Food cravings, scientific art, laboratory tours, Richard Dawkins, a ball pool for adults, and sci-fi cinema at Manchester Cathedral – our Manchester Science Festival highlights. This year’s Manchester Science Festival, which...
Written by Stevie Mackenzie-Smith
The Good Life Experience, the festival founded by Cerys Matthews and friends, returns for a second outing in Flintshire. Didn’t you hear? It’s not enough to have a summer festival...
at Contact: Soundless dancing and dining in the dark
Sensored, Contact theatre’s one-day performance festival, explores how the absence of senses can heighten our experiences. Intrigued? So were we… How do the ways in which we experience the world...
at Soup Kitchen
Enter our competition to win a pair of tickets to Hot Chip’s post-gig party at Soup Kitchen on 13 May. “They don’t make pop music like they used to,” said...
From markets to record shopping, via an internationally-acclaimed dance company, we’ve rounded up the best things to do in Manchester in April. There we were, minding our own business and...
at The Tetley: Prize draw
With superb work on show as part of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, we were left wondering – are we seeing a resurgence in the art of drawing? Gallery visitors are...
Don’t stay in: we round-up the reasons to leave the house and soak up some culture in Manchester this month. A return to normality was inevitable, but that doesn’t make...
Kim Gordon comes to Manchester in March, to talk to Dave Haslam about her highly-anticipated memoir Girl In A Band – and we’re giving away a pair of tickets. Where hot rock...
The latest in our monthly lists of Top UK blogs, we survey the best architecture blogs. Are you the sort of person who finds themselves looking more up than down when...
The latest in our monthly best bloggers lists, we turn our attention to the top UK blogs celebrating film in all its glory. Following the re-launch of our Top 25...
French musician Yann Tiersen curates the latest edition of the Playlist, our top five recommendations chosen by music taste-makers. Yann Tiersen is among those musicians whose work is a treat to witness...
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the sold-out Central Library Everything Everything residency finale event – with Everything Everything, Jesca Hoop and more. Curated by Manchester band Everything Everything, the...