Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
My first visit to LIFI 22 was to see one of my television heroes, Kevin McCloud, everybody’s favourite architect and designer, who has a way of offering support to self-builders whilst, at the same time, can cast a look in their direction which says ‘Are you serious?’ – or something a little stronger. This event…
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I have been covering this event for several years now and, although I enjoy it, I must say that I am running short of new ideas to make my review a little different from the previous ones. This time I think that I have nailed it. It is always a pleasure to visit the beautiful…
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I would like you to ignore the text on this featured image. ‘Why has the old fool put it on the article then?’ I hear you ask. The answer is simple. This amalgam of two Leeds institutions has been so popular that extra dates have been added so, as well as 23rd and 24th September,…
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There’s an old saying that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good and there was no better place to ratify that theorem than Harrogate Real Food Market. Covid has caused all kinds of devastation but it also seems to have provided the enterprising folk I met on Sunday with an opportunity, and…
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With just a month to go, there have been some changes to Leeds International Festival of Ideas. The main one being the addition of a session from the chap who made architecture cool, Kevin McCloud on Thursday, 22nd September. There have also been changes to the various panel members in some of the discussion sets…
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All I can say is that it is about time! Ever since I was taken to the pantomime at the Grand Theatre in the 1950s and on all of my visits to see a show, an opera or a gig at Howard Assembly Room since then, the evening has always ended with the audience shouting…
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Just over a week ago I went to a lunchtime concert by the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North entitled Summertime. On Sunday I went to another called Opera In The City in Millennium Square which should really have been named Singin’ in The Rain. The concert started at 5.30pm, about half an hour after…
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What better day than Friday, 22nd July to celebrate tequila, being just two days before the United States’ National Tequila Day. OK, I have answered my own question there but I feel that Friday evening is far more conducive to celebrating anything than is a Sunday. There is much more to tequila than meets the…
Read MoreI recently wrote an article about The Craft Centre and Design Gallery and was really disappointed that the workshops scheduled for the Spring/Summer Season clashed with events I had already committed to attending. By a quirk of fate one was moved meaning that I could benefit from both that one and this. Result! The workshop…
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Friday, 22nd July sees the first Leeds Tequila Festival which will be held at The Tetley, but you knew that already from the heading. The event is being organised by Rolling Social Events who have already brought us festivals of rum, gin and whisky, in fact they have probably put more people in touch with…
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Tyke It To The Limit 