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Adam Care is on the lookout for the next Tom Brady in Roath Park

Run by volunteers in partnership with a local church, Home Access is more than just your average charity organisation

A venture in Pontcanna that is trying to revive the handmade industry.

Student's exhibition brings former factory back to life

A night of ghost hunting is not to everyones tastes.  But for Jim Cowan it has become a way of life.

The crisscrossed terraces of Plasnewydd are not immediately where you’d expect to find a hidden gem like the Rose Street flea market. Adam Care went in search of a little-known local landmark...

Riverside Farmers’ Market has become a feature of many a Cardiff weekend and there are few better ways to spend a Sunday morning than a leisurely coffee on the Fitzhamon Embankment.

Liz Day profiles the Cardiff Bay Brawlers, Roller Derby exponents and one of Cardiff's fastest growing sports teams.

It seems that folk music is making a comeback. No longer do we think of dreadlocked hippies singing protest songs. Folk is re-inventing itself as a dynamic and popular genre.

Four years ago, award-winning poet Mab Jones stood up to perform her first gig at Cardiff’s Shot in the Dark, City Road. Three gigs later she found herself in the semi-finals for Radio 4’s National Poetry Slam, and shortly after that, in the semi-finals of the Funny Women awards.

“It’s nice to be home,” said performer Vladimir Georgievsky, as he arrived at Cardiff’s New Theatre to set up for the first night of Moscow State Circus’s latest show.

A mum’s first Mother’s Day will always be a special one, whether with a newborn baby or a pregnant bump. How it is celebrated will be an individual choice, but photographs are a way of capturing those special moments and treasuring them for life.

If you're looking for somewhere nice to take your mum this Sunday, look no further than Castell Coch.

Pirates, Indian temples and Protestant martyrs are all part of Cardiff's forgotten history, which one historian wants to bring to life for 21st century Cardiffians.

Ben Bostock

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With more and more people working longer hours under the cosh of modern life, there is little time to socialise and even less time to pursue a relationship with a potential suiter.
 

Since July, Cardiff has been home to its own chapter of the controversial Zeitgeist movement.

The Cardiff Arts Institute's Life Drawing classes have been exceptionally popular. We find out why.

There’s something very natural about riding a horse. For most of our lives we’re accustomed to the relatively smooth rides of motor vehicles, rather than the bumpy gait of quadrupeds.

Forget the dismal exchange rate and spiralling costs of travelling abroad, if you want to escape your day-to-day Cardiff routine for a short break why not look right on your doorstep?

Paul Sansom

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Paul Sansom and Dave Baxter spend evening being indulged in fables and folklore at Milgi Lounge

Dave Baxter

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In a world crammed with iPads and other gizmos, the craft of thrusting pen to paper may seem outdated, and slightly lost. But for a few Cardiffians, this practice thrives.

Ever wanted to travel back in time? Most of us do. Yet until the time machine is invented, the living history at Llancaiach Fawr is as close as you’re going to get.   

As part of the Breaking the Waves feminist festival, there are a number of women-centric art exhibitions in Cardiff this week.

St Mary’s Church is not what it used to be. Around its roofless walls, scattered gravestones sit tangled in thorns and creeping ivy. Onto the back of one, someone has scratched a target, a sign of bored youths killing time on the West Cardiff hilltop.