Author: Your Herald
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PERTH’S love affair with coffee pales compared to that of London in the early 18th century when more than 3000 coffee houses sprung up, becoming dens of caffeine-fuelled debate and political intrigue. Politicians Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, proprietors of The Spectator, reckoned coffee shops were the perfect vehicle for the philosophical debates they so…
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY is said to have bet a group of authors he could write a novel using just six words. On a restaurant napkin he scrawled: “For sale, baby shoes. Never worn” and won $10 from each of his writer mates. It’s six words that never leaves you. Perth is producing its own flash fiction…
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I’M sure a seagull flying past winked at me as I gazed in awe from this 17th floor penthouse. Set back from Victoria Avenue, this Terrace Road apartment has an uninterrupted vista of the river and Kings Park and, as the river disappears in the distance you realise you can see the orange cranes on…
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NORTH PERTH is set to get more markets, subject to council approval. The Rosemount Hotel is planning to hold a night market and more day markets in its Angove Street car park. The 25-stall night market will be held 5–9.30pm along with special events at the hotel. Day markets are planned to operate from 10–3pm…
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IT was standing room only at Bayswater city council as Morley residents crammed the chamber to protest council mergers. The Barnett government’s decision to shift the northern portion of Morley into an enlarged Swan infuriated ratepayers who, during an emotionally charged public question time, demanded that Bayswater councillors fight the amalgamations. “We feel let down,”…
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SOME jerk vandalised the Hyde Park water playground last week, putting it out of commission just as the place gears up for a hot summer. Excited kids tiptoed across sun-scorched concrete to turn on the sprinklers but were left high and dry and disappointed. A sensor pad had been smashed with a rock or something…
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THE Inglewood summer night markets will start Monday December 8 and run till March. They are the brainchild of Inglewood on Beaufort Street, a nascent community group spearheaded by Mondo’s Vince Garreffa. Deputy chair Matt Seabrook says a development application has just been approved by Stirling city council. The night markets will consist of food…
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BAYSWATER city council will plant trees and monitor sound beside a waste transfer station in Collier Road following complaints. Residents living in Shalford Street 150m behind the station have lost patience with Transpacific Cleanaway, which manages the plant, and have petitioned the council about noise and smell. The council voted to plant trees along Joan…
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VINCENT city council has proclaimed it supports marriage equality and will join the mayors for marriage equality group. Mayor John Carey says the position is purely symbolic and will have no effect on local laws, but it represents the overwhelming community view. Byron mayor Simon Richardson is writing to councils nationwide to join his group.…
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PEOPLE power and common-sense have resulted in the WA government shifting a bus stop in Mount Lawley that was endangering local students. Following its new legibility policy the public transport authority had moved the North Street stop so it directly faced another on the other side of the road. The move resulted in gaggles of…
