‘In folk horror, the soil beneath our feet is seismically unstable’, writes Hollie Starling in her introduction to Bog People ...

The Grand Babylon Hotel is at the New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent until October 4, 2025. For more information, click here.

Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s poignant play inspired by his own family’s roots in Donegal, is no exception. The best ...

I have always wanted to visit The Modernist. Along the row of stylish windows lining Manchester’s Porter Street, its ...

The first rule about being British is, you don’t talk about it. Like Fight Club. It’s our main characteristic. This is one of ...

Over recent years there have been rumblings of an Ideal revival, possible as a feature film, but for its anniversary it’s ...

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, modelling her own music and guitar-playing on them ...

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 ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

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 ...

I’ve been a bit under the weather of late (who wouldn’t be in the year’s darkest, greyest months?). So a self-care retreat in the heart of Manchester was just the ticket. From the moment I arrived at ...