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Mount Lawley Suite 2, 58 Walcott Street, Open Australia Day Mount Lawley WA 6050 from 5pm 9473 0800 9227 1288 VoiceNo 711 Saturday January 28, 2012 • Phone 9430 7727 • [email protected] • www.perthvoice.com • EAST www.crust.com.au [email protected] Miserly miners don’t dig festival Perth Labor MP John Hyde by STEPHEN POLLOCK says the companies should have PERTH’S Chinese New Year learned from others’ example. Festival was nearly cancelled “Thailand’s leading oil and gas because no Chinese state- company through the WA Perth Theatre Trust supports all our Thai owned WA mining companies cultural events here,” he said. were willing to sponsor the “All successful international event. companies in WA, be they Chinese The Voice understands the Perth origin or not, should support great Chinese Consulate approached events like the Chinese New Year several WA-related Chinese festival. companies for sponsorship but “Most, if not all, WA businesses couldn’t raise a yuan. are benefi tting from our By November the inaugural relationship with China. festival had no money or sponsors “Chinese tourism is up 20 per in place but eventually managed cent to Australia and Chinese New to secure $40,000 in sponsorship Year is the biggest travel time.” from Perth city council and $15,000 The sponsorship no- from the Offi ce of Multicultural show follows in the wake of Interests. revelations that Australia’s “The City of Perth has been biggest infrastructure project, extremely supportive,” festival the $6 billion Oakajee port and coordinator Sammy Yap told the rail development, is under Voice. “Without their sponsorship instructions to import Chinese the whole event could have been equipment and services. very diffi cult to pull together. Oakajee Port & Rail has “This festival has been talked been asked to “use reasonable about for years but this is the fi rst endeavours to secure the time it’s come together.” • continued page 6

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Editor-in-chief: In Andrew Smith Directors: Andrew Smith N Australia, like many & Pip Thomson developed economies, EDITORIAL many question the ethics the Editor: Andrew Smith Iof a society created by Chief of Staff & Production Editor: market force and economic Steve Grant rationalism. Journalists: The rush to produce and dark David Bell, Stephen Pollock Photographer: consume is being questioned. Jeremy Dixon People are people—not human in developed countries, are often warned that people will Cartoonist: Chatfi eld capital. We are more than tentatively asking to know more not thank me for showing them Story Deadline: Tues. noon consumers. about how animals are treated, the reality of intensive farming. I think this is why Australians particularly those destined for But it is exactly this lack of ADMINISTRATION are questioning production our dinner tables as meat, eggs, knowledge that has created a Receptionist: Julie Rainbow systems that treat animals as and milk, or animals used to separation between the farm, the Mount Lawley 3 supply chain commodities produce clothes or accessories supermarket and the consumer. ADVERTISING and fail to recognise sentience. such as leather and fur. People are now asking for this Director: Natalie Hug Australians, like others living I say tentatively because I am information, and when they see, Assistant to Director: Melanie Buljan Display Ad Rep: Andy Archibald, voice mail Simon Fasolo Real Estate: Natalie Hug Swan is unforgivable, and I fuels into power and the means Ad Copy Control: Beauty blight wonder where is the Wagyl? used by engineers to disperse Susanne Ottosson I suggest we the people of Paola Fischer THE Perth Waterfront plans the substantial amount of WA call for an immediate halt polluting heat involved? I did. Production: Matthew Eeles, show a lack of thought on these so-called plans and Nibha Mehra, Fernanda To this day, I am unaware Herrmann, Helena Tay regarding the existing visual demand a referendum. fi of any scienti c study that has Trades & Services: beauty of Perth. It is a lie that this is what evaluated the man-made heat Marie Lukman the people of WA want. It is not The same can be said of the load released daily, (mostly by Classifi eds: decision to build the convention what we want. Let us enjoy what the affl uent world), and where Julie Rainbow centre: What a blight it is, we already have. that thermal pollution actually Ads Deadline: Tues. noon Dianella 10 nothing but a hay shed. Terrance Weston, CMC JP ends up. Discounting it is Mathews Place, Belmont fi ACCOUNTS The so-called architects of this certainly not scienti c. Director: Christine Smith waterfront have not thought of People need only to lift Assistants: Janelle Tester, the beauty that is already there: Heat the bonnet of their car after a Molly Brown The calm and serene scenes that good run to fi nd out how hot it befall each and every one of us, becomes under there despite the DISTRIBUTION Manager: Marie King each and every day, as we pass shimmers use of dual cooling system. Assistants: Stephanie the foreshore is unique in the FIRST, I thank you for Heat actually increases the Campbell, Dave D’Anger world. vibrational level of molecules of and a fantastic army publishing my letter about of locals! We do not need to be like all substances and in fl uid when climate change deemed, WEBSITE other cities elsewhere on this high heat and large quantities www.perthvoice.com planet, the hustle and bustle of by many, to be politically are involved it creates strong Matthew Eeles, Stephen Sydney, New York, Hong Kong, incorrect (Voice Mail, January winds or currents. Pollock London. 7, 2012). Anyone aware of the law Perth is unique in its position, As an active organic and of heat exchange readily Where location, its clean air, it has its alternative health care supporter understands the winds drive the do we go? own beauty, without trying to be I know only to well that masses of man-made created hot We’re delivered like another. today many skewed scientifi c air over the seas, which readily to letterboxes on Inglewood 6 The Esplanade of Perth will reports are published, based absorb the excess heat, and sea Fridays and Saturdays disappear to become a smelly, on assumptions and carefully currents ensure the coldest sea throughout: Coolbinia shadow of obese and vacant selected parameters to mislead areas will warm up noticeably Dianella plots of unimaginable thinking. the public. Professional probity before any change is observed in East Perth For today, in 2012, city has became a casualty of our the temperature of the temperate Glendalough workers have the opportunity modern world, particularly zones. One doesn’t have to be Highgate to enjoy their lunch breaks in when sponsored by the a scientist to understand why Inglewood a clean, untainted, unpolluted, corporate world or politically the North Pole has melted much Leederville Maylands fresh clean environment, with motivated governments. earlier than predicted. Menora outstanding views that other May I point out that your There is no doubt that some Mt Hawthorn cities and countries could only correspondent J Winsome-Smith scientifi c knowledge enables Mt Lawley hope to wish for. (January 14, 2012) hasn’t refuted people to detect fl aws in Northbridge We already have what one single fact listed by me. As inaccurate reports, and as for the North Perth we need, we do not need the for my scientifi c knowledge, I truth, as everyone knows, it lies Perth West Perth demands of a government that wonder if she did study physics in the eyes of the beholder. Yokine does not listen to its people. and chemistry at school leaving, F Schenk To destroy the beauty of the Osborne Park PLUS: We deliver to key or study the conversion of fossil drop-points in Bayswater and Perth CBD Total Voice circulation: SUPERVISOR Th e results are in... Outside School Hours Care 45,466SEPT 10 ACN: 009 416 620 We are seeking a part-time (35 hours per week) Th e butter stick is Supervisor – Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) during The Voice is part of the school term and fulltime (37.5 hours per week) during independent and WA-owned school holidays to manage and maintain the day to day AMAZING! Herald Newspaper Group, operations of our Outside School Hours Care located in which also publishes the: Palmyra. 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The Perth Voice, Saturday January 28, 2012 - Page 5 Skyworks on jet-ski

by STEPHEN POLLOCK FIREWORKS were to be launched from jet-skis for the fi rst time at this year’s Skyworks display (the THE PERTH VOICE IS NOW fi reworks happened after the Voice went to press). The rockets were to be triggered remotely, via laptop, as riders’ skeeted ONLINE across the Swan River. To view a digital copy Pyrotechnic company Foti Fireworks will launch 5000 aerial fi reworks from of the latest Perth Voice’s eight river barges and four CBD rooftop latest edition visit locations. www.perthvoice.com It will bolster the aerial display with • ‘The Peacock’. Photo courtesy of Foti Fireworks around 30,000 mines and shooting comets. The Australia Day display will use 3000 kilos of explosives in a marathon GET INVOLVED 25-minute display. Six Foti employees Chinese miners armed with laptops will trigger explosions from a discreet riverside location. New patterns will include a blue bird ignore festival Did you make a new year’s resolution (complete with eye and beak), a quarter fl • from page 1 Australian Chinese community. to get more involved in your community? moon and a uffy cloud. This year’s theme is The Australian Spirit. involvement of private or state-owned “It is also an event which involves the If so, visit the City of Subiaco’s The display will be accompanied by Chinese companies” in the WA project. whole WA community, builds bridges Volunteer Hub! a raucous soundtrack performed by old WA premier Colin Barnett has been between communities and promotes an lobbying for Chinese companies to inclusive multicultural society.” Th e hub is staff ed by a volunteer referral Australian rockers. Pyrowizard Forch Foti says torrid become equity investors in the Oakajee Meanwhile, festival organisers had to offi cer who will assist you to discover a 40 degree temperatures predicted for project, which has been hit by substantial scrabble together $12,500 to pay to close fi volunteer role that’s right for you. Australia Day won’t jeopardise the delays and cost blowouts. James Street to traf c on January 29. WA multicultural and acting mines PCC CEO Frank Edwards says it’s For information about becoming a display. fi minister John Castrilli was diplomatic normal practice for festival organisers to volunteer in your local area please “The reworks can be transported safely in temperatures up to 75 degrees about the companies’ penny-pinching. pay such costs. contact the city on 9237 9256. celsius, so the heat won’t be a problem,” “Individual businesses are entitled “The $40,000 that was approved he says. “But we have been starting work to make their own decisions regarding for the Chung Wah Association SUBIACO VOLUNTEER HUB earlier because of the high temperatures sponsorship but all businesses are encompasses city fees and charges [in Subiaco Library this week.” encouraged to support community events this case the road closures].” A 15-person crew has been working on when they can,” he said. The Voice contacted the Perth Chinese Corner Bagot and Rokeby Roads preparing the riverside launch sites since “The event is an example of Consulate, but it wouldn’t comment: “I Tuesdays 10am to 2pm Th ursdays 2pm to 6pm last Thursday. The fi reworks will start at collaboration between many do not think anyone in our consulate 8pm on Australia Day (best viewed from organisations, and the preservation will talk to you,” Chinese consul Deng www.subiaco.wa.gov.au the South Perth foreshore). and sharing of cultural identity by the Fang said. Give your business some extra juice!

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FREMANTLE The Perth Herald .com Voice .com Page 6 – The Perth Voice, Saturday January 28, 2012 A celebration of survival SECTIONS of Perth’s Aboriginal community will shun Australia Day, choosing to protest at a Survival Concert the land’s colonisation by white boat people. The concert, dubbed Celebrating our Resilience, will mark the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and resistance against colonisation. Tax Returns The event features eight artists with links BY AN EXPERIENCED to WA including The Yabu Band, Barlett Brothers and the Walkabout Boys. PROFESSIONAL Elders Doolan-Leisha Eatts and Len Collard will kick off the event with a Owner Operated CPA and welcome-to-country ceremony. Registered Tax Agent Perth’s Aboriginal community first boycotted Australia Day in 1938 with the Day of Mourning, a protest against 150 Tax returns for years of what they’d described as callous t treatment and seizure of land. Individuals / Companies More protests followed with NAIDOC week (1957), the Tent Embassy (1972) Partnerships / Trusts / SMSF and demonstrations against bicentennial • A 1938 Aboriginal Day of Mourning protest—29 years before Aboriginal people were celebrations in 1988. granted the right to vote in their own country. Photo courtesy of Survival Concert t Plus - a full range of The fi rst Survival Concert was held in Business Accounting Services Perth in 2000. NAIDOC Perth chairperson Glenda Suite 7, 884 Beaufort St, Kickett says she is looking forward to celebrating her people’s struggle. Inglewood, “January 26 is a significant date for Embassy theme Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Phone Glenn Today as a day of sorrow, at the loss caused by- NAIDOC theme has been held up by by STEPHEN POLLOCK T: 9370 2468 F: 9370 2897 colonisation, a day of protest, against the the department due to the nature of the continuing dispossession and disadvantage THE Gillard government has theme,” she wrote to colleagues. M: 0419 910 872 faced by our peoples, a day of remembrance, announced the theme for NAIDOC “[With] concerns that the theme may have some sort of political fallout which E: of those who have come before us in the 2012 is Spirit of the Tent Embassy: [email protected] struggle, and a day of celebration, that could affect our funding”. 40 years on. It follows a four-month The Tent Embassy is a controversial Glenn Hutcheson we have survived,” she said. “This year wrangle with the Aboriginal we remember in particular the Aboriginal collection of activists, tents and signs CPA - Proprietor/Tax Agent tent embassy, which celebrates its 40th community. claiming to represent the political rights anniversary on Australia Day.” The theme, recommended by the of Australian Aborigines. The concert, managed for the fi rst time National NAIDOC committee, is It has been located on the lawns by NAIDOC Perth, will be broadcast live routinely rubber-stamped by the federal outside Old Parliament House in on Noongar Radio 100.9FM. The event is government every November. Canberra since 1972 (it set up when the Standard Tax Return co-sponsored by Perth city council, Edith But by December 2011 there was still place was the country’s functioning Cowan University and Healthway. no green light and national NAIDOC parliament). Charge $165 The Survival Concert will be held committee member Anne Martin Around 10 WA delegates will travel to between 12.30pm and 7.30pm in the claimed Labor was getting jittery: the tent embassy in Canberra this week. Supreme Court Gardens. “The announcement of the 2012 NAIDOC Week will be held July 1-8. ~ SALE ~ Last Days ~ Ends Saturday 4th February

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by DAVID BELL with property investments. Gledden was a known admirer AT 10 storeys the Gledden of Cecil Rhodes and his building on the corner scholarship system, and left of Hay Street was one of much of his fortune, as well as Perth’s tallest ‘skyscrapers’ the building, to the University when built in 1937. of WA. Richard Offen from Heritage The Gledden remains Perth says the Gledden is largely untouched, providing Perth’s only example of an a window into hopeful art deco “high-rise” offi ce times, and Mr Offen says building, and was infl uenced its extravagant design and basement restaurant, two- by the New York skyscrapers fi Give your boy of the 1920s (the Empire State level shopping arcade, of ce went up in 1931). accommodation and rooftop Designed by famous Perth lookout, shows “just how a head start determined city planners were architect Harold Boas, the fi project was bankrolled by to put the dif cult years of with a Robert Gledden, a mining the Great Depression behind surveyor who’d struck it rich them and give Perth a modern, House of Bondy forward-thinking new look”. haircut Searching for Scruffy McNess (AND YOU CAN CHOOSE HIS SHOES FOR years Richard Offen has been on himself was “well known for his of a stir when he went to London to be RIGHT NEXT DOOR AT MURRAYS CLARKS) the hunt for a genuine photograph philanthropic adventures, especially during knighted in 1931, with some snoot on the of the legendarily scruffy Sir Charles the Great Depression”. scene remarking, “he looked like a down- MEN’S CUTS f SHAVES f KID’S CUTS McNess (1852-1838). “His gifts included money for the and-out swaggie!” upkeep of the state war memorial, the McNess is memorialised with his An identity who loomed large over formation of a McNess Housing Trust to wife Lady Mary McNess in the Florence The House of Bondy Perth Society around the turn of the provide homes for needy families, and Hummerston reserve, but Mr Offen has Shop 8/9 Riseley Square, Applecross century, he owned the McNess’s Rusty yet to fi nd an actual image of the Swaggie Mon to Fri 8am - 5.30pm, Sat 8am - 1pm money to the state to provide employment Nail Shop at the corner of Hay and Barrack through the development of a national park Knight. Call us on 9316 3030 now! Streets. In 1897 it was turned into the at Yanchep.” If you know of any extant McNess clan McNess Royal Arcade, a building that still But McNess was known to spend very around Perth or have any clues on where stands today. little money on himself. His famed snowy to look for a picture, get in touch with the Mr Offen’s research shows McNess hair and fl owing moustache caused a bit Voice on 9430 7727 or [email protected].

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Proudly Supporting the Arts Back to School! Voice The Perth YOUR kids will love the footwear range at Magic Shoebox—and so will their feet. All shoes are personally selected by owner, mum and podiatrist Kath Lloyd, who ensures they’re comfortable and healthy for growing feet. Order your Birthdayday Magic Shoebox offers a comprehensive shoe fi tting with a unique-to-Australia system that Cake today!y measures both the foot and inside of the shoe, Great gifts and which provides 12mm growing room. Magic Shoebox is child-friendly, which makes the visit Situated in the middle of the ever changing more relaxed. It is now open 7 days Monday Eight Avenue, Home Spirit Homewares is a new to Saturday 9.30am to 5pm and Sundays from addition offering locals a huge choice of gifts and 10am to 3pm. kitchenware. Magic Shoebox The quality products from renowned 70 Eighth Avenue, Maylands 55 Eight Ave, Maylands Ph: 9272 5142 manufacturers such as Scanpan, Maxwell &Williams, Phone 9371 2951 Chasseur Cookware, Avanti and Zyliss Gadgets are always guaranteed at the lowest possible prices. The range of products includes cookware, ovenware, bakeware, tableware and glassware, Lisa’s message gadgets and electrical appliances. Open 7 days a UP TO week and ran by Mohammad and his family you are I am very privileged to represent the people of 70% OFF always guaranteed fantastic service with prices to Maylands electorate. match. My staff and I are here to support you with any ON SCANPAN & Home Spirit Homewares issues you may have in relation to State Government 58 Eight Avenue, Maylands services or other local matters. MAXWELL & Phone 0433 422 117 For instance, many people talk to me about the diffi culties they are facing in coping with cost-of- WILLIAMS ITEMS living pressures like massive increases in the cost of energy and water, also, problems with overcrowding Keepin’ cool in on trains or feeling unsafe when travelling on public transport and the poor scheduling of bus services. the Old Bakery Others want help tackling anti-social behaviour or crime in their neighbourhood. The Old Bakery on 8th Gallery & Cafe is a The health of our Swan River is another issue that favourite destination in Maylands. Effi cient, often comes up. friendly staff ensure delicious food and excellent I can bring your issues to the attention of coffee. Government and fellow MPs by speaking in The lovely rear garden has shady trees and Parliament, raising them in the media, presenting umbrellas, the front courtyard is mist cooled, or petitions or writing to Ministers. patrons can enjoy the air-conditioned gallery full Lisa Baker MLA of artworks. Everything is made on the premises. MEMBER FOR MAYLANDS Traditional sourdough breads come from the Phone 9370 3550 ffi Woodfi red Baker also on the premises. 58 Eighth Ave Maylands (adj Post O ce) Mob 0433 422 117 Open 7 Days The Summer Supper Club at 6.30 pm on Feb 6th will feature music and good food in the garden. Visit summersupperclub.com for details. Deli delights Currently the Gallery is showing beautiful LONG time friends and local foodies Mandy contemporary silk garments from local designer Dzelzitis and Casey Richards, established Smoult’s Your voice in the Charlene O’Brien of Eco Logika. Continental Deli in September of last year. Old Bakery on 8th Gallery & Cafe Since then the independent little deli has shown WA Parliament 42 Eighth Ave Maylands Maylands how delicious is done. Gallery: 9370 3308 Stocking quality smallgoods, cheeses and www.oldbakery.com.au anything delish, Smoult’s Continental Deli prides itself on sourcing quality goods and products that you can’t fi nd anywhere else. With a range of cured and cooked meats, Pastries on Eighth cheeses from around the globe (cut while you wait), relishes, fresh and dried pasta, olives, The next time you’re in Maylands stop in at Star sauces, oils, vinegars, condiments, preserves, Swiss Patisserie. Family owned and run, the pates, fresh New Norcia bread and Bannister patisserie has been serving traditional pastries Downs milk, the store is like a well stocked and cakes to the local community for over 30 Mediterranean larder. years. Focusing on organic and natural products Star Swiss Patisserie will also cater parties you can also fi nd ready-made meals, yummy and are renown for their famous birthday photo continental rolls and much, much more. cakes. If you’re looking for the freshest pastries For a taste of the fi ner things in life, Smoult’s and friendly service with a smile, make Star Swiss Continental Deli is the place to go. your next Maylands destination. Smoult’s Continental Deli Linda Savage MLC Lisa Baker MLA Star Swiss Patisserie 186 Whatley Crescent, Maylands 55 Eighth Avenue Maylands Phone 9371 9778 Member for East Metro Member for Maylands Phone 9272 5142 facebook.com/SmoultsContinentalDeli Ph: 9477 3855 Ph: 9370 3550

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The Perth Voice, Saturday January 28, 2012 - Page 11 A VOICE PROMOTIONAL IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO Courses & Classes FEATURE Learn Italian START SOMETHING NEW! The Dante Alighieri Society invites you to NEW TERM COMMENCES 6 FEBRUARY Italian Language Pain-Free Fitness Ballet kids classes be part of the learning program at the oldest and most reputable school of Italian in WA Regular exercise can assist FUN, fun, fun, is the aim of the Tiny Tots classes at Dante Alighieri weight control and help at Helene Gowers Ballet Schools. Classes contain Day time classes Tuesday and Saturday 10am to 11.30am The Dante Alighieri Society of Western Australia prevent common health dance steps the littlies enjoy such as Hi-5, Evening Classes Monday to Thursday 6.00pm to 7.30pm and 7.30pm to 9.00pm is a non profi t, non political organisation open to problems, however getting Bananas in Pyjamas and nursery rhymes, including fi t can be diffi cult if you have exercises for the hands and feet incorporating ballet Classes in Perth and Fremantle all people who share a keen interest in the Italian th aches and pains that limit movements. Classes commence 6 February language, culture and arts. The mission of the Dante st By careful instruction we aim to ensure your Enrolments Tuesday 31 January 10am - 1pm & 6pm - 9pm Alighieri Society of W.A. is to promote the study of you. Dante House rear 249 Fitzgerald Street, North Perth the Italian language and to provide its students with Free to Move in Mt child’s physical and emotional well being, developing (access from car park off Lawley Street) a deeper understanding of Italy and its rich cultural Hawthorn provide safe confi dence, self esteem and a healthy, strong body in Offi ce Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am to 1pm It’s time to Busta Groove heritage. and effective exercise a friendly, nurturing environment. T 9328 8840 F 9328 8841 email [email protected] The School of Italian at Dante Alighieri offers programmes in Clinical Our syllabus (Cecchetti International Classical web www.dantewa.com.au At Busta Groove Dance Studio in Perth, Western courses at three levels: beginners, intermediate Pilates and the Feldenkrais Ballet) is recognised world-wide as training for dance Australia, we offer exciting classes for toddlers and advanced. The Society also offers Italian Method. All classes and professionals. BALLET TAP JAZZ FLAMENCO HIP HOP SEXY STILETTO BOLLYWOOD through teens in a caring and nurturing environment. conversation sessions on Saturday mornings, individual consultations are run by experienced and We offer the highest standards for our young dancers although our classes are not only for the WWW.DANCEWORKSHOP.COM.AU Our approach is fun and funky, our focus is on which are free to students enrolled in one of the specially trained Physiotherapists. With over 20 years kids, we cater for students of all ages – from 3 years 65 Scarborough Beach Road, North Perth teaching the fundamentals necessary for your child regular courses. There is also a cultural programme experience in the fi eld of pain management you are P: 9443 6966 to develop and further their interest in dance and consisting of monthly events, revolving around ensured a safe and enjoyable experience. onwards. 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FOOD DAVID BELL

’VE been boring my friends for years about the time I stumbled Iacross an amazing sake bar in Melbourne and spent all night drinking a wide range of rice wine and eating yakitori. I’ve said about 700 times, “Perth needs something like that”. And now we fi nally have a sake bar. It’s even called Sake Bar to minimise confusion. But while I had fond rose-tinted memories of the Melbourne place with its huge Is your range of sakes (including 12 special guest liquors brought in just for winter) our local offering on Francis Street has a more modestly sized menu. restaurant There is about a dozen on offer, with only one truly dry option. I would’ve liked to have seen a wider selection, and there was only one plum wine on the the best menu, that proved too sweet for my tastes: I prefer the more tart species. However, the place gains in town? points for its inarguably delicious cocktails (price not listed but they’re $19!). I tore through a couple of sake Let our readers know about margaritas: lime juice, tequila, sake and Cointreau, served in a it by taking advantage of martini glass rimmed with salt Sake forsaken and a slice of lime. Beautiful. A wonderful blend of cultures, like these delicious offers. a Mexican luchador wrestling a H sumo. My dining partner had some far too long concerns her boy-haircut needed to be offset by something more the bitey spice make a great in the mouth” texture of the feminine so she got stuck into drinking companion to knock fi nest sashimi. Average punters the more girly drinks: the sugary back by the handful. like me probably won’t notice Publish Your Menu Blushing Geisha and the Basil The deep-fried crispy sushi though. I was just won over by 40cm x 11cm colour ad Berry. Not sure what was in ($16) was something I’d go how much fi sh there was for the them, but they were red and back for: a cube of rice is coated price. on our popular food page sweet, and both received a fi ve- in batter and then a neat little I do like this place. It’s not There’s nothing more mouthwatering star rating before disappearing stack of minced fi sh is stacked perfect, but it has a lot going quickly. atop it, with a spot of yellow for it. The service is quick, the than to describe your selection of dishes. The food does a good job of Japanese mayonnaise. Like staff really are very friendly, Includes free photography, design & advice. complementing the drinking. the best Japanese dishes this the cocktails are fi ve-star, and There are some pretty solid really plays with texture, with the setting with its theme park selections on offer, and only one the hot and crunchy deep-fried Japanese decor is open, bright, dish fell fl at: the agedashi tofu square cleverly offset against the and relaxed. It’s pretty newly ($9) was served in a small pot of smooth, cold minced fi sh. opened and I reckon some of the 9,000 Flyers soup, but when you fi sh the tofu I found no fault with the rough edges will be smoothed Printed & delivered from just $999 out, its deep-fried coating falls fresh (and very generously sized out in time, and I’ll defi nitely off. It’s like being left holding an serve) of 12 pieces of sashimi be back in a few months to give Perfect for takeaway menus, coupons, ice cream cone after the scoop ($19), but my dining partner had it another go. I just hope they special offers and promotions. falls out. You sort of want to cry. some reservations. start serving food after 10pm, Apart from that the other Having lived in China for a and become more of a Japanese Includes free photography, design & advice. selections rated highly: The year she spent most of the time style late-night sake bar than a edamame ($8) is basically the there avoiding local cuisine restaurant that serves drinks. Japanese version of beer nuts. and eating sushi. Her practised Sake Bar Restaurant You’re served a whole stack of palate judged the slices too thick 71 Francis St, Northbridge Tell Your Story bean sprouts that you dust in and not quite delicate enough, Lunch and dinner Tues–Sun chilli, and the fresh greens with not reaching that ultimate “melt 9328 3380 Book four panels on our popular Dining page and receive a FREE feature article. Advertising Includes free photography. Opportunities in your Adbuster Prizes Perth Voice Australia Day Give away a prize to our adbuster winner DINING for that extra exposure. An affordable at The Left Bank restaurant feature Includes free logo on our front page. designed to entice thousands of AUSTRALIA DAY EVE - WED 25TH JAN PLUS! All your advertising will Perth Voice readers Live Music - Bumpy Johnson 5pm - 8pm be displayed on our website FREE! to taste your fare. $10 Cocktails & $45 Absolut Carafes FREE colour feature article Seafood Platter for 2 - $39 in one week of Phone 9430 7727 your campaign* AUSTRALIA DAY - THURS 26TH JAN [email protected] SPACES LIMITED Triple J Hottest 100 Countdown 9430 7727 Half Price Pizzas from midday

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• Stephen House walks the streets of Kings Cross for 5.30pm creative inspiration. 2012 TEPHEN HOUSE’S Walk in Dirt has evolved performance piece Walk over its 12-year life span as it in Dirt is inspired by the continues to develop from a peopleS he’d met on a long ARTS fragment into a larger feature night walk on the streets of BRAD JEFFERIES work. “There’s a dense element of Sydney’s Kings Cross. beat poetry [that] adds an extra He channels this experience when he’s writing, preferring dimension to the performance, it in to a one-man play, acting out instead to go for a walk, meet was originally planned to have eight characters; men, women, people and listen to the rhythm elements of dance so it has that and a transvestite named Sugar. of their voices. beat rhythm to it, and it still Underpinning this walk “When I perform Appalling maintains elements of cabaret,” through the streets is a Behaviour I get asked, have you House says. Gimme meditation on masculinity and read George Orwell’s Down and “It’s [also] an acting-focussed what it means to be a man in a Out in Paris and London,” House play, and the mix of stage modern city. says. performance and beat poetry, “It’s always been a “And I said, not in a million makes it so interesting.” monologue piece, but it was years would I want to read it Walk in Dirt will be at The fi rst commissioned in 2000 as Shelter for inspiration, or ideas, which Blue Room Theatre as part of a vignette, part of a feature seemed to baffl e people. Summer Nights at the Fringe collaboration with three other “Maybe when I’m done World Festival 2012, on 14-16 & writers [so] it’s had a 10-year performing the show I will.” 18 &19 February at 9.30pm. genesis,” House says, speaking ©ÊÇþü¡¾ËºÈ–ÇÄÊù©ÊÇþü¡¾ËºÈ–ÇÄÊù from the mean streets of his hometown Adelaide. “I wanted to explore this idea of what it was like to be a man, because I felt then it Cool cat Cole was a question being ignored by MAUD GUILLET the pervasive grimness of the in theatre...and the idea is still Great Depression. Elegant relevant now. HE musical You’ve and fashionable, Porter “It’s universal in the sense Got That Thing—a wrote “amazing songs full of it could be the streets of any celebration of Cole lightness, happiness, hope and contemporary inner city. Porter’sT life and works—is joy to entertain people”. “It could be the streets of at His Majesty’s Theatre for Co-writer Nick Maclaine Northbridge there in Perth...I one show only March 2 as and Lim had been looking for took it through Dublin and an original way to tell stories some of the people said I was part of the Morning Melodies program. when they thought about the describing a walk through the famous songwriter. city there.” It tells the key moments of “The project was born in fi I put to House the the proli c song-writer’s life the middle of 2010 with his performance sounds like (1891-1964): His huge Broadway delightful, elegant, charming Ulysses’ Leopold Bloom walking successes, his 1948 comeback songs, the best way to tell an through Fight Club. He agrees and his myriad complex extraordinary life,” Lim says. there are similarities in themes relationships. “He is quite a character and execution but he makes a Co-writer Izaac Lim suggests to focus on. 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The Perth Voice, Saturday January 28, 2012 - Page 19 OTICEBOAR voice competitions N WHAT’S ON • CLASSES • ACTIVITIES D SPIRITUAL SERVICES • SUPPORT GROUPS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets at R.P.H. at 5.30 - Four Seasons—one 6.30pm Monday all welcome AUTISM Spectrum Disorder and Downs Syndrome. New Respite House opens for teenagers and young adults. Located in Lake Clifton. Inkarespite is a not for profi t, farm style respite facility set in 10 acres of beautiful countryside. For more Maestro and Musos information including bookings please contact Todd and Margaret via their webpage www.inkarespite.com or telephone 0424 646 983 ERE’S your chance to experience all four seasons in just one day— BAYSWATER AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP meets on without fl ying to Melbourne! Wednesdays at 10:30-1200. Contact offi ce email alanonwa@ arachnet.net.au The Voice and Fremantle Chamber Orchestra are giving away wonderful H prizes to lovers of great music. BEDFORD COMBINED PROBUS CLUB INC. Probus Internationally renowned Dutch violinist Rudolf Koelman is an association catering for semi retirees and retirees, 55 is the soloist in two performances of Vivaldi’s famous Four and over, who join together to keep their minds active, expand their interests and enjoy fellowship and friendship with others. Seasons, accompanied by the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra. We meet on the second Monday of each month at 10 am, at the Antonio Vivaldi, born in Venice, composed the Four Seasons Dianella Church of Christ hall, located at 68 Waverley Street in “le quattro stagioni” in 1723. It has become one of the most Dianella. We have a short formal meeting followed by morning famous pieces of classical music, recorded more than any other tea and fellowship, then a Guest Speaker, and the meeting closes piece and appeals to lovers of classical music as well as people by 12 noon. Those wishing to join in, then go out to a casual who don’t usually listen to it. lunch together. Around the fourth week of the month we have a day’s outing to a venue of interest, which is usually combined with The Four Seasons is also one of the earliest examples of lunch. At present we have around 70+ members and are looking “program music”. This means the four concertos—entitled to increase our membership. Visitors are most welcome with a Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter—involve melodies that view to joining us as members. For further information please imitate a clear description: Barking dog, storm, harvest, contact Barbara D’Sylva (Publicity/Liaison Offi cer) on 9455 6610 drunken farmers, etc. CARES WA is the vibrant New Multicultural Group for carers To illustrate and explain the music, there will be a speaker who come from a culturally diverse background. Once a and pictures of European landscapes. The concerts will be month, the group meets for a morning tea at 10:30am at the held in both Perth and Fremantle and are bound to appeal to Botanical Café in Kings Park. Morning tea cost $5 and will be held all, including children. on the 12th of January, 2nd of February and the 1st of March. On the 18/1/12 @ 10.30 - 12.00 $7.50 ZAMIA CAFÉ, MAY DRIVE, Rudolf Koelman is a recent winner of the prestigious KINGS PARK Carers WA invites carers to attend these events. Edison Classic Music Award and is one of maestro Jascha Carers can RSVP by calling 1300 CARERS (1300 227 377) Heifetz’s last students. Koelman performs, gives master classes and records world-wide. He will be in WA CoDA has come to Perth! Weekly 12 Step self-help meetings for people with codependent behavior in for just one weekend, with two concerts: 3pm relationships. Mondays 5:45 pm at Christ Church on Stirling Hwy, Saturday February 18 at the Fremantle Town Claremont. Workbook meeting 7-7:45. Email: PerthCoda@yahoo. Hall and 3pm Sunday February 19 at the Perth com Town Hall. The event is proudly sponsored FREE COUPLES COUNSELLING Researchers from Curtin by the Perth Voice. Don’t miss it! University are testing a new way to deliver Couple CARE; On your entry please specify whether you a skills-based program that can help you enhance intimacy, prefer a double pass (two tickets) or a family communication and overall satisfaction with your relationship. For ticket (two adults, two children). more information please phone Curtin University Psychology and Send your entries to: Perth Voice Four Speech Clinic on (08) 9266 3436 Seasons Comp, PO Box 85 North Fremantle GRIEF AND LOSS OPEN SUPPORT GROUP the last 6159. Comp closes Tuesday Feb 7 and we will Wednesday of each month 1.00pm to 3.00pm at The notify the winners. Cancer Support Association, 80 Railway St, Cottesloe. For more If you miss out on a prize, but would info ring 9384 3544 still like to get along to the concert, you IF YOU LIKE SWIMMING FOR HEATH AND FITNESS can purchase tickets at the door or via come and join us on Tuesday and Wednesday at 6.30. BOCS. Adult: $35, Concession: $30, under-18: We swim at the Terry Tysack Leisure Centre, Alexander Drive $15, family (2 adults, 2 children): $80. For Inglewood. For more information email Ruth on r.salisbury@ bigpond.com information please email [email protected] or call Hans on 9335 6980. MARKETING GURU? Now retired? Bored? Volunteer to guide us in our effort to spread the word about our exciting new project to get schools & communities growing and planting trees. Curios? Email [email protected] or call 0447 771 881 Souped-up WINNERS MID-NORTH REGION U3A (UWA) Members of the U3A region who meet in the Church of Christ venue in Waverley THERE’S a whole bunch of winners Street, Dianella declare they have absolutely the best venue of all LACHLAN and HANNAH FISHER will be souped- who’ve scored tickets to Martha, the nine regions! Their fortnightly gatherings provide speakers for up, or at least pizzad-up with a free feed at Stones morning and afternoon sessions, between which members enjoy a Mary, Macey, Marlene or Sleeping BYO cafe-style lunch. The 2012 gathering resumes on 6 February Pizza after scoring last week’s Adbuster. If you spot Beauty at Luna Cinemas. In fact, at 11.30am. Anyone interested should telephone Chairman this week’s fake ad, just write its details on the back too many to list here, so you’ll just Margaret on 9276 3081 as new or prospective members of an envelope, with your name, address, phone and have to keep your eye on the mail if are warmly welcomed email, and send it to Voice Adbuster, PO Box 85, North Fremantle, 6159 by this Tusday. You could be heading you’re one of those who submitted MT LAWLEY SQUASH AND FITNESS. Social Squash an entry. They’re on the way. Friday Nights 6.00pm. Saturday 9.00am. You are invited to off to Siena’s Leederville for a great nosh-up. come and join in the fun and play some social squash on Friday nights and Saturday Mornings. Good fun and you will feel great afterwards. 3/340 Walcott St, COOLBINIA WA 6050 Ph: (08)9444 Book 6 weeks 48 49 get 3 free THE CANCER COUNCIL WA runs one monthly cancer Perth Voice Classifi eds (9 weeks total) support Group from Shenton Park (the Head, Neck and Throat Cancer Support Group) which is suitable for people Method of Payment affected by head, neck and throat cancer their family, friends and Name on Card Phone No carers. For further information and referral, individuals are advised Cash Cheque Credit J visa mastercard Address Card Type (please ✓ to contact the Cancer Helpline for registration 13 11 20 ALL CLASSIFIEDS MUST bankcard THE STIRLING BRANCH of the Taoist Tai Chi Society will BE PAID IN ADVANCE Expiry Date Card No hold an open house on Sunday 29 January from 2 - 4pm J J at the Vedanta Centre, cnr. Golf View and Lockwood Sts, Yokine. SECTION HEADING There will be demonstrations of Tai Chi, have-a-go sessions and SECTION HEADING Email your classies to Booking Deadline:FROM Tuesday OCTOBER 12 noon2009 light refreshments. For further information phone 9371 7033 or see our website www.taoist.org.au [email protected] FROM JULY 2011 J THE SWEET THURSDAY Community Choir resumes Ad to appear on dates of: singing on Tuesday 31st January at the Highgate Primary FIRST WORD FROM JULY 2011 WEEKLY RATES School in Lincoln Street, Highgate. This community choir GST incl. encourages people of all ages to come and join them and reap the benefi ts of singing with a very friendly group. Both singing and 45,466 46,200 $12.00$10.00 joining a group are very positive steps that can aid and lead to Copies of the Perth Voice good health. Guided by the talented and patient Musical Director, delivered every week Susan Margaret, the choir sings an eclectic range of songs, form $13.00$11.00 show tunes and old favourites to a number of ethnic songs in *September 2010 a variety of languages. No audition is required to join the choir $14.00$12.00 and the fi rst three nights attendance are free. Sweet Thursday Community Singers Association Inc Phone 0415 429 638 Send your classies to $15.00$13.00 post: PO Box 85 North Fremantle $16.00$14.00 phone: 9430 7727 fax: 9430 7726 $17.00$15.00 email: NOTICEBOARD [email protected] $18.00$16.00 $17.00 VOICE NOTICEBOARD spread the word. Write (to PO Box $19.00 85 North Fremantle, 6159), drop (at 41 Cliff St, Freo), fax PLEASE NOTE: Alterations made to ads during a run will incur a $5 handling charge. GST incl. (9430 7726) or email ([email protected]) but please do While all care is taken, it is your responsibility to check your ad on the fi rst published date TOTAL not phone. 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TRADERS STEPHEN POLLOCK Astrology Withh logy AstrologyASudhirstro IME can become inert January 28 – February 4th, 2012 in old bookshops, held ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) hostage by dust covers There’s an emotional urgency to the andT sallow pages. process of communication. It’s as if it’s Hours fl it by as your eyes inconceivable to leave things rest, to let things wait. tumble over fi rst editions and In the process, you might end up bringing things to raggedy fonts. the surface that you didn’t realise were there, but that’s ok. You will keep it creative. Many bookworms have become waylaid in Serendipity TAURUS (Apr 21 – May 20) Books, a rare and antique It will be long range plans that see you bookshop on Railway Parade in through. In the short-term there could be Leederville. some hitches. They are hitches that slow you down The shop mostly sells for good reason, but having our patience tested is non-fi ction and specialises in never easy, even if it is for the greater good. 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