Author: Chris Park
Food Review: Grand Pacific, Manchester
Those of us who have been in Manchester for many a year wistfully remember the restaurant Reform, one of the city’s leading eateries until its closure in 2003.
Travel: Northern Soul takes a solo trip to sunny Valencia
Last year I decided I was going to be a big brave boy and go on holiday as a solo traveller.
Craig Charles talks scary fairies and funk and soul with Northern Soul
What do you get if you take Craig Charles, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Hansel and Gretel and shake them all up together? You get an invitation into the world of the Scary Fairy.
Review: To Walk Invisible, BBC, Hebden Bridge Picture House
It is a cold, wet and windy night in Hebden Bridge.
Review: Sorrento, Italy
It was almost complete. We’d spent two art lessons perfecting our papier mâché Vesuvius with chicken wire and a few card houses to represent the ill-fated Pompeii.
Review: London Road Fire Station Tour, Manchester
Let me take you back a couple of years. I was a nervous new writer and had just received my first assignment for Northern Soul.
The day I met Bet Lynch in a bathroom showroom
I’ve learnt many things in this life, one of them being this: if you get an email from your editor asking if you’d like to join Julie Goodyear for some Corrie-related gardening, you say yes.
Lisa Stansfield talks to Northern Soul
“I’ve been dossing around. Well, I’ve been dossing for a bit but not most of the day.”
Review and interview: The Museum of Water, Lake District
“Water is the mosaic of the universe,” says artist Amy Sharrocks at the opening of her art installation, Museum of Water, held appropriately enough in a boat house on Lake Windermere.
Review: The Herbal Bed, The Lowry, Salford
As the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death draws closer (April 23 in case you didn’t know), every theatre in the land is doing its utmost to find a different angle with which to pay homage to the great wordsmith.
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