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National Writers Congress 2015: Funding the Arts
Festivals are tricky things. They arrive with so many promises. Promises of inspiration, rare insights, chance encounters and diets suspended by designer morsels. But what happens when the Festival...
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Review: Russell Brand Trew World Tour
An evening spent with Russell Brand was always going to be interesting, even if it was shared with a few thousand other people at Perth Arena. I’d seen Brand’s TV show Brand X and his movies, including...
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Review Food: Grantham Street Cafe
Perth café scene is certainly taking off, so much so that I now find myself heading out to a one café only to be side-tracked by another. This was the case a couple of weeks ago when I ended up at...
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Review: British Film Festival 2015
If like me you grew up watching British television then the 2015 BBC British Film Festival presented by Palace, Luna Palace Cinemas and The West Australian is a no brainer. Billed as a group of...
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Remembrance Day 2015 Perth
This year I made it to the Remembrance Day ceremony at Kings Park. Apart from the obvious Commemoration it’s not often you get to see the handing over of the ‘Keys to the Crypt’. Remembrance Day © The...
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New piazza near Mary Street Café
Ever since I tried the peanut butter donut from Mary Street Café at Taste Perth, I promised I’d get to the cafe one day. I finally made it last week and was delighted to also find a new community space...
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The Program, Lance Armstrong movie review
Sure we all know the story about Lance Armstrong’s rise and fall, so I was surprised to find myself intrigued by The Program. It was really interesting hearing the story from the point of view of the...
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The power of a white tablecloth: Thai Spice on Oxford
Last week I meet up with a handful of fellow bloggers for an early Christmas lunch in Leederville and there I learnt about the power of a white tablecloth. Thai Spice on Oxford © The Ponder Room Some...
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Polo In The City 2015, Perth
Christmas was cancelled, well the pageant anyway, so what about the Landrover Polo In The City event? Would the event go ahead and if so would we be watching polo or water polo? Polo In The City Perth...
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2015 A Year Of Reality
December signals summer, last minute panic and hopefully a few moments of reflection. As I ponder the year that was, I find myself thinking of 2015 as the Year of Reality. [This post is a copy of my...
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The first global market explained at Treasure Ships exhibition
Ponder for a moment you’re off on your annual trip to buy spices, a lot of spices. Now imagine you have to get them home, to the other side of the world, on a wooden boat, during the 15th century. How...
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Movie Review: 45 Years
When I first heard about the movie 45 Years I wasn’t all that interested, I thought I knew what it was going to be about, how wrong I was. I don’t want you to make the same mistake. Thanks to Madman...
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Review Rambla on Swan
When a friend from Melbourne, over on a work trip, said she had time for an impromptu Sunday lunch, the call went out. Our group of six met in South Perth pondering where to go, first stop Rambla on...
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Winning ways at Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2016
Imagine being confronted with 77 prime sculptural pieces and asked to pick a winner … not a job for this little bunny. Luckily the comments made by the winners suggest the judges can sleep soundly,...
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Comedy Masterclass from John Cleese, Eric Idle
Never in my lifetime did I ever think I’d see a Monty Python sketch performed in person, let alone by John Cleese and Eric Idle no less. This was just a small part of the treat that was their Together...
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How Christmas lights helped fight war (Emergence Creative Festival)
Last week I went to the 2016 Emergence Creative Festival which brings together a diverse range of Perth creatives … musicians, artists, writers, singers, graphic designers and advertising execs. Held...
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Review: Eye In The Sky
Wow what an utterly brilliant movie, I’m tempted to just write … GO SEE IT. It’s not a dry movie about war, it presents you with a difficult moral dilemma. The action had me literally sitting on the...
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Make no presumptions at Livingstone’s Urban Jungle
While I was researching the Learn In Perth article for the City of Perth, I stumbled across a new café opposite the Perth Art Gallery. Anyone who remembers the little ice cream kiosk opposite the...
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Spanish Film Festival 2016: Truman review
The 2016 Spanish Film Festival starts this on the 21st and if the preview movie Truman is anything to go by it’s going to be a great festival. Thanks to Spanish Film Festival Truman is the award...
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When a waiter warns you off a dish (Review Red Cray)
Have you ever been to a restaurant and had a waiter say ‘you don’t want to order that’ when you point to an item on their menu? No, neither had I until the other day at Red Cray on Beaufort, and I’m so...
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