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.

Henry Normal shares some of his brilliant poems written for, and inspired by, his son, Johnny, as part of World Autism Awareness Week 2021.

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 ...

Bedrooms, Bus Stops and Boredom: Remembering Pete ShelleyIt’s the coy half-smile. The knitted jumper. The diminutive stance, the thatch of brown hair with just the whisper of a mullet, the huge, ...

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 ...

In the first of a new series on traditional Northern scran by the Northern Soul team, Karen Connolly reminisces about The Wigan Kebab. Raised in Wigan by an English mother and a Sicilian father, I was ...

Northern Soul's Steve Slack visits Manchester Museum following its £15 million refurbishment.