Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery is not often the centre of national cultural attention. Yet this autumn it hosts The Nature of Gothic, an exhibition that would be at home in any major city.

British Textile Biennial 2025 runs November 2, 2025. See BTB25 for more information including opening times, links to an excellent podcast series and information about bus tours (highly recommended if ...

A cult film is a lot like a crush. It shares with infatuation the thrill of discovery, the giddy delusion that the object of your affection has qualities only you can fully discern. The loved one is ...

In essence a waking biography unmoored by dream, Balkan Erotic Epic is a singular, captivating, discomfiting, uneven and ...

Ruth Berkoff appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester. For more information on The Beauty of Being Herd, click ...

In its 20th anniversary year, the co-directors of Manchester Literature Festival, Cathy Bolton and Sarah-Jane Roberts, talk ...

The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

It’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers. After 12 years as Northern Soul’s Opera Correspondent, I’m stepping down.

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Living in Manchester city centre affords glimpses into the habits of modern Britain. On my daily shop to the local supermarket, I watch the lunch choices of office workers as they queue. Sandwich, ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...