Who will emerge victorious from the T20 Cricket World Cup?

Words Weekend is a festival taking place at the Lowry next month, featuring speakers such as Bob Geldof, KBE, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE, Anne Reid, MBE and Derek Jacobi, CBE

American noughties rock sensations Cage the Elephant will play a UK tour this month in the wake of their much-anticipated collaboration with Iggy Pop on single ‘Broken Boy’.

Issy Felicity discusses Mahalia’s upcoming performance at Manchester’s Albert Hall

Alexia Pieretti attends the preview event of Avenue Q at Oscars Bar

Much acclaimed British glam-rock band The Struts headliner Manchester Academy on October 11, promising a gripping and fuelled live performance on the back of the US leg of their Young and Dangerous world tour

Anuli Changa talks to director Rosie Thackeray about what East means to her and the process of preparing to take the play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019

Contributor Owen Trimming previews Boomtown Festival 2019: ‘A Radical City’ as it greets headliners Gorillaz, Die Antwoord and Limp Bizkit

Contributor Freya Thomson previews Bluedot Festival which sees science meet music with headliners New Order, Kraftwerk, and Hot Chip.

Wondering what films are coming out in the next few months? Check out our overview of the most interesting ones and pick something for yourself

In its 26th year running, ¡Viva! is back at HOME, bringing with it a selection of 31 films from Spain and Latin America

HOME’s latest “Adaptation: Impossible Novels” season champions adaptations of books that stand toe-to-toe with their source materials, against all odds

Manchester’s Everyman Cinema St John’s is hosting the Stealing Sheep “BIG WOWS” Video Series Premiere on Wednesday, 13 November

The rising Zkeletonz trio new synth-filled single says: if he world’s coming to an end, we may as well get away from the noise and dance

Steve Backshall, TV explorer and naturalist, comes to RNCM this weekend

Contributor Owen Trimming covers one of the UK’s most exciting festival’s of the year, Boomtown which takes place this August in Winchester

Eleanor Roberts gives an insight into the line-up for this year’s 2000trees Festival near Cheltenham, as well as the thought put into it by its creators

Winona Newman gives us the run-down of one of the UK’s strongest festival lineup’s this year in Oxfordshire’s Truck Festival.