Area July/August 09 – page 18 – Via Jon Bounds at Birmingham it’s Not Shit:
Area is the new “pocket sized” (or A6 in grown-up terms) “pocket guide” to what’s going on in and around Brum. It’s going to be monthly, although the first issue is a July/August double issue as “everyone’s on holiday and not much goes on”. It looks lovely. It’s got listings and writerly things from top people such a Danny Smith (whose new “wordcast” you should check out). It looks like this:
Jon links directly to page 18 of the online version ‘because I wrote it, and I’m vain’. A very pertinent piece about sunbathing it is, too. However, I’d urge you to flick forward to page 36 for the in-depth, 3 page feature all about Digbeth, ‘the epitome of the diamond in the rough’.
