THE majesty and trauma of the Kimberley is captured in equal measure in a series of a stunning photos taken over six years by Djugun and Yawaru photographer Michael Jalaru Torres. Featuring everything from vast abstract landscapes to a person wearing a feather mohawk and high heels, the exhibition Jurru is as much about the…

A MICRO-BUDGET stoner/crime comedy shot in Perth is going down a storm with WA cinemagoers. Alex Lorian’s Good For Nothing Blues has already been shown in multiple venues including packed-out Telethon Community Cinemas, and will have a sixth screening at next month’s WA Made Film Festival. The movie follows Calvin and his dole-bludging friends who…

COVID has put lots of new Perth businesses to the sword, but it looks like The Oasis Comedy Club could have the last laugh. Launched six months ago in a dusty, unused room on the first floor of The Brisbane Hotel, the club has gone from strength-to-strength and is now booking major stand-up acts like…

IF you wander around Cathedral Square at a certain time of day, you might feel your time has come early as you are engulfed by billowing white clouds and ecclesiastical music. Don’t worry, you’re not ascending to heaven or at a Spinal Tap concert, it’s all part of an atmospheric and slightly mystical art installation…

ARTIST Lucian Freud had 14 children, was intensely private, and often got family and friends to pose half naked with their pets for months on end for his confronting paintings. The 20th century British painter is best known for his searingly honest figurative works, which have been described as “candid almost to the point of…

ARTS lovers fear not – there’s still time to catch some great shows at Fringe World, which runs beyond the school holidays until February 13. If you need some light relief after the never-ending gloom of Covid, then Daniel Delby’s 33 Years Single could be just the tonic. The show will provide solace to anyone…

HIS cruise ship gigs were cancelled, he underwent testicular cancer treatment mid-lockdown, then was the subject of Covid-related “fake news” in China: It’s been an eventful pandemic for Michael Shafar. The Melbourne-based comic usually watches the news to find things to poke fun at and keep an eye on the border closure situation, but he…

A VIRTUAL REALITY recreation of the Carrolup-Marribank mission gives a heart-breaking glimpse into the lives of the stolen generations. Up until the 1970s, many First Nations children were forcibly removed from their families and put into institutional care “for their own good” in camps and missions across WA. Part of the government policy of assimilation,…

THE Beatles: Get Back is a musician’s wet dream, but for others it could be a long and winding slog. Just shy of eight hours long, the fly-on-the-wall documentary by director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) follows the band as they write and rehearse material in 1969 for the album Let it Be and…

A FLY-ON-THE wall documentary set mostly in Fremantle gives viewers a pioneering view of love, life and transitioning from one gender to another. Girl Like That was shot over six years and follows the relationship of The Love Junkies’ drummer Elle Walsh and Lauren Black after the former decides the time has come to become…