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This proximity, both historical and geographical, makes the gallery a particularly apt setting for a second iteration of Liam ...
Pip is the newly established restaurant attached to the Treehouse Hotel at the northern end of Deansgate. The latest creative ...
And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s ...
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 ...
I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...
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.
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 ...
The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take a closer look.
Steady in its ways though it might seem now, as recently as 1866 the River Irwell rose beyond its ...
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 ...
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 ...