Where history sleeps
Richard Lutz gets lost in Shakespeare country.
Skin deep and forever young (ish)
Cosmetics, creams and powders. Sheilagh Matheson experiments to discover what works and what doesn’t.
May plays her Trump card
Does Theresa May have the temperament and inter-personal skills to lead successful Brexit negotiations, asks Steve Beauchampé?
Squeeky brum time
Andy Munro celebrates Blues avoiding relegation.
Fightin’ words
Will Mapplebeck is on the election trail to boredom.
The past is another country but some things never change
Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion
The magnificent seven
Villa’s final away game of the season saw a one-nil defeat at Blackburn. Dave Woodhall reports.
Top half beckons
Terry Wills talks about Albion’s prospects for the rest of the season.
Ort Gallery celebrate new membership scheme with exhibition
Balsall Heath art programme aims to help local community.
The Mayoral Race: Hustings Heaven
Richard Lutz joins the throng to listen to the six candidates for West Midlands mayor.
Letting Jeremy be Jeremy might be a bad idea
Will Mapplebeck wonders aloud about Jezza and his inability to find the killer comment.
Women mean business
New networking group to support Birmingham businesswomen.
Ask Howard: He answers the big questions
More hard-hitting answers from the Man in the Know.
Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot
Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.
Metallique polished
Cityscape artist collection for city gallery.
Entries wanted for hospice golf day
Former West Brom star supports Birmingham St Mary’s corporate fundraiser.
One of city’s oldest community centres to get facelift
£25,000 boost for historic venue.
Review: All or Nothing
Stephen Pennell enjoys a night of reminiscing on and off stage.
Chubby British Foreign Minister hauled off US plane – exclusive
Sir Howard Elston, our aeronautics reporter, explains how BoJo grappled with US mile-high justice.
I Want, I Want: “a gallery of tomorrow’s dreams…”
Richard Lutz enters the digital world of new tech artists.
Gini out of the bottle
Will Mapplebeck reports on why inequality has levelled out – despite what the Left says.
Root problems and other tales
Richard Lutz painstakingly looks back in anguish at the week that was and a spring that will be.
What’s the big idea?
DanceXchange and Birmingham Weekender launch The Big Idea 2017
New partners for Birmingham St Mary’s hospice
Hotel tie-up revealed.
Beached
Andy Munro on Blues’ pointless trip to Brighton.
Sir Howard’s Big Bumper Quiz Bonanza
He’ll answer your most tricky questions.
The banks that like to say theft- chapter 46
Richard Lutz on the Treasury and an industry fined £75 billion for fraud and stealing from its customers.
CBSO Spring Classics: “..a basket of favourites…”
Richard Lutz takes his pew for a Friday night that heralds a new season.
Warwick Arts Centre submits plans for major redevelopment
Three year project to create visionary complex.
EU leaves Britain
Sir Howard Elston, this website’s diplomatic editor, with the inside story of the Big Break Up.