Just noticed this good article on music blogs in Sunday's Observer , by Killian Fox. The article is fairly explicit about the increasing...

Yep, it's spring, and you know what that means... the Manc festival frenzy is officially beginning and it won't end until late Autum...

This just in, from Gill Moore . If I wasn't going to be out of town I would definitely try to go to this... Mike Leigh, international ...

A few bits and bobs: The MIF fringe fest is coming back for more in Summer '09, and has started scouting around for acts and artists. So...

Some sad news: The BBC Manchester blog is no more. The experiment has run its course, and creators Richard Fair and Robin Hamman are bowin...

Oh my god. I have been feverishly ill now for two weeks, and being ill is apparently much worse than normal when you're super pregnant. ...

1. Anyone who had tickets for the Vampire Weekend gig tonight at the Academy is SOL: they've pulled a sickie. But they ask us to "...

Three days later, I am still recovering from judging the North West Fine Food awards . Judging food awards seems like a great gig until you ...

"What is it with Manchester? Why, when it comes to restaurants, is it always so nearly, but not quite? Why does every restaurant I visi...

What's with all the coffee? There's a new caffenero/starbucks/costa on practically every street, and we're even finally getting ...

So this week two much-loved Manc institutions got a reprieve. First we learned that Queer up North would not have their funding axed by the ...

I got this comment today: "Appreciating being kept up with new blogs - but what's happening to your own blog? We've not heard f...

A few new blogs for you this week: The first is Eurekak! , a themed blog that collects moments of dodgy inspiration (that's one there, t...

In among this week's crop of new blogs, some of you might recognise an old friend. The 43 was a beautifully written blog based on writer...

Loads of people have been telling me for ages how elegant and versatile WordPress is, but despite the best intentions I haven't gotten ...

A happy holiday to one and all. Catch you in 2008.

A blogger involved with Manchester's gay and lesbian arts festival has written to say that queerupnorth are one of the couple hundred re...

Here's a whole family-size tin's worth of new Manchester blogs for our blogroll. Tasty. Manchester Libraries have entered the bloggi...

Yes, it's another "Manchester blogger makes good" post. Y'all are just so darn talented these days. Our MBA best new blog ...

Manchester is a great city for art. Yeah, we don't have a Guggenheim or a Tate, but the full spectrum of what you can see and do here as...