AN advertisement offering cheap mobile phone and computer deals through the Perth Voice last weekend has been exposed as a likely scam. The ad, purportedly from Pacific Mobile Phones, offered “Buy 3 get 1 free” on a range of latest-model phones, but provided only email or skype addresses as contact points. It has run in…

BEAUFORT STREET’S beloved jewellery and fashion store Behind the Monkey is closing. When the Voice visited this week one customer after another came into the store to wish operator Brody MacLeod all the best or to express regret. Ms MacLeod says it’s sad to say goodbye, but it’s not a sad story: she’s not closing…

A FORMER keyboard player for Eskimo Joe is running for Bayswater council. Dan Bull toured with the globally successful Perth band in 2004 and 2005 and has since played with several other famous Perth bands, including The Sleepy Jackson and End of Fashion. Now a commercial lawyer—he gave away being a career musician following the…

PERTH COLLEGE and heritage advocates are at loggerheads over the proposed demolition of four 1920s-era houses. The exclusive girls’ school has lodged an application with Stirling city council to demolish the Lawley Crescent houses so it can build a multi-million dollar senior learning and leadership centre. Mount Lawley Society patron Barrie Baker says the homes…

MOUNT LAWLEY Senior High School students will experience the devastating effects of road trauma in a unique art cum educational workshop. Created by artist James Berlyn, Split Second will put high school actors and audience members in the shoes of young crash victims. “Being partially paralysed, having a colostomy bag, or being wheelchair bound, isn’t…

• A FIVE year old kid left at Scitech on their own after an excursion has earned the company Funtrain an $8000 fine. There was no roll call and after everyone else left the youngster was “without any form of supervision for at least 90 minutes” according to a state administrative tribunal ruling earning the Bassendean…

JOHN CAREY will seek re-election as Vincent mayor in October, as will his deputy, Ros Harley. The confirmation ends the persistent rumour that Mr Carey was a possible contender for lord mayor of Perth, something he said was only on the table when there was a possibility of Vincent and Perth merging. “I never considered…

A PHRENOLOGIST studying the shape of your head looking for criminal aberrations, a palmist reading futures in the lines of your hand, and the “Goanna Man” selling snake oil as a cure for polio: this is the history of William Street’s businesses. The William Street Collective’s Lake Bovell and The Butcher Shop staffer Alex Fuller…

MAYLANDS Labor MP Lisa Baker will find it tougher to hold her seat following proposed changes to electoral boundaries. Under a WA electoral commission proposal, portions of Dianella will come into Maylands while Inglewood comes out. ABC electoral guru Antony Green reckons Labor’s safety margin will fall from 3.1 to 1.9 per cent. Ms Baker…

A LOCAL gallery has come to the aid of artist John Cartwright after 1000 of his paintings were lost when his Inglewood studio went up in flames last week. Cartwright, renowned for his landscapes of south-west WA, lost nearly his entire life works when a wood heater in his studio set the building ablaze. The…