Author: Your Herald
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Auto-Loos costing between $125,000 and a quarter-of-a-million bucks each will be installed around Perth to deal with the capital’s crippling crapper shortage. The PCC has voted unanimously to pay WC Convenience Management an estimated $650,000 for providing four to eight toilets. The extravagantly named Exeloo Saturn 21 costs $126,656, the Exeloo Jupiter 21 Heritage $208,631,…
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Kangaroos could be bounced from Stirling bushland and replaced with apartments. In 2010 the council permitted Channel 7—owned by billionaire Kerry Stokes—to redevelop its old Tuart Hill site, under the proviso the roos in neighbouring Cottonwood Crescent bushland must stay put. But developers have pushed the care onus back onto council, and staff complain managing…
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Perth city council, August 6, 2013 SOLID GOLD jewellers will be made to pull down an unauthorised sign it erected on a heritage building in the Hay Street Mall. At Tuesday’s meeting Perth city councillors unanimously ordered the vertical sign be removed. “It would set an undesirable precedent for similar signage on the heritage facade,”…
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Dummkopf! While I appreciate the appropriate use of the German terms in the front page story of your August 3 edition (“Merger madness”), I suggest it would be wise to check their spelling and accuracy before going to print. In the first paragraph you misspell “Anschluss” (leaving out the first ‘s’) and then misuse the word…
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JB O’REILLY’S, West Leederville by DAVID BELL: Fake Irish bars litter the world. You can stop at just about any airport bar in Asia and come across names like “O’Flanagans”, be greeted by shamrocks decorating timbered walls and be served a pint of Guinness by bartenders as Irish as Jackie Chan. But JB O’Reilly’s in…
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RED CRAY, Mt Lawley: If there is one thing the Singh brothers know how to deliver, it is exceptional seafood. For 10 years their fabulously popular Red Cray restaurant in Belmont has been a finalist or a winner of multiple awards. In April this year the boys expanded their seafood empire, bringing their award-winning talents…
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“I Wander lonely as a cloud” and a limerick about eating peas with honey “because it keeps them on the knife” is about the extent of my poetry. If I’d been exposed earlier to the biting wit of West Perth local Helen Child’s Barbie Doesn’t Fart as a teenager I’m sure things would have been…
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After 30 years WAAPA’s head of acting Chris Edmund will take a final bow. In his time at the Mount Lawley school he’s trained Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), William McInnes (Look Both Ways), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break) and Jai Courtney (Die Hard V). He says it’s great to drive through Los Angeles and see WAAPA graduates…
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In hindsight my oohing and aahing over this View Street, North Perth home was probably salt in the wound for the tenants, who no doubt face an uphill battle finding anything as delightful. But a true Taurean, I went at it like a bull-at-a-gate: “This is gorgeous!” I enthused insensitively yet again as I stepped…
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Outrage over forced council amalgamations THE VOICE SAYS: Premier Colin Barnett may have dreamed of Anchluss, of a seamless stitching together of borders with grateful, pretty frauleins casting flowers at his feet, but the reality is anything but. His merger plans have been greeted instead with almost universal opprobrium, and with good reason. He’s had…
