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Audiences can expect laughs from a diverse array of voices as comedian Simon Day brings his show In Character to Manchester.

MM spoke to Bernard and Huey director Dan Mirvish as the film had its UK premiere at MANIFF last week, where it won Best Screenplay.

Collecting vinyl is by no means a rare or remarkable hobby, but in the case of DJ and crate-digger-extraordinaire Johnny Starke, it’s a passion that filmmaker Anthony Ladesich had to document in his Manchester Film Festival award-winning short film Forty-Five: The Search for Soul.

Manchester is leading the charge this year for International Women’s Day.

Inside issue one we look at a campaign to get Manchester to quit smoking, speak to LGBT campaigner and activist Mike Jackson and look at who might wrestle the title of Manchester’s next boxing king of the ring!

Film fever reached its height last weekend with the Oscars as Manchester had its own cinema celebration too with the third annual Manchester Film Festival packed full of an array of colourful and inspiring independent pictures from around the world.

To find out more about The Refuge exhibition Suffragette City, MM caught up with Shari Denson and Julia Adamson, two of the women behind-the-scenes in Manchester’s music scene featured in the exhibition to hear about the state of the city’s music now, musical promotion in a modern age and their own self-confidence.

For many, 4am on February 20 this year will not mean very much. For Peter Speight however it was the moment he achieved his life-time ambition: to become an Olympian.

Cornwall has its pasties and Cumberland has its sausages. Has Manchester found its own niche in craft beer?

‘The house always wins’ is a phrase you will hear a lot when people speak about casinos.

A team of invested individuals have changed the face of Lark Hill Place, Salford, in order to commemorate 100 years since the end of World War One.