On a showery Saturday afternoon with the sound of thunder echoing in my ears, I set off to Manchester’s Red Bank to sample ...

So near and yet so far. You know that thing where in New York people say you turn a corner and you’re in a completely ...

For those interested in history and espionage, Antonia Senior’s highly compelling new book, Stalin’s Apostles, is a ...

There’s an art to parting, a chance to frame the end credits on one’s own terms.

Ai Weiwei, whose monumental works currently loom large over the hangar-like warehouse space at Manchester’s Factory ...

Anyone who has been through Manchester’s Trafford Park will be familiar with Brian Fell’s landmark sculpture Skyhooks which, ...

In the run-up to Christmas 2023, Molly McGuinness came down with tonsillitis. Before long, she was rushed to hospital with chest pains. The infection had developed into a rare case of Lemierre’s ...

It’s the most famous heckle in history. Around 9.30 on the evening of May 17, 1966, a disgruntled punter on the balcony shouted “Judas!” at Bob Dylan, towards the end of the second half of the ...

Chicken is having a moment. I’m not sure the birds themselves would agree, but there are reportedly huge queues outside the Manchester chicken parm shops in Burnage, Korean fried chicken is everywhere ...

Cotton twists its way through the North. Here, fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories that create social fabric and identity. And they can be found, woven delicately, into the ...

As Angela Carter divined, and gleefully demonstrated in her celebrated short story collection The Bloody Chamber, fairy tales, though sugar-coated, typically conceal less palatable truths. The same ...

Manchester Film Festival closes with exactly the right kind of film. Not something inflated for the sake of a finale, but a work that catches hold of one of the festival’s deeper currents. California ...