Black Gold and Delta Blues
James West visits Oil boom, Delta burns at the International Slavery Museum… This small but evocative exhibition featuring the work of African photojournalist George Osodi examines the impact of the oil industry in...
Field Trip #8: No Direction Home
Marc Hall reports back from the latest festival to be added to the summer roster, No Direction Home… Friday 8 June My car is weighed down with camping gear and I’m struggling to...
The Kazimier Krunk Fiesta: In Pictures
Check out the action from Saturday’s all-dayer at The Kazimier… If you wandered into Wolstenholme Square on Saturday, you probably would’ve noticed a flurry of matador capes, goat skins and dodgy pencil moustaches....
Culture Diary w/c 18-06-12
Monday – Jaws @ FACT (see details) The prototype on which now traditional summer blockbuster-success is based, Jaws tells the story of a great white shark menacing the sleepy beach community of Amity...
Playlist #15: The Summer Festival
With summer festival season underway, we thought we’d cut through the line-up confusion and pick 10 of the best from 2012′s crop… As I sit and write this, the sun is beginning to...
Studio Series: Jon Lawton
We check out Crosstown studios, the workplace of musician and producer Jon Lawton… Please describe your space: I have a space in a shared building with a few other businesses. I am on...
Love Architecture Festival 2012
RIBA’s Love Architecture Festival begins tomorrow. We picked out some of the best bits… Paul Du Noyer wasn’t wrong when he described Liverpool as a wondrous place. From its pop-culture to its football...
Bottle Rocket – Previewed
With Bottle Rocket kicking off a Wes Anderson season at FACT, DW Mault reassesses his debut feature… Authorial canons are the rocks we rest our beliefs on. With this in mind, Wes...
Failure Explored
C James Fagan on the latest performance piece at the Bluecoat asks, what is failure anyway? Failure, that twin impostor of success. The thing which is always at our side, waiting to take...