Perth Voice Interactive
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Author: Your Herald
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WHEN the Layup Cafe changed managers recently, owner Vicki Sorrenson wanted an inviting eatery where denizens could meet, so she renamed it The Local. “I want it to be a place to catch up, as a community base,” she told the Voice. I was heading elsewhere for lunch, but the beaming smile of a young…
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NORTH Perth singer/songwriter Davey Craddock has gone all “gnarled” and dark in his second album One Punch. It’s a stark departure from his debut City West, which had a classic Aussie country sound. “There are no love songs, no country songs in One Punch,” Craddock says. The songs examine men’s relationships with other men. “Or…
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COULD 21-year-old Ellen-Hope Thomson be Perth’s next impresario? She’s already established her own contemporary dance company, Fonder Physical Theatre, and is set to premier her third Fringe Festival show, Here Moving. The WA Academy of Performing Arts graduate has a penchant for straightforward names, and says she chose Here Moving, “because we are here and…
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IT’S been about two years since video shop owner Mel McInerney took a wage, but she refuses to close, despite living in an online age. She says customers taking out a membership at Network Video in Mt Hawthorn often ask: “You’re not going to close on me are you? The last few stores I signed-up…
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) The presence of Mars in Sagittarius is a happy occasion for you. You sense possibilities to the left and the right of you. A wave of happiness is rolling through you. Life is presently effortlessly adventurous. You don’t have to put in any effort at all. Just follow the…
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JUST between you and me, land banking can be a good thing sometimes. I know councils and neighbours really hate big, empty blocks of land sitting around like a missing tooth in a beauty queen’s smile, but for buyers there are obvious benefits. The owners of Verge Apartments bought their chunk of Bronte Street 15…
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Celebrating 70 years of health care excellence Perth Radiological Clinic will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2018. It marks a significant milestone for the clinic, which provides specialist radiological care to West Australians. It is the longest established, continuously operating radiology practice in WA. At its inception in 1948, Perth Radiological Clinic operated from four clinics. Seventy years later PRC operates…
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THE GREENS have apologised to the City of Vincent after sending out a letter claiming the council had joined the campaign to change the date of Australia Day—it hadn’t. A letter from Greens senator Rachel Siewert went out to WA councils on Friday, urging them to support changing the date of Australia Day because “January…
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POP-UP skate days are coming to Mt Hawthorn. On February 4, Coogee Street car park will be decked-out with boxes, rails, kickers and a quarter pipe. Organised by community organisation the Mt Hawthorn Hub and public skating advocates Skate Sculpture, they had a trial run on the top level of the Mezz carpark two years…
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HOLDING Australia Day on January 26 is a relatively recent development in the nation’s history, and it only became a national public holiday in 1994. In the early colonial days, January 26 celebrations were mostly held in New South Wales, commemorating the date in 1788 when Arthur Phillip and a contingent of royal marines landed…
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