Life

Over 80% of businesses in Media City have ditched plastic straws, according to a new survey.

It was mid-afternoon on Wednesday, May 26, and Cari Rosen was sat at a bar in central Barcelona.

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It’s frustration with the male-dominated DJ scene that inspired Tracy Duah, Anna Cooper, Sophie Hayter, and Rosa Méthol to form All Hands on Deck (AHoD): the perfectly named DJ collective creating an inclusive platform in Manchester for women and non-binary people to flourish on the turntables.

The makeup industry has always been viewed as a female dominated occupation, but times are quickly changing as men are paving the way for a genderless makeup industry.

Inanimate objects long forgotten are being given a new lease of life at the Whitworth Museum in Manchester until March 2020 to remember nightspot The Reno in Moss Side – where Bob Marley, Muhammad Ali and Chaka Khan once visited.

Jinkx Monsoon, who was crowned winner and America’s next drag superstar in season 5 of Drag Race, spoke to MM about inclusivity, Trump and transphobia in the LGBTQ+ society.

MM takes a look around a special exhibition focusing solely on the local work of revered photo-documenter Martin Parr, along with Manchester Art Gallery’s very own senior curator Natasha Howes.

Normally seen in front of the camera, Anna Wilson-Jones has swapped roles for short film The Visitor taking on the role of writer and producer.

Three local businessmen, Mike Williams, Cris Marzoli and Shaun Peach discuss their new venture-designer clothing brand, IQ. The trio talk about being thrown into the deep end of the fashion industry and give a unique insight into the mindsets of new business owners.

When Jackson Yamba and his family made their way from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo for Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997, it was the start of a long and eventful journey that would eventually lead him to Salford where in 2019 he was sadly the target of racist abuse on his door.