Pray for clear weather this week. The last supermoon of the year could add extra brightness to the night sky when you’re heading home from work after dark. After the first supermoon in August (also a Blue Moon), f...
UK skies are blessed with around 30 meteor showers each year, but few are as breathtaking as the Leonids. It’s known for some of the most beautiful, fast and bright meteors imaginable – and at its peak, you...
You won’t have to search far to find ghosts in Manchester, but few spots can compete with the fear factor of one of England’s oldest pubs. Ye Olde…...
Pasta for lunch, pasta for dinner, hell, we’ll even have leftover pasta for breakfast! There’s never not been a time we’re not happy to chow down on the world’s great dish. But we’ll be extra celebrating this World Past...
It’s neither Secret nor in Manchester, but try to stop me from talking about Primavera Sound. It was already arguably the best festival in the world, even better than that one, but now it’s lined up the…...
Picture yourself next summer: You’re at a festival, the sun is shining, you’re dressed as a day-glo cowboy drinking a black cherry White Claw as you dance to Fred Again… and try to gather all your friends&he...
Avid readers and book nerds are well-positioned in Manchester. Countless bookshops, little nods to literature everywhere you turn (from Elizabeth Gaskell to George Orwell), and one of the…...
Brits abroad are notorious throughout Europe for our loutish behaviour. Some might say it’s an unfair image, but you only have to spend a weekend in Prague to see that maybe there might be, somewhat…...
Growing up in the EU, I didn’t even know what all those blank pages in my passport were for until I could afford to travel further afield. Post-Brexit, I’ve actually become a fan of flicking through, looking...
Mercury in retrograde, Jupiter returning, or even a super blue moon. People can place great importance on what’s happening in the skies above our heads, but I have no idea how we should interpret this. Like something ri...
