Author: Your Herald
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IT’S been a long time between (cheap) drinks but for the first time since 1958 the Mt Lawley bowling club has won the second division pennant, rocketing it up to the big league first division bowls. Captain Glenn Hall says it was a nail-biter in the first round of the final as Mt Lawley went…
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KYILLA Park will be the home of a new North Perth farmers market. It will be open from 8.30am to 11.30am on Saturdays and limited to 40 stalls at the western side of the park. Vincent city council approved the market for an initial six-month period. Market stalls will sell a variety of fresh goods,…
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BAYSWATER city council wants more public art in the city. There is only a handful of public art pieces across the municipality and the council has no public art policy. The council is proposing the developers of any commercial, non-residential or mixed use project costing more than $1 million contribute at least one per cent…
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LIBRARIANS are a force to be reckoned with. Just ask publishing giant HarperCollins. In the aftermath of 9/11 the multinational subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had told Michael Moore to rewrite his just-written book Stupid White Men. HarperCollins had decided the liberal activist’s sizzling critique of George W Bush, written before 9/11, was inappropriate…
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Fool me once… MY being made an April Fool is usually guaranteed. I have two daughters. This time I thought I’d escaped—only to be doubly fooled. Did the Perth Voice and Perth city council connive in this? They are my prime suspects. After reading “Fishy motive to abolition” (Voice, March 23, 2013) and “Parking too…
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MONGO, Mt Lawley by JENNY D’ANGER: Rijstaffel is Dutch for a uniquely Indonesian feast. It means “rice table” and my mouth still salivates at the gluttony of Indonesian delights consumed in Holland many years ago. When the West Indies was controlled by the Dutch, colonial overlords would serve up to 40 small dishes to visitors…
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‘There’s a staggering array of shops, cafes and restaurants nearby.’ PEAK hour should have been over but here it was 9.30am and the freeway was a parking lot. Canning Highway was moving at a crawl, but at least it was moving, so a quick lane change had me on my way, albeit at a snail’s…
