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THE salted caramel donuts were glistening with sugar, the sweet and salty centre peeking out as temptingly as a burlesque dancer’s decolletage. I should have reserved one because by the time I got to dessert and coffee they’d gone. “We usually sell out by 11,” Aliment co-owner Grant Greyling tells me, too late to be…
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ICONOCLASTIC French composer Eliane Radigue’s synthesiser music swept her to international fame on a wave of musical controversy in the 1970s. Now 83, Radigue is still composing, switching to acoustic instrumental some 10 years ago. Her OCCAM Ocean series is set to be performed by Decibel New Music, after director Dr Cat Hope spent time…
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A MOB of white cockatoos descend on a suburban street and secrets begin to unravel in The Cockatoos, Patrick White’s Nobel Literature Prize-winning novella. Described as a “slow beautiful dance of love and death” it’s a tale of exclusion and belonging, says local director Andrew Hale who has turned the short story into a stage play.…
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THIS delightful home and His Majesty’s Theatre have something in common — restoration of magnificent plasterwork. Chris Savage, the man who restored the historic theatre’s plaster many years ago, also worked his magic in this handsome abode in leafy Woodsome Street, Mt Lawley. Beautiful ceilings were damaged when a previous owner lowered the classic high…
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THAT this Howes Crescent Dianella home was built by a builder as his family home shows in the sweeping proportions of its rooms, the high ceilings and the quality finishes. “When a builder builds for himself he goes all the way,” agent Mervyn Missell muses. But then again this is the “golden triangle” of Dianella…
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IT’S been a rough week for lord mayor Lisa Scaffidi but followers and the bookies are backing her to win this weekend. Supporters dismiss the media tsunami as “tall poppy syndrome”. The corruption and crime commission found Ms Scaffidi had failed in her duties by not declaring travel contributions and other freebies from BHP Billiton…
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WELL, just after we’d told you turtle sightings were way down at Hyde Park (“Turtles Hyding”, Voice, September 26, 2015) our photographer Matthew Dwyer stumbled across a pack of the shy reptiles this week. While loitering in Hyde Park on a midday break he came across a woman tossing special turtle food in the water,…
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THE big elephant at WA’s parliament this week wasn’t in the room — it was on the front steps. MPs were confused when a giant multi-coloured Jumbo unexpectedly materialised. The half-tonne, three-metre high “guerilla art” is designed to raise awareness about road safety in the Wheatbelt. “He’s a life-sized African elephant sculpture made out of…
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THE odds on Lisa Scaffidi being re-elected as Perth lord mayor shortened slightly this week, despite the media tsunami over her failure to disclose lavish gifts and travel. At the time of going to print, Ms Scaffidi was a strong favourite at $1.6 and her sole opponent, Cr Reece Harley, an outside bet at $2.20.…
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