by Marcus Stevanoski | Nov 6, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Community, Feature
The Wollongong music scene doesn’t seem to slow down. Dedicated punters pack out homely dive bar La La La’s most nights of the week, and if Rad was still around, they’d be there too. University students scout local talent at Open Mic Nights every Tuesday,...
by Laragh Michael | Nov 2, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Community
Yours and Owls Festival will be returning to Wollongong next March for a two-day celebration of live music and the arts, complete with local and international acts. Yours and Owls dropped the highly anticipated lineup for the 2025 festival, featuring some massive...
by Earl Powell | Nov 1, 2024 | Community, News, Sport
Golf has often been portrayed as a pastime for the older generation—a game requiring patience, precision, and time spent on the green. But lately, that image is evolving. A new generation, eager for both physical and mental challenges, is gravitating toward the sport,...
by Portia Johnson | Nov 1, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Community, Feature, Sport
Frisbee in the Illawarra often means a summer’s day at the beach with the family. You might follow this fun in the sun with a night out dancing, disco balls and loud music a plenty. But for some locals, the globally recognised sports of ultimate flying disc and all...
by Ashleigh Gallagher | Nov 1, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Community, Feature, News
Everybody has a passion. Something they need, oxygen for their soul, as Bill Butler would say. What is it that you live and breathe? What drives you forward? Passion. Always passion. For some of the most driven individuals I have had the pleasure to know, it’s music....
by Jasmine Gulaj | Oct 31, 2024 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Community, Feature
Every so often, beneath the soft whirr of the sea and the swaying trees, you may hear the hum of music, an excited murmur, or an eruption of applause – a musical rhythm that pulses through the heart of Stanwell Park. For fifty years, the Stanwell Park Arts Theatre,...