Entertainment
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Learning about the Helmeted Honeyeater
The Yarra Regional Museum School saw holiday fun when the next generation of environmental advocates learnt about one of Victoria’s faunal emblems. Friends of the…
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Shire of Ferntree Gully: Early Settlers and Families 1838-1960 book launch on 6 May
A book on the early settlers of the Ferntree Gully area will be launched on Saturday 6 May at 10.30am, authored by a prolific local…
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The best walks this autumn and winter
Why not head outside for some exercise and fresh air, with Autumn upon us and a fresh winter up next? The Yarra Valley and its…
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Ferntree Gully artist Kitty Rae looks ahead after making semi finals of songwriting competition
Ferntree Gully-based singer and songwriter Kitty Rae is fresh off making the semi-finals of the International Songwriting Competition, an annual contest providing aspiring and established…
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Creating your own worm garden
At Tecoma’s FLAME community garden on Thursday 20 April, families will be able to learn how to turn their waste into vermicompost Upper Ferntree Gully…
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CURTAIN CALL What’s on in local theatres
This week, theatre correspondent Peter Kemp looks at three local shows: Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Barefoot in the Park Season: April 29 – May 6. Paul…
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BOOK REVIEW: Fictions and Facts in harmony
This week, Christine Yunn-Yu Sun reviews Red Dwarfs Make The Best Homes, by local author and The Star Mail’s film reviewer Seth Lukas Hynes. Red…
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BOOK REVIEW: Fictions and Facts in harmony
This week, Christine Yunn-Yu Sun reviews Red Dwarfs Make The Best Homes, by local author and The Star Mail’s film reviewer Seth Lukas Hynes. Red…
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This week’s three wine facts
Here are three wine facts to complement your weekend. 8000 years old The earliest known evidence of wine is dated back to 6000 BCE, located…
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The history of Monbulk Cricket Club
Greg Hardy, author of 125 Not Out: A History of the Monbulk Cricket Club 1897-2022, will be giving a free author’s talk at Belgrave Library…
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Entries for Streeton Roberts McCubbin Awards now open
Entries for the Sherbrooke Art Society’s Streeton, Roberts, McCubbin Awards are now open until Friday 5 May, ahead of the exhibition running from Saturday 27…
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New murder mystery set in the Dandenong Ranges
The hills will soon be the setting of the murder mystery novel Death in the Dandenongs by Australian author Brigid George, the 7th book in…