Latest Blog Posts for Mancubist: Life is good in Manchester

• Manchester Wire: Going out and goings-on in the rainy city
  on Jul 3, 2012 in art events festivals film food & drink gigs history literature manchester miscellany news online poetry salford society theatre travel upcoming
  So while I continue to take a break from blogging here, I’ve started a new project: ‘Manchester Wire is a website that hopes to keep you informed about the best things Manchester and the surrounding area has to offer.’ It’s ed...
• The Manchester Weekender 2010
  on Sep 21, 2010 in art events festivals literature manchester miscellany music salford
  We’re little over a week away from the debut outing of the Manchester Weekender, a collection of ‘the best of Manchester’s art and culture’. From 1-3 October, for 48 hours, the city showcases itself through an unmanageably lar...
• Which are the best Beards of Manchester?
  on Sep 14, 2010 in art manchester photography salford
  So you may or may not have noticed that Manchester is a particularly beardy city. Perhaps it’s the cold weather? Whatever the reason, what better way of acknowledging it than by launching a charity calendar? Beards of Manchester is a calendar...
• Last chance to see…
  on Jun 9, 2010 in history manchester photography theatre
  It seems that June is the time for things to end in Manchester. First up, a couple of exhibitions that conclude this coming Sunday, 13 June: At the Imperial War Museum North, photographer Don McCullin currently has a major retrospective called Shape...
• Go See This and Visit Manchester
  on Jun 1, 2010 in manchester
  So you wait years for a decent Manchester ‘what’s on’ website, then two come along at the same time. First up is the relaunched VisitManchester.com, a ‘destination website’ for anyone visiting this fair city and asking i...
• Screenfields returns to Spinningfields
  on May 19, 2010 in film
  By all accounts, last year’s series of open-air screenings at Spinningfields was a big success, helped along by the handy provision of popcorn, picnic hampers and deckchairs. So it’s great to see the series returning tomorrow, Thursday 20...
• Viva! and three exhibitions down the train line
  on Mar 7, 2010 in art film music
  There’s nothing better than going for a five-hour wander – particularly when Manchester offers blue skies, not grey clouds, overhead. That’s exactly what I did yesterday, and I returned with the following knowledge: The infrequently...
• I’m Here – in a Shudehill car park?
  on Feb 26, 2010 in film
  Here’s an event that’s been cleverly marketed over the past few weeks, with vague stickers in shop windows and such throughout Manchester city centre: I’m Here, a 30-minute short film; is at the heart of the new Absolut campaign, ‘In...
• Fancy high tea with Stuart Maconie?
  on Jan 8, 2010 in events literature manchester
  Happy 2010 readers! I hope you had a good break, and are enjoying slipping and sliding all over Manchester. Best snow-based construction this week? Easy: the king-sized throne outside Ridelow on Dale Street. I’m getting back into the swing of M...
• Urbis Creatives prepare to Show & Tell
  on Sep 20, 2009 in art events fashion manchester photography
  Urbis’ Videogame Nation ended yesterday – surely one of the Urbis exhibition centre’s most successful outings to date – but another great-looking show is little over a week away: Show & Tell is an exhibition by the Urbis...

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