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The art of true success

NATIONAL Museums Liverpool sets store by its title - including the national media attention that goes with it. Read

Rizzi's honour

CARLO Rizzi , music director of Welsh National Opera, has spent his life steeped in song. Perhaps not so surprising for a boy who grew up in Milan and was taken to La Scala at the age of 12. Read

American singer Buddy Greco

'That's my Buddy'

IT was the era of true stars, not the sell-by dated celebrities of today. Read

Gillian scores a Hedda

SHE'S trapped in a house she no longer wants, with a husband she hates. So she makes life hell for everybody else. Read

Piano 2006 Festival, Manchester

THE Irish musician Barry Douglas was one of the 12 judges - and certainly the most distinguished artistically - who awarded Liverpool its Capital of Culture prize. Read

Smaller arts groups are losing out to big city names

SOME of Liverpool's top scribes have scribbled a note to me expressing dismay at what they see as a knockback for their licence, liberty and sheer existence. Read

Artists find new cultural outlet

IT'S art, it's for sale, and it's local. Read

Preview: Chinese State Circus, Sefton Park

IT'S billed as the greatest family show ever assembled beyond the Great Wall. Read

Search for a Pulp Idol

POP Idol goes literary in April, when we welcome PULP Idol. Read

Europe dates for orchestra

THEY do it because they want to - and because they say they need to. The Liverpool Phil is to resume a significant touring programme after 10 years of being limited to hopping between Merseyside and Prague, since an American tour in 1996. Read

Poetry boyband gets deep and meaningful

WHY not be a groupie with a difference? Read

Hale changes pace with musical role

GARETH Hale - half of tough guys comic duo Hale and Pace - really is changing tempo. Read

Hale changes pace with musical role

GARETH Hale - half of tough guys comic duo Hale and Pace - really is changing tempo. Read

Empire's new show will go with a bang

MUSICAL lovers are set to flock to the Empire as the theatre stages the biggest show in its history. Read

What Big Eyes You Have, Cornerstone Gallery

AN EXHIBITION about being over-faced by an eat-as-much-as-you-want menu? Read

Making History Tate Liverpool

LAST year, Tate Liverpool staged the first serious UK exhibition examining phychedelia. Read

You won't want to get out of this theatre date

IT may well be a mystery - but not so much 'whodunnit' as 'Houdini'. Read

Digging the dirt on city

CELEBRATE the Big Dig with a night of Merseyside mystery, madness and murder. Read

The hills are alive

GEOFF JAMIESON loves working in the Lake District fells. Read

You won't want to get out of this theatre date

IT may well be a mystery - but not so much 'whodunnit' as 'Houdini'. Read

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