Messing about in a boat on the river with you-Review Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame's treasured novel the Wind in the Willows has been brought to life and adapted for the stage by screenwriter Julian Fellowes and...

A hidden gem of New Contemporary Art in Castlefield.

A brand new art gallery has opened just two weeks ago in a beautiful listed building in historic Castlefield. Saul Hay Gallery is the brainchild...

Spooky goings on 

Welcome to Halloween, the traditional last day of October which sees supermarket shelves bulging with large pumpkins and scary costumes and kids playing trick...

Lucy tells the story of Audenshaw’s Ray’s Bionic Eye at Manchester Science Festival 

An exciting new art project is exploring the damage of sight loss caused by Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and the use of the...

Manchester scientists have helped to narrow search for a new ‘God particle’

As part of one of the most ambitious quests in science a senior physicist at The University of Manchester has helped to narrow the...

Challenging Outsider Art: OutsiderXchanges heads to the Whitworth for a one-of-a-kind Art Party

Over the past 7-months, OutsiderXchanges, a pioneering visual arts project based on collaboration, reciprocal learning and creative exchange has brought together six learning disabled...

Refinery-opening shortly in Spinningfields

Drake & Morgan, the renowned bar & restaurant group behind some of London’s most popular bars, is heading North to open its first venture...

Relax and float down stream at Manchester’s Arndale

"Turn off your mind relax and float down stream" wrote John Lennon in 1966. Well fifty years later you can do just that over...

Lowry Theatre to celebrate thirty years of Shirley Valentine 

Willy Russell’s heart-warming comedy Shirley Valentine premiered in 1986 and took the world by storm. In celebration of its 30th Anniversary the first major...

Reach for the Sky- The Towers of Bootle Street

Plans for the redevelopment of Jackson Row were on display for one day only this week in the Central Library and About Manchester went...