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Although more often associated with beached bronzed bodies and heady summer frivolity, the Bay of Plenty’s Mount Maunganui is just as pretty in colder months...
We're taking next week off, so this'll be the last column before Christmas. Traditionally for this one I try to include a bunch of recommendations for Christmas presents, involving local music. That's becoming a little harder with each passing year. It's the exhortation to “go out and buy local music for Christmas” where things fall a little flat. It's getting harder and harder to suggest that y'all rush out and buy local CDs when, a) most of you now don't own CD players and b) because of a) many artists now aren't actually producing CDs. It is something of a feedback loop.