Monthly Archives: August 2018
Kara Lily Hayworth, star of Cilla the Musical, chats to Northern Soul
Kara Lily Hayworth, star of Cilla the Musical, chats to Northern Soul about the pull of playing a Liverpudlian icon.
Read the full story..#BeeInTheCity: Northern Soul chats to Sneezebee
If you’ve been out and about in Manchester this summer, you’ll probably have noticed some new arrivals in the city. That’s right…the Manchester bees have landed.
Read the full story..Scran: Chickpea Curry from the Ancoats and Northern Quarter Cookbook
Featuring more than 20 restaurants from top food venues in the Manchester neighbourhoods of Ancoats and the Northern Quarter, the Ancoats and Northern Quarter Cookbook is a feast of recipes with all profits going to the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Charity.
Read the full story..Love online: are dating apps ruining romance?
My relationship with dating apps is complicated.
Read the full story..Why are we so keen to diagnose Emily Brontë?
2018 marks 200 years since Emily Jane Brontë was born in Thornton near Bradford.
Read the full story..Review: Manchester Comedy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Edinburgh Fringe is unique, full of wonder, magic and people incessantly offering you flyers.
Read the full story..Closets: Sam Retford talks to Northern Soul about time travel, typecasting and telly fame
A regular theme of new writing for theatre is the coming-out story, with writers regularly reflecting on their formative gay experiences.
Read the full story..Food Review: Afternoon Tea, The Lowry Hotel, Salford
Afternoon tea is the new lunch, at least it is at The Lowry Hotel. In what could be a Brexit-inspired assertion of National Standards, they’ve abolished that continental invention, the two-hour lunch – except on Sundays, of course – and brought back Afternoon Tea.
Read the full story..The Northern Soul Podcast: Young Jack
Hurrah! Lucy McNamara is back with another ear-pleasing episode of the brilliant Northern Soul Podcast.
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Read the full story..Book Review – Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth and Benjamin Webster
Like Dial-a-Disc or foil disposable ashtrays in takeaways, the cinema double bill has receded into the lint of a barely conceivable past yet to be reappropriated by the stylists of today’s lazy nostalgia.
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