Culture

Death of a Unicorn gallops toward screens with dark magic and star power

PREPARE for the most bizarrely whimsical and blood-soaked cinematic experience of the year: Death of a Unicorn is charging into cinemas, horns blazing.

Alexis Poulsen

09 Apr 2025

Events

Success in a lifetime merger

THE marriage could be described as the outcome of a successful merger.

Wendy Creighton

09 Apr 2025

Events

The best made plans

GEORGIA slept for only half an hour on the night before her wedding.

Wendy Creighton

02 Apr 2025

Screen

A Minecraft Movie: Crafting Adventure for Gamers and Beyond

SINCE its debut in 2009, Minecraft has become more than just a game - it’s a global phenomenon.

Alexis Poulsen

02 Apr 2025

Events

Mayor raises red flag on 2032 Olympic rowing venue

“OUR Council’s position is that we are going to work co-operatively with the state government so that we will be the home of rowing in 2032.”

Staff Writers

02 Apr 2025

Arts

Why wildlife art always has the WOW factor

A LITTLE over 250 years ago, British botanist Joseph Banks asked the celebrated artist George Stubbs to paint a strange animal he’d collected on Lt James Cook’s 1768-1771 voyage of discovery in HMS Endeavour.

Guest Writer

02 Apr 2025

Events

Council’s boredom-busting school holiday program

A PROGRAM jam-packed with free and low-cost activities and workshops has been planned by Council for the April school holidays.

Staff Writers

02 Apr 2025

Events

Crosses on the Hill service set for Good Friday at Coleyville

PASTOR Graham Agnew describes his experience as guest speaker in front of the huge crowd at the 2013 Crosses on the Hill service at Coleyville as the highlight of his ministry.

Staff Writers

26 Mar 2025

Screen

Jason Statham returns to form in action thriller A Working Man

JASON Statham is back in what promises to be a gripping and high-stakes thriller with A Working Man, a forthcoming action film that blends pulse-pounding suspense with a deeply personal story of redemption.

Alexis Poulsen

26 Mar 2025

Events

Olympic snub: rowing to go to Rocky

A SHOCK reveal by city media quoting “high placed sources” that Rockhampton’s Fitzroy River would host the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Rowing events has left the Scenic Rim region and its supporters scrambling for detail.

Wendy Creighton

26 Mar 2025

Events

Unfazed by a hovering cyclone

THE couple chose Yandina Station on the Sunshine Coast hinterland as the venue for their March wedding.

Wendy Creighton

26 Mar 2025

Arts & Entertainment

Black Blues Brothers ready for Ipswich Civic Centre

AFTER amazing audiences around the world, The Black Blues Brothers arrive in Ipswich at the end of the month.

Rob Mellett

19 Mar 2025

Outdoors

Preparation: The key to bushwalking safety

EASTER and the school holidays are approaching and authorities should anticipate that once again there will be a spate of people becoming lost or injured on bushwalks.

Guest Writer

19 Mar 2025

Screen

The remaking of a classic - re-imagined Snow White

DISNEY’S live-action reimagining of Snow White is set to grace the silver screen, bringing new life to the beloved 1937 animated classic.

Alexis Poulsen

12 Mar 2025

Events

Impending cyclone no deterrent to YoY contestants

CYCLONE warnings, forecast flooding and damaging winds failed to have an impact on the confidence with which three Boonah High Year 12s addressed the audience in the Fassifern Lions’-hosted annual Youth of the Year competition.

Staff Writers

12 Mar 2025

Music

RMCM brings Seattle’s indie scene to Aus

SEATTLE-BASED indie folk-rock band Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners played Brisbane’s The Triffid last Tuesday delivering their first performance in Australia for the tour.

Drew Creighton

05 Mar 2025

Screen

Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17: A mind-bending sci-fi thriller awaits

BONG Joon Ho, the visionary filmmaker behind the Academy Award-winning Parasite, is set to return to the big screen with Mickey 17, an ambitious sci-fi thriller starring Robert Pattinson.

Alexis Poulsen

05 Mar 2025

Travel

A self-drive tour through our smallest state

OUR brief was to find a self-drive holiday with minimal travel stress, lots to see that’s out of the ordinary, and where accommodation was easy to find along the way.

Wendy Creighton

05 Mar 2025

Culture

Funny man Arj and his mind field of laughs

HERE’S proof even famous comedians need to do mundane chores because when VERVE spoke to Arj Barker he was at a laundromat.

Lara Hart

26 Feb 2025