They say that a city’s entertainment and recreational options speak volumes about that city’s prospects as a desirable and rewarding place to live. If such were the case, then Manchester’s vibrant entertainment options certainly speak volumes about the joy of living in this fine, fun-filled city. Manchester is an absolute standout when one considers the depth and breadth of its entertainment options in the field of art, cinema, dance, music, theatre, museums, sports / recreation (including some of the best saltwater fishing around) and the performing arts.
Take for example the Lowry at Salford Quays, inaugurated in 2000 at a cost of £21m, courtesy of the National Lottery fund. Located near the Imperial War Museum North and the Old Trafford football stadium, The Lowry is best known for keeping the biggest collection of L.S. Lowry’s original paintings. Art is its soul, they say, but the Lowry has more to offer than just art. It also houses two theatres that regularly feature touring plays as well as musicians and comedians. These are the Lyric, believed to have the largest stage in the United Kingdom, outside of London’s West End, and the Quays.
Located at the city centre, the Whitworth Art Gallery regularly stages eye-opening, innovative exhibitions and houses over 31,000 great modern pieces, including paintings by Constable, Turner and other masters. The gallery has an impressive collection of watercolours, wallpapers and textiles. Among its most famous pieces is the marble sculpture Genesis by Sir Jacob Epstein.
Cornerhouse on Oxford Road is renowned for its contemporary and cutting-edge multi-media visual art displays. Since it opened in October 1985, the centre has established itself as a venue for artistic experimentation and innovation.
When it comes to contemporary dance performances, Dancehouse Theatre, home of the Northern Ballet School, stages regular performances all year round. The Lowry and the Green Room also stage dance performances throughout the year.
Manchester has a diverse array of musical offerings as well, ranging from classical and opera to pop, rock and jazz.
Bridgewater Hall is the seat of classical music in Manchester and home to the Halle Orchestra and the Manchester Camerata as well as a regular venue of the BBC Philharmonic. The city’s best professional musicians are usually products of the Royal Northern College of Music where they were trained to compose and perform musical scores, jazz concerts and opera arias, among others. Musically gifted children are taught the finer points of their craft at Chetham’s School of Music and these prodigies perform free lunchtime concerts for the public.
On the other hand, the city’s leading proponents of pop, rock and jazz converge at Manchester Academy, Labatt’s Apollo, Band on the Wall and Roadhouse. You will find well-known indie and dance bands at Manchester Academy while Labatt’s Apollo regularly hosts a diverse array of famous British and American singers as well as Asian superstars. Band on the Wall has nightly blues and jazz jam sessions while the musical stars of tomorrow hone their skills at the Roadhouse, a dark and sweaty basement venue. Numerous bars, pubs and nightclubs throughout the city host their own in-house live bands.
In addition, Manchester has many museums that chronicle not only the city’s rich history but also important milestones and landmarks of the United Kingdom and the world. For example, the Manchester Museum, which is owned by the University of Manchester, features over six million items from seven continents, including carvings from India, ancient Egyptian crafts from Africa, age-old art from the Mediterranean, fossils from Australia, pottery from the Americas and much more, including a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex from South Dakota.
Meanwhile, the Museum of Science and Industry is concerned with science, technology and industry, especially Manchester’s significant contributions in these areas, particularly in textiles, computing, communications, sewerage and sanitation. The People’s History Museum, located on The Pump House on Bridge Street, traces Manchester’s social culture, particularly with regard to the history of working people in the United Kingdom over the past 200 years. Manchester’s other notable museums include the Greater Manchester Police Museum, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Jewish Museum, Pankhurst Centre, Urbis and The Gallery of Costume.
Manchester also has great fishing opportunities. Many of the local shops carry all the top brands of fishing equipment like Shimano Reels, Daiwa Reels, and Penn Reels. Manchester also has a dazzling array of clubs and nightspots for the local party people (check out the separate article on this website). Among the most popular venues are Rock World (rock ‘n roll and heavy metal), South, Phoenix and Paradise Factory (techno, trance and funky house); Prague V (gay friendly) and student-oriented venues such as Club Underground, The Ritz, The Brickhouse and 5th Avenue.
The theatre scene in Manchester is alive and well. The larger venues include the Palace Theatre, the Royal Exchange Theatre and the Manchester Opera House, which regularly hosts West End touring shows. Although relatively small and located at the basement of the Central Library, the Library Theatre has received glowing critical reviews for staging the works of modern playwrights. Other notable smaller theatres include the Green Room, Contact Theatre and Dancehouse. The Royal Northern College of Music has four theatre spaces for opera and classical music. In addition, Manchester has two widely-respected drama schools: the Manchester Metropolitan University School of Theatre and the Arden School of Theatre.
Article by Susan Ashby
This is a cultural observation. UK has a high percentage of its media owned and controlled by Jewish interest-from Warner Brothers to Geffen Records. in the realms of media, TV, comedy, entertainment, music and film; most of the most famous celebrities with the most exposure and fame seem to be of a Jewish cultural background: Sarah Jessica Parker, Rupert Murdoch, Racheal Stevens, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Sharon Osborne, Alan Yentob,Joan Rivers, Courtney Love, Lili Allen, Avril Lavine, David Lee Roth, Gwen Stefani,Lindsay Lohan, Barry Manilow, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Sugar, David Beckham
You have named two companies and 18 celebrities, (from over a 30 year period). If I had the time and inclination, I could name a couple hundred media companies and several thousand celebrities who *aren’t* Jewish. What exactly is your point?
Yappin’ Yenta
Yappin’ Yenta is basically a Jew doing a rap tune. The rap idiom has been a mode of expression for mainly the African American community. Through the years it has become a staple of Americana and is fair game for other cultures to embrace. Enjoy this celebration of Yiddish and Jewish Identity.
Gail Robin
Gail Robin is a singer/songwriter, actor and musician who performs in many capacities. The production of Yappin’ Yenta is a vehicle for Gail as writer and character actor. As an entertainer, Gail uses humor as an integral part of her performances as demonstrated in her portrayal of the Yenta.
TG Productions, Inc.
TG Productions is a music entertainment and production company. TG Productions is co-owned by Tony Sona and Gail Robin. Over the past three decades, TG Productions has written and produced jingles, commercials, industrials, music albums, videos and live music entertainment. Home to Tony Sona: Jazz Composer / Pianist featured on NPR’s Evenin’ Jazz Program and available on iTunes, TG Productions music entertainment provides ensembles for concerts, festivals and special events.
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Sometimes Jews made up fictional stories with biblical characters, a bit like a way of entertainment for children. They’re called apocraphy books, but some people mistakenly ended up taking them as real.
Does Islam have a similar kind of tradition? When I heard the story of Adam being a giant I wasn’t sure if it’s a genuine story or just fiction like some of the Jewish stories.
I saw the foot of prophet Araham in Kaba when he was standing on a stone to build it , it is a foot of a giant , that proves early people were taller than us . There is one hadith says that Adam was 60 feet also and we will be that hight in Janna , the hadith is in Bukhari , only God knows if this is true or not.
i found out over last weekend one of my friends has cancer. i want to go visit her for this weekend in hospital whilst shees having chemo.
what things can i bring to help entertain her? she is jewish and will be on sabbath so nothing electric.
Just be a good listener…. all my friend did when he had cancer was just talk, and talk and talk… you need to listen to her and keep positive
would that be ok? Would it be allowed on the list of tv channels for cable and satellite and all the types of tv things you could watch from?
I mean, the Hispanics get to have Univision
The Blacks get B.E.T
The Asians get LA18
The Jews get the Jewish Channel
ect………………
Why cant the white race get our own tv channel? How is this fair? We cant even have our own month either! Why are white people getting discriminated like this?
The people that advocate "White Entertainment Television" are oftentimes hardcore racist conservatives that complain about what they perceive as a double-standard without considering the history and reasoning of BET’s formation in the first place. Also, considering the fact that the average American television show already contains White-majority casts, a network centred around "White entertainment" will only contain racist material broadcasted and/or suggested by people that advocate "WET." In other words, since regular television is already White majority to begin with, what do you think a possible station advocated by far-Right conservatives will broadcast? Racist far-Right material. For that reason, WET would not last long anyway because in the 21st century, racism is not tolerated by mainstream America such as during the Jim Crow days. BET, on the other hand, formed in the 80’s, which was, believe it or not, a time when Black people were rarely featured on television. Robert L. Johnson, Black billionaire, wanted to open a station that would appeal to a majority of viewers. Considering the fact that Black people were rarely featured on television, Johnson created "Black Entertainment Television" to not only feature more Blacks on TV, but to also make a profit. In comparison, why create WET for any reason other than a perceived double-standard, considering White people already tune into a majority of American TV shows in the first place and comprise the majority of cast members?
I have no problem w/ jewish people.I see them as just another white person.Alecia Sylverstone.Thats all I’m saying !!! I think of them more of a secret fraternity.It is common knowledge the Diamonds,gold,entertainment,banking,Edu.&Univ.systems,newspaper,and justiceSystems are predominately Jewish run.For some reason just saying this makes you a bad guy.If I noticed all the names on the WWW. board were jewsish sir names I would be a bad guy too.But what I want to explore is the possibility that media has driven into our minds the perfect penial form is a cropped one.How did religious rite of a minority religion become standard in less then 50 yrs.To convince someone to snip their precious newborn child’s yoowhoo is no small feat.But if the sir names of the people that run our mainstream medical world were jewish a;so that would be…..Could it be a big scheme or is it paranoia ?Nobody can ever single out jewish males like the Nazis did now it’s normal.A little all too convienient ?
yea like a fraternety
Just because one group of people are successful it does not mean they have some kind of secret organization.
or @ least by those whom have Jewish decent within them.
It’s too late for that by now. The hebrewic crowd by now have achieved ownership/control of the commanding heights of the American economy.
That’s 1 solid reason why nobody can get rich anymore,whether black,brown,red or real whites for that matter.
But doesn’t mean however most of those shares happen to be owned by Jewish people &/or groups however.
Jews know where the money is and have a talent for manipulating the legal system to there favor, hopefully they don’t go as far as they did in the 1930’s ( ;
There are only 2/3% of people in America claiming to be of the Jewish religion. I read in Mein Kampf that where ever Jewish people go they take over the media, entertainment, and the money. That by doing this, even in small numbers of people, they control the masses. Hitler had a warning to Americans that if the Jewish people made it over to America in great numbers (which they did), that they would quickly do all the things they have done.
Please don’t call me a Nazi, because they were a party that disappeared 65 years ago. Please don’t call me antisemitic because most Jewish people are white. Please don’t tell me my facts are wrong because you can research them for yourself. Yes, a lot of corrupt white Christians are involved in Jew thought as well, and they support Israel just as much as the Jewish people in America.
How can Americans end Jew-think? It’s poisoning a once great country that had mostly white people. LBJ allowed non white immigration, and since then 40% of Mexicans have made it here illegally. And 2 million Haitians are in Florida. And many non white people are now first generation Americans that are legal. We have more crime, and this country is turning into a third world cess poll.
Are you also "Alton Brown"? Or is he another sphincter who merely copied your rant WORD FOR WORD, including the ungrammatical parts?
How Jewish is Hollywood?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe "the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews," down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.
How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.
The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)
The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.
As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between "The 700 Club" and "Davey and Goliath" on TV all day.
So I’ve taken it upon myself to re-convince America that Jews run Hollywood by launching a public relations campaign, because that’s what we do best. I’m weighing several slogans, including: "Hollywood: More Jewish than ever!"; "Hollywood: From the people who brought you the Bible"; and "Hollywood: If you enjoy TV and movies, then you probably like Jews after all."
I called ADL Chairman Abe Foxman, who was in Santiago, Chile, where, he told me to my dismay, he was not hunting Nazis. He dismissed my whole proposition, saying that the number of people who think Jews run Hollywood is still too high. The ADL poll, he pointed out, showed that 59% of Americans think Hollywood execs "do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans," and 43% think the entertainment industry is waging an organized campaign to "weaken the influence of religious values in this country."
That’s a sinister canard, Foxman said. "It means they think Jews
meet at Canter’s Deli on Friday mornings to decide what’s best for the Jews." Foxman’s argument made me rethink: I have to eat at Canter’s more often.
"That’s a very dangerous phrase, ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ What is true is that there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood," he said. Instead of "control," Foxman would prefer people say that many executives in the industry "happen to be Jewish," as in "all eight major film studios are run by men who happen to be Jewish."
But Foxman said he is proud of the accomplishments of American Jews. "I think Jews are disproportionately represented in the creative industry. They’re disproportionate as lawyers and probably medicine here as well," he said. He argues that this does not mean that Jews make pro-jewish movies any more than they do pro-Jewish surgery. Though other countries, I’ve noticed, aren’t so big on circumcision.
I appreciate Foxman’s concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.
Wow , never thought I was that naive . Way to Go Google.