Although there is still catching up to do, the city’s digital industries look set to blossom In 2002, digital industry magazine New Media Age declared that Sheffield was the UK city that new media forgot. Was this a fair assessment back then – and more importantly, is it still the case now? Sheffield has always [...]
All posts for the month March, 2008
Cocoa chocolate shop, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield
Calling all chocolate lovers – the cocoa lounge is here In terms of chocolate, Easter is a more gluttonous time than Christmas. At yule, people exchange presents – including some chocolate – but the main gifts that people exchange at Easter are confectionery-based ones. And although I don’t like the commercialism and true meaning of [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 28 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/28/cocoa-chocolate-shop-ecclesall-road-sheffield/
The Moon, Sheffield, first annual beer festival
What better way to spend the holiday weekend than visiting a local beer festival? The beer of choice for a group of my friends and I is currently Abbeydale Moonshine (4.3%). It is a very easy-drinking straw-coloured ale and seems to be found in an increasing number of pubs around the city. As with many [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 24 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/24/the-moon-sheffield-first-annual-beer-festival/
City of Sheffield city centre walkabout (walkabout)
Exploring the city centre, 1970s style A few months ago I was given a fantastic item that had been found on eBay – a copy of the early-1970s City of Sheffield city centre walkabout walkabout book (I think the double walkabout in the title is actually a stylistic design feature on the cover). This publication [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 19 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/19/city-of-sheffield-city-centre-walkabout-walkabout/
Music in the sun – bring it back
With so much made of the city’s rich pop music heritage, isn’t Sheffield big enough to support an annual outdoor music festival? In general, interest in music festivals is at an all time high with one almost every weekend during the summer months. And while festivals used to be seen as the preserve of alternative [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 15 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/15/music-in-the-sun-bring-it-back/
Tinsley cooling towers gift shop
As the towers are due to come down, one very special shop is to be set up So does anyone actually know when these are due to come down apart from sometime in the spring/summer? The campaign to save them and turn them into a work of art seems to have been out of the [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 10 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/10/tinsley-cooling-towers-gift-shop/
Where are all the Sheffield blogs?
The city is changing fast, but can local people in the blogosphere keep up? I have recently been increasing the number of RSS feeds that I subscribe to and decided to look for the best Sheffield blogs on the internet. Where are they all? Half an hour on Google and I’ve come up with a [...]
Posted by Sheffield blog on 9 March, 2008
http://sheffieldblog.com/2008/03/09/where-are-all-their-sheffield-blogs/
South Yorkshire news – BBC- Uni building to get £20m revamp
- Man jailed for sexual assaults
- Murder inquiry over woman's death
- Police at Sky over rape case name
- Father's organ donor lesson call
- Sex offenders get police cautions
- First tram-train trial goes ahead
- VIDEO: Richard Hawley's musings on love
- City hospice starts £4m appeal
- Carberry & Katich see out a draw
- Sheffield news – The Star
- Residents celebrate as Sheffield road is scrapped
- Sex attacker jailed: Padley case highlights importance of DNA database, says judge
- News In Brief: Arsonist sets Sheffield garage ablaze
- Choir in Doncaster debut their new CD
- Time for chain-ge of Doncaster mayor
- Cabinet shuffled as two appointed in Doncaster
- Sheffield sex attacker jailed for eight years
- Council staff reject strike in Doncaster
- Gran found murdered in Sheffield
- Song kings: Sheffield’s Eliot Kennedy and pal Gary Barlow record Diamond Jubilee song- VIDEO
