24 May 2013
The Leeds Loves Food Festival runs from Friday 24th May – Sunday 9th June and this year the emphasis is on the independent food and drink scene. Leeds really does love food. In the last ten years there has been an explosion of enthusiasm for food, especially local food. Is this a quiet rebellion [...]
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24 May 2013
National Volunteer Week (1st – 7th June) recognises the dedication of volunteers across the country. Volunteers are the life-blood of the Harewood Trust. They generously give their time to support its work and share their passion for Harewood. Many have worked at Harewood for a number of years, collecting anecdotes and tales as if the [...]
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21 May 2013
The entire audience rose to its feet, applauding wildly, at the end of Blood Brothers at Leeds Grand Theatre last night. People surreptitiously wiped away tears and slipped damp tissues back into pockets. We were emotionally wrung out. What a climax! Even though you knew how it was going to end it didn’t lose any [...]
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17 May 2013
Had he not died tragically at the age of 26, singer-songwriter Nick Drake would have been 65 this month. On 16th June, Hyde Park Picture House presents a celebration of his life and music, screening the short documentary A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake, alongside live performances of his music by London-based [...]
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17 May 2013
Mark Catley is a luck so-and-so! And he knows it! So, he gets a call from director Nikolai Foster asking if he might be interested in writing a brand new Sherlock Holmes story. Interested? Mark, who lives in North Leeds, has read the books, seen the films, digested all the television series. He is a [...]
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16 May 2013
Philip Pullman’s dark, gripping children’s novel ‘I Was a Rat!’ will be brought to life at City Varieties from Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th May. The production, by Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company (in association with Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company, The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich and Teatro Kismet), is full of music, comedy and fantastic physical [...]
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16 May 2013
Children’s Day, organised by Leeds Rugby Foundation, Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and the Garry Chappelow Memorial Fund, takes place on Sunday 9th June from 10.30am-4pm, and it’s free! This unique event is being held across both the rugby and cricket stadiums in Headingley. Last year it attracted over 5,000 and this year it promises to be [...]
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16 May 2013
Casa Mia Millennium restaurant has teamed up with St George’s Crypt to launch a scheme designed to provide free food and drink for the city’s poor and homeless. The scheme, based on the Italian tradition ‘caffe sospeso’ and adapted by Casa Mia owner Francesco Mazzella, is called Suspended and Delivered and can benefit everyone who [...]
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16 May 2013
The Enterprise Foundation was officially opened this week by West Yorkshire’s Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Tim Hare. The charity will welcome people from a variety of backgrounds and help them to set up their own businesses. Mentors, with proven track records in business, will offer financial and business help. Participants will also be able to rent desk [...]
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15 May 2013
Now celebrating their 50th anniversary, The Searchers come to Leeds later this week with John McNally, Frank Allen, Spencer James and Scott Ottoway. Emerging out of the 60’s Merseybeat scene after starting out as a skiffle group, The Searchers have continued playing consistently for over forty-five years. Combined with anecdotes and reminiscences, The Searchers will [...]
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15 May 2013
The brand new feature length documentary ‘The Frames: In the Deep Shade’ is coming to Hyde Park Picture House for one night only on Saturday 25th May. The Frames, an influential Irish folk-rock band founded in Dublin in 1990 by singer-songwriter Glenn Hansard, have been making music together for over 20 years. Hansard played a [...]
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15 May 2013
WharfeBank Brewery is launching the Master Cellar Club (MCC), a unique loyalty scheme designed to build long term relationships with Yorkshire publicans, and to celebrate the brewery is creating its 500th brew –‘D’ (roman numerals for 500) a 6.6% ABV American IPA style beer. In 2008 the Wharfebank brewing team started out in The [...]
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