A reissue of C.P. Lee's classic book Like The Night offers Northern Soul's Music Editor the opportunity to reflect on Lee's ...

It seems in keeping with the Catholic iconography that Michaela Yearwood-Dan has cited as one of the organising principles of ...

On a gloomy Sunday in Sale, south Manchester, Hannah Baxendale opens her front door in a red gingham top and polka dot socks.

Blink and there’s another new restaurant. Manchester’s freshly acquired status as the fastest growing economy in Britain is mirrored in the ever-growing number of new eateries across the city (matched ...

People have always looked for reasons to come together, to share an experience that lifts their lives out of the rut of the run-of-the-mill. Curtain Up, like an end-of-the-pier variety bill in which ...

Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories that create social fabric and identity. And they can be found, woven delicately, into the ...

At the beginning of 2026, a crowd gathered at Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre to bring in the New Year. Led by Gluteus Maximus, a fully armoured workout coach, Cestrians clad in hats, scarves and gloves ...

The Floral Pavilion sits out on the edge of New Brighton, facing the Mersey with Liverpool’s docks looming across the water. Around it, the place holds that familiar seaside mix: arcades, food stalls, ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...

There’s a painting at the heart of From Here To Here To Here, part way through a decade of Louise Giovanelli’s collected works, and it looks a lot like Blackpool. Light glistens across the liquid gold ...

The Shawshank Redemption is a play about toxic masculinity. So far, so zeitgeist. But it is also a play about the best of manhood: friendship, loyalty, resilience and hope. It is a story that much of ...

In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is the year of ‘going analogue’. But what’s the evidence? Well, sales of physical media have surged (for ...