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HAVING seen good reviews for Yip Kee Noodle Shop’s seafood clay pot I’d intended to order it when lunching with friends, but here I was tucking into a keow teow. Literally stir-friend rice cake strips, the Malay/Singapore speciality, with its flat noodles, has been a favourite for years and something I can rarely go past.…
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THE brain-shaking noise you hear as you drift off road is rumblestrip, a warning to drivers they’re close to the edge. Rumblestrip the exhibition is a disturbing look at urban life in a resource-depleted future. The mixed media exhibition uses found materials, from rubbish chuck outs, building sites, skips, op-shops and salvage yards. “It’s an…
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SEX in the City eat your heart out I thought, as I sashayed across the golden timber floor of this swish apartment, feeling so urbane I was tempted to mix a martini. Actually my oohs and aahs probably gave me away as one not used to such sophisticated city living. With only 28 dwellings spread…
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Family-owned boutique furniture store opens in Mt Hawthorn Welcome to Henry & Oliver Co. a boutique furniture and homewares store based in Mount Hawthorn. This family owned and operated business aims to provide customers with a personalised retail service both in-store and online. The store is filled with beautiful, high quality timeless pieces carefully hand-picked…
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FLYING a drone without permission in a Stirling park attracts a $350 on-the-spot fine under proposed new rules. The same penalty applies to anyone caught “slacklining” — walking across a tightrope between two anchors (usually trees) — throwing a javelin or discus, using a hammer or operating a “motorised device” (we assume this relates to…
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THIEVES, vandals and litterbugs are undermining the charitable work of the Salvation Army in Maylands. They’re leaving such a mess on weekends that two staff spend two hours cleaning every Monday before the op shop opens. Neighbours are complaining to police. Manager Shane Oliver confirms it’s a big problem. The donation bin is locked out…
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AN anti-Islamic immigration party, “Love Australia or Leave”, says it may sue Vincent city council for refusing to let it stage a BBQ at Hyde Park. Instead of a quiet barbie in the park on March 20 it now plans a 2pm protest outside the council. Party founder and Queensland senate candidate Kim Vuga says…
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OUR reputation as an uncultured bogan state is being blown out of the water, with free talks on our performing arts history being booked as fast as they are announced. His Majesty’s Theatre historian Ivan King and Heritage Perth’s Richard Offen are getting together to chat about our artsy history, drawing on the extensive collection…
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IT’LL cost Stirling ratepayers more than $110,000 for CCTV cameras at a Yokine playground. Last June the council spent $67,500 on cameras, electrical work and surveillance management for Yokine Play Space, just off Wordsworth Avenue. Because all that equipment was stolen before project completion — oh, the irony — the council has decided to spend…
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