Laughing Cows
Once upon a time comedy promoters had the odd idea that female comics were box office poison – so Laughing Cows was born. Comedy fan Hazel O’Keefe thought the idea that women couldn’t put bums on seats was nonsense so, 15...
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Lucy Ward goes for the folk crown
Folk music used to be the preserve of blokes in Arran jumpers singing tales of woes and recounting disasters down t’pit. Now a new generation of female singers like Lucy Ward have made the genre relevant again. Still only 23 and...
Read MoreHow To Be A Northern Sports Fan
Since the first meeting of the Rugby League in 1895 at Huddersfield’s George Hotel, it’s fair to say that the physical wars of the average match have always made its Southern competitor Union look like the soft option. No...
Read MoreSwapping Sides
By day Nick Ahad is the long-serving theatre critic of the Yorkshire Post. By night he is directing A Muslamic Love Story, which he has also written. Ahad’s latest work had a short run last year and attracted the sort of...
Read MoreThe Church for Atheists
It may seem an oxymoron but people who don’t believe in a god are the world’s third largest ‘faith’ group. Now the Sunday Assembly movement aims to give Britain’s nine million atheists their own church. Sue Millichap...
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