Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia – A Mod Ballet is at Lowry, Salford until July 19, 2025. For more information, click here.

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

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

Manchester has long been the locus of world-shattering political meetings, from Marx and Engels writing the Communist ...

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Fran Yeoman is head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University where she loves putting the next generation of journalists in the North through their paces. Before returning to her native ...

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Cats get such a raw deal in Martin McDonagh’s bloody farce The Lieutenant of Inishmore that they’re mentioned in the show’s trigger warning. The poor felines are daubed with shoe polish, shot, bashed ...

Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

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 ...