Articles...
Jul 25 2008
BENEFIT. An often repeated question, as it was after the Tall Ships. What was the benefit? Another one million people came and went last weekend and for once, as that figure dwarfs the city population, it was easy for people to see that it isn’t just locals enjoying the party....
Jul 11 2008
CONSOLIDATION. Often the boring bit that follows all the excitement.Whether it’s a football league title, a company takeover, tennis final or something more serious such as a battle, once the fighting is over, the need is for consolidation. To make sure that all the hard-won gains are not lost....
Jul 4 2008
JEWELS. Some obvious, some hidden. There are many in the region’s cultural crown. With the half-term reports delivered, some of the more obvious jewels have box offices up between 20-50% with record numbers being recorded by the Maritime Museum and the Tate....
Jul 4 2008
LIVERPOOL’S model for running Capital of Culture could be exported to future hosts....
Jun 20 2008
STRATEGY. Something generals love, while Napoleon favoured luck. As he discovered, the strategy was to conquer Russia; the tactics were to capture Moscow; the luck was in the weather. Or, as he found out, not....
Jun 14 2008
THOUSANDS of people are expected to take part in only the fourth ever walk through the Mersey Tunnels this weekend....
Jun 13 2008
SUPERLAMBANANA. If art is meant to stimulate a reaction, then there can be no doubt that the half-fruit half-animal creation of artist Taro Chiezo has certainly ticked that box....
Jun 6 2008
VARIETY. And what a week this was. From the opening of Garston’s Cultural Republic, Klimt, Yankel Feather at the Liverpool Academy of Arts, Macca, the Irish President’s visit, The Big Hope, The Stand Out Comedy and the Community Foundation Awards – at which the Liverpool Academy of Arts took top prize – to the Biennial’s Transport and Parks Visible Virals strand, at Croxteth Park, it was another week when there was almost too much going on!...
May 30 2008
OPENNESS. Isn’t it interesting, way from it? The Labour politician Tony Benn often talks, and gives talks, about how he personally records every interview he gives after long ago getting fed up with being misquoted and, more often than not, misrepresented....
May 23 2008
ROSCOE. The only son of the city to attract silverware this week. While a banner in the Moscow stadium declared it a Scouse free zone, conveniently overlooking that ex-Blue Rooney is still a Scouser, it seemed somehow fitting that Liverpool picked up a silver medal in Chelsea, of all places....
