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The Urban Insider: Northern Quarter & Cathedral Gardens
Side by side: avant garde and (very) old school Manchester
Northern Quarter & Cathedral Quarter
It’d be just plain silly to try and list off all the bars and restaurants in the leisuretastic Northern Quarter, so we won’t try. But we’ll happily share our favourites (with the caveat that they’re lots of other people’s favourites too – it’s always good to have a plan B when heading out for an [...]
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In The City has always been a big deal for the music industry & for Manchester. But has it lost its way?
Sing it back. In The City is open for business.
New music shindig In The City is back this week. Dan Feeney applauds its move to the Northern Quarter – and to Manchester’s best-loved music venues
5 of the best… Manchester Jazz Festival.
Matthew Hull gives us his highlights for the 15th annual Manchester Jazz Festival – from Mr. Scruff to free jazz outfit The Golden Age of Steam
Win 2 tickets to Beat-Herder Festival
Here’s an offer readers of Creative Tourist shouldn’t pass up: the chance to win a pair of tickets to one of this summer’s most eclectic music festival’s, Beat-Herder
Sound barrier. Music and the Mill.
Luke Bainbridge goes to Salford and finds a city remarkable for its new music and outsider art
Salford Rocks. Sounds from the Other City returns.
DPercussion might be dead, but good new music certainly isn’t. Music blogger Matthew Britton rounds up the best of this year’s Sounds from the Other City acts
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Outsider art
Artists Ford Madox Brown and Adolphe Valette were two visitors to the city who made a lasting impression on Manchester. Jessica Lack investigates.... More -
Old traditions, new blood
A flurry of new arrivals, relocations, and enticing performances add up to an embarrassment of riches for classical music lovers in Manchester, Femke Colborne finds.... More -
Drawing outside the lines
Ben Luke gets a first look at Asia Triennial Manchester 2011 and the Whitworth’s Dark Matters, two exhibitions in which art does no less than transcend borders and conquer time.... More -
Fest in show
While the Weekender brings together the best of Manchester over three days, it wouldn’t exist without four of the amazing annual festivals that arrive in the city each October. Matthew Hull takes a closer look at their programmes... More
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