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To the Manor Born
November 20, 2011 – 9:39 pm | 3 Comments
To the Manor Born

Our new foodie blogger Rachel Jeffcoat tucks into some dainty morsels at the divine Dine at the Manor supper club. What a sacrifice she made for us…

Song of the City
November 17, 2011 – 3:31 pm | One Comment
Song of the City

Damien O’Keeffe enjoys ‘Song of the City’ a collaboration between Kala Sangham and Akademi South Asian Dance UK in the newly refurbished Blue Hall in St Peter’s House, Bradford

Shut Up Little Man: A pre-digital viral phenomenon
November 16, 2011 – 9:26 pm | No Comment
Shut Up Little Man: A pre-digital viral phenomenon

Culture Vulture’s resident Leeds International Film Festival blogger, Josephine Borg, says: tell your neighbours that ‘Shut Up Little Man’ is worth a look.

Review: Take Shelter
November 14, 2011 – 8:03 pm | No Comment
Review: Take Shelter

Culture Vulture’s resident Leeds International Film Festival blogger, Josephine Borg, finds her festival favourite in Take Shelter.

Review: Bellflower
November 13, 2011 – 8:45 pm | No Comment
Review: Bellflower

Culture Vulture’s resident Leeds International Film Festival blogger, Josephine Borg, catches the UK premier of American indie road movie, Bellflower.

Film Review: Sound It Out
November 11, 2011 – 12:22 am | One Comment
Film Review: Sound It Out

Nicola Chapman reviews ‘Sound It Out’, a documentary about the last surviving independent record store in Teeside.

Review: El Sicario: Room 164
November 10, 2011 – 9:08 pm | No Comment
Review: El Sicario: Room 164

Culture Vulture’s resident Leeds International Film Festival blogger, Josephine Borg, met up with a Mexican hit man and lived to tell the tale.

Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns
November 10, 2011 – 11:32 am | One Comment
Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns

Can silent movies be relevant in the digital age? We asked Phil Dean to pop along to Leeds Town Hall to find out…

Fun and frolics with Fanfared
November 8, 2011 – 10:05 pm | One Comment
Fun and frolics with Fanfared

Sarah Cockburn goes in search of the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd with Fanfared at the Crucible.

Salivating Savoury Ices
November 8, 2011 – 9:03 pm | One Comment
Salivating Savoury Ices

Intrepid gourmande Clare Tollick takes a spoon to Yee Kwan’s new batch of savoury ices with some mouth watering results.

Film Review: The Thing
November 6, 2011 – 12:16 pm | No Comment
Film Review: The Thing

Peter Etherington reviews the flawed but entertaining prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece, The Thing

Film Review: Wuthering Heights
November 6, 2011 – 8:14 am | No Comment
Film Review: Wuthering Heights

Culture Vulture’s resident Leeds International Film Festival blogger, Josephine Borg, was at the gala opening of Wuthering Heights to see if Andrea Arnold’s retelling of Emily Bronte’s lived up to expectations.

The Web Changes Everything
November 5, 2011 – 6:22 am | No Comment
The Web Changes Everything

Guest blogger Matthew Phillips learnt that the worst place to sit is on the fence at the recent Web Changes Everything event during Leeds Digitital Festival

Leeds International Film Festival here I come!
November 4, 2011 – 10:04 am | One Comment
Leeds International Film Festival here I come!

Josephine Borg picks her highlights for the Leeds International Film Festival.

Leeds College of Music Chorus and Mbawula Township Choir – Review
November 2, 2011 – 4:54 pm | No Comment
Leeds College of Music Chorus and Mbawula Township Choir – Review

Beth Daley reviews the culmination of a ground-breaking educational choral project bringing South African Township music to Leeds.

Walk This Way fashion show Review
November 1, 2011 – 10:53 am | 2 Comments
Walk This Way fashion show Review

Elly Snare reviews the Walk this Way fashion show: falling flat but with potential for something better.

Lungs
October 31, 2011 – 5:51 pm | No Comment
Lungs

Sarah Cockburn visits the Crucible Studio for the second play in the Paines Plough Roundabout season.

Spaces and Places – Leeds Kirkgate Market
October 28, 2011 – 1:48 pm | 4 Comments
Spaces and Places – Leeds Kirkgate Market

Architect Jenny Booth reviews Kirkgate Market as part of the Spaces&Places series.

Illuminating York
October 27, 2011 – 1:15 pm | No Comment
Illuminating York

The yearly light festival comes again to York. Alexandra Boyle went along to see the city in a whole new light.

Painting the Playhouse White
October 26, 2011 – 1:08 pm | No Comment
Painting the Playhouse White

Mark O’Brien reviews ‘Paint It White’ at the West Yorkshire Playhouse: a saga of of life, love, and Leeds United.

NEWK – a theatre review
October 25, 2011 – 9:26 am | No Comment
NEWK – a theatre review

Vincent Krasauskas reviews the NEWK performance featuring Odd Doll, Indivisible and the Skeleton Project: new theatre still hot from the oven people!

The Psychopath Test
October 24, 2011 – 10:16 pm | No Comment
The Psychopath Test

Ali Hull reviews Jon Ronson at the Grand Theatre during the Love Arts Leeds Festival and comes away with more questions than answers (in a good way)

A Nice Living Room
October 23, 2011 – 6:05 pm | No Comment
A Nice Living Room

By Katie Bolton
We were invited by The Living Room in Leeds to sample their new Autumn/Winter menu.
Now anyone who regularly reads Leeds Grub will know that I always try to be diplomatic but I am …

What a Carry-On
October 20, 2011 – 9:22 am | No Comment
What a Carry-On

Sarah Cockburn visits the Lantern Theatre for some saucy seaside fun.

We Need to Talk About Kevin
October 19, 2011 – 9:59 pm | No Comment
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Jo Borg reviews We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.

The Fabulous Book Boys
October 17, 2011 – 7:34 am | 43 Comments
The Fabulous Book Boys

Phil Dean and his all male book club are asking Culture Vulture readers to select their next book. Which book would you pick?