Lime bikes: a love affair
The West Midlands has fallen for the emerald-coloured vehicles. Will it last?
Culture
Locking antlers: the great Christmas market debate
A wonderful life or a dismal one? Two writers set out their stall
A pig-headed search for Cannock’s strangest myth
Half man, half beast, he stalks the landscapes at night
We produced Britain’s first Asian soap. Was it washed up too soon?
Remembering the show that no one remembers
‘All about the handbag’: How Birmingham’s gay scene turned against its leader
Lawrence Barton's era of the Gay Village is ending. How successful was it?
Cobs shmobs: in defence of Joe Lycett’s BMAG show
Forget the culture wars, our biggest gallery is drastically underfunded
The ale king of England
Yards from the castle where Offa once conquered these lands, George Greenaway has made Tamworth great again
Keiran Goddard's Birmingham shaped him. Why did he feel so uneasy claiming it?
'Fuck it; it's not like I'm taking the place of someone else who’d otherwise be on the radio talking about Shard End'
Spirit of Pakistan celebrates British Pakistanis. Why do some of them want it cancelled?
A row has erupted over £30,000 of council funding and how involved Pakistan should be in a festival about… Pakistan
Where is Birmingham’s buzz?
The suburbs appear to have stolen the crown from town
The ‘piss troll strategy’, a Brummie novel on the Booker longlist, and town vs. the suburbs
A writer’s edition by Kate
In 1984, Richard Davis was rudderless in Moseley. Then he picked up a camera
The photographer is known for capturing 'Madchester'. But his beginnings are all Brum
When Brum’s indie bands (briefly) ruled the world
What b-came of B-Town?
The art of the wheel
Laisul Hoque came to Birmingham with a plan: learn to drive, make a film. Simultaneously
What’s going on at the Royal Shakespeare Company?
‘You can only bend the identity of the company so much before it starts to snap’