When I first moved to Manchester, I stumbled drunkenly into The King’s Arms one night and asked whereabouts in Manchester I was, only to be greeted with surly grimaces from the locals and told in no uncertain terms that I was,...
Read MoreI lived in Liverpool briefly in 2005 after failing to become a success in London. I’d moved back up North and swapped my dreams for a doomed relationship with a boy eight years my junior. In that year with him, I managed...
Read MoreAnya Reiss is doing alright in the North of England. With her adaptation of The Seagull having just closed the Library Theatre’s long, illustrious residency in Manchester, Spring Awakening opens over the other side of the...
Read MoreGrand Pacific is the lighter-bite little sister of Australasia. Nestled in Manchester’s Spinningfields behind the huge Versace emporium and having only opened six months ago, this neat, sweet Colonial-shabby-chic eatery is...
Read MoreIn the atrium between the old and the new buildings at Manchester Art Gallery – a space which its director Maria Balshaw describes as “no man’s land” – hangs the first piece in a new exhibition by one of...
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