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Gone are the days when you can claim never to have received that invitation. Don’t say “what invitation?”

Sketching whilst drunk is a great laugh, and how better to be inspired than a collection of top quality art in the best loved pub-come-gallery in Byker?
The Cluny Gallery has been taken under the wing of two talented and relentlessly committed local ladies and given the makeover it so desperately needed.

If you’ve heard folk refer to The Diamond Strip but haven’t a clue what they’re talking about, let Helen Foley take you by the hand and buy you a shot of tequila or two along the way…
All that glitters is… well, diamondy. Especially when it comes to a Newcastle night out. Of course we’re referring [...]

Chances are that unless you’re a history buff, an architecture aficionado or a Scandinavian tourist, you’ll stroll on down the city streets without even clocking the region’s oldest and most impressive buildings.

What a great time of year to celebrate booze; notably, full strength mixed spirits and the numerous places in Newcastle to get your hands on one. We’re talking classy concoctions here, because although we tried, we just couldn’t find a single place that made Sex on the Beach in a household bucket like they do [...]

For all those uninterested in anti-climatic firework displays tonight, this can be the day you go and see The Kills at The Other Rooms instead. Or, Hanoi Rocks will be at The Carling, desperately clinging to their 1980s, drug addicted rock personas. The Cluny meanwhile, has Solange. Not a medicated, throat pain relief capsule, but [...]

Weegee must have irritated the hell out of the NYPD with his deft persistence and indefatigable urge to capture the lifeless morbidity of a New York crime scene, but where would any of us get to without the shameless capacity to annoy?

Action packed and fast moving it may be, we can’t all get excited about Nicolas Cage going mental and kicking ass in a series of unrelated (yet strikingly similar) movie plots, we’re just not all built that way.