Thursday, November 12
Author: Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney
Caitlin Rooney has been covering Greater Manchester for the best part of a decade. She started at a local paper in Salford, moved to digital, and spent three years on the housing and planning beat before going independent. She has sat through more council cabinet meetings than she cares to count and still reads the planning portal on her phone. She writes about transport, housing, devolution, policing, and the daily grind of how a city actually runs. She has a particular interest in who benefits from regeneration and who gets moved along by it. Caitlin lives in Chorlton. She thinks the Metrolink is both Manchester's best and worst infrastructure, and does not trust anyone who calls the city centre "town".
If you’re among the Reacher fans deciding what to watch next after burning through Prime Video’s hit series, The Equalizer is the answer, and it’s not even close. The blueprint is almost identical: a former military man, quietly living on society’s margins, who cannot stand by when the vulnerable get crushed underfoot.Alan Ritchson’s Jack Reacher has become one of those rare TV characters people genuinely miss between seasons. According to Wikipedia, the second season, with Nick Santora as showrunner, rolled out from 15 December 2023 with three episodes, then dropped one per week through to 19 January 2024. Filming had…
The Labor Day sales 2026 are in full swing, and if you have not started looking yet, the window is narrowing fast. Most of the action wraps up on 8 September, the day after the holiday itself, so the next few days are where the actual opportunity sits.There is a reasonable amount of genuine value buried in here, alongside the usual retail theatre. Price-tracking tools help separate the two. The short version: if you need tech, home goods, appliances, or school supplies, this is a legitimate moment to move.Where the Labor Day Sales 2026 Are Actually Worth Your TimeAccording to…
The Venice Film Festival 2026 fashion parade is well underway, with the 83rd edition of the world’s oldest film festival delivering exactly the kind of considered glamour the Lido does better than anywhere else. Water taxis, grand palazzos, and a lineup of stars who clearly regard the red carpet as seriously as the films they’re there to promote: it’s Venice, so naturally. Who Is at the 83rd Venice Film Festival The headliners this year include Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Dakota Johnson, Alicia Vikander, and Robert Pattinson. George Clooney, whose appearances on the Lido with his wife, international human rights lawyer…
The Silo season 4 premiere date is locked in: 9 July 2027, when Apple TV Press confirmed the dystopian sci-fi drama will return for its fourth and final run.The announcement came on 4 September, the same day season 3 wrapped with a finale that closed a few doors and wedged several more wide open. Apple TV+ had initially greenlit seasons three and four together back in 2024, so the renewal itself wasn’t a surprise. The date, though, is now official.What the Season 3 Finale Set UpSeason 3 ended with a broadcast that rattled Silo 18 to its foundations. ‘You have…
The Birkenstock Etro collaboration is now official, pairing the German sandal brand with the Italian label known for intricate patterns and maximalist sensibility to produce what might be the most ornate take on a clog you’ll see this year. The collection was announced today ahead of a global launch on 10 September.It’s a partnership that makes a certain kind of sense, even if it sounds unlikely on paper. Birkenstock has spent the last few years shapeshifting through various fashion moments (the French girl era, the balletcore phase) and now it’s landed squarely in bohemian territory. Etro, for its part, has…
The North West debut EP N0rth4evr has already drawn serious critical attention, with According2HipHop reporting that Rolling Stone awarded it four stars out of five, a striking reception for a six-track release from a 13-year-old still in her first year of public performances.North, the eldest child of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, dropped the EP on 1 May 2026. The project blends heavy guitar with vocals and a punk-leaning rap style, and its title track came with a music video the day before release, on 30 April. In it, North leans into an early-2000s punk aesthetic (striped arm warmers, spiked…
The Bad Bunny Emmy win at the 78th Creative Arts Emmy Awards was not just a personal first, it was a piece of television history. The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, for which Bad Bunny was credited as performer and producer, became the first Spanish-language programme to win Outstanding Variety Special (Live), according to Billboard.Sabrina Carpenter picked up her own first Emmy on the same night, recognised as executive producer and performer on The Muppet Show, which took Best Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). Neither artist was present at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, where the…
Taylor Goldsmith, Dawes frontman and husband of Mandy Moore, has spent the years since their 2018 marriage building a life that spans indie rock, television songwriting, and an expanding family now numbering five.It is a lot to keep track of. So here is the full picture, from Instagram DMs to a newly reconfigured band and a third child who arrived, in Moore’s words, ‘right in time for Virgo season.’Taylor Goldsmith, Dawes Frontman: The Band Then and NowGoldsmith leads Dawes, the indie rock band that has released eight albums. He is not doing it with the same lineup anymore. According to…
The Robert Pattinson Suki Waterhouse relationship has unfolded almost entirely away from the cameras, which, given that both of them are British and both of them clearly cannot stand fuss, should surprise nobody. First linked in July 2018, the pair have spent eight years carefully rationing what the public gets to see, and yet the drip-drip of sightings, red carpets and the occasional interview has built up into quite a story. How It All Began: Mamma Mia and a Long Night at Soho House The first confirmed sighting came on 30 July 2018, when E! obtained photographs of the two…
With Apple’s September 9 event now upon us, the Apple event reader predictions are in, and the results from Lifehacker’s Big Guessing Game make for a decent snapshot of where public expectation has landed ahead of what could be the company’s most consequential keynote in years. TechTimes reports the event at Apple Park in Cupertino is expected to cover the iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, new AirPods, and a substantial software rollout including Siri AI powered by Google’s Gemini model.That is a lot of ground to cover. The guessing game…
A partnership signed in London this month has linked Türkiye’s zero waste movement, one of the world’s most widely copied environmental initiatives, directly into the UK capital’s international climate action network, in a move that will shape discussions ahead of the COP31 summit which Türkiye is set to host. The Zero Waste Foundation and London Climate Action Week signed a cooperation protocol on 17 August covering climate action, zero waste and the circular economy. The agreement came just ten days after the Foundation launched a new book, prepared with TÜBİTAK’s Polar Research Institute, examining how zero waste principles can be…
The Milwaukee M18 combo kit deal currently live at Ace Hardware takes 53% off the brand’s 18-volt, seven-tool brushless set, bringing the price down to $549 from $1,170, a saving of $621 for the weekend.It is, by most measures, a solid moment to buy if you have been putting off building a proper home toolkit. Labour Day sales run through Monday, 7 September, so there is a window, but not a long one.What you actually get with the Milwaukee M18 combo kit dealThe kit covers most of what you need for beginner and intermediate DIY: an 18-volt cordless drill and…
