Author: Your Herald
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THE CBD looked like an American tourist’s dream this week with a score of kangaroos populating Central Park and the Enex 100 building. Turns out the 20 fibreglass roos being painted was a publicity stunt by the owners of Miami Bakehouse, Simone Sanders and David Palmer, who plan to install the finished pieces along Forrest…
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THE ailing Maylands Tennis Club is lobbying for a $750,000 redevelopment to turn its fortunes around. The historic 1930s club, located on the peninsula at Clarkson Reserve, has predominantly grass courts and around 80 mostly elderly members. In 2014 Bayswater city council, stung by an annual maintenance bill of $110,000, voted to cut the number…
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ARTIST Harry Hummerston (pictured, right) guides his scroll saw along intricate corners to cut foliage from a plastic bonsai tree. He points out his edges are so clean a laser could have cut them. Good thing too, the expert printmaker says, because he’s the kind of artist who doesn’t like the look of most raw…
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GETTING Telstra on board as a major sponsor has seen gobs of cash flung towards the Perth Fashion Festival, but that hasn’t tempered Perth city council’s generosity. Last year James Limnios wondered if the PCC oughtta look at cutting its funding given Telstra gets the big accolades (and pays the PFF handsomely for the right).…
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Civic duty off-key I WAS taken aback by the City of Perth’s lord mayor’s salary (Voice, June 13, 2015). This is a part-time position and this is an obscene salary. I have on several occasions asked this lord mayor to erect a plaque in Murray Street Mall to the late John Gill, a world-class pianist…
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A LOVE triangle between doughnuts, croissants and muffins has the next generation of desserts upon us. Introducing the duffin, cruffin and cronut—the lovechildren of doughnuts and muffins, croissants and muffins, and croissants and doughnuts. Voice reporter Emmie Dowling went above and beyond, tasting them for readers on a cafe/bakery crawl in Perth the other week. You’re…
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IN a comedy theatre production honouring late UK fantasy writer Terry Pratchett, Bayswater actor Jim Chantry plays a liar. His character in Maskerade is world-famous tenor Enrico Basilica, who pretends to be a foreigner at an opera house set in Pratchett’s Discworld fantasyland Ankh-Morpork. Basilica even has a manager to translate the local language he…
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FRENCH people have been celebrating the June solstice with music since 1982. “In every city, in bars, inside or outside, people are having drinks and enjoying the sun and the first day of summer,” says Valeriane Mathieu from Alliance Francaise de Perth. “There are amateur and professional musicians in the streets playing all styles of…
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THE sights and smells—everything about this bungalow is so right. I would be so happy living here, I muse, thinking about author Alain de Botton’s international bestseller, The Architecture of Happiness. In the 2006 book, de Botton discusses connection between emotions and environment. He says the walls, chairs, buildings and streets surrounding us affect whether…
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