Author: Your Herald

  • A measure of fun

    CRUSHED cornflakes and Rice Bubbles mixed with toasted almond meal, to serve as a crunchy breakfast sprinkle. Who comes up with this stuff? The blokes behind tbsp. cafe in Bayswater. They’ve turned arguably the most unoriginal cafe breakfast classic—muesli ($13)—into something so crazy it actually works. In front of me are golden, toasted oats and…

  • Artists park it

    FIVE shipping containers of Christmas supplies for Kakulas Brothers led to the formation of the Robertson Park Artists Studio collective, after the artists had to decamp from their original Northbridge premises. This year the RPAS turns 15, a celebration marked with its annual exhibition in their park premises. “With many other artist collectives now closed,…

  • Raising the unconscious plane

    TWENTY years after The Edges of Twilight propelled Canada’s The Tea Party to international fame they’re back down under, kicking off an Australia anniversary tour in Perth. Instruments from around the world gave the album a world music flavour, which hit a cord in 1995, and it stayed in the top 20 for more than…

  • North Perth stunner

    WITH a toddler and baby and overseas rellies regularly visiting, the vendor of this North Perth delight really doesn’t want to move…but: “If it had one more bedroom I would stay forever. The area is amazing,” she tells the Voice. Walking to her favourite cafes and shops in Leederville, North Perth and Hawthorn is too…

  • Focus on Inglewood

    Estia Cafe Restaurant Sharing dishes is the best way to eat Greek and no-one does Meze Platters better than Estia in Inglewood. This welcoming restaurant run by the Loucaides family includes father and son, with a combined 60 years’ experience in Greek hospitality (formerly at the famed Aegean Restaurant in Mt Hawthorn). Estia has lunch…

  • ACTON MOUNT LAWLEY

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  • Old vs new in Baysy

    DOZENS of Bayswater locals are fighting to save two century-old heritage buildings from demolition. Resident Jacquie Kelly has launched a petition asking councillors to block plans for a seven-storey apartment complex at 9–11 King William Street. The council approved demolition in February — requiring just the facade to be kept — but residents aren’t giving…

  • A vision for Vincent Vincents

    TWO local film-makers are seeking out anyone named Vincent for a Guinness World Record attempt at Dorrien Gardens. Commissioned by Vincent city council as part of its annual film project, director Ashleigh Nicolau and writer Thomas Baskerville are documenting an attempt to gather at least 1101 people named Vincent to break the record. The current…

  • Failed mayoral contender puts cafe on the market

    IS Debbie Saunders saying goodbye and good riddance to Vincent? Ms Saunders is a regular in the Vincent city council chambers and often vocally critiques the council, but after bombing out of the weekend’s mayoral election race with a smidge over 5 per cent of the vote, she sent the Voice a web link showing…

  • Eric’s back on song

    THE Eric Singleton bird sanctuary has reopened to the public after a $3 million project to restore the ailing wetlands. An artificial wetland and the life work of late freeman of the city Eric Singleton, who worked there for 40 years, the wetland was in ecological decline and there’ve been low fauna numbers there lately.…