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LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DISCOUNTS
What can be said about the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band that hasn’t already been said? Nothing? Okay, in which case, let’s dance! Celebrating 50 years since the release of the seminal album, Pepperland translates the music into movement at the whim of main man, Mark Morris. Who he? Only the guy The New York Times calls the 'most successful and influential choreographer alive'. Featuring musical re-arrangements of choons you may have heard once or twice (With a Little Help From My Friends, Penny Lane, etc) the crisp costuming and set design psychedelics channel the swinging 60’s and all the associated Beatle-related hysteria. If you don’t remember the Sixties — because you were there, maaan — or because you’re far too young, Pepperland's at the Hippodrome on March 26 and 27 and we've secured a helluva discount. If you're up for buying four tickets then the total fee will be £60, instead of £118. Follow this link, select four "Fab Four" tickets (coloured pink) from the Stalls or the Front Circle, and you'll be paying just £15 each for a top TOP seat. The discount is automatically applied after the "add to basket" and optional "charity donation" stages of the booking process.
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SET PHASERS TO DRUNK
Pint of Science festival comes around each May and aims to break barriers and get the chat going between scientists and the general public. This year, the event, ahem, blasts off with warm up act and NASA astronaut Tony Antonelli, who has clocked more active hours in space than we have on our iPhone screen time. This is your chance to ask what you’ve always wanted to about that vacuumous, all-enveloping void above us. Make it a good one. Hang with Tony on Feb 18. Tickets from £18.
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Venue: All Greek Street Food, 33 Stephenson St, B2 4BH; Facebook
Choice: The Classic Greek (£5.50) Chooser: Larisa (co-owner)
There are six "House Rules" emblazoned on the wall of All Greek Street Food and like the badboys of Birmingham that we are, we obeyed none of them.
1. Come With Friend and Family (went alone). 2. Put Your Phone Away (took this photo). 3. Sit Back and Enjoy (sat on a stall) 4. Talk to the Person Next to You (absolutely no chance, mate) 5. Appreciate the Small Things because they are the Big Things (no, you've lost me) 6. Come Back Tomorrow (didn't). And if we're banned for failing to tick a single box we will be absolutely devastated because this place is bone fide beaut. Why, oh why are we (pretty much all) spending £5.50 on Pret lunches when this charming, family-owned 12-seater is filling tums at the same ticket price and tastes a gazillion times fresher? It's a simple set up (there are more house rules than there are main menu items) with chicken or pork gyros, perfectly charred souvlaki, loukaniko (traditional pork sausage) or pork belly, all on warm, fluffy pittas. Veg and vegan options are also heavily in the mixer at what is a surprisingly light on the stomach and utterly return-to-able gem. Seek it out behind the Midland Metro fencing on Stephenson Street, because they really don't deserve to be hidden away behind fencing.
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GIVE THE GUY
A HAND
Collar Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings from the Royal Collection Trust, and ask him which of the dozens of Leonardo da Vinci sketches, currently on loan to BMAG, is the most breath-taking. He might make a beeline to this one — it's where he took us. The anatomical accuracy of Leonardo’s goose-quilled drawings has rarely been surpassed in any form, with many still using them to teach surgeons today. Here his dissections of the hand provide a multi-layered investigation of bones and muscles, approached with the eye of an engineer or architect. The exhibition also includes A sheet of miscellaneous studies which includes details invisible to the naked eye. Because he was that kind of frightening genius. The exhibition will never return to Birmingham. Never is a long time. Until May 6, free.
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FEB COMEDY:
PAUL MCCAFFREY
In a parallel universe, Paul McCaffrey is as big as Michael McIntyre. Think that’s a bold claim? See him live. The guy is a room-destroyer. The Winchester native is one of the modern greats when it comes to observational comedy, partly because he can spin potentially mundane topics – car boot sales, holidays abroad to visit the “old town” with your partner, celebrity fitness influencers – into pure stomach ache-inducing gold. McCaffrey also has a face for comedy. One disbelieving look with those big, round eyes evokes memories of a young Ronnie Barker, while his comic timing and ability to leave audiences gasping with nothing more than a throwaway glance has been safely tucked away as vintage Eric Morecambe. That big TV break will invariably happen. In the meantime, book your tickets (£12, March 8).
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