Articles in People and Places
Leigh Linley sits down with the team at North Bar to celebrate their first 15 years -and looks forward to a summer of Celebration.
Yes really! Janey Rodgers tells us to forget the Knightsbridge comparisons and feel affiliation with a the seemingly similar Buenos Aires…
Have you seen the pictures of Moominpappa exploring Leeds? @KayLinaBrown has put a photoblog together of her #moominsinleeds picks.
What do you do when there’s a laser cutter in your workshop and you come across a nifty new way of making a hinge on the internet? Mike Wallis finds out.
Guest blogger Emily Raynor tells us about the archaeological digs taking place at Harewood House
“Culture is a mixture of high art, chips and cake, people are hungry to be collective and share experience” says guest blogger Iain Bloomfield. So what little puddle provoked this on March 24th 2012?
Rick Harrison gets a little tour of the soon-to-be-completed renovation of the historic Tower Works site just south of the train station in Leeds
Nicola Chapman profiles the singer-songwriter known concisely as ‘Mr Gary C’ and previews his forthcoming EP and launch night at the Northern Monkey…
The Worlds’ attention will shortly be focused heavily on London – but should it be? We interview Andrew Denton about “Anywhere But London”
Fancy a Beer? Leeds Beer Festival is about to kick off , and Leigh Linley picks out a few must-drinks ahead of the opening weekend.
Rick Harrison packs his moustache wax and heads for a very rainy Scarborough for a spot of competitive bearding.
Jane Zanzottera takes her family on an ‘airy walk’ taking in Rawdon, Yeadon and Leeds/Bradford Airport.
Bryony Pritchard, Visual Arts Director, talks about the family and arts events programme at Grassington Festival 2012.
Guest blog by @AlisonJMcIntyre
Woolgather (it means ‘to engage in fanciful daydreaming’) are an artist collective who formed in 2008 aiming to get art out of galleries and into the rest of the world. Even when …
‘Retail Guru’ Mary Portas is behind a new government-backed initiative to regenerate our high streets. ‘Town Teams’ creating more opportunity for indy retailers and creating a local flavour are the hoped for outcomes. It’s a nice idea but one that’s strangely familiar to many Yorkshire towns…
Our architecture editor, James Butterworth, heads out to the Leeds Architecture Awards to find out who this years winners are.
Do you remember your first trip the cinema on your own? Mine was with my best mate, Alan, to The Odeon in Bradford. It was triple-bill of all three Star Wars movies which places me …
Paul Salveson talks about West Yorkshire’s newest public discussion group, dedicated to “politics, philosophy, enjoyment”.
2012 is a year of big change for Leeds Book Club. Wendy Denman took a cosy seat by the fire with the heroine of the tale Niamh Foley, to reflect on the past 12 months and find out what happens when we turn the next page…
The longest post ever for Culture Vultures, and it’s not even half finished – and it’s about books. Who cares!
In the final post of 2011 for the Spaces and Places series Phil Kirby tells us about his affair with the Holbeck Underpass.
In preparation for a Bettakultcha presentation, Irna Qureshi turns to Twitter to explore what her favourite biscuit reveals about her.
Leigh Linley takes the short hop from train station platform to beer heaven in The York Tap
Beautiful Brutalism
Post by guest blogger Jayne Rodgers
Photo: Paul Bye
Leeds is home to one of the finest examples of Brutalist architecture in the UK. Seriously. The Roger Stevens Building sits on the southern edge of the …
In this weeks post in the series Spaces & Places, our love affair with the world we live in, James Butterworth looks at the historical Sandal Castle
