Manchester
Piccadilly Records
Piccadilly Records is the real deal, a record shop so good that it probably deserves some credit for the regeneration of its surrounding neighbourhood.
Written by Desmond Bullen
Manchester
Working Class Movement Library
The Working Class Movement Library houses the personal collection of labour historians Ruth and Edmund Frow, a treasure trove of material and stories.
Manchester
Walkden Gardens
Walkden Gardens in the Manchester suburbs has all the makings of a fairy tale garden. As a venue, it’s hard to imagine a more magical gateway, a wonderful escape only a short(ish) stroll from the Brooklands Metrolink stop..
North West Zine Fest 2016
at Islington Mill: Anyone with a pen
at Islington Mill: Anyone with a pen
A short paean to the wonderful North West Zine Fest, which returns to Islington Mill this June. It goes without saying that punk is dead. In these relentless times, it’s...
Imitation of Life, preview: Identity, race and belonging
Douglas Sirk’s 1959 film has provided inspiration for a new exhibition at HOME. In these frantic, fractured times, identity is the folk art of the day, fashioned in the fault-line...
Granadaland Conference, Manchester: North Of A Miracle
A conference celebrating the legacy of Granada Television on the 60th anniversary of its first broadcast. For the sake of argument, let’s concede that – somehow or other – the...
Heart to Heart
at MSI & Manchester Art Gallery: Once more, with feeling
at MSI & Manchester Art Gallery: Once more, with feeling
Heart to Heart at MSI and Manchester Art Gallery reinvents machines with human qualities across live performance, film and installation. Memory is a contradiction, at once insubstantial and visceral, both...
The Imitation Game
at Manchester Art Gallery, preview: ARTificial intelligence
at Manchester Art Gallery, preview: ARTificial intelligence
The world’s first stored-program computer was built in Manchester, so there is no better location for The Imitation Game – a groundbreaking exhibition exploring machines and their meaning.
Safe
at HOME: “Are you allergic to the 21st century?”
at HOME: “Are you allergic to the 21st century?”
The artists in HOME’s latest exhibition have been inspired by modern and medical paranoia to create work that’s far from safe. Each century is afflicted by its own particular illness....
Gothic Manchester Festival 2015: Our highlights
The Gothic Manchester Festival returns – featuring secret underground tours, an undead discotheque and film screenings. Resurrected by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies for what will be its third...
BBC children's TV
at the Lowry: Here’s One We Made Earlier
at the Lowry: Here’s One We Made Earlier
An exhibition on children’s TV from the BBC comes to The Lowry, bringing some beloved programmes with it. This is a story about all the stories. About the dreams a nation’s...
Fantastic Antarctic: MOSI's Ice Lab
The house that science built: Ice Lab reveals the structures capable of surviving the frozen moonscape of the South Pole. Science fiction has long dreamed of other worlds: unfamiliar and...