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Terry Grimley: 'Kegging' clip showed bad error of judgment

According to the current issue of Time magazine, Britain's youth is unhappy, unloved and out of control. But maybe they're just having a laugh. Evidently that's what BBC3 thinks, to judge from an extraordinary incident on the youth channel's Lily Allen and Friends last week. Read

Textile art goes on display at the Waterhall

Terry Grimley samples a survey of contemporary textile art at the Waterhall. Read

Birmingham's long road to renewal

It is 20 years since an international symposium met to hammer out a vision for the future of Birmingham city centre. Terry Grimley looks back. Read

Birmingham Opera Company in frame for national award

Earlier this year it was fighting for its life when the Arts Council axed its grant - now Birmingham Opera Company has been shortlisted for a national award. Read

Ex Cathedra celebrates 40 years

Birmingham chamber choir Ex Cathedra is embarking on an ambitious three-year programme to mark its 40th birthday. Read

Guillemots man writes for Ex Cathedra

Birmingham chamber choir Ex Cathedra has commissioned a new piece, combining Jewish and Islamic performers, from pop musician Fyfe Dangerfield. Read

Review: Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at the Birmingham Hippodrome

It takes a certain nerve to bring a version of The Nutcracker to the Hippodrome, where Sir Peter Wright's classic 1990 production is more or less the house show. Read

Forgotten Birmingham puppets under the hammer

Puppets made by the Cannon Hill Puppet Theatre are to be auctioned off to raise cash for the refurbishment of the Mac. Read

Review: One Night In November, at B2 Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

Intense local interest in the subject led to Alan Pollock's new play selling out before it opened, and neither the play nor its production sells the city short. Read

Happy accident results in a fine collaboration

Composer Kevin Volans talks to Terry Grimley about an unusual art and music collaboration at Ikon Gallery. Read

The original gang show

A classic Jamaican gangster film from the 1970s has been reborn as a hit stage musical. Terry Grimley looks at the second coming of The Harder They Come. Read

Review: Fiddler On The Roof, at Malvern Festival Theatre

Gremlins struck twice at the sound system on Monday's first night, adding 15 minutes to the performance. Read

Terry Grimley: As Descartes meant to say, iPod therefore I am

Having recently had a significant birthday, I have found myself entering a new phase of life as the proud owner of an iPod. Read

Bringing banknotes back into the fold

Terry Grimley looks at exhibition exploring the often-overlooked art of the banknote. Read

Sticks, stones and human isolation

Terry Grimley reviews exhibitions devoted to one of the 20th century's greatest sculptors, Alberto Giacometti, and contemporary artist James Coleman. Read

Review: The Lady From The Sea, at Birmingham Rep

The Rep's main stage has been patchy in recent years, but this production of an Ibsen rarity is a stunning return to form. Read

Review: The Mother Ship, at Birmingham Rep

Teenagers Eliot and Gerry come from a family which has been hit by multiple tragedies. Not only have they lost both parents - most recently their father to cancer - but Gerry has suffered brain damage as a child in a near-drowning incident. Read

Japan's new artistic generation

Terry Grimley enjoys the humour in an exhibition of new Japanese art in Wolverhampton. Read

Borodin Quartet makes an art out of longevity

Formed by four young students at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1945, the Borodin String Quartet is still going strong into its seventh decade. Read

Birmingham Opera show goes on after £330,000 grant

A threat of closure hanging over Birmingham Opera Company has been lifted after the organisation settled its differences with the Arts Council, which has restored a £330,000 funding package. Read

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