Donkey skin puppets, thousand year-old jam tarts and a long-standing relationship with Manchester: as a new exhibition opens at the Manchester Museum, its curator Stephen Welsh tells Neil McQuillian the...
Take the wrong turn when you’re looking for Manchester, Bolivia, and you might find yourself swimming with the fishes, discovers Neil McQuillian Manchester Museum’s Finding Manchester, Lost In Bolivia documents...
Neil McQuillian discovers how Manchester Pride has evolved from protest to party For ten days in August there’ll be a distinct pink tinge to the city as Manchester Pride celebrates...
Neil McQuillian limbers up for this weekend’s contemporary dance festival as Urban Moves brings its third edition to Manchester From breakdance and ballet to capoeira and hip hop, via the...
Neil McQuillian discovers what happened when Cecil Beaton – high society photographer and fashionista – was commissioned in 1943 to document the distinctly unglamorous Tyneside shipyards. The portfolio of Cecil...
Vuvuzelas at the ready! Neil McQuillian prepares for a new parade in Manchester You may be wary. You may have had a few tricks played on you by seemingly...
Neil McQuillian traces a route through International 3 gallery’s latest art exhibition Step outside the Fairfield Street exit of Piccadilly Station and you are greeted by the cluttered clash of...
Neil McQuillian enters the murky world of the fanzine, as a new exhibition opens in Salford In the full bloom of the digital era, as newspaper and magazine closures occur...
