A CABARET performer whose act involves graphic piercings of his body says he shouldn’t be linked to self-harm. Damien Kenny’s recent performance at the Fringe festival cabaret El Bizarro had the Voice’s reviewer scrambling out of the front-row to the safety of the back seasts, and caused her companion to faint, prompting her to question…

A FORMER Perth council employee sacked four years ago has pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery, following a bizarre saga that included his arrest in a Canberra brothel. Brett Edward Kenny (now called Brett Edward Peters) pleaded guilty on March 13 to “one count of acting corruptly in the performance of his duties as a…

SOMEONE’S playing silly buggers with the Wi-Fi names down near the police building at Curtin House on Beaufort Street. Regular Voice correspondent Andrew McDonald was in the area looking for a Wi-Fi hotspot when he noticed some suspicious signal names. The names are customisable by whoever sets up the modem, and they usually have prosaic…

THERE’S barely a mention on the web of how “CET (Dick) Lucas Park” in Bayswater got its name, or who it was intended to honour. To get to the bottom of the moniker the chook tracked down Mr Lucas’ son, who turned out to be City of Swan mayor Dave Lucas. He was happy to…

FORMER Subiaco ratepayers who were swept into the City of Perth during council amalgamations are fuming the new councillors who’d served them well have been suspended. Anna Vanderbom from the City of Perth Western Residents Association says her members aren’t happy they’ll be represented by three state-appointed commissioners while an investigation takes place into elected…

MAKING an independent feature film is not easy. Most low-budget filmmakers have to call in favours from a mate or two, or in director Peter Renzullo’s case—a few hundred. Mr Renzullo is shooting Anticipation in Perth and is looking for a horde of extras for a crowd scene at the Civic Hotel in Inglewood on…

• This vacant block has been transformed into a garden of “useful weeds”. A ROSE by any other name would smell as sweet, wrote Shakespeare, but could a field of weeds be a beautiful garden? A group of Perth artists have transformed a cruddy old vacant block in central Fremantle into an ordered garden of…