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The first of four Leederville car-free days was held last Sunday. It coincided with Leedypalooza’s Unfair Day, which is like a carnival in an alternate-universe, with unlucky dips, bad family portraits and misfortune cookies. The event was run by Vincent council, Leederville Connect and Fringeworld. The streets are closed off for LeedyPalooza’s Dancin in the…
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WHO is Tommy Sugo? Apparently he’s a master of Italian food, and the kingpin of health, according to the eponymous restaurant’s website. But it’s all just a bit of fun, with owners Nathan and Belinda Baws combining the slang for tomato and sauce in the name of their Leederville restaurant. After years of great meals…
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FROM Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc, to Julia Gillard and Princess Diana, women have been politically white-anted through the ages, Imogen Kelly says. But the burlesque queen has rewritten the pages of history in her striptease romp, Herstory–The Leading Ladies. “Showing the ridiculousness of the political sabotage that happened to these women,” Kelly says.…
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THEY may not be classically trained, but for sheer joie de vivre the Djuki Mala dancers are in a class of their own. The troupe’s Fringe show starts with a potted Aboriginal history, pre-white “invasion”, up to the stolen generation. “Despite the past we are still here, we have survived. This is us,” the audience…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) As the Sun moves into Pisces early this week, so existence conspires to grab you by the horns and take you into deeper waters. Your adventures always go akimbo when you over-ride your sensitivity, so life is now going to give you an object lesson in sensitivity. This once…
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THERE aren’t many homes that can boast a fireplace in the bathroom and a library in the attic, but then this beauty in Inglewood isn’t your run-of-the-mill house. More than 100 years old, it’s a gorgeous time capsule of a bygone era, while still catering for all the needs of a modern family. In a…
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IN an Australian first, Bayswater locals can now plant their own food on council parks. “No local government has ventured into this realm before,” says councillor Chris Cornish about the council’s new edible pocket garden policy. In March 2015 he floated the idea of letting residents grow veggies on their verges and to expand the…
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A CREEK, a young adult playground, and basketball and tennis courts are all on the cards for an upgraded Wellington Square. The huge chunk of land in East Perth is sorely under-utilised—aside from a few people sleeping in the park or the occasional game of lunch-time soccer—and for decades the park’s been plagued by rowdiness…
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IN the wake of Perth council announcing it will upgrade Wellington Square, two people have been hospitalised after a fight in the East Perth park on Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses on the scene described an alleged “stabbing”. Police report they were called to Wellington Square around 2.05pm, after reports of two women fighting. “Police located the…
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THE Australian Medical Association says it’s “bitterly disappointed” WA’s health department has let smoking outside Royal Perth and Sir Charles Gairdner hospitals get out of control. Each day dozens of smokers haunt the public areas just outside the main entrances, putting the health of other patients and staff at risk. “The issue has been brought…
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