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Mozart Festival, Philharmonic Hall

THE Big Dig has reached the doors of the Philharmonic Hall. Read

Why Wolfgang Amadeus was a rocking good composer

FOR broadcaster Charles Hazlewood , the conductor and co-deviser of the Liverpool Phil's current Mozart 250th birthday season, music is very much a people thing. Read

A scene from I Found Her Tied To My Bed, on at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool

Theatre hosts a real shock horror story

THEATRE censorship may well have been abolished in 1968. But almost 40 years on, there are still shows which test the limits - and this is one of them. Read

Plastered Film Premiere, Fact, Liverpool

ROLL up the stretch limos - a white one for the girls, a black one for the lads, the latter bearing the transfer "arrive with attitude". Read

Girls are taking over from the boys in choir

GIRLS have overtaken boys in the race to be cathedral choristers. Read

Schools Art, Tate Liverpool Review

QUITE apart from transforming major galleries into ever more friendly places for youngsters to view art - some of it great - an equal aspect of this beckoning grace is to invite practical participation. Read

Living a life of fantasy

BILLY Liar was more of a fibber than a calculating deceiver, according to his latest alter ego. Read

Aladdin, Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn

UPSTREAM cross-river rivalry shows that Widnes's loss is Runcorn's gain. Read

The dark side of the loon

IS he a film star or a comedian? Some would say both. Read

Mark's tipped for the top

ISN'T he doing well - just as we said he would. Read

Cary Grant and Eva marie Saint in Alfred Hitchcock's film thriller, North by Northwest

Hitchcock season, Philharmonic Hall

INCREDIBLY, he never won an Oscar. Read

Bob's created a Dickens of a show

BOB Tomson is the man who took on - and beat off - the Butchers of Broadway. Read

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in concert

Messiah, Liverpool Philharmonic

IAN Tracey, chorus master of the Liverpool Philharmonic for the past 20 years, retains two palpable links with the old vinyl days of big Messiah performances under the likes of Malcolm Sargent and Adrian Boult. Read

Jamie Reid, Microzine Gallery

LIVERPOOL TATE, the Walker, the Lady Lever and all the usual frontrunners of high art have had their noses put out of joint - not least by the guy who put a safety pin through the Queen's nose on a Sex Pistols' album back in '77. Read

My Big Brother tips - by Craig

CRAIG Phillips, prototype Big Brother winner and born-again panto star, has sound advice for the celebrities resident in THAT house for the next fortnight. Read

The Factory of Dreams, Open Eye Gallery

FORGET EastEnders. Not everybody is talking about it, and they never were. Read

Aladdin, Floral Pavilion, New Brighton

THE backdrop of pantomime is being used, albeit subtly, to ensure the future of New Brighton's theatre. Read

Writer likes to be beside the seaside

HE'S Britain's most successful playwright since Noel Coward. And Liverpool contributes another substantial slice of royalties to Alan Ayckbourn's Christmas this year. Read