Culture Diary w/c 05-08-13
Monday – From up on Poppy Hill various times @ FACT It says much of Studio Ghibli that each new addition to their stable is now greeted with fanfare (in the West as...
Culture Diary w/c 29-07-13
Monday – Ranajit Sengupta and Sanjukta Sinha 7.30pm @ the Capstone Theatre £10/£8 It’s not often we see a sarod maestro in full swing here in rainy Britain, so take the opportunity to experience the...
Culture Diary w/c 22-07-13
Monday – Tunabunny/Puzzle/10p Mixes/Karen Ablaze 8pm @ Mello Mello £3 Something you learn quickly writing regularly about music is don’t believe the hype trotted out in press releases by PRs and the like. Bearing...
Culture Diary w/c 15-07-13
Monday – Little Shop of Horrors Director’s Cut 9pm @ FACT Frank Oz directs this darkly comic musical, starring Rick Moranis as Seymour, a timid florist’s assistant who discovers (surprise, surprise) that a...
Culture Diary w/c 08-07-13
Monday – Wirral Festival of Firsts various venues Opening on Saturday just gone and billed as the “largest festival of arts, culture and music” on the other side of the water, 2013 marks the...
Culture Diary w/c 01-07-13
Monday – Rufus Wainwright 7.30pm @ Liverpool Philharmonic £29.50-£50 It seems a long time since Rufus Wainwright shot to prominence, due in part to covering Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Since then the Canadian-American singer-songwriter...
Culture Diary w/c 24-06-13
Monday – Much Ado About Nothing 3.30pm @ FACT When Joss Whedon’s Avengers became the third highest grossing film in cinema history, while also receiving broadly warm critical reaction, the oft-used phrase of...
Culture Diary w/c 17-06-13
Monday – Tony Bennett on ‘Culture’ 6.30pm @ Central Library FREE (booking essential) The third in the series of Keywords lectures inspired by the Raymond Williams book, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), and ahead...
Culture Diary w/c 10-06-13
Monday – 10 Things I Hate About You 6.30pm @ FACT The definitive teen movie of the ’90s? For some, perhaps. Starring (a pre-credibility, pre-lionisation) Heath Ledger, alongside Julia Stiles and Joseph Gordon-Levitt,...