Exhibitions capture Geelong spirit
By NOEL MURPHY
YOUTHS lounging at Eastern Beach, Buckley as interpreter in Batman’s talks with the Wathaurong, a brooding Corio Bay, the You Yangs by...
FINALLY FRIDAY: A Stache of music
By MICHELLE HERBISON
SARAH Armstrong’s computer crashed after making her second EP as Von Stache but the committed electronic artist accepted the loss with optimism.
“I’m...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Courthouse on a Fony journey
By MICHELLE HERBISON
PLAYWRIGHTS Ross Mueller and Georgina Capper took their four Fony 2013 cast-members on a journey as they wrote the production specifically for...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Fanning’s city show
By MICHELLE HERBISON
AUSTRALIAN rock royalty Bernard Fanning will play Geelong’s Costa Hall on 10 August, the former Powderfinger front-man has announced.
Following the release of...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Our opera royalty
By MICHELLE HERBISON
SOPRANO Donna King owes her opera career to renowned Geelong singing teacher Marcelle Cortous Grose-Menzel.
The 41-year-old from a “completely non-musical family” wanted...
Art wizard shows Hollywood how to get real with Oz
By NOEL MURPHY
DISNEY’S latest retelling of The Wizard of Oz might be a provocative prequel but artist Robert Ingpen’s take on the classic is...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Run for the covers
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A PLAN to include a cover song in Mark Seymour’s next original album resulted in a whole CD covering some of his...
Breaker to roll in over coast stage
By MICHELLE HERBISON
BREAKER Morant is “just as relevant today” as when Kenneth Ross wrote his famous play about the Australian’s tragic fate in the...
Thom raw for festival
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
SCOTTISH singer-songwriter Sandi Thom confesses that creating fourth album Flesh and Blood drew out the sound she had "been searching for”.
“It’s where...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Sisters bring hotel harmonies
By MICHELLE HERBISON
THE exquisite blending of three sisters’ voices that shot the McClymont sisters to fame six years ago will highlight the trio’s next...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Our Manfred’s making Merry
By MICHELLE HERBISON
A QUICK scan of the audience while taking bows at a recent Melbourne opera show delighted singer and school music director Manfred...
FINALLY FRIDAY: Joe’s travelling Van
By CHERIE DONNELLAN
SINGER Joe Creighton might have created a Van Morrison tribute show but the Irish-born Melbournian said he has no interest in meeting...
Help tails wag this Christmas
Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS) has launched its annual Christmas Appeal
The not-for-profit organisation, which provides an animal shelter and veterinary clinic for stray and...
