Fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories created by the ceramicist Hannah Sulek. We talk to her to find ...

Rachel Maclean: They’ve Got Your Eyes is at FACT, Liverpool until August 16, 2026. For more information, click here.

At the beginning of 2026, a crowd gathered at Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre to bring in the New Year. Led by Gluteus Maximus, ...

That sits at the centre of Mythos Ragnarök, but Gamester and his troupe push it further, louder, more visceral. Every clash ...

The humour lands, but the force sits underneath it. Voice becomes strategy, accent becomes passage. Talent alone is not ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...

Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing any reviewer of the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is resisting the temptation simply to quote all the best bits. The difficulty is further compounded by there ...

Inherently contrary, the North is resistant to many things: clothing proportionate to its climate, walking on escalators, the self-regard of the South. Above all, it is resistant to definition. The ...