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The Sparrow is Flying
May 14, 2012 – 7:45 am | No Comment
The Sparrow is Flying

The Sparrow Bier Cafe celebrates a stunning first year in style!

North Comes Of Age
April 29, 2012 – 12:11 pm | One Comment
North Comes Of Age

Leigh Linley sits down with the team at North Bar to celebrate their first 15 years -and looks forward to a summer of Celebration.

Leeds is like… Buenos Aires
April 9, 2012 – 9:21 pm | 11 Comments
Leeds is like… Buenos Aires

Yes really! Janey Rodgers tells us to forget the Knightsbridge comparisons and feel affiliation with a the seemingly similar Buenos Aires…

Moomins in Leeds
March 31, 2012 – 3:03 pm | No Comment
Moomins in Leeds

Have you seen the pictures of Moominpappa exploring Leeds? @KayLinaBrown has put a photoblog together of her #moominsinleeds picks.

The Dutch for “cut” is “snij”
March 30, 2012 – 4:05 pm | No Comment
The Dutch for “cut” is “snij”

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.

The buried history of Harewood House
March 30, 2012 – 9:31 am | One Comment
The buried history of Harewood House

Guest blogger Emily Raynor tells us about the archaeological digs taking place at Harewood House

Bradford’s City Park or Puddles are a good thing
March 25, 2012 – 10:53 pm | 17 Comments
Bradford’s City Park or Puddles are a good thing

“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?

Behind the scenes: Tower Works
March 20, 2012 – 12:56 pm | 4 Comments
Behind the scenes: Tower Works

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

Artist Profile: Mr Gary C
March 20, 2012 – 12:42 pm | No Comment
Artist Profile: Mr Gary C

Nicola Chapman profiles the singer-songwriter known concisely as ‘Mr Gary C’ and previews his forthcoming EP and launch night at the Northern Monkey…

Anywhere but London
March 14, 2012 – 11:56 am | No Comment
Anywhere but London

The Worlds’ attention will shortly be focused heavily on London – but should it be? We interview Andrew Denton about “Anywhere But London”

Leeds CAMRA Beer Festival 2012 Is Nearly Here!
March 12, 2012 – 6:44 pm | No Comment
Leeds CAMRA Beer Festival 2012 Is Nearly Here!

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.

Beards, Beer and Louis Barabbas
March 6, 2012 – 12:13 pm | 4 Comments
Beards, Beer and Louis Barabbas

Rick Harrison packs his moustache wax and heads for a very rainy Scarborough for a spot of competitive bearding.

Rawdon Billing Walk
February 27, 2012 – 1:19 pm | No Comment
Rawdon Billing Walk

Jane Zanzottera takes her family on an ‘airy walk’ taking in Rawdon, Yeadon and Leeds/Bradford Airport.

Get Art and About with Bryony Pritchard from Grassington Festival
February 22, 2012 – 8:06 am | No Comment
Get Art and About with Bryony Pritchard from Grassington Festival

Bryony Pritchard, Visual Arts Director, talks about the family and arts events programme at Grassington Festival 2012.

Woolgather Art Prize
February 10, 2012 – 4:45 pm | No Comment
Woolgather Art Prize

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 …

Talk of the town team.
February 8, 2012 – 11:10 am | No Comment
Talk of the town team.

‘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…

Leeds Architecture Awards
February 3, 2012 – 11:11 am | 6 Comments
Leeds Architecture Awards

Our architecture editor, James Butterworth, heads out to the Leeds Architecture Awards to find out who this years winners are.

The last great cinema?
January 20, 2012 – 5:02 pm | 2 Comments
The last great cinema?

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 …

Free University of Slawit
January 13, 2012 – 10:26 am | No Comment
Free University of Slawit

Paul Salveson talks about West Yorkshire’s newest public discussion group, dedicated to “politics, philosophy, enjoyment”.

Leeds Book Club: read it and woop!
January 6, 2012 – 8:24 am | No Comment
Leeds Book Club: read it and woop!

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…

Why I’m Done With Books (Part 1.)
December 26, 2011 – 7:06 pm | 19 Comments
Why I’m Done With Books (Part 1.)

The longest post ever for Culture Vultures, and it’s not even half finished – and it’s about books. Who cares!

Holbeck Underpass . . . click click drone.
December 23, 2011 – 7:39 am | 6 Comments
Holbeck Underpass . . . click click drone.

In the final post of 2011 for the Spaces and Places series Phil Kirby tells us about his affair with the Holbeck Underpass.

What your Favourite Biscuit says about you
December 16, 2011 – 11:42 pm | 2 Comments
What your Favourite Biscuit says about you

In preparation for a Bettakultcha presentation, Irna Qureshi turns to Twitter to explore what her favourite biscuit reveals about her.

A Brief Encounter with York Tap
December 16, 2011 – 4:20 pm | No Comment
A Brief Encounter with York Tap

Leigh Linley takes the short hop from train station platform to beer heaven in The York Tap

Spaces and Places
December 16, 2011 – 12:41 pm | 16 Comments
Spaces and Places

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 …

Spaces & Places – Sandal Castle
December 2, 2011 – 2:09 pm | One Comment
Spaces & Places – Sandal Castle

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