Monthly Archives: October 2018
Review: U2 – Innocence + Experience Tour 2018, Manchester Arena
U2 rolled into town as part of their eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour and turned Manchester Arena into the smallest large venue around.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Service of Thanksgiving for Pets and Working Animals at Manchester Cathedral
No, your eyeballs do not deceive you. It’s pooches in prayer. On October 14, Manchester Cathedral held its first Service of Thanksgiving for Pets and Working Animals.
Read the full story..Win two tickets to see The Glasshouse at 53two and a bottle of prosecco
Win two tickets to see The Glasshouse at 53two and a bottle of prosecco.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: It’s OK Not to be Perky, Love Arts Festival 2018, The Arch Cafe, Leeds
Leeds artist Helen Gibson – professionally known as The Perky Painter – shares her strange world of entwined forms expressed in bold colours and textures in her first solo exhibition at The Arch Café this month.
Read the full story..Review: Kate Atkinson, Manchester Literature Festival
I’m a binge-reader. I used to be someone who hovered over books slowly, drinking them in, pondering, possibly having a really good sniff of the spine.
Read the full story..Review: Jo Brand, Manchester Literature Festival
As a student in the early 90s, I spent three summers working in the Edinburgh Fringe box office.
Read the full story..Review: The Monster Halloween Ball, Sefton Park Palm House, Liverpool
There is very little not to like about a three-year-old dressed as a witch doing the Time Warp.
Read the full story..Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience
Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience is a book of stories that are rarely heard.
Read the full story..Hamiltonic: Tarsier Gin
In a new series called Hamiltonic, Northern Soul’s Gin Correspondent Robert Hamilton samples the best gin that the North has to offer and talks to the people who make it. This week, he chats to the good folk at Tarsier Gin in Manchester and sips a few samples.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
- Writing a novel in 2021? Tips and guidance from a successful 2020 debut author
- Book Review: Lairies by Steve Hollyman
- “We’re a resource for the whole of the North of England.” Kenn Taylor, Lead Cultural Producer North at The British Library North
- Review: Grayson Perry’s Art Club, Manchester Art Gallery
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