SixThousand is a weekly snapshot of Perth's subculture - a Perth guide to film, music, design, books, art, goods and links for people who realise that the best things in life are often hard to find. Below you will find the latest additions to our Perth guide.
Everyone's had the moment when they realise their dad's not all that. For Luke Skywalker, it was shortly after having his hand cut off on Cloud City, for me it was the day I watched Dad, resplendent in a pair of red Speedos, challenge my cousin to a race across the backyard pool at a barbecue in Wodonga circa 1987.
If unicorns were to have tiny, gem-encrusted jewellery boxes, they'd probably be full-to-overflowing with Matina Amanita's latest range of stardusted neckpieces, spacerock rings, and earrings draping straight from heaven itself.
And, if Princess Unicorn, living in a miniature palace off the Moonlight Express, were to paw through and sigh, 'Oh, what bit of whimsy shall I ice myself with today? This bedevilled black pearl number? This charming likeness of cousin Raziele-le-le? This darling rose ring?.
Ah, Beer magazine. The place where geeky and blokey meet. And get drunk.
You can't get much geekier than proudly proclaiming "191 beers inside". Other geeky topics in the Spring issue of this quarterly mag: 'frontier' (experimental or unusual) beers, Melbourne bar Biero's patented 'Beervault', Italian craft beers, and a Melbournian sustainability consultant who caters events on a pushbike loaded with kegs of his own craft beer.
You know Morgs and Lisa from this e-newsletter you're reading right now. They're good those two - they know what they like and they like to spread what they know. But lurking behind their love of 180-word reviews has long lain a desire to run free! To write things that are as long as they darn well please, with no pesky editorial guidelines to fence them in.
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