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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

Five decades of Welsh photography in Ffotogallery exhibition

Ffotogallery’s Marian Delyth exhibition celebrates 50 years of her photography, part of the FfotoCymru festival’s focus on female photographers in Wales
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Work Life

Creating a micro-pub: ‘What could go wrong?’

Ahead of its five year anniversary, Cathays Beer House owner Martin Holmes discusses the quirky micro-pub and his journey creating it
An image of a house with cracked paint by Emma Blackmore
Magazine

Alt.Cardiff Magazine: The Failing System Issue

This issue highlights a universal credit system failing its claimants in South Wales. Plus an interview with Aoife Doherty about her new sustainable stationery business
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Food

Cathays vegan café battles rising food poverty with a community fridge and non-profit model

With one in five people living in poverty in Wales, vegan café Wild Thing commits to tackling Cardiff’s rising food insecurity this winter
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Business

Cathays tattoo studio set to expand

Don’t worry, Valkyrie Tattoo Studio aren’t shutting their doors for good - they’re only moving two minutes down the road
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Dragon Pro needs more female wrestlers

Local wrestling academy would like more women in their main event slots
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Fix broken items at the Repair Café

Grab a cup of tea or coffee while volunteer repairers fix your broken items for free
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Food

Father and son team open second cafe

The duo have opened a second Sorrento’s on Salisbury Road, Cathays
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Cathays chapels get ready for service

Cardiff Council hope to raise £100k for vital work on chapels
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In depth: Libraries fight for survival

Impending cuts to public services threaten standalone libraries
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