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Birmingham Arts - Arts and entertainment guide supported by the city's performance venues. Theatre, dance and exhibitions are searchable by date and by venue.
Collective Art Noise - Company involved with community arts projects. Much of the work is public art using a variety of media. Includes a portfolio of previous projects.
The Drum - Arts centre dedicated to promoting African, Asian and Caribbean art and cultural activities. Diary of exhibitions and performances.
The Dead Good Film Company - Production company specialising in the creation of low budget, comedy horror films. Includes movie summaries and production diary.
Millennium Point - Includes Thinktank museum of science and discovery, University of First Age, Technology Innovation Centre and a cinema. Information for businesses and visitors, guide to facilities and an events guide.
Birmingham Alive! - A guide to concerts, gigs, theatre, and what's going on in and around the city.
Stories From the Web - Read stories, e-mail authors, write reviews and stories. Programme managed by Birmingham Library and Information Services. Includes information about local young writers/readers clubs and meetings.
Central Stage School - Ballet, jazz, drama, tap and singing lessons for 3 to 16 year olds. Includes lesson details, prices and location. Located in Digbeth.
IMAX Cinema - Includes programme schedule and ticketing information.
Robannas Studios - Recording and rehearsal studios.
Pinocchio Fancy Dress Hire - Offers a wide range of costumes for both children and adults.
ArtSites Birmingham - Listings of arts events and venues.
Fiveways - An entertainment venue consisting of bars, a cinema and restaurants in the Fiveways and Broad Street area of the city. Contains full venue details and information about how to get there.
Birmingham Night - Features information and user submitted reviews about the city's pubs, clubs and restaurants. Contains a venue search facility and ideas for a good night out.
Birmingham Food - Articulate and insightful reviews of restaurants in the Birmingham area to help you find a new favourite place to eat out.
Birmingham Libraries - Details of library services. Includes opening times, catalogue, and events.
The NEC Group - Group representing the National Exhibition Centre (NEC), National Indoor Arena (NIA) International Convention Centre (ICC) and Symphony Hall. Site provides venue plans, what's on and an on-line booking facility.
StarCity - Entertainment complex, including a cinema, restaurants, and fitness facilities.
Birmingham University Film Society - Schedules and film resources.
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Arts and Entertainment "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Arts and Entertainment "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Arts and Entertainment What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Arts and Entertainment Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Arts and Entertainment What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Arts and Entertainment "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Arts and Entertainment "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. -- Marcus Aurelius blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Arts and Entertainment The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Arts and Entertainment "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Arts and Entertainment My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. -- Abraham Lincoln But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Arts and Entertainment "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. -- Voltaire Arts and Entertainment The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Arts and Entertainment I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Arts and Entertainment There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Arts and Entertainment It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Arts and Entertainment
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