Birmingham students to host Peaky Blinders fundraiser for the homeless

Original web page at Birmingham students to host Peaky Blinders fundraiser for the homeless A group of students at Birmingham City University are taking the Midlands back to the 1920’s next month with a charity fundraising event in Birmingham City Centre. Inspired by the hit BBC series ‘Peaky Blinders’, the themed charity evening will feature…

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Birmingham: U.K.’s Second City Rises

Original web page at Birmingham: U.K.’s Second City Rises The gritty Birmingham of the post-World War I gangster television series “Peaky Blinders” still exists on the small screen, but in real life, Britain’s second city has been on the up and up. About 120 miles north of London, the city was the heart of industrial…

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Your local Blue Orange Theatre – upcoming shows

Most of you will know that the JQ has its very own theatre on Great Hampton Street, the Blue Orange Theatre, reminiscent of the kind of small scale but high quality theatre you might encounter in the cooler parts of New York.  Want to know what’s coming upon September?  Read on. WEDNESDAY 3 to SATURDAY 6…

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The Inferno Kid @ AE Harris

There’s drama to be enjoyed at local venue @ A E Harris.  According to their website: ‘The Inferno Kid was once professional wrestling’s brightest star – a risk-taking daredevil both inside the ring and out. Today he is disabled, destitute and all but forgotten by the wrestling world. He is only 36. Now the living…

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