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Liverpool Arts: Music: Jamie Bowman on a bad week for disco

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Listening again to I Feel Love or Stayin' Alive, it’s clear that they are quite simply fantastic songs that have wormed their way into the very fabric of modern culture.

Liverpool Life: Restaurant review: Elif in Childwall

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

Alistair Houghton visits the new Elif restaurant in Childwall Fiveways

Liverpool Life: Wine: Chardonnay has its day ... one to celebrate, that is

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

To borrow a theme from another beverage, if chardonnay made women, they would be as classy and steely-cool as Lauren Bacall in a black and white film noir; or as honeyed, rounded and voluptuously-complex as Marilyn Monroe; or maybe satin-lip frothy, but pin-bright and sparkling with a Grace Kelly-like elegance; or perhaps as fruit-laden as Carmen Miranda, all pineapple, peach and apricot.

Liverpool Life: FOOD: Merseyside produce has flavour of royalty

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

DINERS can look forward to dishes fit for a queen at the Maritime Dining Rooms.

Liverpool Arts: TV Review: Starlings sets the bar high for Sunday night drama

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:00:00 GMT

And, of course, there are the big-money productions such as Sherlock, although the most recent series did take the whole “can we believe what we're seeing” thing a little too far – surely not even a genius like Sherlock could really survive a multi-storey fall on to concrete.

Liverpool Arts: Laura Davis: There are no finish lines in arts prizes

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT

“I THINK the Booker can drive people quite mad,” the prize’s 2004 winner said this week.

Liverpool Arts: INTERVIEW: Curator Pamela Gerrish Nunn on the forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:00:00 GMT

A new exhibition celebrates the work of Pre-Raphaelite painter Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, reports Laura Davis

Liverpool Life: Fashion: Emma Johnson finds a new style icon in Mrs Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 06:00:00 GMT

I FOUND myself an unexpected new style icon this week. She's not a singer or a model or an actress she is a newly qualified paediatrician from Massachusetts. Her name is Priscilla Chan and until last week you had probably never heard of her.

Liverpool Life: Look of the week: Cheryl Cole and Cameron Diaz

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:44:00 GMT

WHAT is it with the new matchy matchy red carpet dress code?

Liverpool Arts: INTERVIEW: Liverpool comedian Stan Boardman on the world premiere of his musical theatre show Wags at The Unity

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT

With the premiere of his stage show Wag looming, comedian Stan Boardman shares his first night nerves with Laura Davis

Liverpool Arts: MUSIC INTERVIEW: The View talk McCartney, the Motor Museum and Dave McCabe

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

Recording their upcoming album at at Liverpool’s Motor Museum Studios was a real pleasure, The View tell Jade Wright

Liverpool Arts: INTERVIEW: Midsomer Murders’ Laura Howard on playing Annie in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests at the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 03:00:00 GMT

Nothing in Alan Ayckbourn’s trio of plays happens in a way anyone would predict, Midsomer Murders actor Laura Howard tells Laura Davis

Liverpool Arts: THEATRE REVIEW: Sister Act, Liverpool Empire

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:00 GMT

THERE’S something incomparably funny about dancing nuns – human weebles giddy with excitement as they break their usual restraint with a roar of song.

Liverpool Arts: PREVIEW: The 11th Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival