The Shawshank Redemption is at the Playhouse, Liverpool until April 4, 2026, and on tour. For more information, click here .

If this is your bag, you’re going to love Mars Tapes, the last cassette shop in the UK (according to them, anyway). The shop ...

In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is ...

The Photo North festival was back for three packed days of talks, screenings and conversation woven around the Carriageworks in Leeds. On Saturday, Carolyn Mendelsohn opened the talks with an ...

The synergy of the artists’ respective approaches working in array, Broken Ecologies exemplifies exactly the kind of soft power that demagogues both deny and decry. Their reaction is the opposite of ...

Moreover, in the types of emporia they represent, they act as tidal markers of the ebb and flow of the high street, paper memorials to chains which are no longer extant. In this respect, an early ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...

For anyone wondering whether there is any humanity left in this troubled world, I am delighted to confirm that there is – I have just found it in the form of Flapjack Press’s new release, The First ...

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 ...

Just after I arrive to interview Nick Vorstermans, the woodworker who has carved out a corner for beautiful things at Studio Critical: in Chorlton, a couple walk in and I witness an exchange that ...

It all began with Charlie Williams. Less well remembered these days than some of his peers, the former footballer was, in the early 1970s, Britain’s best-known black stand-up, having been promoted ...