7 things to do this weekend
Whittlesea Country Music Festival
The Black Sorrows head a wide line up at the Whittlesea Country Music Festival on Saturday. The festivities begin on Friday...
Charity ball
Caroline Springs model Cindy Carino, dressed by Leiela and pictured here with Sam Ludeman, was a guest at the inaugural Ride As One charity...
Brimbank Sustainable Living expo
Find out about urban beekeeping, growing fruit trees or decluttering at the Brimbank Sustainable Living Expo at Westvale Community Centre on Saturday, February 20,...
Lunar New Year festivities at Sunshine
Lion dancers and firecrackers will roar up the main street of Sunshine this Saturday, celebrating the city’s Lunar New Year Festival.
Presented by Sunshine Business...
Barina CDX has universal appeal
The small hatch segment of the market is up there with SUVs in terms of competition, and the Barina continues to hold its own,...
Sounds of Summersault
Award-winning Aussie indie pop band Sheppard will be among the sounds of summer at Caroline Springs’ Summersault festival this Saturday night.
Scheduled from 4pm until...
Global tastes around the west
A host of culinary adventures head west as part of the 2016 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
The eat.drink.westside program of 20 events, from March...
Cast away your troubles in Fiji
Men as loud as their shirts, children unshackling themselves from screens, flight attendants sneakily doling out an extra bottle of wine – there’s a...
Kia ora Kaikoura
There’s something special about arriving somewhere at night only for it’s full beauty to be revealed at sunrise.
From our cliff-top balcony looking over Kaikoura,...
Coogee: Sun and sand in suburbia
The crowd parts on the promenade revealing three samba dancers wearing little more than feathers, sequinned fabric swatches and tans.
Under sunny skies onlookers move...
Web series to highlight west’s GLBTIQ youth
A call is going out for volunteers to become involved in a web series portraying the lives of young people of diverse sexuality and...
WRX delivers cheap thrills
David Bonnici decided to overcome his 'rice chariot' snobbery to see what the WRX fun was all about.
Being a bit of a performance-car snob who raised...
GLBTIQ sports festival calls for entrants
The largest GLBTIQ sports festival in Australia returns to the banks of the Maribyrnong River this month.
The gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer...
Port Fairy is the great weekender
Rich in history and natural beauty, Port Fairy has always been a popular destination for Victorians seeking a weekend getaway or a couple of...
Pictures of the month, November
November's best pictures by the Star Weekly photographers.
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