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The inaugural William Street Long Table Lunch and block party next Saturday (March 11) will hopefully change negative perceptions about Northbridge, say event organisers. The plein air lunch is the brainchild of Kabir Ramasary, who is director of William Street venues The Bird, North Bird Wine Store and Ezra Pound. He wanted local businesses to…
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IMAGINE Spock was into basket weaving and landscape painting. Well, not really, but the intersection between science and art is explored in spectacular fashion by Italian artist Rosa Barba in her debut solo Aussie exhibition Emanations. Barba has exhibited extensively in Europe and her work is currently on show at the famous Tate Modern in…
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THE Voice has reviewed a lot of homes over the years, but the formal lounge in this Bayswater property really took our breath away. It has a bevy of classic features – vintage fireplace, leadlight windows, ornate cornicing, ceiling medallions – and was perfectly furnished with a flamboyant twist. That came courtesy of the period…
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WITH their experiences often misrepresented or told by non-Aboriginal people, four First Nations photographers will share their stories firsthand in an exhibition of recent works at the Perth Centre of Photography. The “Exposure: New Voices in Australian Photography” project was started by PCP board member Glenn Iseger Pilkington, intending to make sure First Nations voices…
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A 40KMH trial on local roads across southern Vincent only led to a one kilometre-per-hour drop in average speeds. Despite the modest impact, the council still wants to roll out 40kmh across all its local roads. The council started the trial in 2019, and consultation with locals in September 2022 found 57 per cent of…
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BASKETBALL would be impossible to play at nearly all outdoor courts if draft state noise guidelines were applied, Stirling mayor Mark Irwin warns. The WA Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has drafted guidelines on “minimising noise impact from outdoor community basketball facilities”. The guidelines come after a series of suburban courts being shut down in…
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WOMEN living homeless on Perth’s streets fear they’ll have no place to go if funding is cut off for the Safe Night Space in East Perth. Perth council is mulling over whether to stretch the budget to keep Safe Night Space going another 6-12 months. “We’d be lost without this place,” one woman sleeping in…
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MANY ventures have come and gone on Oxford Street over the years, and this week historians from the Vincent Local History Centre archives delve into the many lives of the iconic 123 Oxford Street: from rowdy whippet club, upmarket makeover, to the colourful Greens & Co and beyond OXFORD STREET in Leederville has seen many…
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I tawt I taw a puddy tat… ON the morning of November 10, 2022 I was walking in Kings Park with my family. On the “Boomerang” pathway in the north-west corner adjacent to Thomas Street, I observed a domestic black cat moving freely around in the park. I followed the cat off the path and…
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I HAD high hopes for Farmology. After all, a cafe situated in Perth City Farm should be the very essence of paddock-to-plate with access to the freshest and best produce around. I had visions of The Good Life meets River Cottage with a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall clone serving me some delicious omelette made from eggs freshly…
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