bystanders recorded some of the action. Once. Twice. Thrice it almost crashed to the floor. But the lizard was muscular. It appeared determined. It ...

In a sign of the times — and the growing emphasis on cultural sensitivity in entertainment — Pepe’s recent SAK gig was his last in his current form. Performer Rob Ward, who created the risqué, fun-loving Pepe in 2008 for Fringe, is “evolving” the character.

Within a few minutes of “End of the Rainbow,” Judy Garland has dropped the F-bomb and nearly been caught performing a sex act on her future husband No. 5. So, yeah, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

West Linn cops blackface clown painting removed from school February 10 2021 The West Linn Police Department issued a statement that the painting has been removed; school district says it should never have been displayed. A post in the West Linn Open Forum community Facebook group has sparked the removal of a velvet painting depicting a clown in blackface from a school resource officers office wall at West Linn High School. The officer, Jeff Halverson, said the painting was used as...

Press Release – NZ Formula 5000 Assn In their heyday in the 1970s the 5.0 litre stock block V8-powered Formula 5000 single-seater racing cars which contest New Zealand’s annual SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series were as quick as F1 cars. So most in the large crowd expected to descend on Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park this weekend for the Taupō Historic Grand Prix celebrating Ford meeting will know exactly what to expect, says NZ F5000 Association organising comm...

Thursday, 21 January 2021, 7:41 am In their heyday in the 1970s the 5.0 litre stock block V8-powered Formula 5000 single-seater racing cars which contest New Zealand’s annual SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series were as quick as F1 cars. So most in the large crowd expected to descend on Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park this weekend for the Taupō Historic Grand Prix celebrating Ford meeting will know exactly what to expect, says NZ F5000 Association organising committ...

Matt Smith Photography/Supplied Tony Roberts in his McLaren during round one of the 2020/21 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at Feilding in November 2020. While the Taupō Historic GP this year celebrates Ford, a record number of cars bearing the name of New Zealand motor racing great Bruce McLaren will line up on the grid. The annual event at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, on January 23 and 24, is the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Ta...

Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association Rnd 1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell 9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith Photography. It seems entirely fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time, there will be a record numbe...

Monday, 11 January 2021, 6:13 pm Rnd 1 21 SAS MSC F5000 R1 Tim Rush 20 McLaren M22 Toby Annabell 9A McLaren M10B. Photo credit: Fast Company/Matt Smith Photography. It seems entirely fitting that at the second round of this season’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series at the annual Taupō Historic GP, this time celebrating Ford, at Taupō’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park in less than a fortnight’s (Sat-Sun Jan 23/24) time, there will be a record number of cars bearing the...