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MacMillanFest 2016 Line-up Announced

Nottingham’s premier rock festival MacmillanFest has announced it's line-up for 2016, and this year is promised to be the biggest one yet

Pick of the Week: 4 - 10 April

Spring hath sprung! The birds are a singing and it's about time you lot did sommat with the lighter evenings

A History of Bromley House Library

"In 1849 an abandoned baby was found in a back room, which led to a furious debate over where, precisely, the dividing line between the two parishes of St Peter's and St Nicholas' ran"

Film Review: Zootropolis

Disney's latest film is set in a city full of anthropomorphised animals

Music Video: Phoebe Katis feat. Sam Posener - Held Under Water

Get some of this in your lugholes and your eye crevices

LeftLion Magazine #77

With Dizzy Ink, Simon Starling, Bromley House Library, Overheard in Notts, Thompson Brothers, Rob Green, Emmanuel House, Dan Magness, George Africanus, Maggie's Centre Creative Writing Course, and loads more

D.H Lawrence Centre Closes Down

Durban House has gone the way of the Dodo and the Sinclair C5

Risograph Geeks Dizzy Ink Say Print Ain't Dead

"I'm really interested in pushing print methods forward, doing things that have never been done before. Only a few studios in the UK offered [Risograph], and it seemed kind of elitist, which annoyed me because it's so incredible"

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