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Author: Your Herald
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WHEN you’re still dissecting your own family at the end of a slow, rainy trip home to Freo, it’s a good indication that Black Swan’s latest production of Tennessee Williams’ classic The Glass Menagerie has hit the mark. Director Clare Watson has taken Williams’ production notes to heart (“atmospheric touches and subtleties of direction play…
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YOU could imagine Poirot twiddling his wax moustache in the lounge of this East Fremantle home. Then summoning all the guests to a meeting where he hams it up and dramatically reveals the person who put arsenic in Miss Fridget’s chamomile tea. That’s because there are some lovely Art Deco features in this delightful three…
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A GP has condemned Bayswater council’s decision to immediately stop funding local children’s vaccination clinics. The program cost the council about $120,000 a year and immunised about 750 to 1000 children. Vaccination dates were scheduled to run at various clinics across Bayswater six times a month until December, but was ceased immediately following a vote…
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PERTH’S giant Christmas ornament festival will be renamed the ‘Rio Tinto Christmas Lights Trail’ after Perth councillors sold the naming rights to the mining giant for $250,000. Arts and events organisations have been grappling over the ethics of accepting mining company sponsorship in recent years over concerns the companies were using sponsorship to rehabilitate their public…
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VETERAN Beaufort Street traders fear for the viability of their businesses if Vincent council closes Grosvenor Road to traffic. This week the council approved two trials starting in October; first to completely close off the bit of Grosvenor Road adjoining Beaufort Street to make it a pedestrian event space for 16 days, then a four-week…
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A MASSIVE rainbow could be emblazoned on a surface in inner city Perth to make it more welcoming to LGBTQIA+ people. Perth councillor Catherine Lezer put up the motion calling for staff to investigate costs and possible locations for a rainbow graphic, saying the City of Perth had a “rich and lengthy LGBTQIA+ history”. It…
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THE ban on smoking in Vincent’s town centres is set to come into effect November 1, with hopes smokers will heed the signs so gentle prods and fines won’t be needed. More than two years in the making since Cr Jonathan Hallett raised the motion, this week councillors endorsed the ban that’ll cover five high…
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A NEIGHBOURHOOD where residents once gathered for Christmas parties has been turned into “a street divided” over new rules to protect the area’s “character”. Two years ago 52 per cent of residents on Wilberforce Street in Mount Hawthorn called on Vincent council to make their strip a “character area”. That’d mean future development would have…
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I always associate Atomic Espresso with garish lycra. The South Perth cafe used to be overflowing with the stuff on a Saturday morning when bikies – not the scary ones, the annoying middle-class ones – would rendezvous there for breakfast after zooming around the river on their fancy push bikes. That was many…
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GRAB your wooden stake, silver bullets and holy water – a new horror film festival is opening in Perth. Curated by local horror fans for horror fans, the Perth Horror Film Festival will have a strong emphasis on WA talent, screening shorts from locals filmmakers as well as classic full-length scaries like The Exorcist and…
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