Shawn McAvinue

The musical Promise and Promiscuity was written by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton.

Cut-price fuel retailer Gull says it is investigating ways to move into the South Island.

People seeking ''silliness'' should watch Auckland composer and performer Robbie Ellis at St Paul's Cathedral at 1pm today, as part of Arts Festival Dunedin.

A rollercoaster play about a Dunedin hero has come home.

Belgian singer Micheline Van Hautem tests her swing in the Glenroy Auditorium yesterday before her first Arts Festival Dunedin performance.

A theatre work was born when a Tongan woman became tired of performing as other nationalities and never her own.

Atamira Dance company artistic director Moss Patterson (front) leads (from left) Heather Grant, Koren Allpress, Kate Sullivan, Swaroopa Unni and Miriam Marler in a workshop yesterday at the University of Otago's physical education department.

The owners of Bellamys Gallery in Macandrew Bay celebrated its 20th anniversary last night by opening an Arts Festival Dunedin exhibition.

A dead soldier tastes the same to the flies regardless of its nationality or gender, an Arts Festival Dunedin production brings home.

St Paul's Cathedral music director George Chittenden, in the pews yesterday, prepares for Sonic Psalms, a special one-night-only Arts Festival Dunedin concert at 8pm tonight.

Like a finely tuned hot rod, the script of Moon at the Bottom of the Garden is ''humming'' and ready for its world premiere in Dunedin tonight, playwright Sarah McDougall said.

Acrobat Kat O'Keefe balances on Rudi Mineur in the Octagon yesterday to mark the start of Arts Festival Dunedin today.

As a stroke violently shook Nick Chisholm, he spoke two final words to his best mate: ''Help me.''

Abandoned ''dog poo'' at Kaikorai Estuary was a hot topic at the recent Saddle Hill Community Board meeting.

Brighton Gala Experience founder and co-organiser Colin Weatherall sits with wife Anne Weatherall at a macrocarpa barbecue table in Brighton Domain.

A Mosgiel dancer has brought a prestigious cup to Dunedin for the first time.

The weather took a bitter turn yesterday with snow in Central Otago, a day after Dunedin students frolicked in foam.

Students compete in the annual ''Gladstone Rd Gutbuster'' in North Dunedin last night.

The honeymoon is over, the marriage is unconsummated and the bickering has begun.

An unpublished James K. Baxter poem is coming up for auction.