Dining and entertainment at Highpoint
Fast-paced entertainment and a new twist to the food court met at Highpoint shopping centre recently to celebrate the unveiling of a new casual...
Jumping from Footscray into the online word
Witness a dystopian future where climate change has ravaged the world in an interactive street theatre performance in Footscray this Saturday.
Western Edge Youth Arts...
Standing on the outside looking in at Brooklyn
Brooklyn primary school children will show another side of their suburb when they reveal their Outside In project on Friday.
Brooklyn is one of Australia’s...
Lady Midnight swings again
Six-piece swing band Lady Midnight will perform its third gig as part of the Live at Newport series, supporting Newport Folk Festival regulars and...
Artists open doors for Open Studios 2015
More than 20 artists and galleries will fling open their doors next weekend as part of Open Studios in the West.
Now in its eighth...
Airing dreams of stardom
Troy Barrett is about to amp up rocking out to heavy metal in the privacy of his lounge to the next level.
The Yarraville guitar...
Austen Tayshus hits Altona
Comedian Austen Tayshus, who shot to fame with his 1983 single, Australiana, is performing in Altona on Friday.
His brand of comedy has been described...
Toyota exhibition marks end of an era
A photographic exhibition about Altona’s Toyota plant will be hosted by the Altona Laverton Historical Society to coincide with this year’s Australia Day events.
Organiser...
Women’s Circus celebrates 25 magic years
Footscray’s treasured Women’s Circus is chalking up its 25th anniversary with an exhibition and an ambitious take on a literary classic.
An ensemble of 30...
Local authors team up for double book launch
Two homegrown western suburbs authors have taken the plunge, publishing debut novels together.
Fiction writers Jo Vraca and Belinda Missen joined forces to unleash their...
Former Footscray mayor pens poems
A former Footscray mayor has realised a lifelong ambition by publishing his first book of poetry.
Ted Logan, 83, has penned “a variety of verse”...
Hero war photographer uncovered at Lit Fest
Yarraville author Jeff Maynard has made four trips to the US in pursuit of information about Australia’s official World War I photographer, Sir Hubert...
Macbeth hits Footscray stage
A western suburbs theatre group is marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a gender-flipped version of the Bard’s most famous tragedy.
The wit...
Gig Guide: July 18-25
Reverence Hotel
Saturday, July 18
The Peep Tempel, Lincoln le Fevre & The Insiders, Super Best Friends, Hoodlum Shouts, Georgia Maq, Foxtrot, Deafcult and Kissing Booth...
Social change rising from Dust
Australian rock legend Mark Seymour and a 64-member choir will help launch a book by Newport’s Donna Jackson about asbestos-related illness and social change...
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Milisavljevic into hall of fame
Former Footscray JUST star Jim Milisavljevic is the latest inductee to the FV Hall of Fame.
Milisavljevic dedicated a lifetime to football as a player,...
