Susie Stubbs

It’s noisy, it’s indie and it’s going to be a ball: your guide to Saturday’s Record Store Day. A raucous, noisy and strangely nail-biting annual event, Record Store Day has,...

RIBA calls for architects to come up with ways of improving the unloved spaces in our cities. Do you ever walk down your street and wish you could do something...

A former bakery worker creates functional, beautiful homewares in a solo exhibition in the city. The Barbakan is one of our favourite places in which to indulge a life-long love...

How better to celebrate one of Manchester’s best modernist buildings than with a bottle of real ale? The Toastrack is one of Manchester’s most loved – and eclectic – buildings....

The North’s blogging network returns with a packed, one-day workshop focused on one of our favourite things: food. It’s been all quiet on the blogging front since the inaugural Blog...

The daughter of famous parents knows a thing or two about celebrity – and about women, as a new photography exhibition proves. I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the concept...

One photography exhibition and 100 images allow you to get out of the city – for a moment, at least. Sometimes, living and working in the city, I forget just...

With International Women’s Day close by, Wonder Women begins with an exhibition in Castlefield & an Un-convention at Manchester Art Gallery. This weekend sees the start of a month of...

As MIF sets out its stall, we find that this year it’s not all about the artists – the city’s hidden spaces make a guest appearance too. “This is very...

One of the UK’s biggest Chinese communities celebrates with fireworks, food and a whopper of a dragon. This is one for the kids: if you have a young family and...

Food, sound art, secret rambles and Stuart Maconie – just another weekend in Cockermouth then. Things are looking up for Cockermouth, the Cumbrian town that was (in)famously inundated by flood...

Manchester Theatre Awards kick-starts the cultural year with its shortlist announcement. There are few who’d argue with the idea theatre lovers in Manchester have never had it so good. From...