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.

The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take ...

I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...

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 ...

Theatre Review - Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less), Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot.

Book Review: The Comet and Other Stories by Sonya MoorFor the sake of argument, let’s agree that a short story collection is a lot like a debut LP. The lines aren’t exactly parallel, but the inexact ...

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, ...

Words have their own particular architecture. A scaffolding of syntax and a skeleton of grammar that both shapes and constrains the sayable. Dance, by way of contrast, has the facility to slip beyond ...

A dreamy window in a dreary January: Northern Soul's Nancy Collantine chills out at Crewe Hall in Cheshire.