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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

    AI Generated image of an empty theatre

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

    A cluttered wardrobe that could use the help of rental fashion

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

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Social Life

The drag queen Polly Amorous is dressed in white fur and holds a large book.
Culture

Review: The Lion, The B!tch and the Wardrobe

A queer alternative to C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia takes its audience on a hilarious and heart-warming journey
a college of three pictures of colourful mocktails. Wales drinking culture.
Long Reads

Cardiff works to change its reputation as a boozy capital

Wales is renowned for its drinking culture. Now authorities and organisations in Cardiff are taking action to form a better...
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Social Life

Getting creative to avoid loneliness through the financial crisis

A number of people within the UK fear that they will experience loneliness during the cost of living crisis due to limiting their socialising costs
Social Life

The Cardiff non-profit events company combating domestic abuse

Join Llais Yn Erbyn Trais on their mission against domestic abuse as they host their second event at Tiny Rebel this November
A selection of brightly coloured zines
Social Life

Cardiff Zine Fest is set to hit Chapter Arts Centre

The first-of-its-kind festival aims to rival other UK cities’ similar events through its celebration of illustrators and zine makers
Culture

‘Poetry gave me a voice I didn’t know I had back then’

Local Cardiff poet David Hanlon tells us how putting pen to paper can really change your life
Painting pottery at a craft session can improve mindful wellbeing
Social Life

Adults seek creative hobbies to relieve stress of daily life and to switch off

Pottery and jewellery-making have seen a rise in interest from adults looking for mindful escapism and improved wellbeing
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Culture

Rare cabaret marquee makes its dazzling debut in Cardiff Castle

For the first time, the city is hosting three Christmas shows in its historic castle grounds performed in a handmade tent called a Spiegeltent
Social Life

Splott cafe offers help with the ‘pressing’ need to talk more openly about death 

The UK urgently needs to talk about death more, a new survey says. A Splott cafe is facilitating these tricky conversations for the people of south Wales
Social Life

‘No, thank you guys’: Meet the man who skipped partying with Oasis for football

Allan Parkins has as many stories as records in stock at Cardiff’s Kellys Records, including anecdotes featuring Oasis and Bruce Springsteen
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