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JAMIE BOWMAN: Saving The Caledonia is a fight we all need to get behind. May 03 2013

IT’S always a worry when you find yourself agreeing with Robbie Williams but the former Take That star had a point when he remarked this week that the current UK music scene is in need of a few rebellious voices.Read

David Higgerson: ITV's sitcoms struggle to raise a laugh May 02 2013

While Sky has come along and spent large sums with variable returns on programmes such as Trollied (brilliant), Spy (ok) and Stella (not really very good at all), and the BBC has kept churning out productions of varying quality, ITV have done, well, little.Read

LAURA DAVIS: The 11 contenders for UK City of Culture should not forget the ordinary people May 02 2013

A MAN on a penny farthing rode past me on Lime Street the day Liverpool won the European Capital of Culture title.Read

INTERVIEW: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne on This House is Haunted and Liverpool’s In Other Words festival May 02 2013

A ghostly hall in Victorian Norfolk is the setting for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne’s latest novel, he tells Laura DavisRead

Artist Emma Rodgers excited about Butterfly scuplture taking flight at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre's Papillon Centre May 02 2013

A butterfly sculpture will bring hope to patients of Clatterbridge’s new Papillon Centre, its creator tells Laura DavisRead

MUSIC INTERVIEW: China Forbes of Pink Martini on her Philharmonic Hall date May 02 2013

China Forbes, of ‘part language lesson, part Hollywood musical’ act Pink MartiniRead

DANCE REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Liverpool Empire - four stars May 02 2013

EVERYTHING is always a little bit topsy turvy in Matthew Bourne’s world – his swans are male, Prince Charming’s ball is set in a wartime dance hall and Clara’s nutcracker is a rare gift in a Victorian orphanage.Read

I just want to give some hope to our High Streets May 02 2013

Shopping supremo Mary Portas is back on our screens and this time she’s tackling the ailing British high street. Like her famous red bob, she’s as sharp as ever, as Keeley Bolger discoversRead

PETER SPAULL ON CLASSICAL : Shostakovich’s Masterpiece: Symphony No.14 at thePhilharmonic Hall; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos); Tine, Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott (EMI) May 02 2013

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THEATRE REVIEW: Rent in Concert, Liverpool Auditorium, Echo Arena - three stars May 02 2013

FOR two decades this rollercoaster of hope and despair, a remarkable tale of a year in the life under the shadow of heroin addiction and HIV/AIDS, has wowed crowds from Broadway to the West End.Read

MUSIC REVIEW: Nigel Kennedy: Bach and Fats Waller, Philharmonic Hall - five stars May 02 2013

IT WAS billed as Nigel Kennedy presents Bach plus Fats Waller but the spiky-haired violinist isn't one to play by the rules, even when he has set them himself.Read

CLASSICALREVIEW: Rossini’s Mass/ Philharmonic Hall - four stars May 02 2013

THIS somewhat esoteric Rossini religious swansong was never conceived for the concert hall.Read

Liverpool Sound City 2013: Top acts to watch in three-day music festival Apr 30 2013

LIVERPOOL'S biggest music festival bursts into life on Thursday as 360 or more acts from all corners of the globe take over the city.Read

What's on in Liverpool: Our picks for April 29 - May 4 - Open Eye Gallery, Beastie Boys at FACT and Sound City Apr 29 2013

Mishka Henner and Edith Tudor-Hart at Open Eye Gallery - daily until May 5, 10.30am-5.30pmRead

What's on in Liverpool: Our picks for April 26 - April 28 - Liverpool ONE reading trees, Rent and Natalie McCool Apr 26 2013

Murakii at Haus, 35-39 Greenland Street - Friday April 26 - £10Read

JAMIE BOWMAN: The Strokes were once a great band - what happened? Apr 26 2013

THE Strokes’ new album came out a few weeks ago. Did you notice? No, me neither.Read

TV COLUMN: David Higgerson with his latest small screen views Apr 25 2013

HERE'S a peculiar paradox. How is it possible to watch a TV programme which depicts unrelenting poverty, mental illness, an average of one attempted suicide a week and the fall-out of a war, yet still leave with some sort of warm feeling?Read

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