Nevertheless, in lieu of The Odyssey, I visited a new Greek eatery in Salford to spend a couple of hours musing over a ...

The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and more eccentric than most.

“Make Egypt great again,” boomed the pharaoh from the stage of the Lyceum theatre. Parents in the packed audience of ...

In a more idiosyncratic sort of anniversary, it’s 24 years since the release of the film 24 Hour Party People, depicting, ...

The roots of Little Shop of Horrors are long and deep: it’s an oft-revived stage musical, freely adapted from a cult classic ...

In Gary Fleder’s 1997 thriller Kiss the Girls, Morgan Freeman delivers a line that has stayed with me ever since. Freeman plays forensic psychologist Alex Cross while Ashley Judd is Kate McTiernan.

These days, tradition is a double-edged sword. A blade that can be lofted by the balaclava-clad right, ready to pick another fight in the culture wars, it can nevertheless be satisfyingly resistant to ...

Manchester loves to tell its cultural story through the people who created things with their own hands. Factory Records, the Haçienda, and the city’s countless independent venues have helped to create ...

The wonderful wooden-O auditorium at Shakespeare North, which won the award for best new theatre building in 2023, is based on the remains of a theatre found in the basement of 10 Downing Street where ...

‘Japonisme’ is a French word for the 19th century European enthusiasm for Japanese culture. From Degas and Gauguin to The Mikado and Madam Butterfly, western artists celebrated the ending of Japanese ...

On March 19, 2026, King Charles III declared the England Coast Path, to which his name was appended in 2023, officially open. For those of us trying to complete the route, it had been a long time ...