The Conway Resilience
By MELISSA WALSH Deborah Conway has never shied away from hard work. With a career spanning three decades, she continues to be a creative force in the industry, singing songs that chronicle the essential elements of life, love, loss, memory, the mundane and the spiritual. A significant and eloquent contributor to Australian music, Conway’s natural talent and gutsy attitude has ensured a strong following from the moment her band, Do Re...
Eddie Wearn – Mint’s Q&A with ShedNine mastermind
Eddie Wearne, the Owner and operator of ShedNine Core Store has been running his local Surf, Skate, Snow shop tucked away in a quiet strip of shops near the Rye Ocean Beach for going on Ten years. Bricks and Mortar retail vs the Internet in the modern world is no easy challenge. Eddie is a hardworking, community supportive man always busy helping promote and support local youth, musicians sports clubs, his shop team and running...
The Odd Birds
By ANDREA LOUISE THOMAS Neil Simon’s play, The Odd Couple, featuring a persnickety neat freak and a complete slob, was such huge success that it was made into a wildly successful television program, but Simon also penned a female version of the Odd Couple and it’s just as funny. Roy Thompson directs the Frankston Theatre Group in this all-female version of the play. Olive Madison, a divorcee and self professed slob and Florence Unger...
The Mindful Supper Club
Mindfulness, meditation and a mouth-watering meal will all be on the menu on Friday, 8th April, as The Mindful Supper Club holds its inaugural get-together at The Wholesome Nest Café in Carrum. The menu has just been released, and it looks delicious. The Mindful Supper Club is the brainchild of Victoria Gelberg, the founder and director of Think-Bubbles. Held in partnership with The Wholesome Nest and Beach Lane Studios, The Supper...
Guitar Showdown rocks The Grand
By TERRI LEE FATOUROS It’s all happening at the Grand Hotel in Mornington this month when two of the Peninsula’s hottest guitar slingers get together for another infamous Guitar Showdown. Armed with their favourite axes and backed up by a stellar band, Jimi Hocking and Geoff Achison will finally face off on stage! Playing some of their favourite classic guitar riffs as well as their own brand of rockin’ rhythm ‘n’ blues. Achison has...