Author: Your Herald
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Unelected DAP has final say THE Maylands Ratepayers’ and Residents’ Association has voted to oppose the $3.5 million expansion of the liquor store at the Peninsula Tavern. The application for the Railway Parade pub and bottleshop includes a 743sqm Dan Murphy’s outlet, courtyards and family-style bistro, 123 car bays and two-storey offices above the liquor…
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A CREW of mysterious ninja grannies has been yarn-bombing Mt Hawthorn. For the past few months trees along The Boulevarde, between Scarborough Beach Road and Ashby Street, have been festooned with colourful wool. Lisa, who describes herself as a “non-knitting resident”, says locals don’t know who’s responsible for the woolly crop circles. “We don’t know…
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AS one of the first employees taken on when Scitech opened, Ian MacTavish celebrates 25 years at the science museum. The Leeming man joined the maintenance team as part of a skeleton crew a few months before Scitech opened its doors. In his years there he’s seen a few unusual incidents and been involved in…
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PERTH choir Naya Chorale is back from performing at Carnegie Hall. The newly formed a cappella group of 50 singers had been invited to the prestigious New York venue by the Distinguished Concerts International New York which scours the world for choirs worthy of performing there. Naya Chorale hadn’t even staged its first performance when…
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AFTER plans to move into a Murray Street premises fell through the WA Club is now eyeing up the Old Perth Boys School as a new HQ. The 117-year-old club is moving from its St Georges Terrace home—despite having only moved there in 1995—so it can increase membership from 1300 to 1500 to remain financially…
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Too loud for my eyes IT is well-known that in a noisy chattering world silence becomes a golden sound, a blessing, a relief, and very likely the same sort of contrast applies to our visual world. Hence, on the matter of the Beaufort Street murals the question is; should the public have to cope with…
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GORDON STRRET GARAGE, West Perth by JENNY D’ANGER: If this eatery was any cooler the polar caps wouldn’t be in danger of melting. “Gordon St Garage fan-bloody-tastic,” I un-coolly text—not tweet—to the colleague who’d put me onto this cafe in a small side street. Created from the bones of the old Kings Park auto garage…
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Robots can build cars, fly planes and even beat Garry Kasparov at chess—but when it comes to emotions and art they fail miserably. Or do they? WAAPA playwright Travis Cotton examines the relationship between Shakespeare and the silicon chip in his debut play Robots Vs Arts. In his dystopian future, robots have taken over the…
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I swear Snow White peeked out of an upstairs bedroom as I walked up the brick path of the formal garden of this Dundas Road home. And did I glimpse Bashful or Happy through a front window, scurrying to put more wood on the fire in the delightful formal lounge room? Such is the magic…
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THE $10.8 million rebuild of the burnt-down Mt Lawley primary school won the tick of approval from the local development assessment panel on Monday afternoon. The 100-year-old school was destroyed last July by two teenage arsonists later sentenced to eight months’ gaol. The WA finance department’s plans will replace the fire-damaged buildings with a covered…
