Category: Local News

If you think you’re good at multitasking, Scottish comedian Ray Bradshaw will quickly put you to shame. His new show Deaf Comedy Fam isn’t your standard stand-up.

One of the best things about living in York is, of course, the food. 

The curtain’s up and the stage is most definitely set at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre. 

Irish funny man Dylan Moran is returning to York’s Grand Opera House with his latest show, Dr Cosmos. We were excited to hear from him as he shared his views on touring, writing, and the story behind the show’s name… As he prepares to take Dr Cosmos across the UK, Dylan Moran appears to have […]

What can start off as a simple good deed, can evolve into a whole new way of life. And an incredible one at that.

Get ready to experience the future of art. The York Mediale Festival is a 10-day citywide programme of exhibitions, live performances, music, dance, and more – and it’s coming to York. This creative event will demonstrate how today’s technology can be incorporated into art, and how this can challenge our lifestyles and our surroundings. Featuring […]

Tonight Matthew, I’m going to be… York-born poet, W. H. Auden.

The bosses at the Coppergate Centre in York are bucking the trend for closing shops in York city centre, announcing that they now have full occupation of all of the units, with the opening of the new Pavers store at the top of Coppergate Walk and a new bubble tea outlet. The final unit to […]

…But the skies above Burton Agnes Hall certainly aren’t grey. It’s the Elizabethan stately home’s Autumn Festival – a reinvented Michaelmas Fair where you can enjoy the finest local food and drink, craft stalls, and festival entertainment, all in Burton Agnes Hall’s beautiful grounds.

Experience the Mystery Plays like never before at their “after- dark” performance in York’s Shambles Market on Wednesday 12th September. For twenty years, the Guilds of York have been performing episodes of the York Mystery Plays on the streets of York. This year they spread a pair of bat-like wings as they show off the […]

York band, Skylights, return to the city on 18th August promising a gig bursting with fresh talent and underwritten with britpop/indie rock influence. The indie rock band, who list their influences as Oasis and The Clash, are in good company at the Fibbers gig with support coming from York band Honours and Fond. The band […]

The National Trust’s Treasurer’s House will be open for free for York residents with a valid York Card on Sunday 29 July. Woop! Along with free entry to the house, the popular ghost cellar tours will be half price for residents with a York Card for the day at just £2 per person. These are […]

What would you like to put in a York Castle Museum of the future? What stories should it tell, what should you experience and how should it make you feel? York Museums Trust are inviting people to answer these questions to help shape the future of York Castle Museum. The Trust are currently working on […]

The North’s only training orchestra, Vacation Chamber Orchestra (VaCO), will be welcoming the cream of the crop from across the UK’s leading  schools, conservatoires and universities for its summer residential course held in August, one of three per year. Descending on North Yorkshire, the musicians lucky to be picked for this VaCO course will be […]

The theme park next door, set across 375-acres of parkland, is still proving that it’s easily one of Yorkshire’s most thrilling attractions says Krystal Starkey. A shock revelation: Flamingo Land felt more fun as a grown up than it ever did when I was little. The heightened sense of self preservation that we seem to […]