Author: Your Herald
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COODE STREET CAFE, Mt Lawley by JENNY D’ANGER: The Coode Street Cafe is tucked away in the back bits of Bayswater’s slice of Mt Lawley but the secret has been well and truly out for years now. On a rainy Thursday lunchtime the place was heaving with customers. And little wonder, with the cafe groaning…
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AMANI, Leederville: Upon arrival at Amani Wine Bar you’re met at the door by a charming hostess who shows you to your table. That’s right, full table service. Welcome to a whole new level of sophistication, right here in the heart of Leederville’s Oxford Street district (opposite the Luna). Of course, there’s also the black…
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Just when you thought every last drop of green blood had been squeezed out of the zombie genre, along comes Michael Logan with Apocalypse Cow (Forget the cud, they want blood…). The novel’s a satire about cattle transformed into human-eating zombies, after a secret government bio-weapon goes awry. As Britain descends into zombie chaos, ministers…
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With the world agog at the imminent arrival of a new royal baby, it seemed appropriate to be reviewing a home on Queen Street, as I’d been hoping for a girl. The little princess would have made history, with recent historic changes to succession laws meaning a first-born girl is no longer passed over for…
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Vincent city council has set aside $30,000 for on-road cafes after a successful trial. Councillor Dudley Maier nicked the idea from San Francisco and it’s been so successful outside Foam Coffee Bar on Oxford Street that neighbouring councils have been asking for tips. “It’s absolutely lovely… I have a wide demographic of people telling me…
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Vincent city council is spooked by a raft of new density measures which will see 120sqm blocks appearing in its heritage-rich suburbs. Mayor Alannah MacTiernan warns the changes, imposed by the state government’s power planning mandarins, will be a huge threat to the area’s heritage streetscapes. They will allow owners of 240sqm blocks to sub-divide…
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Vincent deputy mayor Warren McGrath isn’t ruling out a tilt at the top job. “I haven’t discounted it,” he says. An associate and state manager with Eco Logical Australia environmental consultants, he says he’d have to carefully consider his career and the best interests of the company before making a tilt. Cr McGrath says he’d…
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From humble beginnings as a side-line project during uni, Mt Lawley based Jump Climb events management has picked up the handling of this year’s Pride festival. “Our first event was Coopers Barefoot Bowls in Mount Lawley,” Paul Fletcher chuckles. The company ran a few music shows at venues around Perth and music for Rottofest, then…
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GIOVANNI ITALIANO will try to wrest the gold chains from Stirling mayor David Boothman at the October council elections. The Osborne Park councillor told the Voice he is ready for another crack at becoming mayor after narrowly losing to Cr Boothman two years ago. Stirling’s mayor is decided by a vote of councillors, and Cr…
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Bayswater mayor Terry Kenyon and two of his councillors have agreed to settle in a bitter, drawn-out defamation case. Cr Kenyon was suing Mike Anderton and Mike Sabatino over information that appeared in articles in the media in 2009 and 2010. The articles—related to CCTV footage of Cr Kenyon carrying a bottle to a room…
