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1. 1. Tales From The Black Jack at Studio Salford

   CityLife, Thursday 28 April 2011 Tales From The Black Jack, written by Richard Holdsworth, is a great grass-roots theatrical success story, graduating from a pub backroom to huge success at theatres and festivals including Buxton Fringe, Bury Met, The Library and The Lowry.

2. 2. Interview: Andrea Bocelli

   CityLife, Thursday 25 November 2010 A global phenomenon in classical music, tenor Andrea Bocelli tells Robert Beale that despite having few big ambitions left, he still loves to unearth new repertoire...

3. 3. Like CityLife's new look?

   CityLife, Friday 12 November 2010 No, your eyes don't deceive you... here on CityLife, we've moved things around a bit - and we'd like to know what you think.

4. 4. Interview: Sean Sutton (Surviving The Conflict - IWMN)

   CityLife, Friday 21 May 2010 Regular visitors to the Imperial War Museum North will be familiar with Sean Sutton’s work. A small number of the powerful black and white portraits in his Surviving The Conflict collection went on display outside the gallery last year – their impact quite literally heightened by their five metre high display cases.

5. 5. Exhibition: David Osbaldeston - Castlefield Gallery

   CityLife, Friday 23 April 2010 Exhibitions don’t often start out on the street, but Manchester-based artist David Osbaldeston wants visitors to his latest exhibition to feel like they’re walking inside the installation

6. 6. Exhibition: Contemporary Art Iraq - Cornerhouse

   CityLife, Friday 16 April 2010 It is very easy to get sucked into a perception about a country when the only images of it on TV are as a desolate war zone suffering violent street uprisings and political turmoil.

7. 7. Preview: Kim Rugg, Leo Fitzmaurice - Castlefield Gallery

   CityLife, Friday 26 February 2010 Kim Rugg’s work is the kind of deconstructive, artistic play that makes journalists squirm. Her painstaking approach to boiling mass communication down to its essence and subverting the messages it attempts to relay includes cutting up news stories and reassembling the letters into alphabetical order.

8. 8. Kate Atkinson is Good News for MLF

   CityLife, Friday 16 October 2009 KATE Atkinson used to be what you might call a 'literary novelist', but those days are long behind her since she developed the character of laconic private investigator Jackson Brodie, and became one of the UK’s best selling crime writers.

9. 9. Manchester Literature Festival 2009 - Top Picks

   CityLife, Wednesday 09 September 2009 THIS year's Manchester Literature Festival promises to be an exciting and eclectic celebration of a diverse array of literary forms, with events focused around poetry, fiction and non-fiction, genre writing, blogging, and a whole weekend devoted to the short story. Here are Katie Popperwell's 12 top picks.

10. 10. Nominations open for 2009 Blog Awards

    CityLife, Wednesday 26 August 2009 Nominations are now open for the fourth Manchester Blog Awards in the categories of Best Writing, Best Arts and Culture Blog, Best City or Neighbourhood Blog, Best New Blog and Best Personal Blog.

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