Monthly Archives: February 2020
Win a pair of tickets to One Good Night at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre
Win a pair of tickets to One Good Night at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Brine, Steam and Rust, Lion Salt Works Museum, Northwich
A new industrial landscape exhibition by Richard Edmunds, Brine, Steam and Rust, is due to open at Northwich’s Lion Salt Works Museum on February 22, 2020.
Read the full story..Capture a feathered friend on camera: Wilko’s Wild Bird Photography Competition 2020
Do you know your Blue Tit from your Brambling?
Read the full story..“It’s important to talk about northern voices.” Portico Prize-winning author Jessica Andrews on class, gender and the north
I’ve long been fascinated with The Portico Library, which sits above the mildly rowdy Old Bank pub on Manchester’s Mosley Street.
Read the full story..Review: Lush Spa, Liverpool
I’m a fan of a good spa day but switching my brain off is tricky at the best of the times.
Read the full story..Review: The Scholar Stones Project, Yelena Popova, Holden Gallery, MMU
In order to leave its mark, art need not explode with the ferocity of the fission that catalyses both nuclear reactor and bomb.
Read the full story..Film Review: Queen & Slim
“Why do black people always have to be excellent? Why can’t we be normal?”
Read the full story..Frissons of fear and jangling nerves: writer Jeremy Dyson talks about the return of Ghost Stories
Ten years ago, when the scarifying stage play Ghost Stories was set to make its debut at the Liverpool Playhouse, the show’s co-writers, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, announced to journalists that they couldn’t really tell them anything about it.
Read the full story..The national museum of democracy on its tenth anniversary: People’s History Museum
The UK’s national museum of democracy is 10 years old this week.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Holocaust Brunch, Manchester Central Library
When I was boy in the 1960s (when people had to read real books), the racks of paperbacks outside newsagents often held two best-selling titles by Lord Russell of Liverpool – The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes and The Knights of the Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes.
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