Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh. In the soft golden light, mud and bronze sculptures are backlit by expansive screens ...

Main image: Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument (installation view), Secession, Vienna, 2024. Photo: © Ali Cherri Studio, courtesy the artist and Imane Farès, Paris.

Fittingly, it’s been there from the start. Salford’s Lowry theatre and gallery is celebrating its silver anniversary, and Going to the Match, L.S. Lowry’s depiction of Bolton Wanderers supporters ...

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 ...

When you move house, especially during winter, the garden is full of surprises. What is lurking beneath the soil? What will poke its head out in spring? Will there be summer colour? I’ll be honest, I ...

Fittingly, it’s been there from the start. Salford’s Lowry theatre and gallery is ...

I usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make it into the copy. This time, however, I had to decompress ...

During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...

Here at OperaWatch offices in Northern Soul Towers, the staff are giddy with excitement. After a surreal visitation by the spirits of past, present and future, I have granted them a few extra days off ...

For some, the idea of juggling two big jobs might be a daunting prospect. Not so for Heidi Dawson who, earlier this year, was appointed BBC Head of Salford. The post is in addition to her existing ...