Southampton will be turning Japanese in March when Minami Con goes Back to School to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The convention started back in the 1990s with just four video rooms showing anime, a quiz, masquerade, some karaoke, artist alley, dealer’s room and a games room, but has grown into a themed events-focused showcase with…
The leading pop-culture event organiser in the UK, MCM Comic Con has four events lined up in the UK this year… in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Scotland. First up is Birmingham, taking place from 23-24 March at the NEC, which is followed by London in May, Manchester in July and Glasgow in September. At the…
The Society of Independent Brewers has drafted in a new sponsor for BeerX UK 2019, which takes place at the Exhibition Centre Liverpool from 13-14 March 2019. SIBA will team up with tech-based keg and cask specialist Kegstar for the event, the biggest trade event in the UK for beer and brewing businesses, attracting thousands…
What an egg-stremely interesting idea… creating a giant golden egg as the symbol of the transformation of a town on the move to escape the threat of destruction. The golden ovoid is a sauna, Solar Egg, created by Swedish “co-operative economic association” Riksbyggen and artistic duo Mats Birgert and Lars Bergstrom and installed in Sweden’s…
Craft Beer Rising returns to The Old Truman Brewery next month… and it’s promising to be even beerier and cheerier than before! With more breweries and live music than ever, greater variety of street food in the new Foxes Den, more seating, a new beer hall layout, plus cider producers, live talks and much more……
An opportunity to celebrate the UK pub industry’s innovations, trends, products, services and people… Pub 19 brings key trade associations, business leaders, decision makers, pub owners, entrepreneurs and pub companies together to offer advice and solutions to those in the UK pub industry. It all takes place from 5-6 February at London’s Olympia, where the…
It could be the largest gathering of Power Ranger ‘guests’ ever assembled in the UK… and it’s coming to Comic Con Liverpool in March this year. Taking place from 8-10 March, the event promises to assemble no fewer than 12 Power Rangers in the Exhibition Centre, plus two baddies from the franchise. The mighty morphin’…
The south-west’s biggest and best anime and manga event returns to Plymouth in February for the sixth year… but now it’s staying for two days. Taking place at the city’s Future Inn from 9-10 February, Animangapop promises to be a non-stop action-packed weekend filled to the brim with exciting new things to see, do, experience,…
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, simply the greatest… known as Ali. Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali would have turned 77 today… but just under 30 months since he passed away on 3 June 2016 it’s not his skill in the ring that’s so greatly missed… it’s all the other qualities…
It’s weird how dressing a woman in stretch black lame can elevate her to a whole new dimension. Eartha Kitt was already a highly successful singer and acclaimed actress when she took over the role of Catwoman from Julie Newmar for the third series of the 1960s TV series Batman, starring Adam West and Burt…
