An entry from our Summer Reading competition. My Mother’s Mother’s Eyes  I walked the corridors of grief Until I berthed in Tenerife Onto a land os obsolete Save the rays upon the water, I was led across a reef By the hand of a tall thief Who sold me false belief Before he crumbled into the mortar…

AN anthropologist working with Aboriginal groups in WA, it’s no surprise that Finn Alexander’s music is deep, multi-layered and says a lot about the human condition. When he’s not out in the field deciphering civilisation, you’ll find the 26-year-old tinkering on his guitar and writing songs in his share-house in Fremantle. Alexander’s been playing guitar…

An entry from our Summer Reading competition. Let’s set the scene: DANNY and HELEN to be Married 23.3.74 at 10.45am in St Jerome’s Church, Spearwood Assisted by:   Best Man: D’Arcy (Darc) Maid of Honour: Wendy Groomsman: Alan (Cero) Bridesmaid: Carol Priest: Fr Tomich(Tomo) What follows is a truthful series of events on that day without expletives.…

TAKE a well-deserved break from the Christmas sales to enjoy the stunning 3D tribute to the Moodjar Tree in Yagan Square. Part of Perth’s Xmas Lights Trail, each night the story of the “Australian Christmas Tree” is told through a vivid and beautiful multimedia installation with artworks by Biara Martin and a spoken word performance…

IF you need a left-field antidote for all those saccharine Christmas family movies, then check out the “nastiest, sick and twisted” film festival in Perth.  Now in its 26th year, Trasharama is known for screening horror shorts with lots of gore and pitch black humour. The festival was founded in 1997 by South Australia’s Dick…

AUSTRALIA may not be rationing food just yet, but the cost of living crisis is giving people a little taste of how frugal life was in the aftermath of World War II. Food shortages, families living on war pensions after already going through the Great Depression, returning soldiers struggling to adapt to civilian life, women…

THEY knocked back a young Johnny Diesel for being late, played a poignant concert on the night of 9/11, and have hosted international musos like Chuck Berry’s old pianist Johnnie Johnson. Like the genre itself, The Perth Blues Club has experienced beer-sodden highs and lows over the past three decades , but founder Rick Steele…

HE’S performed for Lady Gaga and Nicole Kidman, so audiences are in for a world class treat when virtuoso organist Alessandro Pittorino joins the University of Western Australia Choral Society for its Christmas concert. Featuring all your favourite carols (folk are encouraged to sing along) plus Anton Bruckner’s Mass No. 2 in E minor and…

SOME artists don’t know when to call it a day – Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Paul McCartney are in their 80s and still touring. Loyal fans don’t seem to care their childhood idol has lost their voice and become a wrinkly charicature of their former self (or in some cases an ode to botox).…

REMEMBER those “weirdos” at school who met in a classroom at lunchtime to roll dice with six thousand faces, cast spells and battle trolls in the board game Dungeons & Dragons? Well, now they are literally having the last laugh with their hit comedy show Improv RPG. Featuring a motley crew of performers who improvise…