YEARS ago that bit of Corporation Street which joins Steelhouse Lane used to be a bustling sort of place, not least because of the much-missed Hawkins Cafe Bar with its laser show, dry ice, throbbing music and trendy revellers.Read
RSC president Prince Charles attended the 50th Birthday Gala Performance of Macbeth last Saturday after the Queen had officially opened the new theatre only two months ago.Read
SEEING the tasteful black and white exterior with the promise of ‘Traditional Fish and Chips’, I eagerly took my chances at Parkes having passed this shop by in its former life as the surely over-optimistically titled Five Star Fish & Chip Bar.Read
THERE are certain restaurants that, for me, are default settings – places that readily spring to mind when I want to eat a particular type of food or imbibe a particular sort of atmosphere.Read
SEVERAL of the doors at the recently-opened Loco Lounge in Kings Heath are what interior designers would call “distressed”. Perhaps they’d eaten the food.Read
THE sun was shining like a long lost jewel on Monday – so I thought I’d celebrate the spring equinox with my wife by taking her closer to Earth’s golden energy source.Read
THERE’S a saying in life that you only get what you pay for – and that’s exactly why we’ve tended to avoid going to a Beefeater on a Sunday in the past.Read
There would be the danger, of course, that people might mistake such a comment as an unwarranted and unpleasantly evocative disclosure about the speaker’s personal grooming arrangements.Read
