‘Heartwood’ by artist printmaker Shona Branigan brings together five works at Baltic, all inspired by the tree at Sycamore Gap, which were commissioned by the National Trust. The deliberate cutting down of the tree at Sycamore Gap remains a shocking ev…

Newcastle based artist Rye trousered our Single of the Month slot last month, so I thought you should know a bit more about her. She’s great. As mentioned above, Rye lives in Newcastle but she’s actually from Vilnius in Lithuania where she grew up imme…

The all-singing, all-dancing ‘Crazy For You’ – with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin – is hot-footing it into Durham’s Gala Theatre this January. When it first launched in the early 1990s ‘Crazy for You’ was billed as “The NEW Gershwin music…