Put your Harry Potter knowledge to the test

Celebrating the release of Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince next week, Tyneside Cinema is hosting two quizzes about JK Rowling’s best-selling fantasy series. On Saturday (2pm), there is an Ordinary Wizarding Level test for all the family, while things...

Theatre Review: Dial-A-Mate and Islanders

by Christopher Collett Last night, Live Theatre hosted the latest instalment of its new writing sessions with a pair of rehearsed readings of promising one-act plays by emerging north-east-based writers. Written by Paddy Campbell, Dial-A-Mate concerns Norman, a drunken loser...

More from Nina Berman

by Christopher Collett With two of her exhibitions – Marine Wedding and Homeland – opening at Newcastle’s Side Gallery on Saturday, American documentary photographer Nina Berman chats a little more to Metro. What are the main things that have changed...

Cutting-edge dance at Trading Places

by Christopher Collett Created in response to places they know, Trading Places is a new series of collaborative dance events made by people across a variety of artistic disciplines. Over the course of the next few months, there will be...

Reggae and roots festival remains Boss

by Andrew Fenwick While the credit crunch continues to grip the purse-strings of live music events, for Newcastle’s Boss Sounds festival – which returned to the region for the fourth year over the weekend – running on a fraction of...