Come along to The Provedores Market Easter Edition, proudly sponsored by Pisconeri Fine Foods & Wines. Held on Saturday 13 April from 9am-4pm, the market looks set to be one of the biggest and best yet, with something for the whole family to enjoy. Featuring all the Italian food stalls that have made The Provedores…

Great Western Woodlands Photography Exhibition 14 March – 17 March 2019 The Wilderness Society WA is asking the community to join them for a celebration of the Great Western Woodlands, the largest temperate woodland left on earth. State Director, Kit Sainsbury, commented: “We welcome all to come and see a stunning collection of photographic images,…

TURN down the volume on your headphones or risk permanent hearing loss, warns the Deafness Foundation. While music may make a monotonous commute or nagging parents more bearable, continually exposing your ears to loud sounds may lead to irreparable damage. Almost a year ago the World Health Organisation revealed that more than 1.1 billion young…

EVERY five minutes another Australian develops diabetes. More than 1.7 million Aussies have the chronic disease and it’s estimated another half a million are undiagnosed. But there are hopes that understanding a molecule known as “RAGE” could help control the effects of the disease. Diabetes Research WA has received a $60,000 grant to research the…

Palace Cinema Paradiso launches $10 February Fringe Fever! ALL MOVIE TICKETS JUST $10. FEBRUARY 1 TO 28, 2019 Located at the heart of the ongoing Fringe World Festival, Palace Cinema Paradiso in Northbridge is offering Perth a chance to amplify their Fringe experience with a bargain price movie ticket for just $10. Throughout the month of…

HISTORY buff RICHARD OFFEN is the author of Lost Perth, and the former executive director of Heritage Perth. In this week’s HERITAGE CORNER he tells us about the birth of boarding and lodging houses in Perth, including how widows took in lodgers during the Great Depression to make ends meet. BOARDING and lodging house accommodation…

THIS is an extract from the VINCENT WRITING CENTRE’S first anthology of short stories and poetry. To get the full story and a stash of others, contact PETER JEFFERY on peter.jeffery@iinet.net.au or call 0481 462 612 by ANGELA JONES THE land does not have a name, we looked for an indication at both ends but there is…

by ALEX UCHANSKI A hundred years old, but where is my congratulations? I feel broken, I’m falling apart; bone by bone, piece by piece Forty years without a facelift Can’t you see, it’s my generation; we are one of a kind When will you wake up and smell the roses, that I used to smell…

Short story excerpt by MARY HOLLIDAY LET me introduce you to “One Wing Willie”. He was a thin dark haired long term Irish bachelor of average height, well-spoken to the point of deferential as though he had been high born or had been used to being around such people. Nobody was ever told, least of…

HISTORY buff RICHARD OFFEN is the author of Lost Perth, and the former executive director of Heritage Perth. In this week’s HERITAGE CORNER he tells us about  “Dumas’ Folly”, a towering sewer ventilation stack in Highgate which caused a stink with locals. STANDING high over the surrounding area of Highgate, many assume the noble art…