Cardiff Life celebrates the best of city living. Published every three weeks, it includes the very latest on property, arts, dining and shopping, in Cardiff, Cowbridge and Penarth

WELCOME Croeso

Issue 20...out now!

Under the influence

Apologies in advance: we were a bit under the influence when we put together this issue of the magazine.
Obviously, it was the Christmas spirit that caused this heady feeling, but now I come to think of it we have been spending a little longer than is probably ideal in the city’s bars and restaurants, sampling some of the hedonistic delights that are in store for you over the coming months. When we weren’t having cocktails created for this magazines by Cardiff’s best mixologists we were sampling those alcoholic chocs that we all seem to eat in industrial quantities at Christmas.

Still, we rapidly sharpened up on discovering that Will Young was heading for Cardiff, and after a few strong coffees we were ready for a little chat about the new tour, why Will wants to design men’s suits, and the link between Kerry Katona and Plato. Even by Cardiff’s standards there’s an incredible choice of music, theatre and dance to take you through the winter, from the Stereophonics at the CIA to the ballet season at St David’s; one way or another, we have it all covered in this issue of Cardiff Life.

Oh, and if you see us flailing about on the civic centre ice rink over the next week or so, we’re stone cold sober, honest – we’re just not very good…

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Hwyl yr Ŵyl

Hoffem ymddiheuro cyn dechrau: aeth hwyl yr Ŵyl i’n pennau ni wrth lunio’r rhifyn hwn o’r cylchgrawn ar eich cyfer.
Naws y Nadolig yn hytrach nag alcohol oedd yn gyfrifol am hynny wrth gwrs. Ond erbyn meddwl, rydym wedi bod yn treulio mwy o amser nag sy’n ddelfrydol ym mariau a bwytai’r ddinas efallai, yn samplu rhai o’r pleserau hedonistaidd a fydd ar gael i chi dros y misoedd nesaf. Pan nad oeddem yn yfed coctels a grëwyd ar gyfer y cylchgrawn gan gymysgwyr coctels gorau Caerdydd, roeddem wrthi’n samplu’r siocledi meddwol yr ydym i gyd fel pe baem yn eu bwyta wrth y cannoedd adeg y Nadolig.

Wedi dweud hynny, fuom ni ddim yn hir cyn sobri pan ddaeth y newydd bod Will Young yn dod i Gaerdydd. Ar ôl paned neu ddwy o goffi cryf, roeddem yn barod i gael sgwrs am daith newydd Will, pam y mae am gynllunio siwtiau i ddynion, a’r cysylltiad rhwng Kerry Katona a Plato. Mae dewis mwy anhygoel nag erioed o gerddoriaeth a chynyrchiadau theatr a dawns ar gael yng Nghaerdydd i’ch diddanu trwy gydol misoedd y gaeaf, o’r Stereophonics yn yr Arena Ryngwladol i’r tymor bale yn Neuadd Dewi Sant. Rywfodd neu’i gilydd, rydym wedi llwyddo i roi sylw i bopeth yn y rhifyn hwn o Cardiff Life.

Gyda llaw, os byddwch yn pasio’r rinc sglefrio wrth ymyl y ganolfan ddinesig yn ystod yr wythnos neu ddwy nesaf ac yn ein gweld ni’n cael gwaith sefyll ar ein traed, ein sgiliau sglefrio fydd ar fai, nid coctels - wir i chi …

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LATEST ISSUE

Issue 19

In this issue:

•    The USA may have the presidential elections, but we’ve got Whistling Wilfred, the oldest duck in the world
•    Cool, collected and contemporary – and yes, we are talking Penarth property here
•    Traditional on the outside, cutting-edge on the inside: that’s the mojo that’s been worked in a new Penylan development
•    Gethin and the Blues, Meic and Huw, Baulch and Bond…anyone we’ve forgotten to name-drop?
•    Christmas is coming: run away, quick. Or at least, read our survival guide
•    The Cardiff Life team skate their way with ineffable grace through the switching-on ceremony, yet still manage to take some photos. How do we do that?
•    Carol concerts, pantos, ballets and other such festive treats. Oh, and The Stereophonics. Oh, and Bryn Terfel
•    That nice Will Young talks to us about his new album, the tour, and why he’s wearing leg warmers on his arms. Awww.
•    In which we put another dime in the jukebox, baby, and head for the Hard Rock Café
•    …Shaken, stirred, or set aflame? Cardiff’s top mixologists tell us how they like it
•    Decorating the tree, Cardiff Life style
•    It’s a man’s, man’s world in the Morgan Arcade
•    Eat yourself under the table this Christmas with a little help from Cardiff’s most alcoholic chocs. All for under a fiver, there’s cheap!
•    Win a party at Las Iguanas
•    Festive inspiration for the home
•    Keeping you abreast off all things corporate
•    Meet Llandaff’s legendary Paul Bullimore