Ol Urwin talks Thatcher, community and new album with Frank Turner.

The long-sought-after proof that I’m not as achingly cool as I look

Elizabeth Mitchell argues that one of the most prolific writers of all time deserves the same reputation as his overexposed contemporary, Dickens

Annie Muir’s finds some stirring stuff in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library

Detroit’s hottest house talent delivers a solid debut record

Everyday Analysis discusses United Colours of Benetton’s recent ‘Unemployee of the Year’ campaign

Annabel Herrick previews ‘Articulate’ from the Venture Arts project, at the Lowry

Does politics have a place in music? Tom Ingham thinks so

Arian Lehner and James Taylor-Foster founded Mies UK as an independent project to look at architecture from a student perspective through written and filmed interview

We caught up with Shereen Perera, Visual Arts Co-ordinator at Islington Mill, to talk about her work, the Mill and how she got there

Tom Ingham heads to the Lowry to indulge his love of Springsteen in reviewing Sarfraz Manzoor’s ‘How Bruce Springsteen changed my life’

Annabel Herrick sat down with UoM lecturer Peter Cooke to discuss his career and the works which inspire him

The best in local theatre this week

Andrew Georgeson speaks to 2nd year architecture student James Taylor-Foster about the Contact’s new architecture collaboration

George Bailey experiences Sigur Rós at Manchester’s O2 Apollo

Celia Mullins talks to Book Club about House of the Spirits, the Isabel Allende classic, visceral prose, and Meryl Streep

As our last issue of the year, we give you a guide to what not to miss over the next few months in Manchester

Despite a more mainstream album approach, Turner is still the fame outcast his fans love

We caught one half of Masters At Work waxing lyrical on 45s, the consequences of technology and Nuyorican Soul II

The divisive metalcore group return to form in incendiary style