Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, we salute you. The Worst Record Covers in the World may be the best exhibition ever. Thanks to Steve Goldman’s weird and wonderful record collection, which includes ...

The team at Manchester Literature Festival does a heck of a good job. The cynical might think it’s about shifting a load of hardback books, but MLF puts a great deal of thought into its authors and ...

The best books draw you into worlds you didn’t know existed and then change your own world view. Laura Fish’s evocative and immersive third novel does exactly this. After a sudden and shocking tragedy ...

It had just started raining when I met The Brunette in the bar at Fenix. There was a slight tension in the air as our teams were playing each other later that day. I was also a little nervous because ...

It was a cold, damp evening when I set off to Opera North’s revival of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Lowry. I’d heard that Britten’s opera was ‘difficult’, and my only encounter ...

There’s no wellbeing without nature’s wellbeing. That’s the maxim of Geoff Bockett, a man who has dedicated his life to caring for the natural world. Born and brought up in Nairobi, Kenya, he spent ...

Right from the start, there’s a sense that the dice are loaded against the protagonists of Willy Russell’s inarguably popular Blood Brothers, returning to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in a touring ...

Right from the start, there’s a sense that the dice are loaded against the protagonists of ...

There are many things that regular attendees expect the Everyman Theatre’s Rock ‘n’ Roll ...

There are many things that regular attendees expect the Everyman Theatre’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto to be, but a satirical commentary on the resurgence of toxic masculinity is probably not one of them.

You know when you read something and think, ‘damn, I wish I’d written that’? Well, that’s how I feel about Burnt Ice Cream by Candi Martin. I loved this collection of poetry. In fact, it feels like I ...

You know when you read something and think, ‘damn, I wish I’d written that’? Well, that’s how I ...