DEAN Street will be ringing with the music of The Beatles from next Thursday as part of an annual festival honouring the iconic band. Four groups will perform from Thursday to Sunday at the Commercial Club, Albion Hotel and Zed Bar, with the west end of of Dean Street to close to traffic on Saturday [...]
ON PAPER, this film shouldn’t work. I mean, a movie based loosely on an old board game? Is Hollywood really so lacking in ideas? Apparently so, but cliche riddled action blockbuster Battleship works surprisingly well. Set in Hawaii, it follows members of the US and Japanese navies as they try to fight off invading aliens [...]
A SWORD-SWALLOWING stuntman, giant bungee trampoline and live local music will be highlights of REDfest on Sunday. The youth-oriented event, held at the Willow Park skate bowl in Wodonga since 2009, is expected to attract more than 3000 people. Chayne Hultgren, best known as the Space Cowboy, returns to REDfest following his popular performance in [...]
LIVID Productions’ The Vagina Monologues opened to sell-out crowds last week at the Wodonga Jazz Basement. And tickets were all but sold out for the remaining days of the theatre production at the time of NewsWeekly going to print this week. The popularity of the play has been very pleasing for Livid Productions. The play [...]
SALMON Fishing in the Yemen is a film that can’t quite make up its mind. Is it a love story, a comedy, an inspirational drama or a quirky tale about achieving the unachievable? Well, it’s a little bit of all of the above. Ewan McGregor plays Fred Jones, a middle-aged man stuck in the British [...]
MEN in Pink Tights is ballet as you’ve never seen it before. New York company Les Ballets Eloelle takes the high-culture dance form and flips it on its head. Instead of silence and respect, there’s cheering and clapping. Instead of beautifully delicate performers, there’s … well … men in pink tights. “There’s only a couple [...]
IT DOESN’T seem that long ago that the first American Pie film graced our cinema screens, VHS players and early DVD players. But in reality, 13 years has passed since we first met Jim, Michelle, Finch and Stifler, and their other high school buddies, and much has changed. As the group has gotten older its [...]
THE ALBURY Wodonga Theatre Company will launch Creatures at HotHouse Theatre tonight (Friday). The dark theatre piece has been developed over the past two years, and tells a story of love, loss and the fear of letting go to something sacred. Music from Wagga band Sobrusion is at the heart of Creatures with the group’s [...]
DALE Hooper has a strong connection with Johnny Cash. Cash, one of the most celebrated country music stars of all time, had a tough upbringing marred by the tragic death of his brother, which his abusive father blamed him for. Hooper also had stressful formative years, having been separated from his parents at a young [...]
CLASSIC children’s film ET will be screened at the old Wodonga train station next Saturday (April 14) as part of the Junction Place Pop-Up Station Cinema autumn series. Former Full-Frontal comedian John Walker will again host the event, which follows screenings of The Muppets and Hugo. Apex Club of Wodonga cinema co-ordinator Marc Lidgerwood said [...]