As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live ...

For the past few weeks, Manchester’s streets have been filling up with posters advertising the Manchester International ...

And so the advert for Dinosaur World Live, served up by a social media algorithm, should have set my eye twitching. Nope. I ...

A dreamy window in a dreary January: Northern Soul's Nancy Collantine chills out at Crewe Hall in Cheshire.

Book Review: Precipitation by Ailsa CoxWhen the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined ...

The Holly Johnson Story at the Museum of Liverpool: Northern Soul's Steve Slack enjoys a new exhibition.

Picture Gallery - Winnifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag RugsShe was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is ...

When Northern Soul puts it to Alasdair Beckett-King that he doesn’t seem to be a man who likes being bored, he laughs and replies, “I wonder what you mean by that?” Well, let’s look at the evidence.

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 ...

Set in 1829, a new children’s book called Wrong Tracks centres on Edward Entwistle, a Lancashire lad from Tyldesley, Wigan, whose claim to fame is driving the famous Rocket steam engine on the railway ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

Ink Spill: Short Stories and Poems from Manchester's Emerging WritersThere are no limits on style, genre, level of completion or polish, no pre-requisites except the willingness to hear open and ...