Two lifestyle mags enjoyed by Swansea Bay readers share a passion for the arts this month.
Red Handed has much talked-about Welsh-born popster Marina Diamandis on its Spring 2010 cover; May's Swansea Life goes large on the latest Swansea Bay Film Festival - eight pages of news, interviews and listings.
The Marina and the Diamonds cover story is useful for the band as they play Cardiff on May 16.
Her interview with writer James Logan reveals an eclectic mix of musical influences.
They include Alisha's Attic, Dolly Parton, George Michael, Enya, No Doubt, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Juliana Hatfield ... and traditional Greek music.
Red Handed's free and can be picked up in libraries, council premises, hotels and shops. Incidentally, its latest reviews include Wind Street bar Moloko and advertisers include the Quiksilver stores in Llanelli and Carmarthen.
Swansea Life editor Wyn Jenkins got his own fingers inky after deciding to do a film fest feature.
He shares writing credits with Cherie Strawbridge on the glossy's Swansea Bay movie love-in.
The latest Swansea Bay Film Festival runs from May 8-16 and features a vast range of flicks. Media Master's eye was caught particularly by a short directed by Sharron Harris and known as I Can't Strip My Lambretta Down in the Kitchen Blues, a 25-minute American production called Adam Blank Gets a Vasectomy and the full-length feature http://www.zapping-alien.mozart-balls.com/.
It's great that Wyn and his staff, in their capacity as festival sponsors, are being so supportive of this fine left-field institution. And it's encouraging that some events are being staged in Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot this year.
Get yer festival heads on right now, folks.
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