Endearing in a more straightforward way is Gemma Chua-Tran’s Willow, in her own words a former ‘prisoner of Gay Pop’, now ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, until August 31, 2025. For more information, click ...

Any, Body, Home, the current group show of work by female artists at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, doesn’t make it easy ...

At Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, they are read in the Arabic they were written in, with the English translation in back ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

The landscape of Manchester city centre is filled with reminders of the industrial revolution, of Arkwright and cotton, of trading and trains, of the spoils of empire. But peer closer and there are ...

Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa CoxWhen the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined ...

May Payne, a singer/songwriter based in Manchester, is an intricate painter of vulnerability, trauma, and love. Nowhere is this more evident than in her first EP, a radically vulnerable offering of ...

If you should see Count Arthur Strong live on stage – and you definitely should – Stockport Plaza is the perfect place to do so. OK, so the sound system might not quite be up to the standards of a ...

The Holly Johnson Story at the Museum of Liverpool: Northern Soul's Steve Slack enjoys a new exhibition.

Farewell, OperaWatchIt’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers. After 12 years as Northern Soul ’s Opera Correspondent, ...