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FONT Festival 2016

The best in the business come together for a right creative week

10 Things To Love About Nottingham

Animator Troy Browne over at Skeleton has created Nottingifs - the technological answer to a proper city love-in

Review: Altitude Sickness at Lakeside

"Lawrence is obsessive, didactic and at times an absolute bore. Frieda on the other hand likes getting her leg over with anyone up for it."

Film Premiere: Let's Bring Back Sophie

On Friday 27 May, the Nottingham Arts Theatre will host the Premiere screening of the cinematic web series in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Noshingham Food and Drink Awards

Winners won't really be announced because there is no voting system or judges, and the awards are possibly completely fake

Nigel Farage is in Bulwell

"The last time Nigel Farage was in the fine city of Nottingham, Frederick Glenister threw an egg at him, someone recorded it, and the internet went crazeh"

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean

The Night of the Jello Filled Boobies

Short Stack May 2016

Curated by David Lilley, and held for the first time at Broadway Cinema, we were promised an 'evening of short films, music videos and other delights.'

Contemporary Dance Review: Coal at Nottingham Playhouse

"Every man fell to the floor, and when Margaret Thatcher finally left the stage, she kicked the one on her side away, leaving everyone behind in collapse"

Wildlife Photographer Jack Perks on Nottingham's Critters

"When I tell people I'm a wildlife photographer, the first thing they say is 'Have you been to Africa?' I have to tell them, 'No, I’ve just been up to Beeston'"

PubhD #27: Politics, Palaeontology and 'Pies vs Parson'

"There is nothing alive today that is like them, which makes looking at their biology very difficult"

Spoken Word Review: Austerity Cafe

"In Britain, we don't dig coal from mines any more. We used to build ships, but no longer on these shores. We can be proud of our bankers who generate millions, and we're still good at making guns!"

Nusic Podcast #129,Nusic

Get some new Notts music in your tabs and find out who's about to grace the Rock City main stage as a Future Sound of Nottingham finalist

Pick of the Week: 23 - 29 May

Hold onto your hats, boys and girls, you're in for a brilliantly bumpy ride

Five Must See Acts at Dot To Dot Festival 2016

The multi-venue music-a-thon is just around the corner, and the army of up-and-coming bands and eager fans are ready to greet each other in over 30 venues across the city centre

Short Film Review: Shelter

A locally made eleven minute sci-fi drama set against the backdrop of eighties Britain

Music Video: Ski - Celebration

The second video from his War of Art EP, soon to be released

Film Review: NG83 When We Were B Boys

The documentary about the Notts breakdancing scene in the eighties has a Broadway screening this weekend

The Screen at Nottingham Contemporary

We spoke to film programmer Niki Harman about The Screen and its current mumblecore season

European Archery Championships Hosted in Nottingham This Month

"I leaned down to pick the scoreboard up and got the knock of an arrow stuck right next to my eye. It only just missed my eyeball"

Theatre Review: Breakin Convention

The festival that turns breaking and popping on its head and makes an event of an event like no other, smashed it on stage and off

Doug Fishbone on his Latest Exhibition, Leisure Land Golf

"It's golf, it's inherently fun. So even if we wanted to talk about some heavily political things, like we have, it always has a certain lightness of touch"

Nottingham's Young Creative Awards - The Results are In!

"The awards are all about inspiring, supporting and encouraging creativity in the young people of Nottingham. These awards are becoming one of the most exciting events in Nottingham's creative calendar"

Film Review: Green Room

Punks, Nazis, blood, and Patrick Stewart. It's a good'un.

Sunday Roast French Style