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A debut novel from a ferry clerk tops the city’s weekly fiction list
The book is set on the early boat, and the first printing sold through in nine days.
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Film, music and the culture everyone is talking about.
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The old opera house announces a month of weekday matinées
Tickets are priced below the evening rate, and the first week is already sold in the cheaper seats.
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Streaming charts put a regional soundtrack ahead of two national releases
The album was recorded with a live choir in a hall that usually hosts weddings.
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Festival lineup lands with a hometown premiere and a surprise closer
Organisers kept the final slot blank until this morning’s press call.
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A documentary on night markets wins the audience prize at the harbour festival
The film follows three stalls from setup at dusk to the last unsold plate.
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Theatre companies share one rehearsal hall to keep rents manageable
Four groups rotate through the same room, with a painted floor plan so nobody strikes the wrong tape.
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A restored black-and-white film returns to a single-screen cinema
The print was repaired frame by frame after a warehouse leak damaged the last known copy.
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Musicians record a live album in a shuttered mill before it is redeveloped
The session used the weaving hall’s natural echo and a single audience of former workers.
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Archive reels return to the old picture house for a month of matinees
The box office dusted off paper tickets and a single-screen schedule.