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We’re getting though the horrible weather by dreaming about summertime, and that means festivals. If you don’t fancy trekking into the countryside for four days and coming back with trench foot and broken tent poles, a city festival like Parklife is the perfect alternative. This year the site…
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ARTS IN THE CITY
This week we’ve enjoyed exploring the brilliant new website from Blank Media Collective, a not-for-profit arts organisation in the Northern Quarter that supports and promotes emerging talent in music, visual art, performance and writing. They’ve been going for seven years and regularly host…
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NEW MULBERRY HANDBAG KLAXON!
Meet The Willow, named after the British brand’s second factory, The Willows, set to open later this year in Somerset. Just look at this beauty. The ice-cream shades (it also comes in bright apricot), classic bucket tote shape and minimal hardware make it the most ladylike Mulberry handbag since…
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AVANT-GARDE, LADIES
The full programme of Manchester International Festival is now up, and it’s looking good. The festival has a track record of bringing iconic women to the city, including Björk’s and Marina Abramovic, and this year is no exception. Actor Maxine Peake will recite Percy Bysshe Shelley’s…
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THE ART OF ACCESSORISING
New Zealand-based jewellery designer Karl Fritsch combines precious and non-precious materials to make conceptual yet wearable objects, such as this ring made from silver, oxidized iron (rusty nails), quartz and synthetic zirconia. His first UK solo exhibition is at Manchester Art Gallery and…
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PINT-SIZED PLAYS
One wedding, one police training exercise, one date that proves you can’t believe everything you read online, one TV show, one man losing his head, and one opening night – all these scenarios will be played out on one stage over the course of one evening. JB Shorts is your chance to see…
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SUBTITLES AND SUBTLETIES
A comedy-horror werewolf film (Los Lobos de Arga) and a biopic about a Chilean folk singer (Violeta Se Fue A Los Cielos) are the hot tips for this year’s ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival as it returns to the Cornerhouse for the 19th time. The festival is showing a range of cinema…
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HAVEN'T GOT A STITCH TO WEAR?
Hands up if you’re harbouring an ‘eBay pile’ – a collection of slightly unsuitable clothes that you can’t bear to send to charity. Ours was languishing under the bed with the ‘get-italtered’ and ‘maybe-it’ll-come-back-around’ piles. That was before we had a visit from the…
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