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 ...

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 ...

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 book won’t change your life. It probably knows a book that says it can, though. Or an evening class. Or a retreat. Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement ...

Up beyond the old Lancashire mill towns of Nelson and Barrowford is a simple single-storey clubhouse. It is an extraordinary survivor, the last Clarion House of its kind in Britain, part of an ...

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 ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...