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Art faithful flock to church for one of the biggest exhibitions marking Biennial celebrations

CHURCHES in Liverpool city centre have been turned into many different things over the years, from restaurants to flats. Read

The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh: Surreal mayhem is mighty fun

TV’S Mighty Boosh are thrilling many with tales from their surreal world. Vicky Anderson reports Read

Sandy West as Bill Shankly

Shankly stage recreation back for a fortnight

THE Shankly Show returns to Liverpool tomorrow night after a sensational debut earlier in the year. Read

Music gets a sporting chance

A NEW online music community has been set up in the region. Read

Contemporary dance celebration

MERSEYSIDE Dance Initiative is bringing the finest European contemporary dance companies from across the Continent for four nights only, in celebration of Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture. Read

Mark King of Level 42

We’ll do our Level best to thrill fans at the Phil, says King

LEVEL 42 return to the Philharmonic Hall next Wednesday. “Liverpool is a good city for us,” says bassist and frontman Mark King. Read

Hope Street Project

Liverpool Cathedrals’ laser link-up conveys hopes for future

THERE’S much more to the striking ray of green light that has appeared in Liverpool’s night sky than meets the eye – or even ear. Read

Theatre Review: Windermere, The Actors Studio

LIVERPOOL writer Tommy Kearney brings us another slice of lovingly-created teenage nostalgia in Windermere, currently enjoying its northern premiere in his home town. Read

Mural is a recycled vision of the universe

THE Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, on Greenland Street, is one of the real hubs of the Independent Biennial, holding a variety of exhibitions during the festival. Read

Key Liverpool Arts Events

EXHIBITION: An exhibition of the amazing microscopic work of Willard Wigan has been extended. See his work mounted on pinheads or in the eye of a needle, in the gallery of the Hard Day’s Night hotel, North John Street, until October 31, from 9.30-5.30pm Monday to Friday and 10am-4pm on Sundays. Entry is £3. 0151 236 1964. Read

Georgina Roberts as Lola Montez

Unity Theatre: Story of seductive Spanish dancer who hid Irish origins

DANCE, passion, femininity, life and love are not what they appear – or maybe what 19th- century society could not believe – in a new production that tells the life story of a flamboyant Spanish dancer who wasn’t everything she seemed. Read

Sir Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle returns home to Liverpool for Freedom of the City

SIR Simon Rattle returned home to Liverpool last night for a string of special engagements including a return to conducting the RLPO, and finally getting round to taking up his Freedom of the City. Read

Culture year theatre for resort

CULTURE year spreads itself out Southport way next week for a special showing of a 2008 commission. Read

David Knopov with his Hilda Ogden prints

Who wants Marilyn Monroe when there’s our Hilda?

A FAMILIAR face in an unfamiliar guise will be greeting diners at one of the city’s best restaurants. Read

The Maybes?

Free gigs unveiled for MTV festival

THE MTV Liverpool Music Week festival takes place in November, and organisers have announced the first wave of acts for this year’s free show agenda. Read

MUSIC REVIEWThe Wally Fields Jazz Orchestra/ Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

COMPOSER, bandleader and pianist Wally Fields, another hometown boy made good, returned to Liverpool last night for a one-off concert entitled Swing Time with Gershwin. Read

Historic church artefacts bring in the crowds

PRICELESS religious artefacts, ranging from a martyr’s desiccated eyeball to a thorn purported to be from the crown of Christ, will be on display in a Liverpool church for two more days. Read

EMin

Tracey Emin's words of love on show at Liverpool Cathedral

ARTIST Tracey Emin was in Liverpool last night to launch her latest work in the city. Her piece. For You, a neon work proclaiming “I felt you and I knew you loved me”, in hot pink lettering, is situated under the huge stained glass window of the public entrance to Liverpool Cathedral. Read

Manoeuvring back into the limelight

THEY formed as teen- agers, just to be able to take to the cramped and sweaty stage of Eric’s – at the time, Liverpool’s celebrated hot-bed of new creative talent. Read

Dignified tribute to UK troops

Vicky Anderson reports on one artist’s campaign to honour British soldiers Read

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Vicky Anderson is the specialist culture reporter, covering all the news and events from Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture 2008. Tel: 0151 472 2584

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