THOUSANDS of Australians will be doing the downward dog this weekend to raise funds for the 48,000 homeless women across the country. The Yoga4Dignity event is run by Share the Dignity, a charity that distributes sanitary products to homeless women. Founder Rochelle Courtenay says three years ago she read an article about disadvantaged Australian women…

A SELF-GUIDED historic walking trail around North Perth’s town centre launches this week. The tour reveals how the suburb developed between the early 20th century and World War II and is an initiative of the local town team, North Perth Local. It got funding from Vincent council for the digitally-aided walk, which shows off 16…

OPIUM dens, brothels and mafia killings… Perth journalist Sean Cowan is shining a light on Perth’s dark history in his new crime tours of Northbridge. He’s well qualified to be a guide, having spent 14 years reporting on organised crime at The West Australian. Mr Cowan says Perth’s seemingly morbid crime obsession is nothing out…

A TRAVELLING exhibition honouring the people who stood up for Jews during the Holocaust has come to Perth, focusing on the rescuers and survivors who migrated to Australia. I Am My Brother’s Keeper was created by the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre “Yad Vashem,” based in Jerusalem. It commemorates more than 26,000 people recognised as having…

“TEN professors walk into a bar…” While it sounds like the start of a bad dad joke, it’s actually the idea behind a series of talks that have sold out across the globe and are now coming to Perth. On September 11, 10 world-leading UWA researchers will head to different bars across the city to…

THE baby died too. On Monday night, 18-month-old dolphin calf Splash was found dead near the Perth Flying Squadron Yacht Club; fishing line biting into the flesh around her tail. Last Tuesday her mother Highnitch, a long-term resident of the Swan River, perished because of discarded fishing line too. “The mother and calf had severe…

VINCENT will become the state’s “arts capital” under a grand plan ushered in by council this week. On Tuesday night councillors approved a two-year plan that includes a new jazz precinct in Northbridge, a guerrilla arts project, a major artwork entry statement, a co-working artistic space and an Aboriginal artist on their arts advisory group.…

HOW would you feel about sharing a dining room with your neighbours? Would you be keen to have a communal veggie garden or laundry? Or do you want to have more say in the design of your dream home? A Highgate woman wants to create not-for-profit housing in Perth that’s co-designed by its residents and…

HIGHNITCH didn’t make it. Tangled up in fishing wire and a trailing plastic bag, the dolphin’s body was discovered on the banks of the Swan River in Como on Tuesday. Last week the Voice reported that the parks and wildlife service unsuccessfully tried to remove the wire from her dorsal fin (“High drama”, Voice, August…

A NEW speakeasy-cum-barbershop on Beaufort Street was approved by Vincent council this week. City planning staff had recommended councillors reject the application for the Blind Pig Speakeasy at 559 Beaufort Street because it didn’t include any parking bays. Applicants Bootlegging Wolves were looking at having to provide 27 bays to comply with the council parking…