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Liverpool Life: RESTAURANT REVIEW: Ragga's on Lark Lane in Aintree

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Luke Traynor soaks up the flavours of the West Indies without leaving Aigburth at Ragga's

Liverpool Arts: MUSIC INTERVIEW: X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins shares what it's like having Gary Barlow round for tea

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:00:00 GMT

X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins talks to Andy Welch about fame and what it's like to have Gary Barlow round for tea

Liverpool Arts: THEATRE INTERVIEW: Samantha Womack on playing Nellie Forbush in South Pacific at the Liverpool Empire

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

There’s nothing cheesy about Samantha Womack’s role in hit musical South Pacific, she tells Laura Davis

Liverpool Life: TRAVEL: Holidays from the heart for die-hard romantics

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Learn to fall in love again with a break away inspired by Valentine’s Day. Sarah Marshall selects getaways suited to every type of twosome

Liverpool Life: Masterchef winner Claire Lara's Cauliflower Soup recipe

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT

COLD weather calls for some warming soup and this recipe is an easy dish to prepare.

Liverpool Arts: Laura Davis: Why assume beneath every Adam Woodyatt there’s an Adrien Brody waiting to get out

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

WHAT do you do if you’re worried about getting typecast? If you’re Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe you strip off all your clothes (in Peter Shaffer's Equus at the Gielgud Theatre) to prove rather too convincingly that you’re not a little boy anymore.

Liverpool Life: Emma Johnson: Go on Karl Lagerfeld, make me a Chanel of your peace and send Adele a frock

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:00:00 GMT

ADELE is a “little too fat”, Russian men are “ugly” and the Royal Family is “unnecessary”.

Liverpool Arts: THEATRE INTERVIEW: Former Liverpool Everyman star Antony Sher’s role in the National Theatre’s Travelling Light reminds him of his own family’s journey

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Antony Sher is keen to follow Pete Postlethwaite and Jonathan Pryce onto the Liverpool stage, he tells Laura Davis

Liverpool Arts: Jamie Bowman: The GIT award is fantastic idea for the musical hotbed that is Liverpool

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT

THERE are many reasons why February is the most depressing month. Valentines Day and the inevitable cold snap are two, but surely the main reason to hide under the covers until March is the annual music industry smug-fest that is the Brit Awards.

Liverpool Arts: INTERVIEW: Northern Art Prize winner and Heswall-based artist Leo Fitzmaurice

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Winning the Northern Art Prize will give Heswall-based Leo Fitzmaurice creative freedom, he tells Laura Davis

Liverpool Arts: REVIEW: Muppets’ return is truly irresistible

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:00 GMT

THE MUPPETS (U) Starring: Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Alan Arkin, Rashida Jones and the voices of Peter Linz, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz. Director: James Bobin.Duration: 109 mins.

Liverpool Arts: DANCE REVIEW: Strictly Come Dancing Live, Liverpool Echo Arena - four stars (GALLERY)

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:15:00 GMT

THE sequins, fake tans and tight-fitting costumes were all on display as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour came to town in an arena setting.

Liverpool Arts: MUSIC PREVIEW: The Film Music of John Williams: 80th Birthday Celebrations/ Philharmonic Hall, Saturday

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:00:00 GMT

The Film Music of John Williams: 80th Birthday Celebrations/ Philharmonic Hall, Saturday

Liverpool Arts: THEATRE REVIEW: Legally Blonde, Liverpool Empire – four stars

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:10:00 GMT

THE “Scouse mafia”, as Les Dennis has dubbed them, was out in force for the return of the musical Legally Blonde to the Liverpool Empire yet there was not a local accent between them.

Liverpool Arts: Daniel Radcliffe hopes The Woman In Black will lay Harry Potter's ghost to rest

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:00 GMT

Daniel Radcliffe returns to the big screen in gothic horror The Woman In Black. Kate Whiting discovers how the actor's toughest role to date is finally set to put the ghost of Harry Potter behind him

Liverpool Arts: David Higgerson on the week's TV: Ex-Hollyoaks actress Emma Rigby deserves prime-time slot on Prisoners' Wives

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:00 GMT

DESPAIR. Anguish. Hopelessness. A sense of 'why me'. All emotions which actress Emma Rigby would surely have experienced when watching Championship football while dating footballer Matt Mills.

Liverpool Arts: CLASSICAL PREVIEW: RLPO celebrates 50 years of The Beatles in Summer Pops concert

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:05:00 GMT

A CONCERT marking the double celebration of The Beatles’ 50th anniversary and Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday will be a highlight of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Pops 2012 season.

Liverpool Arts: FESTIVAL PREVIEW: The Lift-Off film festival comes to Liverpool in February 2013

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL is to join the list of international cities that host a prize-giving film festival.

Liverpool Arts: My favourite book: Wirral author Caroline Smailes - The Twits by Roald Dahl

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

WIRRAL-based Caroline Smailes is the author of books such as Search of Adam, Like Bees to Honey and Black Boxes. She chooses The Twits by Roald Dahl.

Liverpool Arts: EXHIBITION REVIEW: My Five New Friends by Oliver Braid, The Royal Standard

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

WHAT do you do when someone tells you they want to be your friend, record your relationship in a diary and turn the results into an art exhibition?

Liverpool Arts: PREVIEW: The Tales of Charles Dickens at St George’s Hall’s concert room

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:50:00 GMT

THE team behind the Tales From Haunted Liverpool series have turned their attentions to Charles Dickens.

Liverpool Arts: PREVIEW: The Martini Lounge’s Valentine’s Grand Showcase at the Epstein Theatre, Liverpool

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:05:00 GMT

AUDIENCES have the chance to see the new Epstein Theatre before its official opening by Liverpool Sound City later this year.

Liverpool Arts: Also showing at the cinema this week: Carnage, Man On A Ledge and more

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ALAN Cowan (Christoph Waltz) and his wife Nancy (Kate Winslet) visit the apartment of Michael and Penelope Longstreet (John C Reilly, Jodie Foster) to apologise for their son Zachary, who has hit the Longstreets’ son Ethan in the face with a stick. The meeting is intended to be brief and courteous but as the conversation ebbs and flows, tensions become evident until poor Nancy is taken ill and spoils Penelope’s prized Kokoschka art catalogue. Once the guests return to the sitting room, verbal exchanges become increasingly terse and heated until all sense of decorum disintegrates and the couples lash out just like their boys.

Liverpool Arts: SPOTLIGHT: Merseyside writer Cath Bore

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Cath Bore, writer

Liverpool Life: Food & Drink: Sparkling ideas to romance your loved one this Valentine’s Day

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

ROSES are red, violets are blue, forget the flowers, Champers will do.