Warhol retrospectives for the Midlands
If there's one thing that might get me to go to Wolverhampton or Walsall it's an Andy Warhol exhibition. So now there's going to be two, I might have to go twice. D'log has the full sp [link]
Birmingham: It's Not Shit
Mildly Sarcastic Since 2002Prehistoric find uncovers early Birmingham
A dig in Banbury St, where the new BCU campus may be, has uncovered flints that "may be evidence of prehistoric life in Birmingham". That, or they're something left over from a fight after a Blues Villa game. Birmingham Central has a ton of detail. [link]
5km or Brum to Mongolia, it’s up to you
Couple of charity events been brought to my attention this week. One a simple(!) 5 killometre run starting and finishing in Perry Park. It’s no marathon-length BRMB Walkathon, but if you fancy a trot round Great Barr then entries are now being accepted and the run itself is on May 3rd.
The other event you’re not being asked to take part in, and you’ll thank your god or the random nature of the world that you aren’t. For four brave and stupid Brummies are going to drive a VW Golf all the way to Mongolia, and Charile Boorman’s sweaty face won’t be anywhere near them.
“Essentially we will be driving a knackered 1.2l Car from Goodwood Race course to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, completely unsupported and entirely for charity…”
They’re not off until July, but are setting up stall around Brum a few times before then and have a website with all the info on – tgbrally.com.
Apostrophe Catastrophes: Birmingham Bans Apostrophes
Old story you'll have seen by now, but I'm linking to this version for three reasons: 1) I like the idea of the website "Apostrophe Catastrophes" existing, 2) They link through to a Post article "rendered useless" by the fact it's got no apostrophes at all in the article – even in the examples of different ways to spell King's Heath. Either Paul Dale is having an elaborate joke, or the web site isn't quite working, and 3) I can do the "Birmingham:Its Not Shit" joke – "Brum owns 'Not Shit"… [link]
Flatpack 2009 – Trailers
The Flatpack Festival is coming sooner than you'd think (March 11-15th). So you'd better watch some trailers… [link]
Music be the food of Brum
The Birmingham Music Archive is a new project, and especially a web site that is trying to build up a huge collection of anything to do with music in Birmingham and how it has affected us Brummies. It’s entirely open to anything, so if you care more about Go Kart Mozart than ELO that’s equally important.
Did Bev Bevan help you carry a drunk mate down some stairs? The archive wants to know.
Dip in to the archive itself and see what you can add, see what you can find — I’ll be searching it for titbits daily. Did you know that Apatche Indian invented “bhangramuffin”? He’s opening a new bar soon I hear.
Birmingham City, they're art of course
A painting of Sam Bellamy from his début first team Blues appearance in about 1933, coupled with some lovely family history. [link]
Rob Hopkins, Transition Towns initiator, to visit Birmingham
Rob Hopkins, a key initiator of the Transition Movement, will be at the Changing Lifestyles exhibition/convergence event in Birmingham on Tue 3 and Wed 4 Feb 2009. Transition Towns (and cities!) are "tackling climate change and peak oil through people re-building resilience in their own communities." [link]
Twestival
What’s Twitter? Oh, go ask Philip Schofield.
What’s Twestival? It’s a Twitter – Festival (see what they did there?), personally I’d go for a Twiss Up.
On 12th February 2009 Birmingham will be joining over 100 confirmed cities around the world in a night of fund raising, partying, competitions and all round fun — based around Twitter. I’ll be running a tweetastic version of ‘Play Your Cards Right”
There are already some top raffle prizes, Wii’s, Bostin gear, artwork, specially recorded records – go look here.
For more details pop over to the offical site, or follow @brumtwestival on the Twitter.
It’s all in aid of charity:water, a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Selly Sausage hits top ten breakfast list
Beloved of hunover students, and those who chose to resemble them, the café on the Bristol Rd is very popular. Ben says: "It's official: the Selly sausage in Selly Oak is one of the top ten places in the UK to get breakfast." [link]
