Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
The great thing about writing reviews is that you keep experiencing different things and meeting new people. A case in point is the visit I made to The Tetley on Thursday, 17th September for a preview of Citra, an exhibition by Lauren Gault. I always find that being given a drink voucher when I arrive…
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It is great to see familiar events returning from their virtual versions to the format for which they were designed. The latest of these is Leeds Rum Festival which is celebrating its fifth birthday this year. I have been fortunate enough to be able to get to two of the previous live events and can’t…
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In the words of The Four Seasons ‘Oh What A Night’. When I arrived at Temple Arches, home of Chow Down, to write about the awards I had absolutely no idea of the events which were about to unfold. I had been invited by Leeds Indie Food to come along to see what was happening…
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Over the weekend of 19th – 22nd August a panel of celebrity judges will be sampling the best of Northern Street Food and selecting winners to go on to the National Street Food Final at Freedom Festival, Hull from 3rd – 5th September, where the overall winner will be judged by the general public alongside…
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Lately I seem to be living in the past, last week it was a tour of long-gone pubs and today it is closed down cinemas. Unlike the boozers tour I was able to take some refreshment with the picture houses trip as I did it from home with a glass of single malt to accompany…
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There are worse ways of spending a Saturday afternoon than by loading up with culture, especially when it involves both learning some history of your home town and indulging in the odd beer. After having called at The Yorkshire Square last Thursday to see what was going on, I returned on Saturday to attend two…
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When I read that Small Acts (Katie Etheridge and Simon Persighetti) were opening a pub in Leeds Kirkgate Market as part of Compass Arts Festival I was elated. When I read the small print and found out that it would be the size of a Yorkshire Square i.e. 12ft x 12ft I wondered how on…
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Well, now that we are past Midsummer’s Day, the nights have started drawing in so it is time to look forward to the offerings from Leeds Playhouse to cheer us up and divert us from watching the digits on our smart meters increase quicker than the altimeter on Sir Richard Branson’s spaceship. Fear not, there…
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I have been sitting on this information for a while now because I was getting pretty depressed having to pass on the news of scheduled performances by various organisations being cancelled or postponed over the past eighteen months. Some have been postponed and then cancelled. With the proposed lifting of restrictions and the vaccine roll-out…
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Opera North are at it again, bringing opera to people who would not normally experience it and what a great choice. There can have been no more appropriate work to air on the weekend of the G7 Summit on Climate Change. As the name suggests, there is a green message in this work, not only…
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