Mark your calendars: The Manchester summer blogmeet will be happening Tuesday July 27 from 6-8pm at Common , and I'm very happy to tell ...

Shh. Keep your voice down. Do you see that woman writing in her notebook? No, don't turn around. Yes, her. She's writing down everyt...

I'm a huge fan of after hours parties in museums, and The Whitworth's Midsummer House Party looks set to be a cracker, with a housef...

Ideas are big news in Manchester at the moment. Sure, the city's universities are always hosting fascinating talks and lectures, but it ...

The past few weeks have seen the launch of three long-anticipated sites that all aim to shake up the way Manchester's cultural life is r...

In a town so small there's no escape from view is a blog about city centres, and often, Manchester's city centre, by Dan of PYT fa...

Hoo boy, is this a long post. But I had so much to say about FutureEverything’s City Debate last Friday, I just couldn’t restrain myself....

A few interesting odds and ends: Some Manchester writers have cooked up a tasty new web-based venture over at 'other' magazine . Yo...

I have helped organise a speculative fiction writing group tonight at MadLab on Edge Street . No, this doesn't mean the existence of the...

I was delighted to be asked to take part in The City Debate . It's an interesting idea: assemble a big group of people who think about M...

Mayday... mayday. Sounds from the Other City is this Sunday. I will not be there as SFTOC involves standing around in hot, crowded rooms and...

Here's a long overdue roundup of new activity in Manchester's cultural media landscape. Some gigantic web launches lurk in the wings...

Canadian journalist, writer and professionally supersmart guy Malcolm Gladwell will be appearing at The Lowry May 11 . The great-haired one ...

I recently read Len Grant's Billy and Rolonde . It follows three socially excluded people - a junkie, an asylum seeker from Zimbabwe an...

New blog time. So what have we got? A whole mess of new arts and culture blogs. Blog Station is the blog linked with Chorlton's Lead St...

Road trip! In The Company of Wolves , Neil Jordan's gobsmackingly weird 1984 film of Angela Carter's werewolf fantasy, is going to b...

Nearly time for the Manchester incarnation of Twestival, a worldwide charity event that harnesses the awesome power of Twitter to raise mone...

If you've been reading this blog for a while you may have picked up on the fact that I'm kind of a library geek. I worked in librari...

Another great gig coming up: I'm getting pretty excited for The Magnetic Fields at Manchester Cathedral this Friday evening. A Magnetic...

There always seems to be lots going on in Ramsbottom, the northernmost bit of Bury where I live. But there have been a couple of developme...