I never feel that summer has really started until I’ve been to the outdoor show in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. The Dukes have been producing a family show in these bucolic surroundings almost ...

I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...

The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take ...

As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live band in the world and that their 70s’ albums were pretty close to perfect ...

Review: Dinosaur World Live, Sheffield LyceumI have come to the realisation that I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I love dinosaurs, but I never wanted to love dinosaurs. In fact, I went through ...

“It makes me feel like a snowflake,” I say. “The kind of person who Nigel Farage complains about. But my kids watching Gladiators makes me uneasy.” I blurt this out, like a confession in a therapy ...

Music Review: Bonnie Raitt, 02 Apollo ManchesterWhen Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, ...

This book won’t change your life. It probably knows a book that says it can, though. Or an evening class. Or a retreat. Zena Barrie’s terrain is dotted with the illusory pyramids of self-improvement ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, marks the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital installation space at Blackburn’s Fusebox. Designed to provide a secure berth for a ...

Theatre Review: Dear England, The Lowry, SalfordI know nothing about football. Actually, that’s not true. I have two sons who grew up in Manchester, one a City fan, the other, well, the other, and ...

In the end, the biggest act of the weekend wasn’t even on the bill. It just after noon on Saturday, as early arrivals milled around Liverpool’s Sefton Park or foot-tapped appreciatively to upcoming ...

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in reality it’s a bungalow built in 1988 which has remained largely the same ...