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DRAMATIC black curtains frame the entrance to PICA’s Northbridge galleries, where demonic-looking sphinxes, eyes flashing menacingly, guard the 2015 salon series, Epic Narratives. Curators Leigh Robb and Nadia Johnson broke with traditional gallery exhibition format, to add a sense of theatre to the art, kicking off with Tarryn Gill’s “guardians” at the door. The artist…
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THIS highly impressive 5-bedroom, 4-bathroom Applecross home captures the timeless style of The Hamptons in the US, so much so I had to do a double take to ensure I was not on the set of channel 7’s Revenge. The sumptuous abode eloquently sits beyond an emerald green hedge, pristine white gate and stone-tiled driveway.…
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A GRAND piano barely makes a dent in the gracious spaciousness of the huge formal lounge of this Howes Crescent, Dianella home. The room, with its elegantly-draped bay window, is so big you step up a level to a second sitting area, with an attractive natural rock-wall fireplace (gas). There’s room here for a second…
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A Herald Promotional Feature: Retirement Sale with items reduced by up to 50% Silvano and Luisa Quirici opened their first jewellery store over 47 years ago in a small shop on South Terrace, next to where Gino’s is now. Remaining true to their values of hard work and old fashioned customer service, the young couple…
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TEARS flowed last week over the sudden closure of a children’s care centre in Highgate, which had been helping women and children affected by domestic violence and low-income families. Twenty-two children and their parents and nine staff are directly impacted by the federal government’s decision to withdraw $400,000 in funding from the Gurlongga Njininj Child…
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THERE are few things funnier than small children falling over so Voice photographer Matthew Dwyer headed to the Perth cultural centre this week with his camera at the ready in case any young tackers took a spilling. Sure enough, on Tuesday morning they were diving like French footballers but there were still plenty of smiles.…
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THE idea’s been floating around for years but a small group of local history buffs has come together to found a Museum of Perth to tell our city’s forgotten stories. The private museum down in Grand Lane is being started up by Reece Harley, Two Feet and a Heartbeat walking tours founders Ryan Zakich…
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VINCENT city council is raising management fees for its Leederville Gardens retirement village almost 300 per cent. The council says it’s been subsidising the centre, housing 66 elderly residents, for years and following a review the fee is tripling from $56,650 to $150,000—the amount it says it costs to run the village. Each unit currently…