Danny Moran: Recession incoming
Across a Swinton sandwich shop table-top Charlie Winstanley's words are as plain as Rich Tea biscuits. "I'm a Marxist," he says. "I believe society's problems are...
Danny Moran: Comic writer Adam Farrer, PINS guitarist’s pleasure demons, local councillor considers throwing...
In a Whitefield café bar Adam Farrer coughs up a confession.
“This is actually my first interview,” he says. “I hope I don’t go on...
Danny Moran: Sebastião Salgado’s apocalypse, Lara Williams’s late capitalism, and FC United’s date with...
In a dark corner of the Science & Industry Museum’s new underground gallery is a vision of the end of the world. With the...
Danny Moran: Marcia Hutchinson’s novel, Manchester City’s mindf***, and MONEY singer Jamie Lee at...
Across the potholed parishes of Manchester aspiring candidates knock on doors as next week’s local elections hove into view. With 93 of the 96...
One of the world’s rarest pigs is born at Chester Zoo
One of the world’s rarest pig species has been born at Chester Zoo.
The arrival of a Visayan warty piglet has given cause for celebration...
The forgotten man that brought photography to Manchester
Few people have probably heard the name of John Benjamin Dancer, an inventor and maker of scientific instruments yet the man who came and...
Once proud Newton Heath building is being left to rot
It was once one of the most splendid shops in Manchester but now the future of this Newton Heath building seems destined for demolition...
A Message to our Readers – In these Unprecedented Times We Want to Celebrate...
The events of the last few days have put particular pressure on the media and we hope that About Manchester has, in the eyes...
New plans revealed for Manchester’s Albert Square
Manchester Council wants to make the new look Albert Square one of the finest civic spaces in Europe.
Plans have been submitted that would see the...
The defenseless people were sabred, stabbed, shot, pressed down and trampled by the horse...
Two hundred years ago today, eighteen innocent people were killed and hundreds injured at Peter's Fields on the then outskirts of the centre of...