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• Review: The Northern Vegan Winter Festival 2025
  The Northern Vegan Winter Festival, with about six different rows of stalls inside the sports hall, featured a range of vegan stalls, offering everything from baked goods, home-made artisanal vegan ch
• Review: The Cut & Craft Manchester is a Perfect Friendsmas Venue
  This award-winning restaurant is only a short walk from St Peter’s Square, hosted within a Grade II listed former banking hall with a modern touch. They pride themselves in providing a premium dinin
• UMDS' Start Swimming: Radically, powerfully pessimistic
  When you’re stranded in a sea of despair – what else is there to do but start swimming? –synopsis of UMDS’s Start Swimming Start Swimming is the seventh and final full play in UMDS’s 2
• UMDS' Playback: Supernatural family drama makes for an introspective watch
  It’s rare that a story makes you think a communal haunting might be a good catalyst for sibling reconciliation. It’s unlikely that that’s really the primary intent behind Callum McCartney’s Pl
• A wasteland full of meaning: UMDS' It Speaks in American Review
  There are few sets as enduring as that of the American diner. It’s never quite gone out of style and never quite stopped being synonymous with a kind of brash, lonely Americana. A little exotic, may
• UMDS' Muffins: A mystery masterpiece
  Everyone has their own ideas of what office politics looks like: someone microwaving fish, stealing your milk, or the scandalous office romance; but Aila Macnaughtan-Clark and Liv Jeffrey's Muffins t
• The Candidates: UMDS's first show of the year provides confrontation and comedy
  The first slot of the first season of the drama society's (UMDS') shows is certainly a high-pressure one, but The Candidates manages to smash all expectations with a comically relevant political satir
• UMDS' The Postcode Lottery: Brand spanking new satire of class cruelty
  A sharp, direct dissection of hierarchy, control and violence, writer Alfie Pullum’s The Postcode Lottery provides a captivating hour of entertainment. Director Maisie Bayliss and assistant director
• Spotify Wrapped: My intriguing number one artist you've never heard of
  The advent of Spotify Wrapped often serves as an anticipated end-of-year occurrence that can suffice in alleviating some of the dark days that crop up in late November to mid-December. Full of silly n
• Hans Zimmer at Co-Op Live: When cinema meets symphony
  Words by Laurent Swyngedauw There's a very narrow lane to tread when a concert appeals to both film and music fans, but Hans Zimmer's performance at Manchester's Co-Op Live navigated this balance lik