Urban Outfitters pushed its clothes aside and made room for some Art

Harriot Allsop investigates the latest in interactive throwbacks

You’ll probably want to do this.

Your personally-tailored introduction to the arts page this year

Our introduction to the crucial galleries around and the pick of what’s on ahead.

What’s on chez corner.

Centre for architecture and design. But don’t let that put you off.

The big one, also the old one.

So much to see, so much to say.

From the riot-provoked graffiti that recently graced walls near you, we traced the way back to the explosion of graffiti in Manchester in student-friendly Hulme in the late 80s.

More from our GRAFFITI SPECIAL. Hulme’s currently pleasant and middle-class face masks a hidden past of cultural rejection and dissent – so much so that it became the underground Mecca of all things creative, including and especially graffiti.

An introduction to the theatre scene in Manchester

Doctor Faustus, Royal Exchange, 10th September 2010 When Robert Johnson went to the crossroads to sell his soul to the devil, he did so in exchange for an awesome mastery of the guitar and revolutionised the blues forever more. The tale of Faust recounts how he did the same thing in his quest for knowledge […]

Parade, The Lowry, 27th – 28 Any members of the audience taking their seats as the cast broke into ‘The Old Red Hills of Home’ would have thought that they had arrived two hours late for the evening’s performance. The opening chorus of Parade possessed all the qualities of a number preceding a curtain call […]

Challenge your perception of reality at the Abandon Normal Devices Festival.

Exclusive interview with the new Chair for the Drama Society 2010-2011

Preview of the Broadway musical “Rent”, being performed at the RNCM by South Manchester Amateur Operatic Society.

The Edinburgh Fringe – what it is, who it’s for, and one Manchester University student’s experience of it.

Melody Nairn’s view on ancient theatre and how modern entertainment is not much different.