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1. 1. 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.

2. 2. New Northern film festival AND wins Legacy Trust funding

   CityLife, Thursday 09 April 2009 GOOD news for budding film-makers! Trendy arthouse cinema The Cornerhouse has joined forces with FACT (Liverpool) and folly (Lancaster) to create a brand new cross-regional festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture.

3. 3. Set a Saturday aside to unwind with a ball of wool

   CityLife, Wednesday 11 March 2009 CREDIT crunch, economic downturn, pension squeeze, job cuts: with language like this dominating the news headlines, it's no wonder Britons are feeling unusually tense... Time for Stress-less Saturday!

4. 4. Art exhibition opens at Royal Exchange Theatre

   CityLife, Friday 27 March 2009 GOOD news for those of you planning to catch a show at the Royal Exchange Theatre next month, because the opening of a new exhibition in the Craft Shop means you can make it a cultural double whammy. From April 1 to May 16, the Craft Shop will showcase a selection of original limited edition ...

5. 5. Manchester Literature Festival 2009 is doing it for the girls

   CityLife, Wednesday 08 July 2009 This year's Manchester Literature Festival is shaping up to be even more inspiring than last year, featuring feminist stalwarts and trailblazing literary dames Margaret Atwood, Kate Atkinson, Joan Bakewell and Fay Weldon.

6. 6. Bury Text Festival - The Grin Variations

   CityLife, Wednesday 29 April 2009 KATIE Popperwell meets Mancunian poet Philip Davenport, whose schools poetry project The Grin Variations will premiere at the Bury Text Festival. It's a giant film poem made up of hundreds of individual pieces handwritten by students.

7. 7. Futuresonic: The lowdown

   CityLife, Monday 11 May 2009 2009 must really feel like the year in which Futuresonic wants to shout about itself from the tallest tower. Because, as Marc Almond once put it, this is the year Futuresonic waves goodbye to one name and says hello to another.

8. 8. Young @ Heart Chorus has real local relevance

   CityLife, Tuesday 07 July 2009 THERE are a couple of things that their musical director Bob Cilman wants to make clear to me about the Massachusetts-based Young @ Heart Chorus, made up of amateur singers aged from 73-90 years of age.

9. 9. Gibbons' ideas sketched from memory

   CityLife, Monday 02 March 2009 AS literary landmarks go, the 1986 release of Watchmen is up among the big boys. It’s the only graphic novel to ever make Time’s 100 Best English Language Novels list and, 22 years after its release, it remains the most avant garde comic of its type.

10. 10. Bangert's documents of torrid Iraq on show

    CityLife, Tuesday 03 February 2009 PHOTOGRAPHING conflict is a delicate matter. When things get nasty, only the bravest remain to ensure brutal acts of aggression are recorded. German photojournalist Christoph Bangert is one such person.

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