This proximity, both historical and geographical, makes the gallery a particularly apt setting for a second iteration of Liam ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s ...

Pip is the newly established restaurant attached to the Treehouse Hotel at the northern end of Deansgate. The latest creative ...

It’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers.

For anyone wondering whether there is any humanity left in this troubled world, I am delighted to confirm that there is – I have just found it in the form of Flapjack Press’s new release, The First ...

At Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, they are read in the Arabic they were written in, with the English translation in back projection. They speak in the language of the dispossessed, maintaining their ...

Steady in its ways though it might seem now, as recently as 1866 the River Irwell rose beyond its ...

I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...

Picture Gallery - Winnifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag RugsShe was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live band in the world and that their 70s’ albums were pretty close to perfect ...

I never feel that summer has really started until I’ve been to the outdoor show in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. The Dukes have been producing a family show in these bucolic surroundings almost ...