Whether you are a cinema fan, or a beer fan, the name of Stella Artois is familiar to you. Exquisite TV adverts with an anecdotal story at heart of each of them, praising the labour of love of the Bel...
Staying only for half of the day at work on Friday is already enough to put you in the mood for weekend. I was properly in the mood for it on Friday morning, when I discovered that Notebooks – L...
Being a Manchester blogger, I nevetheless don’t write about Manchester as often, as about literature, or music, or my own experiences. Thankfully, I’m not unlike many a Manchester blogger....
Yesterday, when it was sunny, in France they celebrated Bastille Day. In fact, not only in France, but in England as well. Craig McGinty reports on French-style celebrations in Manchester’s Plat...
In Visiting London-6 I mentioned and already wrote about a few seminars that I attended at the LBF. One of these was on the subject of marketing a bookshop. Marketing Your Bookshop was presented by Pe...
As you might have noticed from the Links section in my side bar, as well as from my profile, I’m a fan of Serge Gainsbourg. The first time I heard him, I was just as innocent as France Gall (who...
Although Robin has suggested that I should write an Ordsall Hall article for Wikipedia, I didn’t do this yet. Instead I have recently found a lecture read in the fall of 2006 at the University o...
First of all, my story of (mis)using trains continues this year. Yesterday I was going to Warrington from Manchester Piccadilly. I was going to take 12.07 train to Liverpool. I was on the platform 14 ...
…there was a screening of the film Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage by Marc Rothemund. We did an interview with him at Cornerhouse, the article on which you can read here. And on the web t...
This year I’ve read at least two legendary film makers predicting the end of cinema: Peter Greenaway and David Lynch. They obviously don’t say that cinema is going to die altogether. Simpl...