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The Write Way
It all started with an email that went something like this: “hey krn do we need 2 bring any stuff wiv us tomoz for cls”. Allow me to clarify. I was hosting a workshop for a class of journalism students...
View ArticleThe Right Time To Roll
Del Amitri have announced their first tour in more than a decade. Karen Connolly talks to frontman, Justin Currie. There’s been a glut of rock and pop bands ‘getting back together’ over recent years....
View ArticleLifting the Lid on The Wigan Kebab
In the first of a new series on traditional Northern scran by the Northern Soul team, Karen Connolly reminisces about The Wigan Kebab. Raised in Wigan by an English mother and a Sicilian father, I was...
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Resplendent in neon orange skates
Karen Connolly get her skates on for a bit of festive fun at The Ice Rink at Selfridges, Manchester Trafford. My lack of balance is the stuff of legend among friends and family. I never mastered the...
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Lifting the lid on Festival No.6
Beck, London Grammar, Jimi Goodwin… Karen Connolly gets first dabs at this year’s Festival No.6 line-up, and there’s more to come. A mere three hour drive from Manchester transports you from the inner...
View ArticleFestival No.6 steps it up a gear
Karen Connolly gets all giddy over the updated line-up at this year’s Festival No. 6. A mere three years in and the award-winning Festival No.6 has a stellar arts and culture line-up to match, nay...
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Turtle Bay: a taste of the Caribbean comes to Manchester
Manchester’s first Caribbean restaurant is loud, lively and a place for, as Wiganer Karen Connolly might say, ‘a right rum do’. In a city where a new restaurant seems to pop up every week, Turtle Bay...
View ArticleWin tickets to Festival No.6
Win FREE tickets to Festival No.6 A festival like no other, the award-winning Festival No.6 is taking place September 5-7, 2014 in the stunning fairytale village of Portmeirion (location of 60s TV...
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Grillstock: a vegetarian in a meat eater’s paradise
Vegetarian Karen Connolly joined thousands of carnivores at the second Grillstock Festival in Manchester. Take one vegetarian (me) and throw me into the lion’s den of, ooh, thousands of red-blooded...
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The Mystical and Extraordinary Festival No.6
Karen Connolly – and likely the rest of Manchester - spent the weekend at a sun-soaked Festival No.6 where the magical village of Portmeirion played host to an eclectic mix of entertainers. It was all...
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Northern Soul chats to John Bramwell from I Am Kloot
The Whisky Sessions, Manchester’s newest music festival, debuts at the Victoria Warehouse next month with I Am Kloot as a headliner. Karen Connolly reveals what else is in store and chats to Kloot...
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Review: Tampopo’s Pop Up Restaurant, Manchester
Tampopo has brought its signature brand of Pan Asian cuisine to Manchester’s Exchange Square. Karen Connolly takes her ‘hard to please’ 13-year-old son for lunch. Having fed my child a carefully...
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John Cooper Clarke: the Bard of Salford talks to Northern Soul
Not content with the success of his critically acclaimed UK tour of 2014, Dr John Cooper Clarke is back in his home town this weekend. He’ll be headlining at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on March 21 where he...
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Dave Haslam on the Haçienda, Morrissey and Manchester
Karen Connolly shares a brew with Dave Haslam in his favourite ‘secret’ cafe, Fig + Sparrow on Manchester’s Oldham Street. Miserable Dave. Groovy Dave. Two of the monikers slapped on Dave Haslam in his...
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Review: Salvi’s, Manchester
Karen Connolly enjoys a truly authentic Italian lunch at Salvi’s, Manchester. I always believe there are two kinds of restaurant menus. There are the ones where nothing really leaps out at you. You can...
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Grillstock: a vegetarian in a meat eater’s paradise
Vegetarian Karen Connolly joined thousands of carnivores at the second Grillstock Festival in Manchester. Take one vegetarian (me) and throw me into the lion’s den of, ooh, thousands of red-blooded...
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The Mystical and Extraordinary Festival No.6
Karen Connolly – and likely the rest of Manchester – spent the weekend at a sun-soaked Festival No.6 where the magical village of Portmeirion played host to an eclectic mix of entertainers. It was all...
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Northern Soul chats to John Bramwell from I Am Kloot
The Whisky Sessions, Manchester’s newest music festival, debuts at the Victoria Warehouse next month with I Am Kloot as a headliner. Karen Connolly reveals what else is in store and chats to Kloot...
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Review: Tampopo’s Pop Up Restaurant, Manchester
Tampopo has brought its signature brand of Pan Asian cuisine to Manchester’s Exchange Square. Karen Connolly takes her ‘hard to please’ 13-year-old son for lunch. Having fed my child a carefully...
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John Cooper Clarke: the Bard of Salford talks to Northern Soul
Not content with the success of his critically acclaimed UK tour of 2014, Dr John Cooper Clarke is back in his home town this weekend. He’ll be headlining at Manchester’s O2 Apollo on March 21 where he...
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