One artist’s take on the cells of city life

For the newbies you may not have seen Manchester in the daylight hours yet: it’s grey drizzly with a splash of colour graffittied to the walls every few metres. Manchester is famously nicknamed the Rainy City, and when you first arrive it’s hard to see anything but the concrete blandness, especially if you’ve moved here […]

If you haven’t heard of/seen the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Force of comedy-cabaret sauciness, your ears have not lived. On 20th October Frisky and Mannish are making their way to our humble-land (Frisky’s home-town), for the Manchester Comedy Festival and performing at The Lowry. Their production, School of Pop, taught its audiences Tudor history using the […]

Jimeoin aka Eyebrow Man, lovely Irish chap who moved to the sunnier climes of Australia years ago, is coming to the Manchester Comedy Festival 2011 on 18th October and performing at The Comedy Store. At 1pm on 17th October I had a quick chat with him before he scarpered off for more interviews, about stand-up, […]

Two Nobel prize winning professors at Manchester University believe they can create the next generation of computer chips

Oliver Johnstone explores parallels between student protests in Chile and here in the UK

Andrew Williams heads our review of this year’s party conference season – and he is crying out for an end to this “outdated and obsolete charade”

Some soared, others flopped as the three major parties gathered for their annual conferences

Cornerhouse does it again!

With the release of his book, ‘The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex’, we take a look at the UK’s foremost film critic: Mark Kermode

“The name’s Bean, Mr. Bean”

Woody, Wilson and Whimsy

In recognition of UMSU’s Black and Ethnic Minority Week, Lucy Hall pays homage to one of the great anti-apartheid activists, Joe Slovo

A peek at the labyrinthian mind of Haruki Murakami

Doing our bit to annoy everyone else

Using the process of 3-D printing, the environmentally friendly Urbee hybrid car displays the future of manufacturing.

After decades of service to science, a NASA satellite has crashed into the earth under much confusion as to where it would land.

Apple are in court proceedings once again, this time accused of copyright infringement by VIA Technologies.

MUMS will be performing Tchaikovsky’s incredibly moving 6th Symphony for your enjoyment.

The Strokes, Arcade Fire and Elbow come under Tom Hickman’s scrutiny in the first of our summer festival highlights.