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

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 ...

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

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

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.

At Buxton Crescent Hotel & Spa, the newest addition to the Champneys luxury spa chain, valet parking is £30 a day. As part of the review package, this was free. But we felt very ‘Marge’ about it and ...

The city is a particle accelerator, a vast experiment, endlessly generating chance and clutter. In its relentless promise of more and better excitement, its hectic pursuit of the unreachable now, it ...

My first paid gig in years, a cheque in the bank, and the money burning a hole in my pocket. It being Friday, I head for a fish place, and the best place for fish on a Friday in Manchester is ...

Driving into Blackburn in May, the election aftermath still spills from the airwaves, the tremors of the night before continuing to unfold as presenters attempt to narrate a country shifting beneath ...

Jon and Emily DeFelice solve problems. From their living-room-turned-studio in Salford, they create lovingly engineered bags that make life that little bit easier because every detail has been ...

At the Sir Stephen Hough piano recital at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, I noticed a man in the interval. He was elderly and well-groomed with slightly curly grey hair which had been carefully styled.