Perth Voice Interactive
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Month: August 2014
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THE Court Wine Bar’s refurbishment is one of the ventures seeking a $20,000 grant from Perth city council to liven up the city. A big part of Perth’s drinking history ended when the notorious ALP hangout the Court Wine Bar closed. It’s since been rebranded “The Dominion League” after a 1930s-era secessionist movement. The Court…
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IT was a case of Starsky—but no hutch. An East Perth couple have rescued and returned a lost bunny to its owners, after they’d found it hopping around their verge Saturday night. Jenni says they christened the intrepid bunny “Starsky” and put it in their front garden to keep it safe. It stayed there over…
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WITH the old Cheriton Street cottage narrowly saved from being sold, the Norwood Neighbourhood Association is turning it into a neighbourhood centre. Vincent city council is soon to start restorations on the cottage, so the NNA’s asking locals to come out to an ideas day on August 30 to think up plans on how to…
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LOCALS with an interest in wetlands are being urged to turn out for a Baigup wetlands planting and weeding day this Sunday August 24. The Bayswater wetland is coming back to life after decades as a site for market gardens, and then a weed-infested wasteland. “Once the land was no longer used privately, that led…
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PLANS for a multi-million dollar wine bar in Maylands are generating plenty of interest both for and against. A 103-signature petition opposing the venue has been submitted to Bayswater city council but supporters have taken to Facebook in their droves, excited about the one-of-a-kind live music venue. Applicant Michiel de Ruyter says around 100 letters…
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BAYSWATER mayor Sylvan Albert says the council has no plans to sell its Mertome retirement village ahead of a special council meeting about its redevelopment. The Winifred Road home was established in 1972 and accommodates 213 people in 200 units. It was the first of its kind to be constructed by a council and pioneered…
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Pollie pot PREMIER Colin Barnett calls Clive Palmer a damaging embarrassment to WA. Hmm. Perhaps. Yet certainly not more so than Mr Barnett’s abhorrent policy on sharks. Another case of the pot calling the kettle black. Otto Mustard Queens Cres, Mount Lawley New broom blows whistle I REFER to your front page article (Voice, August…
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BEHIND really good comedy often lurks an edge of darkness. No doubt Robin Williams would agree if he was still here: the comedian had ended his life the morning I was due to meet Australian funny man Peter Rowsthorn, and it inevitably set a sombre tone for the interview. Rowsthorn is set to play the…
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by JENNY D’ANGER THE blackboard sign on William Street simply said “spaghetti”, but “where?” was the question. Francoforte Spaghetti Bar is tucked away down one of the increasingly hip lanes being opened up around Northbridge. The first time I’d tried to visit I failed to find it, as there were no tables in the laneway…
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SCIENCE is coming to the Perth cultural centre this weekend. The free Perth Science Festival kicks off national science week, our first since the Abbott government deleted the science portfolio last year. There’ll be 35 sciencey (and free) activities like the petting zoo, reptile display, science poetry and Tim Jarvis’ tales of recreating Shackleton’s Antarctic…
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