Author: Your Herald
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MUST was a haven from the gruelling heat outside, the dim interior drawing us in like polar bears to an ice floe. The bistro lunch menu had a similarly magnetic effect, $80 for two with a choice of two or three courses, and a glass of wine. Generally speaking the Perth Voice’s weekly food review…
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BONDAGE, pain, domination and sexual power collide in Black Swan Theatre’s Venus in Fur at the State Theatre’s Underground. David Ives work is a play-within-a-play, based on the 1870 novel Venus in Furs, written by the man masochism was named for, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. A simple set, just two actors and great chunks of dialogue…
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HORSES and equipment bogged in a salt lake 100km out of Leonora in 1869 sparked in WA explorer John Forrest the idea of naming WA’s second largest mud hole after colonial secretary Fredrick Barlee. Sir Fred, a pedantic man whose colourful career as the state’s top public servant spanned 20 years, may perhaps have been…
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A FAILED geothermal heating project at Beatty Park has resulted in Vincent city council having to return $100,000 to the federal government. Mayor John Carey was uncharacteristically furious at Tuesday night’s first council meeting for 2015, strongly criticising his team of senior officers for what he called a culture of poor project management. “I can…
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IN a part of town where hardly anyone has space to swing a spanner, Ewan MacDonald has opened a combo garage/cafe where blokes can buy a coffee and bagel while they work on their hogs. The 27-year-old was looking for a sea change from his job as a cardiology technician so he, his dad and…
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THE members of the Bayswater Bowling Club have turned to Facebook to attract a new generation of bowlers. Facing an uncertain future in the face of a review of local sports clubs, they’ve launched a Facebook page called “Save the Bayswater Bowling Club”. The council is reviewing the level of support it provides the various…
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STAFF at the arts and recycling organisation Remida in West Perth arrived at work Tuesday to discover they’d been the victims of a khat burglar. To be precise, someone nicked the 2m khat tree that had graced their courtyard. The thief was tidy at least, going to careful lengths to re-fill the hole and even…
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THREE groups are locked in a struggle to deliver the next Maylands street festival. The Maylands Business Association ran the last of three biennial events in 2012, with a November 2014 festival not happening because the MBA couldn’t organise enough funding or volunteers (Voice, December 11, 2014). With the MBA now focused on a March…
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MT HAWTHORN residents have joined forces to oppose a block of flats being built in their “character street”. The department of housing plans to build a 10-unit, two-storey building in East Street. Local Voices of Mt Hawthorn says a multiple dwelling will ruin the street’s ambience of federation houses on individual lots. “We’re not against…
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STIRLING mayor Giovanni Italiano has blasted Western Power for whacking councils with a new fee that adds 13.9 per cent to their energy bill. He says ratepayers will inevitably end up wearing the cost of the utility’s “double dipping”. Western Power has decided its customers should wear the costs arising from its capital contributions and…
