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Comedian John Shuttleworth

COMEDY REVIEW: John Shuttleworth, With My Condiments, Liverpool Everyman Theatre

SPURRED on by Jamie Oliver’s foray into school dinners - and the fact that his taciturn wife Mary is a dinner lady - Sheffield’s master of DIY, light entertainment and the Yamaha organ has decided to show us that anything the chirpy Cockney sparrer can conjure up then so can he. Read

WHEN The Railway on Tithebarn Street closed for refurbishment, everyone feared the worst for this traditional old boozer which, like its excellent next-door neighbour, the Lion Tavern, once served Exchange Station across the way.

In recent times, The Railway’s interior had become a little shabby, but this added to its charm in a lived-in sort of way, especially when nursing a pint on a cold winter’s afternoon in one of its dark back rooms. Read

Society repeats city club award

SOCIETY nightclub was voted Liverpool’s overall Best Bar None venue for the second year running at a glittering ceremony at the Liner Hotel, on Lord Nelson Street, last night. Read

Sons of Shankly

LFC Sons’ army on the march

THE UK’s first ever club supporters union, the Sons of Shankly, is being inundated with enquiries on how to join from all over the world. Read

Mike Chapple at Liverpool Playhouse for a seven hour production of Tolstoy's "War and Peace"

War and Peace challenge for ‘hard core’ drama fans

THE gauntlet had been thrown down by the news desk. So it would have been rude – if not downright futile – to refuse the offer of spending much of Saturday in the Playhouse watching the mammoth stage adaptation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Read

The Crown Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool

FIRST impressions are lasting impressions. Right? Right. Read

Thousands flock to beer festival with a local flavour

ORGANISERS of the 2008 Liverpool Beer Festival held once again in the crypt of the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral maintain it has been one of the best ever. Read

2008 Liverpool Beer Festival

IN PAST columns, the traditional image of the male strain of the real ale drinker has come under the spotlight. Read

Legendary diva Dionne Warwick

MUSIC REVIEW: Dionne Warwick, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

IT WAS a marriage made in heaven – the emotive songs Burt Bacharach and Hal David channelled through Dionne Warwick, whose versatile voice could swing from delicate to powerful with seemingly consummate ease. Read

The Heather Brow pub, Claughton, Birkenhead.

RECENTLY we found a great little local, the Heather Brow at Claughton in Birkenhead. It was blessed with a God’s Waiting Room. Read

Cains Brewery

Sergeant Pepper artist designs beer label for Capital of Culture

LEGENDARY pop artist Sir Peter Blake, who designed the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper album, has used his imagination to promote another home-grown product – Cains beer. Read

George Gillett and Tom Hicks Takeover Discussion

LFC TAKEOVER: A fan's personal view of 12 months with the Americans

“I DON’T think I’ve ever felt so depressed about LFC.” Read

Savoretti serenades

ANGLO-ITALIAN singer songwriter Jack Savoretti will be busking at three local Caffe Nero coffee shops today to promote his soon to be released new album Between the Minds. Read

The Village Inn, Aintree Village

Targeted by arsonists the previous Christmas, it later lost its licence. Local residents – who had come to vilify the once- popular local – even celebrated as a court backed the decision to keep it closed. Read

Legendary diva Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick: Viva la diva

MIKE Chapple finds Dionne Warwick looking forward to her date in the city Read

Fans react to recent events at Anfield

Liverpool FC fans hatch £500m takeover plan

A GROUP of high-profile Liverpool FC supporters will today unveil radical proposals for a £500m fans’ buy-out of their club, in an audacious display of supporter power. Read

Liverpool pop legend Billy Fury

Fans stay as loyal as ever to city pop legend Billy Fury

GONE but not forgotten may be a cliché for some, but not to the followers of Liverpool rock ’n’ roll legend Billy Fury. Read

The Heather Brow, Claughton, Birkenhead

LADY Penelope of Pensby has become something of a little sniffer dog for the Pub Column, snuffling out undiscovered alehouse nuggets. Read

Mike Chapple's Ormskirk pub tour

Mike Chapple: Time to get on an enjoy 08

MIKE CHAPPLE on a momentous day for the city of Liverpool Read

JOHN LENNON once remarked that the one thing he regretted about his fame was not being able to enjoy a pint undisturbed in his favourite boozer, The Philharmonic, any more.

Ringo must have felt the same about his favourite, The Empress in High Park Street. He loved it so much he put it on the cover of his first solo album Sentimental Journey. Released in March 1970, it featured versions of such old standards as You Always Hurt The One You Love and Cole Porter’s Night And Day that he recalled would be bellowed out around the old Empress Joanna. Read

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Mike Chapple is the Liverpool Daily Post's award winning pub writer. His regular column At The Bar appears every Saturday and he is also a published author - his latest book is the enticingly-named The Great Liverpool Pub Crawl. Tel: 0151 472 2564

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