The frankly awesome Brass Festival returns to Durham for eight glorious days this July, and the line-up for 2025 is straight out of the top drawer. Check this little lot out. Durham is a special city whatever the time of year, but come July it really b…

Gail-Nina Anderson checks out “With These Hands” at the Laing Art Gallery, the new exhibition that explores the representation of craft in paintings, drawings and prints. In the days before Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry, there was a time when “Craft” and…

After a decade-long cycle of new music, tours and promotion left her burned out, cult indie-pop favourite MARINA is fresh from a hiatus and free from an oppressive contract. ‘PRINCESS OF POWER’ triumphantly marks her return with fantastical themes of divi…