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Month: October 2019
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A PERTH craft brewery’s plans to launch a beer celebrating the Australian tour of heavy metal veterans Metallica has been derailed – ironically because lead singer James Hetfield entered rehab. Blasta Brewing had collaborated with US beer giants Stone Brewing on the potent pale ale List.Loud.React to mark Metallica’s tour, which was to kick off…
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THE future of Pica Bar is safe for another 10 years following a public campaign of support for the popular Northbridge venue. Following an eviction edict from the indy bar’s landlord the Perth Theatre Trust in October 2018, Pica fans – who appreciated a chilled-out venue where getting glassed was unlikely – rallied to add…
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JOE FERRANTE was re-elected as Lawley ward councillor in Stirling last Saturday (October 19), after seeing off a stiff challenge from former councillor and heritage advocate Paul Collins. Cr Ferrante won by less than 340 votes, defeating Mr Collins 2435-2099. Cr Ferrante says he plans to tackle red tape for retailers, lobby for upgraded parks,…
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OFF-key piano playing led retired engineer Zvi Yom-Tov to discover his talent for portrait painting aged 74. Inspired by his anthropologist daughter Sagitte, a talented painter and musician who died age 36 in 2013 and is remembered by Yomtov Lane near her Hyde Park home, Mr Yom-Tov took to tangling the ivories. After four years…
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MOUNT LAWLEY playwright Doreshawar Khan was partway through her latest work about three Muslim siblings when news broke of the Christchurch Mosque shooting. She says it was a fearful time for Muslims in Perth as they faced prejudice in the aftermath. “I’ve had friends who’ve stopped wearing the hijab after this, because they were abused…
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YOU wouldn’t know it, but below St Georges Terrace is Lalla Rookh – a restaurant-bar serving Italian-inspired fare. As I wandered down the staircase and into the expansive dining room, I felt like Alice in foodie wonderland. Wasting no time, we kicked off our culinary adventure with sardine bruschetta ($16). The toasted bread was topped…
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THE Perth Symphony Orchestra will tackle iconic soundtracks and pop songs to raise money for kids with cancer. The special concert at Gloucester Park will feature special arrangements of songs from Frozen, The Lion King and The Greatest Showman, and by artists including Katy Perry, David Bowie and Taylor Swift. Singers Leah Guelfi, Mark Turner…
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Golden comms TO celebrate 20th century telecommunications, Perth’s Wireless Hill Museum will host a free show-and-tell session and an outdoor screening of the classic silent film The Thief of Bagdad. Former Melville mayor Russell Aubrey said the Show and Tell Vintage Technology Information Day was a chance to get the opinion of telecomms experts on old…
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THIS home is situated on the leafy Alfonso Street, which has gorgeous examples of early Perth architecture like the Redemptorist Monastery. Featuring all the heritage bells and whistles, this four-bedroom house has art nouveau-tiled fireplaces, a stained-glass front door, soaring ceilings and chocolate-brown jarrah floors. The long hall has a decorative plaster arch and there’s…
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WHILE Perth city council’s staffing costs soared to unprecedented levels last year, its executives couldn’t even tell how many employees they had. An accounting consultant commissioned by the official state government inquiry into the council appeared at public hearings last week and said nearly half the PCC’s total expenses last year were taken up by…
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