Kate Feld

Has The Midland finally made fine dining in Manchester a reality? You’d better speak to newly confirmed Roganite, Kate Feld. The reopening of The French this spring sent ripples of excitement around the city. A…

The woman responsible for changing Manchester’s art scene opens up about life at the helm of two of its flagship galleries. Maria Balshaw is a busy woman. Our interview had to be scheduled several weeks…

The city must surely have had its fill of new restaurant openings, right? Wrong, as this little beauty demonstrates. Artisan pies, craft beer and the Northern Quarter: some things just seem destined to be together….

The urge to collect is instinctive – and provides Richard Wentworth with the raw materials for a nocturnal occurrence in the city. Humans have been keeping collections since we first moved through the forests clutching…

The awkward name for this Northern Quarter eatery gets on Kate Feld’s goat – and that’s just for starters. Yup, the name stinks, doesn’t it? I don’t know what it’s supposed to be saying, but…

Forget ordinary stand-up: Barbara Nice, Bob Slayer, Al Murray, Alun Cochrane, Jimmy Carr and friends go native in Kendal. Brace yourselves: the Freerange Comedy Festival is back and it’s bigger than ever, extending over ten…

Vegetarians look away now: the international grilled flesh fest comes to the city this summer. I’m not much of a baker, me. To the rest of the country, which seems to be in the grip…

A new contemporary art exhibition ponders what to do with revolution once you’ve got it. You say you want a revolution. Sure, that’s cool, no problem. But what comes next? That’s the question posed by…

After years of rejections, the Manchester novelist strikes a six figure, two-book deal – and her new book hits the shelves this week. A story like the one Rosie Garland tells is harrowing enough to…

The Whitworth marks the start of building works with five new exhibitions. We review ‘em all. With the coming of spring, the Whitworth is re-orienting itself toward the outdoors. We mean this literally – work…

We take a wild ride inside the mind of painter Raqib Shaw and find art “on the grandest of grand scales”. I came out of the Raqib Shaw exhibition feeling shell-shocked and thinking something like:…

There is no FutureEverything festival this year, but fear not: there’s still enough going on to satisfy your digital appetite. FutureEverything may not be staging a full-on festival this year, but if you’re a fan…