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Mermgrown Auckland 2021 Second Lineup Announced + Interview Annabel Kean / Photo credit: Paige Warton / Tuesday 9th March, 2021 9:00AM    The Mermaidens' 'Soft Energy' philosophy clearly gets shit done, as the Merms have wrapped up a wildly successful Mermgrown Festival Pōneke, are embarking on an Aotearoa-wide tour this week, and have just announced the second wave of acts for Mermgrown Auckland. Topping up the already dazzling lineup are locally grown talents Louisa Nicklin, Ez Ra, and Pōneke creator Samara Alofa, with even more bands to be revealed next week. The festiva...

Transcript minus Tegan Taylor: Hello, this is Coronacast, a daily podcast all about the coronavirus. I'm health reporter Tegan Taylor. Norman Swan: And I'm physician and journalist Dr Norman Swan. It's Friday, 5 March, and given it's now into the second year of Coronacast, I'd better give you the year, it's 2021. Tegan Taylor: It's still 2021 even though time is both flying and travelling at a snail's pace. But Norman, one of the things that we keep hearing about over the past few weeks and months is variants. So we were all very critical of Donald Trump when he was talking about the China ...

A Dublin Gardener Dreams of Summer Winter is the time when Peggy Davis plans her warm-weather projects. Teresa Woodard Yes, frost and snow dust the grass seedheads in Peggy Davis’s garden. While living in Dublin with her husband, Bill, this winter she’s dreaming about her next warm weather projects. She is already planning a quartet of raised beds with a resting space in the middle and maybe even a fountain. Also she will be adding more plants such as the ‘Ice Cream’ tulips she ordered with her young granddaughter.  “I really don’t have an off-season,” says Peggy. “I’m c...

Back in the bear pit: Judith Collins to grill PM Jacinda Ardern in first question time of 2021 9 Feb, 2021 12:50 AM 2 minutes to read Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be asked about the Covid-19 vaccine. Photo / Mark Mitchell Jason Walls is a political reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjason.walls@nzme.co.nz@Jasonwalls92 MPs are this afternoon back in the House and are ready to kick off the parliamentary year with a quickfire exchange as politicians scrap it out in question time. At first, all eyes will be on National leader Judith Collins and her lines of attack against Prime Minister Jac...

Transcript minus Tegan Taylor: Hello, this is Coronacast, a daily podcast all about the coronavirus. I'm health reporter Tegan Taylor. Norman Swan: And I'm physician and journalist Dr Norman Swan, it's Friday, 29 January. My God, January is almost over. Tegan Taylor: That's right, and so we are still creeping along this weird second year of the pandemic, and when we are talking about pandemics, Norman, one of the phrases that was bandied about a lot, especially at the beginning, was the idea of herd immunity, that we get to a stage where the virus can't spread willy-nilly through the commun...