What’s On in March: Comedy
It’s the time of year when we emerge from under two duvets and three blankets, look outside and say ‘I don’t remember planting those bulbs there’. Yes, it’s Spring everyone! As if in celebration,...
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AL and AL: Incidents of Travel in the Multiverse
Bren O’Callaghan, co-curator of AL and AL’s new exhibition at HOME, writes about this major new show in Manchester. An agent for lost souls journeys to the land of the dead to free the spirit of a slain hip-hop...
Read MoreCrime films: Hong Kong Style in Manchester
Many of you will have seen The Departed by Martin Scorsese for which he won his only Oscar. Fewer of you will know that the story for the film was ‘borrowed’ from a 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller called Infernal Affairs directed...
Read MoreWhat’s On in February: Comedy
Welcome to the brand new Northern Soul Manchester comedy blog. Outside of the capital (which apparently is down South somewhere) and the Edinburgh Fringe, Manchester has the biggest comedy scene in the country. From large-scale...
Read MoreThe Year of the Sex Olympics
The scriptwriter Nigel Kneale has a Yahoo group dedicated to discussion of his life and work, and like all Yahoo groups these days, it’s mostly fallen into disuse. In recent weeks, though, it’s spluttered back into...
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