The latest Liverpool Arab Arts Festival arrives this Friday. Here, Mike Pinnington takes a trip through some of 2025′s not-to-be-missed highlights… Just like that, we’re well into July, and Liverpool’s cultural calendar continues...
Our pick of this week’s arts, design, film and music events from across Liverpool and beyond… Monday – Mars Express 5.40pm @ FACT Liverpool – £9.84 Ostensibly the tale of a notorious hacker and a missing...
Biopic, mock-doc, juke box musical, exhibition? Mike Pinnington considers director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements… Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where...
A recent graduate set to stage performances at Stockport Garrick Theatre in July, Manchester-based queer performance artist Lula Braimbridge talks to Anna Marsden about embracing nudity, discomfort and the gaze… Usually, when it comes to...
“City as shadow, spectre, crucible.” With Ripped Backsides, author Richard Cabut invites us on a free-wheeling trip through noir cities, finds Mike Pinnington… In Richard Cabut’s Ripped Backsides – aptly named for Iggy Pop’s The...