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New Library Theatre/Cornerhouse Image ReleasedWhat do we think folks? Is this glimpse getting us excited?
New City Centre Footbridge LandsSpinningfields and Salford kiss
Central Library And Town Hall Extension: Photos From The…Jonathan Schofield gets an exclusive peek inside the biggest refurbishment job in Britain
Liverpool Tower To Be Biggest Outside LondonNews and comment about Maurice Shapero's King Eddy ambitions
Jean M Franczyk is new MOSI directorEx-Chicago bigwig and museum learning boss takes over in Manchester
Councillor Amesbury's Open Letter On City HistoryCouncillor in charge of culture and leisure speaks up
Big Art From West Africa To Hit Manchester1 June to 16 September 2012 - Manchester City Galleries and Whitworth Art Gallery
The Manchester Gallery Closes: What Will Take Its Place?Jonathan Schofield suggests Chetham's School Of Music buildings as a new Museum of Manchester
Clarion Club Gets Back On Its BikeFamily Cycling Tours, Newspapers And Much More At The Working Class Movement Library 
CUBE Gallery: Manchester Riots And MoreThe 'CUBEOpen' Starts Off The Year - We Ask What Part Of It Means
Tom Benn: Explosive New Manchester NovelistNeil Sowerby says move over Scandi-writers, here's Manchester-noir
Manchester Museum February ListingsAll the exhibitions and events happening next month
Muhammad Ali Art Exhibition At Generation PopOfficial collection opens on Ali’s 70th birthday
This Was Us: 1750 Map And Picture Of The CityManchester Archive Treasures And Manchester Histories Festival Unite
Manchester: Beauty Is In The Eye Of The BeholderGerman architects visit Manchester and capture it in sunshine
Manc Modernists Save Church: St Raphael1963 Stalybridge Roman Catholic Church listed after facing demolition
Exclusive: A brand new BanksyIs it a bird? Is it a plane? Yes, to the last oneFrom Liverpool Confidential.
Hulme Hippodrome: Remarkable Pictures, Remarkable StoryHayley Flynn writes the words, Andrew Brooks takes the pics
What's In A Name? About £50k, normallyMerged Cornerhouse and Library Theatre looks for new identity
Manchester Apocalypse: Death Of Our CityJonathan Schofield looks at James Chadderton's destructive exhibition
Sensitive Design: It WorksJonathan Schofield likes a wooden hut on the Oxford Road Station platformToo Late!
Win Dinner, Bed And Breakfast And The Fall Tickets For TwoThe Commercial Hotel, Chester, offers an outstanding prize for Monday 28 November
Irish Eye: Colm HenryKaren Regn looks at U2 for us lot
A Taste of Shelagh - The Story of a Girl from SalfordCP Lee on a girl from nowhere who made a difference
This’n’That: An Artistic Curry MovementEmma Nuttall finds the Northern Quarter walls are talking
Political Posters: Get The MessagePaul Berentzen thinks we should all take a look: it'd be good for democracy
The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: AeolusJonathan Schofield likes a bit of steel
Buy Art Fair Is BackKaren Regn takes a wander around Quay House in Spinningfields
Gavin Elliott, BDP: The Big InterviewJonathan Schofield discusses Starchitects and Architecture at BDP 61-11
Manchester And Salford IllustratedNew exhibition in support of Wood Street Mission pictures the city
Alan Turing and MorphogenesisManchester Literature Festival celebrates Litmus with Comma Press
CervantesInstituto Cervantes celebrates the Manchester Literature Festival
Who Is This Mystery Man?Hilton Street Mosaic Mind-Bending Tile Phenomena
Free Manchester Literary Tours This WeekJonathan Schofield leads HSBC Premier walks around Manchester's way with words
Visual Arts Exhibition Comes To ManchesterPop-up store to teach the ‘Art of Protest.’
Asia Triennial 1 Oct – 27 Nov 2011: More HighlightsA Big Ball Of Wool And Other Stories
Ford Madox Brown: The Autumn Art BlockbusterJonathan Schofield loves the people and the stories in the pictures on Mosley Street 
Dark Matters: Tricks Of The Eye At The WhitworthOne Of The Last Whitworth Art Gallery Exhibitions Promises To Be A Cracker
The Manchester Contemporary – 28 to 30 OctoberConnect with leading UK artists, galleries and collectors over four days in Spinningfields
Buy Art Fair returns to Spinningfields from 28-30 OctoberBrowse and buy original, affordable works from over 300 artists
The Good, The Standard, The Ugly: Chopin StatueJonathan Schofield loves the motive but doubts the execution
Spanish Lessons At Instituto Cervantes de MánchesterThea Euryphaessa goes back to school and confronts her biggest fear – foreign languages
Irwell Sculpture Trail Re-launchedPaul Berentzen describes how the largest public art scheme is to go digital
Asia Triennial Recommendations - 1 Oct to 27 NovBrilliant Brillante, Cannes Winner, comes to the Cornerhouse along with a rich range of Asian cinema
Three Manchester libraries - a world collection tourThurs 15 Sept, 1pm, Jonathan Schofield leads a tour to the city's greatest treasures
7 Metre Piece Of Twin Towers Comes To Quays9/11 Exhibits At IWMN
Star Trek Exhibition at Generation PopIt's art Jim, but not as we know it
Platform 4 Turns The Acrobatic Into ArtCastlefield Arena comes to life with an evening to remember: Photos and Words
War Correspondent at IWMN ReviewedDavid McCourt gains new respect for the conflict correspondents at IWMN
Hungry, The Stars And Everything By Emma Jane UnsworthJonathan Payne dines on a proper meal of a debut from a Manchester writer
Manchester Cathedral ToursYou'd visit York Minster so why not Manchester's exquisite cathedral?
Great White Beauty Comes CleanJonathan Schofield on the re-awakening of a King Street classic
Damien Hirst In Leeds ReviewedPaul Clarke admires the controversial but powerful artisit
RHS Flower Extravaganza ReviewedSamantha Grimes skips amongst the petals and mad furniture at Tatton Park
Creative England Seeks £90k bossManchester office available for Vision + Media successor
First look: Museum of LiverpoolThe largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century. Opening party pictures and many pleasant surprises
MIF: How Was It For You?Jonathan Schofield looks back in three chapters at The Good, The Bad and the Utterly
Confidential Readers Visit The Whitworth Art GalleryJonathan Schofield and a night with the Influence Machine
Life And Death Of Marina Abramovic: MIF 2011Mark Garner discovers an amazing performance but not - for him - by MIF
Infinite Freedom Exercise Reviewed: MIF 2011Sophia Aiello appreciates Gerrard's free MIF feast for the eyes
SOME FREE International Festival EventsDavid McCourt finds a selection of gratis gratifications in MIFs-ville
Beech Road Festival ReviewedAdele Ralls Glynn (aged 15) pops along to the annual Chorlton artsfest
The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: LCCC FloodlightsJonathan Schofield illuminates himself getting progressively dimmer
Bjork Biophilia Live Review: MIF 2011Simon Binns is captivated by pop's most outlandish performer
Peeps, Ancoats, Dubowitz And Good ArtJonathan Schofield goes eye to eye with holes
The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: The ModernistJonathan Schofield reads the new architecture, art and everything magazine for the North
Running Into Myself By Thea Euryphaessa ReviewedNicola Mostyn on an inspirational book from a Manchester writer
The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: Arkwright HouseJonathan Schofield on a handsome, but sinister, beast in Parsonage Gardens
Charles Dickens In ManchesterJonathan Schofield explores the novelist’s city connections as the Library Theatre delivers a production of Hard Times
Manchester Book Market 17/18 June - this weekendLiterature in all its magnificent forms lands in St Ann’s Square
Sleuth, Paul Phillips And The IABFNew Anthony Burgess material found in Manchester's independent art foundation
Polish poster exhibition at Zion Arts CentreKatie Franklin finds an eclectic and engaging collection in Hulme
Child Psychology Q & APaul Kelly gives advice on the emotional well being of your children
Vermilion goes for new artChic East Manchester restaurant showcases trio of top artists
What’s on at the Chinese Arts CentreCultural exhibitions and chances to get involved
Take That and Kraak addictionHeather Price examines a new exhibition
The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: Ordsall HallJonathan Schofield on a wonderful building and stupid opening times
The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: a fenceJonathan Schofield and the tyranny of the temporary fence
Baghdad Car, IWMNCatherine May comes face to face with a suicide bomber's workLatest Rants
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