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Aimee Smith, 'Wintering'

Danielle Marsland · June 12, 2013

Aimee Smith’s standout contemporary dance work, Wintering, played at Melbourne-based progressive creative festival Next Wave last year, which means our Melbo...

Perth Street Roller Hockey League

Eamonn Lourey · June 12, 2013

Nostalgia. That’s still cool right? The newest addition to Perth’s sporting landscape is a 4-on-4 DIY roller hockey league played on the mean streets of our ...

Free Fridays, edition #3

· June 7, 2013

It's happening again! Friday. Welcome to our third Free Fridays round-up post, in which we tell you about this week's free events and seek life advic...

Free Fridays #2

Us · June 2, 2013

When coffee is $6 a pop and your heater bill is off the charts thanks to 2 degree weather, Perthies, we don't blame you for wanting to cut back your cult...

Aurora Peralta · May 30, 2013

So we're not going to lure you into this article with a witty anecdote or angle, because this concept is so damn great you'll want to be part of it n...

Free Fridays #1

· May 24, 2013

Every Friday we're going to start doing a little whip of the best free things to do this week in Perth. You don't gots to be a G to roll up to this s...

24-Hour Live Product Design in Venn Shop

Alex Griffin · May 15, 2013

In a world of IKEA furniture, allen keys and inflatable pools, it can be pretty hard to come to grips with how objects actually happen. Heidegger said that t...

The Thousands reader survey

Us · April 30, 2013

I am not sure how many reader surveys we have done in the history of this website. Maybe one? But I know that they are an important exercise. We could be tot...

Call for Artists: Proximity 2013

Danielle Marsland · April 25, 2013

You might remember when we hung with Renae Coles last year and she gave us the low down on Proximity, Australia’s first micro-festival of one-on-one art: “it...

Save Fremantle's Youth Plaza

Danielle Marsland · April 23, 2013

Those freshmakers over at the Fremantle Council are dreaming big, yo. Their dream is a “Youth Plaza” on the Esplanade Reserve. To us, the word ‘p...

Drinking in Hotel Bars

Sarah Werkmeister · February 14, 2013

Feeling disgruntled by the yelling in loud bars and the lack of thinking space within them? Tired of being scoffed at for reading the Fin Review with your si...

Stan on: Drinking Sensibly

Stan Mahoney · January 31, 2013

Look at this photograph. To the left, you will see a normal, healthy homegrown cucumber. To the right is a pickle. Right now, most of you are healthy young c...

Stan Mahoney · January 24, 2013

Life is short. DIY is stupid. Hire someone to do it for you, and enjoy your life. When you're moving house, hire a dude with a truck. Pay them in money. ...

The Beaufort Street Festival 2012

Danielle Marsland · November 14, 2012

You don't have to live in Mount Lawley to go to this (but you should consider moving there, in the name of 'great life decisions'). Beaufort Stre...

Open House Perth 2012

Danielle Marsland · October 31, 2012

An idea that started in London nearly 20 years ago (and happens in New York, Barcelona and Melbourne), Open House is an architecture and design awareness fes...

Samuel Smith · October 25, 2012

There is no easy way to say this. I am addicted to a Dreamcast game called Sega Bass Fishing. I live it, I breathe it. Sega have convinced me that I was born...

StudiOH! workshop series

Danielle Marsland · September 24, 2012

There’s more good-looking greenery in Perth lounge rooms than ever before since Mr Sparrow storeowner (and creative home project gun) Anna Macoboy started ru...

'Diner' Launch feat. Levins & Tick Tock Farewell Par...

Roland Pain · September 12, 2012

Tick Tock is about to finish up forever but in some kind of allusion to The Last Supper they’re flying in a DJ who runs a restaurant in a nightclub. That DJ ...

The Army Museum of WA

Callum Twigger · August 20, 2012

In a courtyard where a century's worth of tanks, artillery, and combat vehicles are parked, the Army Museum of WA has an M3A3 Grant medium tank. As a you...

HERE&NOW2012 Risograph workshops

Danielle Marsland · August 7, 2012

Dan Bourke and Clare Wohlnick (Benchpress) were forced out of printing late in 2011 when their Risograph GR 3750 carked it. But, like a phoenix from the ...

Mt Lawley Cue Bar

Toby Price · July 3, 2012

While I'm not immune to the lure of public pool halls, the Pot Black chain can induce a certain grim funk - similar to a night amongst the pokies at Burs...

The Subiaco Museum

Scott-Patrick Mitchell · June 20, 2012

If you want to understand today, you have to search out yesterday. Or at least that’s what Nobel prize winning author Pearl Buck reckoned. And you know what,...

Lee - Own This City!

Rachel Elliot-Jones · May 29, 2012

Where have we been for the past two weeks? Speeding around in our media truck. You see, Lee Jeans had an idea to run a competition on their Facebook page whe...

Magnolia's Late Night Live

Aurora Peralta · May 29, 2012

You know what North Perth needs? It’s own late night talk show! Welcome, Magnolia's Late Night Live. The most underground of underground venues, the back...

The Transit of Venus

Kane Daniel · May 28, 2012

It is rare indeed that something can genuinely be described as a once-in-a-lifetime event. Venus passes in front of the sun twice in eight years then - bam! ...

Speaking German

Stan Mahoney · May 24, 2012

German is easier than you think. Observe: Ws sound like Vs and Vs sound like Fs. IE sounds like EE (wiener schnitzel), EI sounds like EYE (Einstein). Er / ...

Foodchain's 2012 Crustacean Cup

Us · May 23, 2012

It’s the question on everyone’s mind: if a jazz band and the motley amalgamation of all things rock n roll met head to head in a soccer match, who would win?...

Head Studio's Absolut '90s Block Party

Callum Twigger · May 16, 2012

How do you get 24 of Perth's best hairdressers across the continent? Head Studio got asked to go to Hair Expo, which is where Australia's top hairmas...