Bread and roses: International Women’s Day Awards
Cast your vote for Manchester’s finest on International Women’s Day. Eighty-six years ago, if you weren’t the one wearing the trousers in your house, chances are you wouldn’t have been...
Written by Susie Stubbs
New things to read: The Modernist
We’re always on the look-out for cultural things to read. This month: The Modernist You know how it is. Much as we love all things digital, sometimes nothing beats a...
Theatre by the Lake takes on the Railway Children
This production of The Railway Children has all the hallmarks of a Christmas classic Let’s face it, no traditional British Christmas is complete without a few tearjerker film classics: White...
Christmas concerts: choirs and music with the Hallé
Christmas concerts come but once a year, so make the most of the Hallé Orchestra’s seasonal offerings. You’d have to be a close relative of Scrooge not to enjoy, even...
Christmas theatre: White Christmas
at The Lowry
at The Lowry
Looking for Christmas things to do? Try some seasonal theatre, courtesy of The Lowry’s White Christmas If a dusting of the white-stuff is what it takes to get you in...
Things to do with kids: Christmas
at Manchester Museum
at Manchester Museum
Looking for things to do with kids this Christmas? You could do far worse than head for Manchester Museum Manchester Museum is always a safe bet for school holiday distractions, and...
Peter Blake
at The Lowry: Pop Art & Pop Music Combine
at The Lowry: Pop Art & Pop Music Combine
Peter Blake revisits a career spent combining fine art and pop music Often called the godfather of British Pop Art, octogenarian artist Sir Peter Blake has a career that spans...
Folk music: June Tabor and the Oysterband hit the Lake District.
Manchester institution Band on the Wall goes on tour – bringing folk music legends June Tabor and the Oysterband to Ulverston Manchester’s Band on the Wall goes on tour –...
Manchester Weekender 2012: Sunday's Things to Do.
Hello Manchester! Looking for things to do this sunny Sunday? You’re in the right place – here’s our highlights of what’s on today. Here are our recommendations for things to...
Manchester Weekender 2012: Saturday's Things to Do.
Good morning Manchester! Looking for things to do this fine Saturday? You’re in the right place – here’s our highlights of what’s on today. There are three main places you...
Songs in strange places: unusual Manchester gigs.
Lauren Strain tracks the trend for Manchester gigs in strange spaces – and looks forward to Songs of the Caged Bird, Bunford & Kashiwagi and Red Deer Club’s secret sessions....
Blog | Critical writing. Where do we go from here?
It was positioned as the bloggers vs. the critics. Susie Stubbs ponders the relationship between digital and critical writing in the wake of an event at Liverpool Biennial Last weekend...