There’s a revolution happening in the world of Adam Brand. It’s a creative revolution that sees Brand redefining boundaries and returning with the most ambitious record of his career, GET ON YOUR FEET. The album pushes the envelope in a way that few country artists of the modern era have ever attempted. This is Adam Brand in 2017, and he’s bringing a full deck of fine songs to the party that will establish a new high-water mark for him in a career that is already rich with them. With a new genre pushing record that’s set to send critics and…
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In Between you and me TextaQueen explores gender, race and identity through the medium of fibre-tipped pens. Bringing together work created over a 15 year period, this survey exhibition reflects on how visual and popular culture inform personal identity via re-interpretations of the salon nude, re-creations of cultural and historical identities undressed in the Australian landscape and critiques of colonial histories in apocalyptic movie poster portraits. TextaQueen was an artist in residence at the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Police Point Artist in Residence Cottage in 2016. A new body of photographic works created during the residency is on display in the…
A FIRE at a two-storey shop in Playne St, Frankston, is thought to have started accidentally, police now say. Detective Sergeant Gary Richards, of Frankston CIU, said the Thursday 23 February blaze may have been started by an overloaded power board. Authorities were originally investigating whether the fire had been deliberately lit (“Shop fire ‘suspicious’”, The Times 27/2/17). The fire, detected about 1am, caused extensive damage to Wild Jasmine Thai Massage and the adjoining Family Life business. First published in the Frankston Times – 6 March 2017
By Ben Triandafillou FRANKSTON High School student Winston Kenyon has been selected for the School Sport Australia Triathlon Championships which will be held at Penrith, New South Wales from 18-21 April. Winston will be joining students from across the state in the School Sport Victoria State Team following a selection process which started in November last year. With three events this season being SSV selection races, the competitor’s two best places were used to select a team of six athletes for the 12-13 years age group. Winston trains locally at a variety of clubs, such as the Mornington Peninsula Triathlon…
A MINI-MOTORBIKE rider has pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run fatality that killed a mother-of-two at Carrum Downs shopping centre in September 2015. Caleb Jakobsson, now 20 but aged 18 at the time of the tragedy, changed his plea to guilty last week and was further remanded to face court in May on charges of culpable driving causing death and failing to stop at the scene of an accident. Jakobsson’s “monkey bike” is said to have struck Andrea Lehane as she walked on a pedestrian crossing in the car park. She was thrown up to seven metres when struck at a speed of “between 30kph…