Author: Your Herald

  • Winter Menu at Northbridge Brewing Company

    Northbridge Brewing Company (NBC) is Perth’s latest brewery, bar and restaurant located in the heart of the city at Northbridge Piazza. NBC is all about providing a relaxed atmosphere in a unique custom built venue, where exceptional food and beer is the focus. NBC has just launched a new winter menu which puts its own…

  • Youth gets PJS back on the beat

    MISSING out on Barnett government funding last year was the spur to action for incoming Perth Jazz Society president Gemma Farrell. “[The Department of Culture and the Arts] said we had to reinvent ourselves, and we listened,” she says. The society focussed on mentoring fresh, young jazz artists to create a new wave of talent…

  • Great music’s his forte

    THE WA Academy of Performing Arts at ECU has picked up its very own “fortepianist”. For real. The word fortepianist may sound like the punchline to an Andrew Dice Clay joke, but it’s actually a distinguished profession involving performing on a fortepiano, the early piano of the 18th and early 19th century. Geoffrey Lancaster AM,…

  • ASTROLOGY May 21 – May 28, 2016

    ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 20) It’s all been getting a bit serious. The fresh born Gemini Sun is challenging you to let go of the habit of battle. It’s inviting you to stay sincere but ditch the ‘all or everything’ mindset that tends to dry up all the joy within your psyche. Open your…

  • A brush with disaster narrowly averted

    GREEN BANS imposed by unions saved a number of WA heritage properties in the past, but humble painters can be thanked for preserving the integrity of this Sixth Avenue, Inglewood home. The vendor was agonising over whether to paint the gorgeous, aged jarrah door frames and windows, picture rails and skirting to fit with the…

  • Acton Mt Lawley tops REIWA poll

    ACTON Mt Lawley was recently recognised as the number one real estate agency in its bailiwick by the Real Estate Institute of WA and RR Data Core Logic Statistics. “Other agencies claim to be number one, but we can back it up,” agent Natalie Hoye says. REIWA tracks properties sold over the financial year across…

  • Luxury Travel Specialists

    World Travel Professionals located in East Perth are a National Company and have been creating wonderful holiday experiences for the past 20 years.  WTP are here to offer advice on destinations and the best way to get there.  They will only ever offer you a maximum of 5 flight options, because they treat your holiday…

  • Trips trap Scaffidi

    FROM January 2008 to October 2015, Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi found the time to take 65 overseas and 47 interstate trips: that’s 112 in seven years, an average of 15 a year. Along the way, according to a damning new report by the WA local government department, she allegedly broke the law 45 times.…

  • Better late than never

    HERE’S a wee happy update: more than two years ago we told you about Maylands pensioners wilting in the heat because the Eighth Avenue bus stop didn’t have a shelter. Leslie Wojcik, then 72, said it sometimes got so hot she had to hide in the nearby phone booth rather than sit at the stop,…

  • Untangled

    THIS adorable white-faced heron nearly died after getting tangled in fishing line. Bayswater city council workers were down at Baigup Wetlands on May 5, working on a remediation trial when they came across the tangled bird with sinkers around its wing. The workers carefully untangled the bird and took it to a vet for care…