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Urban Walk: Art Deco tour sheds new light

IT’S pointless trying to work around these autumnal evenings when darkness draws so early.Read

A Walk in the Park: Highgate Park

GIVEN the extraordinary number of parks in and around Birmingham, the biggest frustration I have with this column is that I can only ever be in one place at once.Read

Film Review: A Christmas Carol 3D - The Imax Experience (PG)

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DON’T tell Scrooge – but Christmas is coming 48 days early this year!Read

Music: Ambitious Muse reveal stadium-sized show

MUSE are back – and this time they mean business!Read

Music: Seasick Steve ready for Birmingham appearance

AT the age of 68, and having sold 250,000 copies of his breakthrough album, Seasick Steve feels he’s entitled to be a little bit contrary.Read

Comedy: Bill Bailey brings his comic's guide to the orchestra to Birmingham

BILL Bailey’s musical nous is evident to anyone who has ever watched him air-guitaring or drumming his way through an intro as a former captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.Read

Light at the end of the War

EVERY year during autumn, the Mail’s Days Out column offers a suggestion as to how you can mark Remembrance Sunday.Read

Daniel O'Donnell is coming to Birmingham NIA

IRISH singing superstar Daniel O’Donnell is set for another sell-out success in Birmingham despite a warning that many fans are strapped for cash.Read

Toyah Willcox in Vampire Rocks at the Alexandra Theatre

BRUMMIE singer and actress Toyah Willcox is back on home soil tonight when she stars in Vampires Rock at the Alexandra Theatre.Read

Ex-Oasis star ‘Bonehead’ on life with The Vortex

HE spent eight years in Britain’s biggest band – but Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs is going back to basics with his new outfit.Read

Legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb shares Birmingham Town Hall stage with four of his sons

IT’S a family affair for legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb who on Sunday shares the Birmingham Town Hall stage with four of his sons.Read

Felicity Kendal reflects on today's sad world

IT is hard to imagine actress Felicity Kendal indignant but she is – about carrots of all things.Read

Liberty Lies: Attracting encouraging attention in the Midlands

Although the current line-up has been together for only a relatively short time Liberty Lies have already attracted some pretty encouraging attention from media throughout the Midlands.Read

Matthew Bourne wants to live forever in Dorian Gray

TRYING to define a typical audience for one of Matthew Bourne’s dance shows is difficult, because it often looks as though a random cross-section of the public has been rounded up from the pavement outside the theatre.Read

Terry Alderton performing at Birmingham's Glee Club as part of first tour

COMEDIAN Terry Alderton has been performing on the stand-up circuit for nearly 20 years, so it’s perhaps surprising that the Perrier Award-nominated jokester has only now decided to tour.Read

Film Review: Bright Star (PG)

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ANY film about poetry ought to lift your imagination... and have you running to your bookshelves for more inspiration upon your return home.Read

Film review: 1 Day (15)

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IN THE end, after all the controversy, no Birmingham cinema is screening this film based on a real-life turf war between two rival city gangs.Read

Film Review: The Men Who Stare At Goats (15)

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GEORGE Clooney and Ewan McGregor are two actors with enough underwhelming movies on their CVs to sink a battleship.Read

Music Live celebrates tenth anniversary at the NEC

A MAJOR music event is celebrating its tenth anniversary at the NEC.Read

Film review: Jennifer's Body (15)

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FRESH from draping herself across Transformers 2, Megan Fox is back... this time as a horror film’s sacrificial victim who comes back to eat teenage boys for breakfast.Read