Live costs less

Ryedale Live has cut the price of tickets for its birthday gig at Helmsley Arts Centre on 26 June. They are now just £7.50. Players lined up for the second birthday celebration include Alice...

Art quartet at Thirsk

Scarborough artists are moving inland for a show in Thirsk next month. Sally Greaves-Lord is showing new work in textiles, together with ceramics by Remon Jephcott. Marlene McKibbin's jewellery and etchings...

Woolly mammoth

Are you nifty with a knitting needle? Then Scarborough arts development agency Create wants to hear from you. As part of North Yorkshire Open Studios 2010, an...

Hardy annual: project records Scarborough life

An imaginative project is to chart the year-long run up to the next Coastival in photographs.   Photographer Tony Bartholomew is to take a single photograph every...

Class does lines

New waves

Live and spinning

Actors and musicians team up

Barrowcliffe Stories goes to Europe

Performers at the cutting edge

New gallery opens

Last trains to, er, Nunthorpe

Fans head for Jakefest

Arts and culture mapped

Total meltdown: Blast Furnace returns

It’s the late seventies. Punk has been tearing a satisfying swathe through the likes of Yes, ELP and, god help us, The Sweet. So naturally, you think, what we need is...

Wild Willy - he's livid

Willy Barrett is one of those annoying people who are so naturally musical they can play just about anything. And in Willy’s case, he probably has. He’s been...

Bex gets the blues

If you like a music performance that stays with you, then Bex Marshall could be right for you. She manages to overturn all the old clichés – she’s a white,...

Red hot and unplugged

Unplugged is the way to go in 2010, the promoters of Scarborough’s fantastically successful boutique festival Acoustic Gathering believe. So much so that they are taking the format monthly, with...

Rolling out the barrel for freedom

Jousting guitars compete for top slot

Misty plays for Musicport

Brass, bass and step on the gas

Blues club keeps on rollin'

Peasholm Park greets its old China

Bands bring it all back home

All in for a freeform party

Coast to the world and back again

Trouble in mind: why the blues is big

Go wild for food

For something really special to put on the table this year, why not take a trip round the area and stock up on excellent local produce, says Chat Noir chef Yann Ruvoen The best journeys begin on...

Choo choo cha boogie

Once upon a time the traditional British seaside holiday seemed to be in terminal decline. Sandcastles and donkeys were just for those who couldn’t afford anything better. But change is afoot and people...

Restaurant Review - Castlegate Taberna

It’s a few years since the tapas craze hit these shores with a vengeance. In the 1990s, all over Britain, people were ordering patatas bravas and boquerones by the slack handful. The problem...

Restaurant Review - Scarborough Tandoori

Fishie on a dishie This must be Scarborough’s oldest Indian restaurant. It’s certainly got that venerable air, though happily the decor is modern – flock wallpaper a distant memory....

Choctastic Valentine's Day

Café Review - Harbour Bar

Restaurant Review - Fiesta Mehicana

Restaurant Review - The Three Jolly Sailors

Restaurant Review - The Bramblewick

Café Review - Francis Tearooms

Café Review - Café View

Café Review - Café Marmalades at Beiderbecke's Hotel

Café Review - Barista

Pub Review - Barracuda

Small world: Clothylde Vergnes

As the North Yorkshire Open Studios season starts on 11 June, we asked artist Clothylde Vergnes to talk about her work and the event. Along with over 100 artists, Clothylde Vergnes has been selected...

Art shows its craft: Open Studios

E H Gombrich wrote: ‘There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.’ You can chew over the meaning of that while you engage in one of the delights of...

Life on the hoof: review - Sarah Venus

There’s something distinctly animal in this show. The wool for the felt sculptures obviously, trained and teased into fantastical shapes and patterns. But more than that, there’s the teats...

Shaping up: Helen Donnelly at Queen Street

Seeing Helen Donnelly’s new work in Crescent Arts’ new Queen Street space comes as something of a relief. In the last couple of months I’ve seen more than...

Changing rooms: beach huts on show

Starting from scratch: printmaking for all

The basement tapes: 30 years of Crescent Arts

Game plan to overcome social stigma

Whatever floats your boat

All fired up: glassblowing in Ryedale

Rachel Howfield: stories from a place

Jane Poulton: the high water of cathedral art

Small wonder

Grayson Perry: the quiet man of art

Mamet's Marriage at the SJT

Boston Marriage by David Mamet opens this month at the SJT. Roger Osborne takes a look at the script for this preview   What happens when you cross Oscar Wilde...

Books from the heart: Rouhi Shafii

In a world of twenty-four hour news and information we are still surprisingly ignorant of how our fellow humans live. The recent turmoil in Iran filled our TV screens for a...

Chilling drama on tour

It’s a tense time for Vanessa Brooks. She is working on the final technical rehearsals for her new drama Hypothermia, and it’s not a straightforward job. Among...

The Swansea standup: Rob Brydon

I declare an interest: as not only a Welshman, but as an Elvis-loving man of Swansea, Rob Brydon is playing on home turf with me. One of the funniest men in Britain along, in my unbiased view, with fellow...

Review: Sizwe Banzi is Dead

August in Glaisdale goes to April in Paris

Pratfalls and other gags: Whitby comedy

Review: Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias

LA confidential

Making oven clips

Steering through stormy waters

Criminal - hey, but lyrical: Sophie Hannah

An accidental death – and a revival

AfterShock rocks

Young people will get the chance to work with professional artists this month at a mini-festival organised by North Yorkshire County Council. The AfterShock event includes...

Dreamworlds: Helen Burke

Poet Helen Burke visits this month as part of the run-up to The Long Weekend, Scarborough’s literature festival, which takes place in April.   In the...

Tony Bartholomew: lensman

Janis Bright previews a classy photography workshop He’s got everyone from ladies in the bakery to prime ministers to pose for him. But he still spends hours at his desk scrutinising what...

First bite for horrorfest

James Latimer introduces the first Bram Stoker International Film Festival The festival from 16 to 19 October was established in order to provide more opportunities and exposure for filmmakers,...

Britflicks bonanza

Much more than window dressing

Obama and me: Niall Stanage interviewed

Coastival reviews

Coastival explorer

Deep in the drive-by: Andy Hylton

Summer at the movies

See the world in shorts: filmmaking in Whitby

Behind the lines: Richard Seymour

Downhill all the way