A foggy night in Melbourne
Visibility was low, but clearly not low enough to cancel soccer training in Princes Park.
Vale Lionel Rose
The recent passing of Lionel Rose reminded me of this slide I recently scanned from the family photo archives. It is of the the newly crowned world bantamweight champion greeting fans at Essendon airport after defeating ‘Fighting’ Harada in Tokyo on February 27th, 1968. My father, who was working as an aircraft technician at the [...]
Lightning
The Melbourne city skyline put on one of the longest lightning shows I’ve ever seen. These 20sec captures made during a display that went for nearly 1hr!
Lily Allen @ The Forum
UK popstress Lily Allen sold out the Forum theatre twice in Melbourne this weekend. Both she and her fans were in good spirits as she promoted the release of her second album It’s Not Me, It’s You.
Melboune Zombie Shuffle
It was a dark and gloomy October night in 2008 when hundreds of Zombies roamed the crowded streets of Melbourne looking for brains to eat… Gutsy reporter Lawrence Leung (pictured 2nd row middle) attempts to escape the clutches of the hungry dead. Check out his article in this month’s jmag.