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Venue (magazine)

Venue (magazine) is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Venue (magazine) rather than just read about it. In short: Venue was the listings magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK. It was founded in 1982 by journalists who had been working for another Bristol magazine, Out West, which had been consciously modelled on London's Time Out magazine.

Key takeaways

Venue (magazine) belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Venue (magazine) to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Venue (magazine) from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Venue was the listings magazine for the Bristol and Bath areas of the UK. It was founded in 1982 by journalists who had been working for another Bristol magazine, Out West, which had been consciously modelled on London's Time Out magazine. Originally published fortnightly, Venue gained a reputation for the quality and authority of its coverage of the local arts and entertainments scene. It played a leading part in re-establishing Ashton Court Festival and was an early champion of the Bristol Sound in the early 1990s. It continued to play a significant role in nurturing and promoting local art, theatre, film and music until its closure in April 2012. Venue's last editor was the playwright Tom Wainwright. Venue also had a reputation for investigative reporting of local issues, including health, policing, local politics and environmental matters. Venue also featured humour and satire which many found attractive, but which was occasionally criticised as puerile. Stand-up comedian Mark Watson and comedy scriptwriter Stephen Merchant both worked for Venue when they were younger. Author and reviewer Kim Newman contributed regularly. Another author, Eugene Byrne, one of the magazine's founders, remained involved with it as Consulting Editor until the magazine ceased publication. In 2000 the company was sold to Bristol United Press (BUP), the company which runs the Bristol Evening Post and Western Daily Press newspapers. BUP in turn was owned by the Northcliffe Newspaper Group, part of the Daily Mail & General Trust group. The takeover by BUP was controversial with many readers, advertisers and staff, particularly because the conservative political outlook of the Daily Mail was very different from that of Venue.

Weekly edition In 2001, Venue magazine started to publish weekly, and, trading as Venue Publishing, the company diversified further in the years after this. It produced a successful controlled-circulation lifestyle monthly, Folio (whose closure was announced in March 2013, with the April 2013 edition being its last published issue, following its latterly merging with Venue for a few combined issues), as well as several annual guides including Eating Out West, Drinking Out West, Days Out West, Venue Club Guide, a Student Guide for Bristol and Bath and a Festival Guide. Venue Publishing also undertook contract publishing, particularly for large local events such as the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta and the Bristol Harbour Festival. In 2005, Venue Publishing established an in-house design agency, Bang, offering design services to external clients. The magazine was briefly associated with some other provincial listings magazines in the 1980s, like Manchester's City Life, Southampton's Due South magazine and The List, which covers Edinburgh and Glasgow. Only the last is still publishing.

The Weekend 'Powered by Venue' The Bristol Evening Post ceased its Saturday edition in April 2012. On 25 May 2012, The Post, as it was then titled, launched a new 64-page lifestyle magazine, The Weekend (subsequently shortened to Weekend), a supplement with its Friday edition. This carried many listings, reviews and entertainment articles derived from the Venue website and was justifiably straplined "powered by Venue". From issue 43 of The Weekend (15 March 2013), the strapline was quietly dropped. The Weekend magazine was relaunched with issue 252 (31 March 2017) as a larger-format publication, but still carrying many of the original Venue-style listings. However, the distinctive Venue logo continued to be seen in printed format each Wednesday in a section of three or four pages in that day's Bristol edition of the free Metro (British newspaper), the section being headed "WHAT'S ON – The week ahead with Venue". The Venue name still continued also on periodic publications such as Venue Festival Guide '13 and Eating Out West 2013/14, the latter title reflecting the title of the magazine's own predecessor.

Website The Venue website, one of the longest-running commercial websites in the UK, was originally set up in 1995. Following the demise of the printed Venue magazine, the website continued to include event listings, music, theatre and comedy reviews, augmented by selected features from the Bristol Post's Weekend supplement and several of the annual guides, and included a popular free personal-advertisements section. The Venue website was closed by Local World at 11am on Friday 29 November 2013. Venue writers, photographers etc. published an open letter on the site which subsequently went viral and was picked up by Buzzfeed.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Venue (magazine)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Venue (magazine) claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Venue (magazine) before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Venue (magazine) ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Venue (magazine)

In research: Venue (magazine) appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Venue (magazine) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Venue (magazine) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom, 2012 disestablishments in the United Kingdom, Biweekly magazines published in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Venue (magazine) outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Venue (magazine) in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Venue (magazine) means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Venue (magazine) in simple terms?

Why does Venue (magazine) matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Venue (magazine)?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Venue (magazine).