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Twende trending BUDDING rap and contemporary hip-hop artist Muranji has released a new EP aimed at taking his musical career to the next level. The collection of four songs is named Twende, which translates to ‘let’s go’ in Muranji’s first language Swahili – a reference to his lofty ambitions. “The cover art for the EP is…
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CONSTRUCTION is underway on the new Bayswater skate and BMX park. The existing Wotton Reserve skate park has to make way for the state government’s Metronet upgrades to the nearby Morley train station. It was due to be demolished in 2021 but users and parents feared that might leave the locale without a park for…
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YOUNG kids are the best covid protection you can get. That’s because office workers don’t want to sit beside them when you’re out for a family meal, in case they act up. So when I took Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles to Bunn Mee for lunch on Tuesday, we had a whole table to ourselves. Not all…
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Is childbirth as traumatic as the scene in Alien when the creature bursts out of John Hurt’s stomach? That’s one of the questions Kaitlin Tinker tackles in her darkly comic one-woman play Earthside, which draws parallels between Ellen Ripley’s daring escape from the Nostromo spaceship in Alien and the struggles of childbirth and looking after…
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THIS Highgate property is a heritage stunner. From the leadlight windows to the jarrah floorboards, every turn is met with a piece of stylish history. The Voice’s favourite room is the formal lounge which has a gorgeous period fireplace, high ceilings and a set of leadlight French doors. Light streams in through the towering windows,…
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THE historic Maylands Brickworks won’t be demolished, but building consultants reckon anything more than stabilising the old buildings will cost cash-strapped Bayswater council big bucks. This week the council released a shortlist of options for the brickworks to the community, making clear that “demolish “ and “do nothing” were off the table. The brickworks ceased operating…
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SPREADING the “City of Light” beyond the CBD and into the suburbs has been the focus of some light election campaigning by Labor, with a million bucks now pledged for lighting projects across five councils if they win the federal election in May. Federal Labor MP for Perth Patrick Gorman says an Albanese government will…
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THE Anzac Day dawn service in Kings Park will be a small, invitation-only event this year to protect veterans from covid-19. The RSLWA announced “In line with the current covid-19 pandemic climate, RSLWA has had to make the difficult decision not to deliver the traditional Kings Park Dawn Service and remove public participation for 2022”. A…
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A LITTLE film about a local swimmer at Beatty Park Leisure Centre is making waves around the world with more than 80 festivals picking it up for screening. Young director Radheya Jegatheva’s 2001 short Pacing the Pool even got the nod at an Academy Award-qualifying event, a milestone on the long road to getting an…
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A SIX metre illuminated puppet will stride around Forrest Place to celebrate the Noongar season Djeran, after last year’s puppetwalk was cancelled. In July 2021 the puppet was supposed to usher in the wintery Noongar season of Makuru with a parade through the CBD, and was intended to be the signature event for NAIDOC week. The…
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