ON a mission to prove that street dance really does know no limits, a dance collective are staging a hip-hop interpretation of the literary classic One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

WHEN Mitch Benn answered the phone, CityLife wasn’t sure whether we were through to the musical comic or the exotic birdhouse at Chester Zoo.

SURVIVING conflict is only part of surviving war, as a set of photographs by Sean Sutton will illustrate when they go on display in unique, five-metre high frames outside the Imperial War Museum North this weekend (November 22).

TAKE two first-time film-makers from Manchester with a mutual interest in Woody Allen and you’re left with Mancattan – a highlight of the sixth Salford Film Festival, which begins today (November 20).

WHEN do you reckon the first curry house was opened in Britain? The Sixties? Ten years earlier? The first recorded South Asian restaurant in Rusholme – along what later went on to become The Curry Mile, reputedly the highest concentration of such places in the land – was in 1959.

IN an age when new club nights spring up at a rate of 400 every weekend, longevity is something to be respected. So hats off to Bugged Out, which celebrates 15 years - the same amount of time as original venue Sankeys - in the game with a birthday special featuring The Chemical Brothers tonight (November ...

TIME off is something we all look forward to. Even when you’re an Arctic Monkey, a bit of a break from the boys is welcome. Bassist Nick O'Malley tells Sarah Walters all about their holiday.

SCHOOL'S out at the Opera House next week as TV’s Search For Troy winner Liam Doyle stars in High School Musical 2 – Live On Stage!

STARS really are made overnight these days. Case in point: Taylor Swift, a 19-year-old country-pop singer already worth more than £10m on the back of two records.

WORLD-renowned Welsh tenor Bryn Terfel talks to Natalie Anglesey about sheep, singing and soccer.