Author: Your Herald
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WEE BAR perfectly embodies what small bars were meant to be about—a classy place for a high-end nibble and a cautiously curated selection of drinks. The French bar was started up by Iain Lawless, who used to run the well-regarded Kitsch further down the road, and the food has his trademark playfulness and mixing of…
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THERE’S a mystery to this Grant Street, North Perth home and despite close scrutiny it remains a conundrum. Is the beautiful stained glass front door the original entry—or was its twin, which opens onto a rear verandah? The rear door looks original, down to the large, ornate doorknob and it’s odd to see stained glass…
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PRIDE’S parade is heading back to the night. Following a dire turnout at last year’s inaugural daytime parade the Northbridge event will be pushed back to 8pm. The Pride management committee had hoped a daytime parade would encourage more families, but Voice staffer Jenny D’Anger marched last year and said audiences were a fifth of…
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THERE’LL be a three-way tussle in the by-election for Vincent’s south ward. Business manager Mark Rossi, urban planner James Peart and the executive director of the state’s development department Gary Simmons will fight it out to fill the position made vacant when John Carey was elevated to the mayoralty. At October’s election Mr Peart came…
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A Mt LAWLEY resident has asked an artist to paint an alien mural on his back wall, after graffiti artists kept tagging his property. Arts management graduate John Clark was fed up looking at the ugly tags on his rear wall, which backs onto Jack Marks Lane, so he got in touch with local artist…
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A UNITED STATES printer has left local Bruce Springsteen fans out of pocket after pulling the pin on a t-shirt they had designed featuring their hero. Members of Perth’s Springsteen fan club had come up with the design—a silhouette of the New Jersey muso against the Perth skyline—and were having them printed by Spreadshirt. About…
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THE 90-year-old Michelides tobacco factory is likely to be demolished, with a divided Perth city council planning committee giving owner Graham Hardie the thumbs up to knock it down. It’s still to go before full council but committee members Rob Butler and Judy McEvoy say they support the demolition because the building is decrepit and…
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A LOCAL technology company is hoping its new smartphone app will help visitors avoid a trampling this Australia Day. Inhouse Group’s Skyworks app, commissioned by Perth council, lists the day’s events from the citizenship ceremonies in the morning to the fireworks and laser display from 8pm. It also comes with: • a pop-up reminder when…
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TAFE students are thinking about dropping out midway through courses as the reality of fee increases—some up to 400 per cent—hit home during enrolments this week. Eighteen-year-old Joondalup resident Kimberley Beisley travels to the Central Institute of Technology in Northbridge, but says she might drop out because she can’t afford the second year of her…
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TIME’S up for Perth’s million-dollar sapphire atomic clock, with Perth city council planning to handball the project back to the increasingly parsimonious state government. At this week’s planning committee councillor Reece Harley said the clock saga, which has been floating around almost a decade, was “best described as a debacle.” The bumpy road began when…
