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These tarts are a delicious alternative treat to the ubiquitous (and overrated) mince pie
Lucy Gardner’s second week of online dating
Miles Zilesnick on whether the people at Alexander McQueen take the ‘art’ aspect too far…
James Jackson discusses the positives of ‘smart’ drug use in academia and other areas.
Victoria Carter visits the Manchester Literature Festival and finds inspirational and encouraging talks are delivered alongside the perfect brownie
Grace WIlliams takes a step back to contemplate the Northern Quarter in true Flaneur fashion
The Whitworth exhibits Hogarth’s 1735 series A Rake’s Progress against David Hockney’s 1965 interpretation of the work
‘Prestigious’ universities still advertising places for over 13,500 courses
Eve Fensome meets the new leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett
Obama is currently on a major mission to push through Congress a cap on student loan costs
The paternal President was a pillar of great strength in the face of a belligerent world, writes Cat Hanson
Twelve years after a tragic accident that lead to prison time and estrangement from his family, Dwight Arno receives a visit from his son Sam. Deeply unhappy and misanthropic (due in no small part to his father’s crime and disappearance) Sam has grievously injured a man in a bar fight and his future hangs in […]
Musically they’re an acquired taste, lyrically they’re completely absurd, but Pulled Apart by Horses are riotously good fun.
What I read about The Art of Fielding (TAOF) in online reviews: Henry Skrimshander is a young baseball genius who might just be good enough to lead perennial no-hopers Westish College all the way to the championship. But – uh-oh! – one bad throw causes him to lose his nerve! There are also 4 other […]
The Daily Show host has proved to be a long-overdue thorn in the side of the Washington establishment
Some soared, others flopped as the three major parties gathered for their annual conferences
Andrew Williams heads our review of this year’s party conference season – and he is crying out for an end to this “outdated and obsolete charade”
We went on a free art crawl. *Sponsored by Vitamin Water and Kopparberg
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.