Author: Your Herald
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THE old Sinbad’s takeaway in Inglewood has become an eyesore and needs to be cleaned up, says David Lagan. The Stirling city councillor says in the months since the business shut it’s become a target for vandals and a home for squatters. “It’s not a good look for the area,” he says. “The building has…
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FIRE damaged four cars at City Motors Holden yard in West Perth around 2am Monday. Two HSV sports cars were destroyed, two sedans damaged and building fascia was melted, bringing the damage bill to around $500,000. The dealership remained smoky but open and the arson squad is on the case. Fire sale soon? A GROWING…
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NAILS hammered into a tree at Bayswater’s Halliday Park could have seriously injured contractors employed to cut it down says council CEO Francesca Lefante. In a letter to pro-trees activist Greg Smith dismissing his claim that a contractor had driven threateningly at him while he protested the century-old trees’ axing, Ms Lefante said the presence…
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The Ed says… LAST week’s front page photo, which accompanied the article “A funny thing about rape” had the lines ringing off the hook and our editor’s ears burning red. Voice readers were—to a woman—outraged by the photo which featured Fringe artist Adrienne Truscott wearing just a denim jacket and boots, sitting legs akimbo with…
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HOORAY for Ben Target! That rhymes, by the way, if you speak its French pronunciation, “tar-jay” (like the department store). Target is having the last laugh after years of correcting people—and copping jokes, especially during his UK school days—by touring the world with a show that pokes fun at his name. “I’m fond of it…
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by JENNY D’ANGER DINING out before the theatre is fraught: any delay and you run the risk of the torturous embarrassment of mumbled “sorries” as you stand on toes and stagger into laps while shuffling to your seat. But if you eat too early there’s the fight with peak-hour traffic and a lot of hanging…
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THERE’S a touch of the ‘60s TV cartoon The Jetsons about this Bayswater home, with its soaring, space-aged curved-tin roof and matching interior reverse-curve ceilings. When the cartoon was made computers were in their infancy, and the size of a house, but George Jetson predicted the future of print, reading the news on his televiewer…
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ARE jokes about rape acceptable? American comedian Adrienne Truscott puts the question to the test in Asking For It. Wearing a pair of anything-but-sensible shoes, a jacket and nothing in between, her one-woman show debunks the lamentably still-fashionable notion that women who are raped are “asking for it”, whether it’s because of what they wear…
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A VANDAL has severely damaged the royal coat of arms above the Perth GPO, decapitating its unicorn and pulling bits off. Perth city councillor Reece Harley tipped us off to the damage, having just returned from Paris where he’d proposed to partner Rebekah ‘neath the glow of the Eiffel Tower, making all other Perth men…
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POLICE reckon they’ve caught the pair who started a small bushfire in Coolbinia on January 4, but won’t lay charges as they’re two boys, aged eight and nine. While too young to face prosecution the pair will be referred to a juvenile program run by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services. The fire started…
