Author: Your Herald
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Testing times AUSTRALIANS make much of their strength of character. That strength is being tested more stringently than at any time I can remember. These are interesting times. Australians are always swept up in the rhetoric of sports journalists. We are cheerfully blinded by nationalistic fervour. Aussies, and Aussie teams, are always expected to win—just…
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MONTE FIORE, Mt Lawley by JENNY D’ANGER: MONTE FIORE in Mt Lawley deserves “mountains of flowers” for its delicious Italian cuisine. It was the quirky flower and bird motif (no mountains though) of the restaurant’s sign that caught my eye as a potential spot for lunch. Once seated my lunch companion and I debated whether…
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PEPPER LUNCH, Perth: If you’ve traveled throughout Japan and South-East Asia you know how insanely popular the Pepper Lunch franchise is. There are 200 across Japan, 80 through SE Asia, two in Sydney, one in Melbourne and, in Perth…there’s Pepper Lunch at 95 Barrack Street. Pepper Lunch is popular for a reason: Fantastic Japanese steak…
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Theatre is society’s political and social barometer says Ivan King. The veteran curator at His Majesty’s Museum of Performing Arts says it’s one of the reasons he’s so passionate about preserving and promoting WA’s theatrical history. People don’t think things happened in WA, he says, and he hopes the exhibition Comedy and Tragedy will change…
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I am used to homes being pristine when I arrive and this place in Stone Street, Bayswater was no different. Then I discovered the vendor has four-year old twin boys, a seven-year-old daughter and an energetic dog. I take my hat off to her, I can’t stay mess-free for more than five minutes with just…
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STEPHEN SMITH will not re-contest the seat of Perth and lawyer Tim Hammond is emerging as a likely replacement. Mr Hammond, a Mount Lawley local, is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers. We put it to him that he was next in line of succession after Mr Smith. “I don’t know about next in line…
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BAYSWATER city council is considering a $175 million redevelopment of its Mertome aged care village. The concept plan includes four options, ranging from 257 to 396 apartments, over five or seven storeys. It includes parking and community facilities such a clubhouse, and the option of a residential care facility. At a briefing last month councillors…
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HISTORY and technology mingle in a new innovative artwork on Perth’s King Street. Media artist Sohan Ariel Hayes has created “6D” shifting projections that appear in a shopfront along the glitzy shopping strip. Hayes says his work was inspired by a fleeting moment in nearby Wolfe Lane. “I was working in an artists’ studio off…
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TRADERS and residents along Beaufort Street are not waiting on Vincent city council to find a solution to the street’s ongoing exodus of independent retailers. While the council negotiates with developers (see story, right) the Beaufort Street Network is drawing up its own action plan for recovery. In recent months six independent retailers have shut…
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IN an attempt to stem the tide of pubs taking over retail centres, Vincent city council is asking developers to build smaller shops. Mayor Alannah MacTiernan hopes smaller rents will be attractive to independent retailers with smaller budgets. Along with being zoned retail, they’ll also be too small to be easily transformed into dollar-raking booze…
