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A SHORT film delving into Perth’s street art scene has documented the good, the bad and the ugly of graffiti and murals. From grand commissioned murals to tag-ridden alleyways, filmmaker Wayne Waples has sought out the people behind both endorsed and illegal pieces for his doco ‘The City of Art’. “Initially it was very hard…
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A little extra joy in the Blessing THE Joys of the Women Italian Choir (Le Gioie Delle Donne) is preparing to serenade Fremantle when its Italian community celebrates the long-standing Blessing of the Fleet next weekend. Choir coordinator Silvana Wiley says the choir will sing three songs throughout the procession that winds its way through…
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I VENTURED outside of Voiceland to try the exotic cuisine of a country I have never visited before – the Philippines. Inspired by the carinderias (casual eating stalls) in the Philippines, Lola’s Diner in East Victoria Park opened mid-2021 and has enjoyed good reviews from food critics and Filipino ex-pats. I was initially worried when I…
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TWO acclaimed poets who fled Ukraine just before the Russian invasion will give a fascinating insight into the war-torn country at Perth’s Ubud Writers and Readers festival. Couple Max Rosochinsky and Oksana Maksymchuk had been diligently preparing for the invasion, even though they didn’t fully believe Vladimir Putin would go through with it. That all…
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THIS Third Avenue house is quintessential Mount Lawley. Leadlight windows, period fireplaces, jarrah floorboards and Metters stove – it’s literally an A to Z of what you would expect from a character house in the suburb. But this two bedroom one bathroom has also got a few tricks up its sleeve, including a 524sqm block…
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A TRIAL public plaza on Grosvenor Road opened this week. Traffic will be banned until October 16 to see if it’s a good spot for a permanent public space connected to Beaufort Street. The strip needs more places to sit, although closing Grosvenor drew concerns from business owners that tricky carpark access might send shoppers…
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TWO thousand native plant tubestocks were put in the ground at Edinboro Reserve on the weekend to help build food sources for cockies. The reserve had some diseased exotic trees that had to be pulled out and were replaced by five large trees along with the 2000 babies. The species were selected based on what…
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BAYSWATER council’s permit policy for personal trainers using public parks is so punitive that one fitness instructor has pulled out of operating in Maylands Reserve. Bayswater charges personal trainers $1100 per year to train classes at a reserve, but they have to pay a separate fee for each park they want to use. They also…
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WITH the help of artificial intelligence (AI), library archives and out-of-print photo books, local history fan Dallas Robertson is bringing colour to Perth’s past. Adding colour to black and white photos used to only be possible via a painstaking hand-colouring process. But as the AI gets more advanced the programs have gotten pretty smart about…
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SINCE artificial intelligence (AI) helped give us a look at Perth’s past, we decided to play around with the recent advances in machine-generated imagery by asking an AI to show us Perth in the future. The program, Midjourney, has access to countless millions of images on the web that are typically associated with related keywords. …
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