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Thomasina Myers’ Mexican chain, Wahaca, have kicked off their weeklong celebration of Dia de los Muertos – the Mexican Day of the Dead. An insistent ‘celebration of life’, a slogan that adorns the walls, the custom menus, and the memory wall on which you can commemorate your loved ones, this is by no means a morbid event – and we went along to check it out. To mark this Mexican festival, Wahaca have not just hung bright banners and customised…
National property consultants, Bruton Knowles, has launched a new charity partnership with Cancer Research UK, with a target of £30,000 to raise over the next two years. To raise as much money as possible, Bruton Knowles has internally recruited a Charity Champion. Based in the Cardiff office on Newport Road, Colin Caunter, Lands Rights Specialist, will be responsible for spearheading the fundraising initiatives within his team, organising events ranging from creative bake offs to sponsored sleep outs and charity auctions….
BBC Countryfile Magazine are inviting readers to send in their suggestions of the very best of the British countryside for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2019. Nominations open from today, giving the people of Wales the chance to celebrate the counties’ mighty landmarks, outstanding national parks, beautiful nature reserves and finest rural pubs. This year there will also be a new category – Village of the Year – which is sure to be hotly contested. Place your nominations at www.countryfile.com/awards….
On Tuesday November 6 – five days before the nation commemorates the end of World War One – a very special event takes place at The Princess Royal Theatre in Port Talbot. Hundreds of older people from across South Wales who attend the Goldies Cymru Sing & Smile fun daytime sessions plus primary school children from local schools will take part in a day which will be based on the commemoration of WW1. Many of the attendees will wear costumes based on 100 years ago….
BBC Gardeners’ World magazine have announced the shortlist for the People’s Choice Award 2018 – which includes a garden in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. Launched earlier this year, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine’s Garden of the Year competition, sponsored by Flight Centre, asked readers to nominate their private gardens to win the coveted accolade. Nearly 500 entries were whittled down to a shortlist of 11, from which Wayne Amiel’s Jamaican inspired South London garden was named the Judge’s Choice. Now, all…
The Italian Film Festival returns to Cardiff with UK premieres focusing on Naples and some of the best Italian animation. Back for the fourth year, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff (IFFC) offers yet another impressive array of films hosted once again in Cardiff’s well-known Chapter Arts Centre between 16 and 18 November. “The variety brought this year by seven independent feature films, five shorts and a selection of some of the best work of Italian animation will delight our audience…
Those interested in underwater archaeology, historic shipwrecks and coastal tales of disaster and bravery are in for a bitter-sweet treat this October. In celebration of Visit Wales’s Year of the Sea, Cadw has today (26 October), launched a brand new digital experience, which will allow users to re-live the infamous Great Storm of 25 – 26 October 1859. Available through the existing Cadw app, the new digital package uses audio-storytelling and augmented-reality technology in a steampunk design, to bring a…
Our reporter Emma Louise Smart had the joy of seeing Robert Plant play at the Wales Millennium Centre. Growing up, my mother was obsessed with Led Zepplin. Robert Plant was her first love, and as first loves have a habit of lasting a lifetime (musically, anyway), she still plays their records round the house on hard rotation. This meant that growing up, I was pretty obsessed with Led Zeppelin too, and it was with an entirely childish smugness that I…
Our columnist, Timothy Wynne met with Matt Johnson to talk about why we should engage more with local businesses. I talked to TV’s Matt Johnson about the power of coffee and why working in retail sets you up for life. As an icon moves into the digital age, yell.com reinvents the classic heavy weight Yellow Pages into an app with the potential to simplify our lives. With Cardiff locals emerging as the nation’s most avid newspaper readers – and Yell’s…
A new coffee shop, Bitelicious, has opened in Duke Street Arcade, Cardiff. It offers a combination of a coffee shop, confectionary and bistro and prides itself on providing tasty treats but with healthy, no-sugar-added ingredients as well as gluten free options. With an appropriate opening time around Halloween, several product names have taken inspiration from Dracula himself such as Dracula’s omelette, Dracula’s bites, and Dracula’s cookies. With a varied menu that includes a traditional English breakfast as well as traditional…
