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OWLS ARE SO LAST YEAR
Artist and designer, Amrit Singh is so hot right now — in fact, it's a challenge greater than navigating Five Ways to use social media and not see him. Something else that's about to occupy your oculars? The Big Sleuth — more than 100 individually designed bears randomly appearing across the region, of course. Over night on Sunday, the 165cm multi-coloured mites will be dispatched from Sutton Coldfield to Sandwell and this particular crop is looking all sorts of preeeetty. Working with the team behind last year's owl invasion for the first time, Amrit's bright, textured 'The Ink Detective' includes a phoenix — representing the rebirth of Brum and its artistic scene — and you'll be able to spy it around Brindleyplace. Also on duty, Milan Topalovic and Temper have got bears to call their own. As well as being a term for a private detective, sleuth is the collective noun for a group of bears, so now you know.
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Venue: Caneat, 1397 Pershore road, Stirchley High Street, B30 2JR; Twitter
Choice: Kimchi Jjigae (£7) Chooser: Dom Clarke (owner)
You know that mate of yours who keeps insisting Stirchley is the place to be these days and you're having none of it? Bit of bad news. Stirchley is the place to be these days. Following Loaf, Birmingham Brewing Co, Stirchley Wines, Wild Cat Tap and the newly brilliant British Oak, Dom Clarke (of The Church and Peel & Stone fame) has opened Caneat Cafe, bang on the High Street. Having personally spent seven weeks working on the interior, with MJM Bespoke (who helped craft OPM and Quarter Horse Coffee) it opened last week with menus looking more than a little like this. The freshest yet richest of quiches was gallantly gazumped out of first place by a kimchi jjiagae (rib and belly pork stew) that rhythmically wallops each taste bud, one-by-one with sweet, sour and spicy blows like Manny Pacquiao on a speed bag. Also trading blows in the broth is a deep blend of honey, tofu, courgettes and — the chewy thing you've fallen in love with but can't quite work out what it is — rice cakes. Going against our usual savoury-worshipping advice, save room for dessert, all made on the premises. The salted caramel choccie cake tastes as good as it looks and, frankly, it looks like Elysium. Buy property here.
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GET CULTURED,
GET CARDED
That affable bunch at Brumpic have done gone launched a card what'll bring you culture this very day. For £12.95 a year, access offers and exclusive events at more than 30 of the region’s tippety-toppity destinations using your Culture Card. Think deals as mixed as 2-for-1 tickets for the RSC's The Play’s the Thing, 25% off at Glee Club, and 20% off BMAG membership. And because we're nerdy like that, we can tell you that by visiting the Culture Card partner venues once each throughout the year, you'd save north of 200 notes on tickets and purchases. You can get two cards for £20, and the first 200 holders will receive a Brumpic pin badge, from that ever so clever Pin Game lot. More
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FILM— SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Poor Andrew Garfield – in the last, aborted attempt at a Spider-Man series, he was a great Peter Parker trapped in a pair of terrible films. Young Tom Holland is luckier, delivering an excellent lead in a film that’s actually interested in his character. We skip the spider-bite business we’ve seen before, instead getting straight into Peter’s nascent superhero career, with the webslinger mentored (and restricted) by Robert Downey Junior’s Tony Stark. Spritely, funny, and with one narrative turn that got a huge audience reaction in the screening we attended, this is a blockbuster to savour. Michael Keaton’s great as the villain, too. Marvel has delivered once again. Times & trailer
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