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How to crash a Chanel party
No invite? No problem.
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Surviving Manchester’s frozen streets
The temperature has dropped below zero. Everyone else is hurrying home — you have to make it through the night. How?
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Why should posh kids have all the fun? On making music a universal, not a luxury
‘I can’t see a world where we deprive such a large proportion of the population [of music]’
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Millions of pounds a year, queues around the block and a customer base gone neurotic: what's in Manchester's secret sauce?
 • Jack Dulhanty and Sophie Atkinson
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Bad reviews: Has Manchester’s restaurant scene had enough of Mark Garner?
 • Jack Dulhanty
Simon Martin is Manchester’s best chef. Is he its worst boss?
 • Jack Dulhanty
‘It is a shitshow’: Inside the dramatic, toxic fallout from Northern Fashion Week
 • Mollie Simpson
Manchester has a homelessness crisis. But it's not the one you thought
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The government says it is ‘accelerating’ rail upgrades in the North. But is it?
Plus: A homeless man found dead in the Gay Village
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Everyone hates the Arndale, but it's a microcosm of Manchester
‘We’ll be doing over a million footfall a week’
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What's it like inside THG, one of Manchester's biggest - and weirdest - companies?
'There was a DJ about three metres away from my ear playing house music and loads of 21-year-olds running around drinking prosecco'
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Has Elon Musk chosen Greater Manchester for his new gigafactory?
Plus: Joshi chats to Mike Emmerich about whether academics are doing the city down - and the Portico announces some exciting news
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Rowdiness returns to Manchester’s theatreland
Plus: the story behind a 1972 photo from Moss Side
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Slems is known as the weirdest university halls in Manchester. That’s exactly how the students like it
‘A bunch of undergraduates who wear gowns and have chapel — it’s not exactly the flavour of the month is it?’
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Mill Investigation: How housing for the vulnerable became a ‘lucrative opportunity’ for property investors
A company with links to the Chancellor of the University of Manchester offers ‘government backed’ returns of 10% a year. Do the sums add up?
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