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What Notts: Weird Stories

From drug lords to petitions to get American Adventure reopened, Nottingham has got it all when it comes to strange quips

Hong Kong Diaries 6: High Rise

"Whereas Hyson Green was given over to minimal housing, Shek Kip Mei morphed into a larger version of its old self with 8 new blocks of 36-storeys"

Graffiti Vigilante Takes on Anti-Begging Campaign

A Nottingham graffiti artist known only as 'Questionmarc' has returned after six years to take on Nottingham City Council's recent anti-begging campaign

In Focus: Rob Green Answers Questions in Photos

The Nottingham music man extraordinaire answered our quizzicals in photographic form

Nottingham in Photos: April 2016

We've rounded up the best snaps of the city from over the past month or so, for your viewing pleasure

Tony Bates to Run for Notts PCC

The Nottinghamshire Police Commissioner elections take place at the start of May and a surprising candidate has emerged

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet

A more light-hearted version of Shakespeare’s dark tragedy

Van the Man Banged Up in Nottingham

Local cartoonist and general badass, Brick, has done us a comic about one of the biggest and best typos in Nottingham

A Room with a Brew

We got down for some words, and a pint of the good stuff...

Ugly Bread Bakery

French Living

Literature Review: Austerity Cafe

Local poet Andy Szpuk's long-form literature show that uses poetry and music to take a look at austerity

Short Film Review: The Captain

A delightful little tale about youth, death, misery and revenge

Book Reviews: March

With Don Wright's Forever Forest, Jaq Hazell's I Came to Find a Girl, Darren Simpson's Dust on the Moth, Judith Allnatt's The Silk Factory, Carl Peter Robinson's A Dip in the Jazz Age, and Gerard Byrne's No Man's Audience

Art Works: Joff and Ollie's Beam Table Lamp

The Lane By Post chaps reveal all about their lamp and how much they love it

Nusic Podcast #125,Nusic

With Navigation, Shookz, Lauren April, Lacey, Snowy, Tusk, Billie, Jonny Olley, Fleets, Silver Wilson, Alisha, Heck, That Jimmy Person, and Black Rose Garden

Pick of the Week: 28 March - 3 April

Well blow us down, Nottingham ain't half providing for us lot this week. Not sure how we're going to cram it all in, but we'll give it a good go

Future Session 106 - Billie

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

Narrative Music Video: The Inner Carriage Metaphor

This will blow your mind

Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane

We give our verdict on the new film set in the same world as 2008's Cloverfield

LeftLion Stereo: March

With Lawnmower Deth, Eyre Llew, Fonzse, Subway Circus, heurt, Billie, Crosa Rosa and We Show Up On Radar

Forced School Academisation Protest Rally at Nottingham Speakers' Corner

"Under current plans Nottingham will have the largest cut to schools funding outside of London with a 17% cut by 2020"

Emma Smith and Her Whistling Orchestra

"I was also thinking about work songs as a form for expressions of community and protest. Almost as soon as I began my research I found stories about miners whistling on buses"

Live: Boyce Avenue at Rock City

The Florida-based covers band sent Rock City all acoustic

Left Pie-On: March

"Fullarton’s appointment will come to be seen as Ray Trew’s gorge-himself-on-Toblerone-and-drive-to-Dundee-in-his-bare-feet moment"