Arts
Rachel Maclean: They’ve Got Your Eyes, FACT, Liverpool
by Desmond Bullen | Apr 12, 2026
As Angela Carter divined, and gleefully demonstrated in her celebrated short story collection The...
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Work out like a gladiator: Chester’s Roman rumba
by Lauren Lees | Apr 12, 2026
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Borrowed voices, open doors: Manchester Film Festival 2026
by Peter Shukie | Apr 5, 2026
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Theatre Review: The Shawshank Redemption, Liverpool Playhouse
by Fran Yeoman | Apr 2, 2026
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Excess Baggage, Dorothy, Liverpool
by Desmond Bullen | Mar 28, 2026
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Everything & Nothing, The Portico, Manchester
by Desmond Bullen | Mar 28, 2026
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‘the hope of healing’ Broken Ecologies, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
by Desmond Bullen | Mar 28, 2026
At one remove, at least for now, war on another continent is served up daily almost as an extreme...
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Photo North: a celebration of people and place
by Rowan Twine | Mar 28, 2026
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Mars Tapes: inside Manchester’s cassette shop
by Lauren Lees | Mar 26, 2026
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Mad fer it – The Battle: Blur vs Oasis, Opera House, Manchester
by Alfred Searls | Mar 19, 2026
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Theatre Review: The Ladies Football Club, Crucible, Sheffield
by Ellen Beardmore | Mar 8, 2026 | Arts, Theatre
There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically...
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Theatre Review: War of the Worlds, Liverpool Playhouse
by Fran Yeoman | Mar 6, 2026 | Arts, Theatre
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Un-Fair-Ground, Delaine Le Bas, The Whitworth, Manchester
by Desmond Bullen | Feb 16, 2026 | Art, Arts
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Theatre Review: The Memory of Water, Bolton Octagon
by Chris Wallis | Feb 6, 2026 | Arts, Theatre
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Mars Tapes: inside Manchester’s cassette shop
by Lauren Lees | Mar 26, 2026 | Music
In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is...
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Time to stare at the skies in wonder: Doves, Sheffield Octagon
by Amy Stone | Dec 19, 2025 | Bands & Gigs, Music
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A very Hallé Christmas: carols at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall
by Alfred Searls | Dec 17, 2025 | Bands & Gigs, Music
Everything & Nothing, The Portico, Manchester
by Desmond Bullen | Mar 28, 2026 | Arts, Books, Heritage
Resistance need not wear a beret nor brandish a placard, chic and admirable though such options...
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Joy Division & New Order: Album by Album by Mayer Nissim
by Peter Shukie | Mar 6, 2026 | Authors & Reviews, Books
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Northern Soul’s Best Reads of 2025
by Helen Nugent | Dec 22, 2025 | Authors & Reviews, Books
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The Manchester Man: bookseller John Morten
by Henry Normal | Dec 20, 2025 | Books, Enterprise
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Grace Darling, the UK’s first media celebrity
by Helen Nugent | Nov 5, 2025 | Authors & Reviews, Books
‘The gherkin ketchup! The dark jus! The melting beef!’ Coarse, Durham
by Chris Wallis | Feb 27, 2026 | Restaurants & Cafes, Taste
It was a wet and cold winter lunchtime in Durham and I was hungry. A stranger in town, I had two...
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Bringing elsewhere with you: Fearns at Leeds Dock
by Peter Shukie | Feb 5, 2026 | Restaurants & Cafes, Taste
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Escape to the country: The Coniston Hotel, Skipton
by Helen Nugent | Jan 31, 2026 | Enterprise, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafes
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Festive Menu: Pip, Treehouse, Manchester
by Robert Hamilton | Dec 16, 2025 | Hotels, Taste
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‘cooking at its finest’ Skof, Manchester
by Robert Hamilton | Nov 8, 2025 | Restaurants & Cafes, Taste
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‘glorious’ Stow, Manchester
by Robert Hamilton | Oct 13, 2025 | Restaurants & Cafes, Taste
‘the possibilities are endless’ Ceramicist Hannah Sulek talks to Northern Soul
by Rowan Twine | Apr 15, 2026 | Arts, Editor's Picks, Enterprise, Heritage
Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces...
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Work out like a gladiator: Chester’s Roman rumba
by Lauren Lees | Apr 12, 2026 | Arts, Enterprise, Heritage
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Urban running through Halifax’s historic buildings
by Andrew Bibby | Feb 15, 2026 | Enterprise
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Escape to the country: The Coniston Hotel, Skipton
by Helen Nugent | Jan 31, 2026 | Enterprise, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafes



