Good morning Cardiff!
We trust you had an enjoyable bank holiday weekend? Let us know what you got up to and you can always submit your images from the weekend to the Guardian Cardiff flickr pool here. Today we'll be bringing you news of Cardiff fishmongers who won awards at this weekend's British fish championships in Cardiff Bay.
Tonight at 7pm the Canton partnerships and communities together meeting will take place at the Taff Housing Association.
What's making Cardiff tick today?
In the news, a new car hire scheme will be launched in the city centre, the South Wales Echo reports. The scheme, run by city car club will encourage citizens to avoid buying a second car and aim to clear the city's clogged streets.
A Cardiff man gave up the bright lights of Hollywood to set up home in the Welsh capital and is now recording a low budget film in Cardiff, WalesOnline reports.
This week the Penarth Heights development – currently underway at the old Billybanks estate, will go on show, WalesOnline reports.
Planet Ice will build the new ice rink at the international sports village, BBC Wales reports, which will also house the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team.
Cardiff North Lib Dem Fenella Bowden is concerned about new plans for a retail outlet on the corner of Lon y Groes and Caerphilly Road. Read more here.
Across the Cardiff blogosphere
Yesterday hip hop blog Chrome Kids celebrated their second anniversary with a party at Cardiff Arts Institute. Blogger who set up the site, Kaptin, said:
"It has been an influential site despite being a fairly low key one and has luckily grown alongside many Cardiff acts such as Monky and Stagga."
The site also has a 'real-life' extension of Djs playing at Glastonbury and SWN and soon to be playing at Bestival this year. Check out the blog here.
Illustrate Project highlight work from Howardian Youth Centre in Cardiff and the products of their graffiti art workshop here.
Lee Smith spots some new type of artwork on the side of Cardiff International Arena on his blog.
Cardiff Shopper looks at the new designer underwear chain soon to come to Cardiff, Calvin Klein.
What makes us care about the future? This question is posed on the Cardiff Philosophy cafe blog. The blog started last week and describes its aim as:
"To provide an additional resource to help support and extend the discussions that take place at the Cafe. Links to interesting material, responses to the Cafe sessions, and multimedia relating to the Cafes will all be featured in the coming months."
See the cafe's main site here.
Jennieworld today takes some lovely snaps of Cardiff Bay at the weekend.
Clwb Malu Cachu looks at the different regional dialects around Wales.
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