It may not be as well known as The Cavern or Eric’s but Liverpool’s Picket venue can probably lay claim to influencing just as many people to pick up a guitar or get on a stage to sing.

In nine short years, Liverpool’s famous fleet of yellow duckmarines has become almost as iconic as London’s routemaster red buses and as recognisable as New York’s yellow cabs.

By day, Leaf Tea Shop and Bar is an understated yet homely venue tickled with interesting comings-and-goings to make it a perfect pit-stop and meeting place.

Liverpool Biennial is the largest – and one of the most exciting – contemporary visual arts events in the UK, and with 975,000 visits in 2008, it’s also one of the best attended in the world. And 2010 is going to smash it...

The Baltic Triangle is lucky enough to be right next door to the Albert Dock, which is now hosting a remarkable Picasso exhibition at Tate Liverpool.

Discover something different on Friday 14 May when the Baltic Triangle’s Biennial and A Foundation put on spectacular events for the city’s ‘Light Night’ – when the city’s arts and culture hotspots stay open later than usual and lay out a feas