A MAN is dead after an alleged hit-run in Cranbourne North. At around 1.40am, 1 July, a motorcyclist was hit by a car on Thompsons Road near the intersection of Lansell Drive. Witnesses stopped to help the motorcycle rider, but the 26-year-old man died at the scene. The silver Holden Commodore allegedly involved in the collision was found later in the day unoccupied on Lyall Street, Hastings. At 4pm, police arrested a 30-year-old Toora man at Frankston train station. Police say that the driver of the car briefly stopped but did not assist the victim before leaving. The arrested man…
Author: Bayside News
AN iconic rock act and a Eurovision contestant are set to help restart the local live music scene. The Live At City Hall program kicks off at the end of this month at Kingston City Hall in Moorabbin. To kickoff the program, Australian rock band Regurgitator will perform on 30 July. On 31 July, acclaimed singer Kate Ceberano will take to the stage with Ben Butler for a show featuring pop, jazz, and soul classics. On 13 August, X Factor Winner and Eurovision contestant Isaiah Firebrace will perform on the City Hall stage. The program is presented by Kingston Arts.…
DURING this dynamic two hour production show Scot Robin who played the lead role in the smash hit musical “Buddy”, (Original cast) together with his Crickets will perform over thirty of Buddy Holly’s hit songs such as – That’ll Be The Day, Heartbeat, Think It Over, Peggy Sue, Raining In My Heart, Rave On, Maybe Baby, True Love Ways and of course Oh Boy! & much much more. This Internationally Acclaimed production show has and will continue to mesmerise and excite audiences both visually and musically with it’s high energy performance, brilliant costumes and fantastic musicianship. Scot Robin has been receiving rave reviews and…
TWO of Queensland’s best-loved actors, Barbara Lowing & Roxanne McDonald, are set to bring their original Australian contemporary theatre production of Rovers to Frankston Arts Centre in July. Rovers is a delightful and modern comedy-drama that has had audiences around Australia laughing, crying and celebrating the imagination and heart of Australia’s trailblazing women. Woven from true stories and wild machinations, this is a fast-paced & poetic night at the theatre. If you have ever faced a seemingly insurmountable obstacle, had to keep a family secret or said yes to a crazy dare in a bar, then this funny, heart-warming and…
MORNINGTON Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibition ‘Surreal Landscapes’ explores the natural world through historic and political narrative. Curated by Danny Lacy and Rosie Weiss, the show includes newly commissioned work alongside select loans from Hayley Millar Baker, Nadine Christensen, Peta Clancy, Emily Ferretti, Tara Gilbee, Philip Hunter, Raafat Ishak, James Newitt, Emma Phillips, Christian Thompson AO. The works explore personal or historical narratives and embeds political and social commentary, for example, Indigenous photographer Peta Clancy’s powerful photographic-based works taken on a submerged indigenous massacre site in north west Victoria. The poignant and powerful works are showing now at MPRG until 22…