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 ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, ran to mark the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee ...

Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement fads, her audience whichever arbitrary ...

The Secret Public: LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985 is at John Rylands Research Institute and Library until November 15, 2025. For more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you recall who sang lead vocals on the 1984 track? Top pop points if your answer was Holly Johnson, the ...

May Payne, a singer/songwriter based in Manchester, is an intricate painter of vulnerability, trauma, and love. Nowhere is this more evident than in her first EP, a radically vulnerable offering of ...

History is littered with sitcoms transferring unsuccessfully to the stage or film. One of the big problems is that the joke ratio plummets when something that works in a 25-minute format is stretched ...