I was ridiculously joyful at this year’s Manchester Day Parade. Led by the Lord Mayor June Hitchen and Lord Mayor’s Consort Carmine Grimshaw, their elation set the procession off with a rocking start. This year’s premise...
Read MoreIn a new series, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb talks to working class creative people, some already established, some emerging, and some setting their stall out to create more work for others. This week it’s Rob Johnston, a...
Read MoreIn a new series, Northern Soul’s Cathy Crabb talks to working class creative people, some already established, some emerging, and some setting their stall out to create more work for others. This week it’s writer Bethan Kitchen...
Read MoreCurator Steven Gartside describes Break in Transmission, the current exhibition at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Holden Gallery, as “the pleasures and pitfalls of language, communication and meaning”. I’m already...
Read MoreIt’s 1938 and weekly shopper Laura rests her weary court shoes at the station café before the train home. Life is so monotonous that she may well cave her head in with a rock cake. That is, until Dr Alec parks his trilby on the...
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