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What:
Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry Who:
Leanne Shapton Where:
Order from Planet Books, 636-646 Beaufort St, Mt Lawley, or buy online here How much:
$32.99 | | Managing to find a fresh angle in the tired but ever-universal love story genre, Important Artifacts and Personal Property cleverly reduces a relationship down to the form of an auction catalogue. It all begins with a flyer to a friend's Halloween party where New Yorkers Lenore and Harold first met, then continues through the postcards, presents and general ‘stuff' that weaves the tapestry of their years together. All are listed dispassionately as individual lots, along with valuations and telling inscriptions, such as a folded piece of paper found in a jacket pocket that reads: ‘Veal thing/ Polenta cake/ Cakewalk due/ cried in shower'. By effectively allowing you to read between the lines, Canadian artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton really draws you into the characters' lives, while giving enough space to place yourself within the story that unfolds. Some of the stuff this couple did just kills me - like keeping a box of Trivial Pursuit cards in the bathroom, or reading separate copies of the same novel while they're apart. I kind of wish they were my friends, so I could convince them to get back together, or at least score some of their sweet stuff. I even take the same size as Harold. By Max Olijnyk | | | | 
What:
Two Sides of the Truth / Do Anything Go Anywhere 12" vinyl Who:
Public Opinion Afro Orchestra On:
Independent | | World music has gotten a bad rap. It's too often associated with and passed off as music that late thirty-going-on-forty somethings are listening to, trying to seem relevant or hip. It's as if the entire hipster collective has bought into the eternal struggle of Rob Gordon versus Ian Raymond and of course, we all want to be fucking John Cusack. Literally. Horizontally. Mmmm. Wait, hold a second John, we have to defend world music first.
But really, it's silly to feel like we need to defend it. The genre of world music has some terrible shit of course, but so does every genre. And when there are extraordinary reissues popping up, people taping the local radio and releasing it as a compilation, and even contemporary afro-funk being produced, it completely smashes most twenty-somethings' preconceptions of world music. With Public Opinion Afro Orchestra joining these contemporaries by releasing their debut of Nigerian-inspired, hip-hop influenced, afro-beat this week, we suggest you cough up the few dollars for this 12" instead of downloading it because with a twenty-member band, they're spreading those profit margins really thin. By Patrick Collins | | | | 
What:
Extended Flash-Back: Action Screen Series, Tatjana Seserko
Where:
Kurb Gallery
When:
Opens 6pm Sat Nov 21
Runs until Fri Nov 27, daily 4-7pm
How much:
free!
Contact:
kurbgallery@westnet.com.au
Image by:
Tatjana Seserko | | In this achingly modern age of ‘unfriending' and moon water, the present can be a little daunting at times. That's why stuff like time travel and flash back is so damn cool. Tatjana Seserko's Action Screen Series is all about the flash back. Made up of remnants and traces - both material and filmed - of previously executed actions, footage is repetitively re-projected onto the material residue. Actions which (stay with us here) in style and execution are grounded in performance art's ‘70s beginnings, meaning yes, they inevitably involve a bit of ye olde blood and violence. Of course, what would make this allegorical backpedal complete would be for us to tell you the exhibition has already been and gone; however lucky for you, and in a sharp literary twist (riveting this, no?) it's now time to FLASH FORWARD to the FUTURE, this Saturday at 6pm, when you can see time and space combust in the present day (not really, but, you know, we can always hope!) (Psssst... It's actually the night the exhibition opens!) By Claire Krouzecky | | | | 
What:
Dilettante Homme
Where:
Shop 1, 90 King Street, Perth 6000
When:
Mon-Thur 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1pm-5pm
Contact:
www.dilettante.net or 9322 9678 View map | |
These days, I think a lot of guys are upping the ante when it comes to fashion. This is cool - it means I'm no longer the best dressed in the room.
When Dilettante first opened it brought with it some of the best Australian and European labels around, taking up a two floor warehouse apartment space, with a wall of fake ivy and bird noises. This Friday sees the launch of Dilettante Homme - a menswear store just a hop, skip and jump from Dilettante original - where the likes of Blaak, Boris Bidjan Saberi, Henrik Vibskov, N.Hoolywood, The Viridi-Anne and Vivienne Westwood Man join Australian heavy hitters Claude Maus and Friedrich Gray. If you're not sweating under your seasonal mo yet, you should get a bit hot-under-the-designer-collar upon stepping inside this new space, best described as Old World charm meets conceptual underground. Yes, it's removed from Dilettante Femme, but this just means fashion lovers now have two stores to revel and delight in. Dilettante Homme brings a whole new frontier of fashion to the city - one that'll see a whole new load of well dressed men taking the streets. Myself included. By Scott-Patrick Mitchell | | | | | | 
What:
A Serious Man Where:
In cinemas November 19 Watch Trailer:
Here | | Joel and Ethan Coen's latest film is an absolute winner. Surreal, richly allusive and cruelly hilarious, it narrates a decent man's struggle to reason his way out of a maze of absurd injustice. Minneapolis, 1967, and physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is stressing about making tenure amid an anonymous whispering campaign against him and a possible attempt to bribe him. His no-good brother Arthur (Richard Kind) won't move off his couch, his bratty kids treat him with indifference, and in the ultimate indignity, his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) wants a divorce. She's taken up with the truly revolting Sy Ableman (a deliciously unctuous performance from Fred Melamed), who somehow has the local Jewish community convinced that he's a mensch - a serious man. A wealth of detail in this film gestures towards our need to make sense of things: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; Arthur's epic probability project, the Mentaculus; a rabbi's rambling parable about teeth; the Jefferson Airplane lyric "When the truth turns out to be lies..." From the cryptic Yiddish prologue to the ominous ending, A Serious Man offers viewers as little solace as Larry. But like him, I couldn't help pondering what it all means. By Mel Campbell | | | | 
What:
TMOD Scratchie Cards Where:
Behind The Monkey, 479 Beaufort St, Highgate When:
Now How much:
$6.95 Contact:
info@tmod.com.au | | Unlike this senior, the only thing I've ever won on a scratchie was $2. Nudging away the grey film with your buxom 20c coin, there was always an ironic thought that one might win the big gold by scratching this paper chart with a silver, followed by a moment of burning anticipation and then bam, you'd slam the thing down cos you lost. One of every icon! F-A-I-L. I always thought scratch and sniff stickers were better, but that's another story. A story before TMOD re-birthed the scratchie. Brought to the public domain by their Smoke & Mirrors jewellery collection of wearable brain games, TMOD (Turn Me On Design) dig the interactive. Putting the coin back in your hand, their scratchie card range with its mechanical illustrations of castles, damsels and jungle fauna, covers every occasion from Christmas and love notes to fortune cards. If a message in a bottle delivered by sea seems a little much this Yuletide, deposit your message under layers of silver, courtesy of two Sydney women who know how to turn you on. By Lisa Lerkenfeldt | | | | | | 
What:
Choajip Where:
19c Essex Street, Fremantle When:
Tues-Sat 4pm-12am, Sun 4pm-10pm (dinner)
Fri-Sun 12pm-2:30pm (lunch)
Contact:
9336 1887 | | I'm concerned. I never told the owners of Choajip that when their walls housed Japanese restaurant Umi Umi, the food seemed delicious but their petite but pricy servings were way out of my cash-strapped league. Somehow, they found out. I went in there last week and was surprised to find myself stuffed full to bursting with tasty Korean cuisine. They knew if they were going to feed me a main course on the burning side of spicy, I would need cute little bowls of something that looked like chutney and plenty of rice to keep my mouth cool. I noticed they've even kept their dishes priced around $20 to stay in line with my miserly meal budgets. On top of everything, the waiter seemed to have some kind of mind-link with my beer bottle, offering me another just before it emptied. I'm convinced they can read my thoughts. I'm pretty sure I mean that as a compliment. Maybe you should ask them what I mean. By Toms Ford | | | | 
What:
Leaning Tower of Pisa, Albany Where:
Serpentine Road, Albany When:
All the time How much:
Free, if you ask nicely Image:
'Aldo and His Tower', by Nick Sas | | One day in the old country (Italia), after a few Peronis no doubt, Aldo Scamozzi turned to his friend Tony and said "One day, I'm going to build the Leaning Tower of Pisa in my front yard". Tony scoffed, as Aldo had never even seen the real tower. He would scoff even more to know that Aldo retained this dream, even after emigrating to a semi-backwards seaside town in Western Australia. But Aldo would have the last laugh. The 4.6m tower - on a real 14:1 scale - was built in 1982, and has since attracted more confused and enthralled faces than Albany's other kitsch tourist attraction - Dog Rock. Aldo says he has weekly visits from busloads of tourists - some more coy than others. "I had one woman who said it was the best thing she had seen in her whole life - I thought that was a bit weird," the 76-year-old quipped. He still hasn't seen the real tower. By Nick Sas | | | | | | What:
Cease, Cicada Album Launch
Where:
Hyde Park Hotel, 331 Bulwer St, North Perth
When:
Fri Nov 20, 8pm
How much:
$15 (includes album) | | So you've probably seen Cease performing their improvisational jam-rock in one backyard or another over the years. Or maybe you saw them in a DNA Tower. Their dirty drone has pleased floor-dwelling audiences and pissed off countless neighbours during their time. Now finally the dudes are releasing a piece of recording which pushes their music into uncharted territory yet again. Cicada. Launching at the Hydey because everybody's neighbours said no this time, but also because this time the jamming is maybe a bit more deliberate than we've come to expect. Though not without that old shirtless span-dangled Cease uniform. - CK | | | | What:
AWESOME International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things When:
Opens Sun, Nov 22, 2pm-5pm
Runs until Sun, Nov 29, 10am-5pm
Full programme here Where:
Perth CBD, Perth Cultural Centre, The Blue Room, and more Contact:
www.awesomearts.com/festival | | You ever flicked through your old Year Three scrapbooks and marvelled at your own childhood genius? Thinking stuff like, 'Boy, did I sure know how to draw a giraffe back then!' or 'I made that whole coffee mug out of nout but popsticks?'. It's tough to equal such awesomeness as adults - better to just let the grasshoppers show us how it's done. AWESOME is the perfect chance to marvel at mini-people enjoying short films, human museums, Rose Skinner's Dr Suess explosions, paper labyrinths and Lumasol, as they prepare themselves for poorly paid futures as twentysomething arts wankers. - DM | | | | What:
FTI 4th Annual Quiz Night
Where:
Hellenic Community Centre, 20 Parker St, Northbrige When:
Sun, Nov 22, 5pm-10pm How much:
$20 each or $200 for a table of 10, buy from here | | Being secretly addicted to quiz nights ain't nothing to be ashamed of. It's not nearly as embarrassing as using 'spending some quality time with Gran' as an excuse for crashing senior cits' bingo nights (is that a Route 66 you called after Legs Eleven?!). Nah, quizzes have way more cool cred. Especially ones where you can pick up on the sheer basis of being able to order Tarantino quotes chronologically, or name Bill Murray's licence plate number in Ghostbusters. So, your house or mine? And how do you feel about bingo? - DM | | | | | | 
You know what's harder than making a word out of scrabble letters that look something like X,Q,W,K,D,M,K? Finding a cure for breast cancer. Those scientist guys have been going at it for years, and they're still stumped. Wearing lab coats and peering into microscopes might look like fun, but despite what the '80s told us, science isn't all about conjuring sweet Frankenstein babes out of thin air. Thus, boosies around the world are still in danger. | | What can you do to help these innocent mammaries? Well, you can start by smashing your siblings/cousins/neighbours/friends in a game of Scrabble. But it only counts if the Scrabble board is pink. You can slam down DISEQUILIBRATED on a regular board all you like and it won't make a dime of difference. The special edition Pink Scrabble boards are available from leading toy stores for around $54.99, but we have one to give away for free! To enter, just answer the following question: This week's question:
X,Q,W,K,D,M,K spells a) boobs!
b) fuck this we should have played Guess Who! It puts the fun in racist.
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