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For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International ...
And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...
Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...
Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...
This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...
You can’t ask for a jacket potato in Scotland! Actor, writer and comedian Kieron Hodgson talks to Northern Soul's Drew Tosh.
Set in 1829, a new children’s book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley, Wigan, whose claim to fame is driving the famous Rocket steam engine on the railway ...
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible, SheffieldI usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make ...
During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...
I’ve been a bit under the weather of late (who wouldn’t be in the year’s darkest, greyest months?). So a self-care retreat in the heart of Manchester was just the ticket. From the moment I arrived at ...
WHAT by John Cooper ClarkePerhaps the greatest difficulty facing any reviewer of the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is resisting the temptation simply to quote all the best bits. The difficulty is ...
Julia and Axel: Thirty Years of Favourite Stories celebrates the professional partnership between Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Together, they have created some of the world’s best-loved and ...