Perth Voice Interactive
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Month: September 2015
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Local chef Paul Zammit’s love for WA produce knows no bounds. A veteran of the Perth culinary scene, Paul has pretty much done it all – from running famed seafood restaurant Mosmans, to authoring several cookbooks championing our amazing produce (including Buy West Eat Best). Noticing a gap in the seafood restaurants around Perth, Paul…
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SOLITUDE and sustainability merge in writer, producer and director Scott McArdle’s Between Solar Systems, at the Blue Room Theatre. If a bloke in a spaceship, alone but for a computer voice, sounds familiar, the sci-fi aficionado says although it’s been quite awhile since he saw 2001: A Space Odyssey there are elements of the classic…
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THIS 99-year-old Bayswater cottage is lovely. Walls are light, the tin ceiling couldn’t be more Australian and there’s a small, low-maintenance garden with city views. Standing on the front verandah, the perfect spot for a lazy Sunday morning coffee, I expected a small cute home with jarrah floors and high ceilings. Maybe a a couple…
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“WHINGER”. That’s the word Perth lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi used to describe a tourist who’d complained about a budget hotel with filthy, semen-stained sheets, cockroaches crawling from under the bed cover, and stinking of urine and marijuana. Ms Scaffidi co-owns the building the notorious backpackers is housed in. The lord mayor’s description of the tourist…
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COCKROACH infestations, semen-stained sheets, fire hazards and even urine leaking from light fittings: the building owned by lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi and husband Joe has been the subject of numerous complaints and still the Perth city council hasn’t shut down the backpackers business that runs there. While the business is run by a tenant the…
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THE lord mayoral car was spotted outside this Queen Street Hair Salon on Tuesday just hours before Lisa Scaffidi announced she’s running for a third term. Bypassing the city’s parking squeeze, her bay had been reserved with orange cones and a bag over the meter warning “City of Perth: NO STOPPING. Authorised vehicles excepted.” The…
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THE line between Lisa Scaffidi’s private affairs and her role as lord mayor have been blurred over the City of Perth’s handling of media enquiries about her co-ownership of a squalid Wellington Street building. In documents the Perth Voice has accessed under Freedom of Information laws (the application was lodged April 17), it is clear…
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PERTH lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi has announced she’ll recontest her seat, hoping for a third term. For the launch, her campaign team uploaded to Youtube a rap poem video, The Scaffidi Factor, by local poet Stevie Belowsky. “It’s the Scaffidi Facta that attracts ya to a city running fasta,” the slam poetry champion recites, along…
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ARTIST Anya Brock has finished her 10-metre high giraffe mural in Maylands. Next time you’re grumbling about attaching an extender to a roller to paint the ceiling think of Brock, who was hoisted 26 feet above Eighth Avenue on a scissor-lift. “The mural took me one-and-a-half days,” she says. “The height was a bit of…
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