And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. The move north of the border ...

And a big hats off to the lighting crew who took each performance to infinity and beyond. The lighting was a major stand-out: floodlights of warm yellow, shining into the crowd during moments of ...

During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...

Review: Looking Up, Pat Flynn, Fusebox, BlackburnBlink, and you’ve missed it. Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, marks the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

Fran Yeoman is head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University where she loves putting the next generation of journalists in the North through their paces. Before returning to her native ...

As someone born in the late 1990s, women exploring their own sexuality and finding freedom within themselves feels like a fairly new concept. But I realise that it’s not new, and is also something ...

If you should see Count Arthur Strong live on stage – and you definitely should – Stockport Plaza is the perfect place to do so. OK, so the sound system might not quite be up to the standards of a ...

Two decades have passed since Martin Isherwood wrote the UK’s 2003 Eurovision entry, Cry Baby, with support from his colleague, musician Mel Purves. Now, with less than a month to go until Eurovision ...

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 ...