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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Forthcoming Town Hall events, and more redesigns…
I suppose one of the advantages of promoting Birmingham and the West Midlands is that you hear about some stuff before others… I received an email from the PR department at the Town Hall, promoting their forthcoming festival under the “English Originals” moniker… I’ve been known to be a little partial to a bit […]
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Humourless Bullring staff attempt ineffectual smear campaign
I had to laugh when I read this BBC article - Major city ‘flash mob prevented’;
Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre said it stopped a major ‘flash mob’ exercise involving dozens of people. But members of the group said the event, in which people froze for five minutes, took place and images went on the social networking […]
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Did the earth move (a little bit) for you?
Corny I know, but appropriate… Just now (about 1am), Birmingham (and much of the Midlands and Central England) had a little earthquake! It only lasted about ten seconds here, but was strong enough to make my speakers rock on their stands and my radiator make a noise… Amusingly, we all initially blamed each other in […]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
How to sum up Birmingham’s architecture in one go
Birmingham’s a bit of a higgledy-piggledy place when it comes to architecture. You have brash, modern buildings parked opposite 1980s ‘oddities’, which themselves are next to to clean lines and glass frontage of Starbucks and office buildings… And on top of that, you have the old, OLD buildings that were in Birmingham long before anybody else […]
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Brum Bloggers Meetup, Mk. 2: great success!
In typical style, I’m fashionably late writing about this. Just like I was to the actual event. Note to self: update satnav maps (I drove straight to Brum from work via a route I don’t normally travel via - the bloody thing tried to take me the wrong way around two separate one-way systems, one […]
No Comments » - Posted in General News, Events, Behind Brum, Oddities, Creative Industries, Upyerbrum by Christopher
Saturday, February 16th, 2008
See you at the Dragon Inn
Unless something dire happens to obstruct my attendance, you can find me (along with a bunch of other friendly locals) at the second Brum Bloggers Meetup. I’ll give you fair warning now… It’s nestled just at the top end of the Gaybourhood (as my lesbian housemate calls it, and the name just happens to have […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Live Search improves, also turns back time in central Brum; armchair travellers celebrate
Now, before we get started, I’m by no means a Microsoft shill (the Ubuntu sticker on my laptop should indicate that, that’s another discussion entirely however so let’s not go there). But, one thing I do like though are the pockets of resistance within Microsoft’s ranks; one such division is the development team who work […]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Want to find out how Town Hall came to be?
Well, you’re in luck.
In a somewhat meta presentation at Town Hall, due to take place on Sunday the 20th of January at 2pm, a chap called Anthony Peers is going to deliver “an account of the architectural history of Town Hall from its construction through to it recent renaissance.” Apparently, “Anthony has been researching the […]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Missed the hanging? See the plaque
Only in Birmingham… Just in case you weren’t sure of the location of the last public hanging in Brum (apparently it was mistakenly thought to have taken place somewhere else for all these years), it’s now been comemorated with a plaque:
The site of the last public hanging in Birmingham is being marked with a plaque, […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
£500m “revamp plan” mooted for Longbridge
“Reinvigorating Longbridge’s industrial heritage while also attracting new hi-tech investors and companies will also play an important role in cementing the area’s status as the real engine room for a prosperous and ever-growing Midlands economy, able to compete on an international stage.”– Mike Whitby, Birmingham City Council leader
A smattering of pre-new-year goods news, I suppose… […]
