NEWS FEATURE: What lies beneath
When Di Wilcox works with teenage girls, she asks them to close their eyes and put their hand up if they have ever hated...
NEWS FEATURE: What lies beneath
When Di Wilcox works with teenage girls, she asks them to close their eyes and put their hand up if they have ever hated...
PROFILE: Dale Maccant, sharing tatts tales
Keilor Park writer and publisher Dale Maccanti is out to show there’s more to tatts than just anchors and sleeves.
Maccanti can’t recall when...
MY SHOUT: We have strange priorities
I tire of our politicians boasting about Melbourne topping global liveability surveys while filling the joint with apartment blocks and freeways.
When I lived overseas...
INTERVIEW: Jana Pittman, straight up
Jana Pittman does everything straight ahead. It was true for her hurdling and running career – she was twice world champion in the 400-metre...
NEWS FEATURE: Blue King Brown
The two key players behind urban roots outfit Blue King Brown found their feet on the streets of Byron Bay.
“It’s a beautiful place and...
QUE SERA: What will be with 3D
Being passed bodily among a group of strangers, I’m starting to feel a little self-conscious and quite glad I wore leggings under that skirt.
“Do...
ARTS: Playing up big-time in the ‘burbs
“Desperately seeking six male singers for a Bayswater audition,” says SLAMS Music Theatre Company on a Melbourne website for amateur actors. Audition hopefuls who...
NEWS FEATURE: The allure of steampunk
If any ghosts are lurking in the Spotswood Pumping Station, they probably aren’t batting an eyelid as Keira Hudson enters the cavernous space.
The fashion...
PROFILE: Artist John Kelly off to Antarctica
If not for John Kelly’s mother buying a particular brand of milk in 1982, the Sunshine-raised artist probably wouldn’t be making his way to...
MY SHOUT: Treat teachers with respect
The idea of fast-tracking ‘high-achievers’ into the teaching profession to attract a better calibre of teachers has been raised again.
Not only has this idea...
MELBOURNE CUP: Just another day for ‘Patto’
Milestones mean diddly squat to Flemington’s straight- shooting clerk of the course, John ‘Patto’ Patterson.
The enduring racetrack figure hardly bats an eye when told...
MELBOURNE CUP: Another day at the races for ‘Patto’
Milestones mean diddly squat to Flemington’s straight- shooting clerk of the course, John ‘Patto’ Patterson.
The enduring racetrack figure hardly bats an eye when told...
PROFILE: Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
Nicole Trunfio moved to New York at 16 to pursue a modelling career, leaving dirt bikes and small country town living in Merredin, Western...
INTERVIEW: Lorraine Elliott, ACMI president
In her very stylish Richmond home, Lorraine Elliott is telling some great stories about some fascinating people. One of them is her first husband,...
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The glory and heartbreak
As the footy season starts to wrap up, there's plenty of elation and heartbreaking stories. Star Weekly photographer Ljubica Vrankovic was there capturing the...
