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Interview: Shide Boss

One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...

Broadway's Show and Tell

Broadway's bi-monthly biggy-uppery binge

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse

If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...

Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine

It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.

Interview: Jake Bugg

Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...

Preview: GameCity7

"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...

Bringing Up Baby

"A small step towards keeping all new mums and dads of Nottingham sane"

Interview: Jon Ronson

People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...

A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye

Rob Cutforth says goodbye in his final column for LeftLion. Now, for God’s sake, someone stop him before he lets the cat out of the bag...

Goose Fair in the 1890s

Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…

LeftLion Magazine #49

Featuring Joe Dempsie, Play No Games, Don Masson, Shide Boss, Jon Ronson, MulletProofPoet and more

Judge Dredd comics

The definitive reading list

Art Works: James Michie

"An object that is familiar but altered is satisfying to me, like a good puzzle"

Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger

1,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...

WEYA 12: Preview

What to look at, listen to, and experience this month at World Event Young Artists 2012...

Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team

On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.

Acoustic Rooms vs Our True Intent – Gallery

Caribbean Carnival in Pictures

Nottingham was awash with colourful costumes and Caribbean fun at the weekend, check out the photos

Review: An Audience with Carl Froch

"He moved to Newark and discovered that the locals would rather steal his bike or jump him on his way home than face up to him in the ring"

Non-League Football Teams in Notts

There's more than two football teams in Nottinghamshire: maybe you ought to adopt one

Art Works: Louisa Jane Irvine

" As a child I loved going to fabric shops to look at the spools of ribbons and threads, feeling and collecting different colours and textures"

Caribbean Carnival 2012

This weekend: get ready to feel the Forest Thump...

Interview: Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.

Nottingham Forest Season Preview: 2012/13

"Play-offs if the owners mean what they say. Threatened by relegation again if they don't"