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And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s ...
is the newly established restaurant attached to the Treehouse Hotel at the northern end of Deansgate. The latest creative ...
It’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers.
I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...
The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take a closer look.
I never feel that summer has really started until I’ve been to the outdoor show in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. The Dukes have been producing a family show in these bucolic surroundings almost ...
The backdrops to a decade, the details which define a period, have a ubiquity which renders them ...
Music Review: Bonnie Raitt, 02 Apollo ManchesterWhen Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, ...
This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...
Ink Spill: Short Stories and Poems from Manchester's Emerging WritersThere are no limits on style, genre, level of completion or polish, no pre-requisites except the willingness to hear open and ...
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible, SheffieldI usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make ...
A hunched figure in a tatty suit slouches slowly towards the stage with a suitcase, grumbling and muttering as he goes. Finally he grabs the mic and turns to glare at the audience, his face white as ...