Haroon Mirza nominated for the Northern Art Prize

Its November, its colder than it should be, and if you are as lucky as this editor, your boiler is broken. Fortunately galleries are surprisingly good places to keep warm. Here is our November round up of some exhibitions and arty things worth looking at.

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At long last, Issue 0 is up on the web reader

As part of our awakening - the internet exists! - we decided to try uploading some of our magazine content in a web friendly way. This is the web version of the Life Worth Living. Here’s a roundup of the most intruiging exhibitions in the immediate future.

Dogs we’re accustomed to disregarding as nothing more than playthings satisfying ours whims for strokes and walks in the park, practical pairs of gloves, generic reality makeover TV programmes, and dead iconic pop stars - all of these form the inspiration and material for some of the works of art on exhibition this week. All quite everyday and banal stuff out of context, but in our opinion forming some of the best art stuff going off in places round here right now.

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Leeds City Council is good at self aggrandisement. £4 million is being spent changing the name of Dark Neville Street to Light Neville Street. In lieu of a trite local symbol - think Liverpool’s docks or Henderson’s Relish in Sheffield - the council have come up with a slogan, plastering LEEDS: LIVE IT, LOVE IT over every hoarding and public notice. Currently, the hype machine is surging ahead, canons blazing with the council’s darling project, the creation of Holbeck Urban Village: A chance to create an entire self contained community from scratch. Before the plans for HUV were first mooted, the area was little more than an abandoned non place between the railway station and the marginalised suburbs of Holbeck and Beeston Hill. Consisting mostly of a disused car park and some empty warehouses, it had become a notorious red light district. Read more ⇒