It may be grey and drizzly outside right now, but Birmingham Light Festival will return to transform the city’s streets, squares and public space into a dazzling open-air gallery over Valentine’s weekend (February 12 to...
Calling all jazz cats! Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) is set to host a brand new jazz festival across the multi-venue building. Across two days (February 12 to 13, 2026), Eastside Jazz Festival brings together int...
We all need a reminder to laugh in the winter months. A major photographic exhibition of some of the UK’s comedy legends, past and present, opens at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in February. ‘I photograph comedia...
, people are being told to stay at home, and it’s starting to get more than a little blustery outside. It’s not quite the apocalypse, but Storm Goretti is ready to bombard the UK tonight (Thursday, January 8) with one o...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll have heard of Storm Goretti by now. An has been issued from this evening until Friday morning, between 8pm and 9am, with Birmingham in the middle of it. Expect snow, stron...
Whether money’s tight or not, you shouldn’t ever be stuck for things to do in Birmingham. There’s excitement all over the city, especially at these brilliant museums—many of which are actually free museums, but even tho...
Hidden away in one of Birmingham’s historic railway arches, I love Attic Brew Co.’s . Not just for its many “hop-forward pale ales and IPAs”, or its unique project ageing various beers in red wine barrels, but also as t...
UPDATE: A further Amber warning has been issued with the largest snowfalls most likely to be across Wales and parts of the Midlands. For anyone wondering about the weather improving, don’t worry, this cold snap l...
There’s a good reason that chicken tikka masala is considered the UK’s national dish. Britain loves curry. And if there’s one city that loves it more than others, it’s Birmingham—birthplace of not one, but two iconic cu...
William Shakespeare is as strongly associated with as Black Sabbath is with Birmingham. So when it came to filming Chloe Zhao’s new film ‘Hamnet’, which follows the relationship between the Bard and his wife, Agnes, af...