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.

is the newly established restaurant attached to the Treehouse Hotel at the northern end of Deansgate. The latest creative ...

I loved every second of this. Imagine a couple of hundred 50-somethings watching a very funny play and leaping to their feet ...

The Perspectivists is the latest exhibition to make full use of the modernist shop's modest wall space in Manchester. We take ...

I never feel that summer has really started until I’ve been to the outdoor show in Lancaster’s Williamson Park. The Dukes have been producing a family show in these bucolic surroundings almost ...

The backdrops to a decade, the details which define a period, have a ubiquity which renders them ...

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 ...

Theatre Review - Love’s Labour’s Lost (more or less), Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot.

Underneath the Stars Festival 2023: Northern Soul's solo stargazer, Megan Bond, has a brilliant time in Barnsley.

Review: Dinosaur World Live, Sheffield LyceumI have come to the realisation that I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I love dinosaurs, but I never wanted to love dinosaurs. In fact, I went through ...

Music Review: Bonnie Raitt, 02 Apollo ManchesterWhen Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, ...

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 ...