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    A popular country music night in Cardiff brings fans together to make new friends

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    Local Welsh art projected on station as part of a huge Light of Winter trail

    Author and storyteller launches typewriter-for-hire service in Cardiff market

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    Two chefs to open a restaurant after the decline in Wales’ hospitality industry

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    How Welsh musicians are using social media to keep the spirit of bilingual music alive

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    Training project that aims to make screen sector more accessible gets funding boost

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    Local yoga instructor sees a rise in men embracing yoga classes to improve wellbeing

    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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    Netball participation among adults is growing as women seek a sense of community

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    Fibroid advocate takes the stage at Everywoman Festival to raise awareness of this common condition

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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    ‘Men and women are not built the same’: Fighting for female-friendly fitness gear

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    The last act? Wales’ arts sector faces an uncertain future in challenging times

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    Fashion crisis unwrapped: The ‘rental revolution’ for Welsh consumers’ wardrobes

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Cardiff Character: Cindy Howells

The National Museum’s palaeontology curator talks about daily life in the department, displays, and of course, dinosaurs
44-year-old Ben Rive, a man with a brown stubbly beard, stands smiling, facing the camera, in front of the Penarth Pier Pavilion.
Culture

‘Covid-19 pandemic showed me the fragility of my dream job running an indie cinema’

Part-time indie cinema manager Ben Rive almost quit his day job to become a full-time cinephile, but the pandemic has left him glad he didn’t
The Millennium Centre will play host to a series of events
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Fringe festival underway at Tiger bay

Tiger Bay Presents sees a programme of events put on at the Millennium Centre, to celebrate Cardiff’s ‘most multicultural corner’
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Culture

Welsh band Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons release new album following lockdown

New album by Welsh band saves rock industry, and doesn't let Covid-19 steal the show
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Culture

Young curators want BBC to break tradition in new exhibition

BBC 100 in Wales explores the history between the BBC and Welsh audiences, while looking into the future of broadcasting for younger generations
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Culture

How the escapist exhibition ‘Made from Home’ aims to make sense of lockdown

How Cardiff M.A.D.E’s digital art exhibition supports mental health and the local creative community during the pandemic.
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Aquaria drag show comes to Glee Club

Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10, Aquaria, will be making a stop in Cardiff’s Glee Club on her Winner’s Tour
Polly Amorous doing her makeup before the show.
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‘If you’d told me 10 years ago that I’d be a full-time drag queen, I would have laughed in your face’

Cardiff’s up-and-coming drag queen describes how the pandemic encouraged her to ditch making martinis for makeup brushes
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