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BACK TO BLACK

as we approach 15 years since her passing

cinema, culture and tradition, entertainment

BIOPICS, BASEBALL AND BALDERDASH

Nobody expects biopics to be great, proclaimed Kayleigh Donaldson in a recent edition of the admirable Paste magazine. In an article that, otherwise, literally knocked it out of the park she unfortunately stepped on my dreams

culture and tradition, entertainment, Music

DOWN AT JAZZ JUNCTION

The 13th Annual Blue Note Jazz Festival, produced by New York City’s Blue Note Jazz Club, will kick off June 1 and run through early July

entertainment, Music, Performing Arts

ELBOW DELIVER OPENING NIGHT MAGIC

The first few weeks of The Co-OP Arean in Manchester were set by troubles and delays. Nevertheless Elbow opened the venue with a superb gig.

culture and tradition, entertainment, Music

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE & The Postal Service

talk about the four subjects of the songs Gibbard writes—love, death, Catholicism and movies.

culture and tradition, entertainment, Literary

MUST-READ BOOKS ABOUT MANCHESTER

From music and literature to theatre and politics, Manchester has produced some of the most influential and creative figures in British culture.

culture and tradition, education, entertainment

BUT WHERE ARE MY BLUE PLAQUES?

In those days, there was a a zoo in Heaton Park, down near the huge boating lake and disused viaduct. After some good finishes in my school cross country runs through The Clough, (because I was one of the few kids who didn´t stop for a fag half way round) I was eventually selected to run for the town and subsequently made my debut at sixteen for the Lancashire County Schools team, and I immediately realised I had hit the big time, when I learned the race would be through Heaton Park rather through Prestwich Clough. At the foot of the quarter of a mile finish up one of the steepest hills in Heaton Park I was in fifth place and could see the group of four leaders retreating towards me. The trouble was that about thirty five runners overtook me as I went running up that hill long before Kate Bush and I finished almost in last place and still just behind those four early leaders. I could only walk the last few yards to the finishing line, and I´ve heard there´s a plaque there somewhere that defined that stretch of road as being where Norman Warwick ran two races in one day. He ran his first race for Lancashire Schoolboys and his last race for Lancashire Schoolboys on the same day,…and at the same time!