Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
In the tradition of 1960s jokes I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that the Hyde Park Picture House is closing at the end of February. The good news is that it is being totally refurbished, and the even better news is that it will continue to show films…
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On Thursday, 9th January 2020 I spent the whole evening in a private room above the Adelphi with a Fat Cow and a Minger. Before you jump to any false assumptions these are the names of two of the cheeses on offer at the Scottish Cheese Night presented by Homage2Fromage. It would appear that the…
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Now that Christmas and New Year are over and most of us are back at work I am sure that we would love something to look forward to to take our minds off a dull January and give a warm glow. What is this I see? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No!…
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that 2020 is very good to you. My year has started brilliantly with the rediscovery of the subject of one of my favourite reviews of the past. I was invited to a party just before Christmas, yes, just…
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Having been through the gamut of Christmas events on offer in Leeds it was time to indulge in the New Year Festivities, albeit a couple of days early. I never turn down an invitation to see and hear the wonderful Orchestra of Opera North, if I am totally honest I rarely turn down any invitation,…
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On Sunday I went to the Relaxed Performance of Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman. Normally this would have been my idea of torture but I loved every minute of it. I had kindly been invited by Opera North to see the programme and decided that the 4.30pm conventional performance would be just the…
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Christmas 1965, and I was given the newly released album Rubber Soul by The Beatles. Side One, Track Two, Norwegian Wood and a sound that very few of us had heard before, it was George Harrison playing the sitar, an Indian instrument which he had discovered on his spiritual trips, and I use the word…
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T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, nothing was stirring, especially the vodka martinis which were obviously shaken. The name’s Graham – Stan Graham. Do you know what I love most about Christmas – of course you don’t. Well, since you ask, it is the way in which everyone tries to include…
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A couple of months ago I went on a nostalgic trip to my primary school. It wasn’t a special occasion, I had just written an article about my past and got an urge to go to see it again. I was one of the first pupils in the building being there on the day it…
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Well, here we are then. The first full season of events at the extensively refurbished Leeds Playhouse, and what a season it promises to be. There are several co-productions in the Spring/Summer programme to enable the best talent in the country to be utilised. On pole position is Night of the Living Dead – Remix…
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