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Rumbles can be heard across the Suncoast today as over 100 bikers gathered for the annual Red White and Blue Poker chip run to raise money for local Suncoast charities.

Robyn Edie/Stuff The 34th annual Edendale Crank Up Day held over the weekend, pictured on Saturday during the lawn mower racing demonstration are Dave Cummings as Papa Smurf, of Eketahuna, with Phill Dravitski of Taranaki, behind him. A group of seven lawnmower racers made the journey down from the North Island to race. Man versus man. Island versus island. Mower versus mower...? The inaugural Lawn Mower Racing Inter-Island Challenge was held at Edendale’s Crank-Up day on Saturday, with drivers from across the country pitting their wits against each other to get around the track the fastes...

Janis Joplin's posthumous masterpiece turns 50 FacebookTwitterEmail Janis Joplin in London.Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix, Contributor / Getty Images Fifty years ago, Janis Joplin was three months gone, but her status as an ageless popular music icon was just beginning with the release of “Pearl.” The album sounds bracing even a half-century later, the sound of an artist really finding her voice. “Pearl” contained Joplin’s take on “Me and Bobby McGee,” an instantly revered recording that found Joplin singing Kris Kristofferson’s words with both coiled restraint and enormous feeling....