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Live and Explained: Sleaford Mods - Tarantula Deadly Cargo

Jason Williamson lets us in on some of the meanings behind his lyrics...

Nusic Future Session: K.Ji

Left Panther: January

Find out how the Nottingham Panthers have been doing over the past month with our Salleh...

Sleaford Mods Release New Music Video for B.H.S

The first video release from the duo's upcoming album English Tapas...

Nottingham's Young Creative Awards 2017 is Now Open for Entries

Check out this gallery of work from last year's winners, then get entering with all your creative wares...

Film Review: Scorsese's Silence

We review the latest flick from our Martin...

Live Music Review: Wigflex New Year's Eve 2016 Cage Party

New Year’s Eve is a prime event in every party person’s calendar, and for the dancefloor-inclined community in Notts there was no place to be other than the Wigflex NYE Cage Party...

Bulwell-Born Sculptor Kashif Nadim Chaudry Exhibits at Turner Contemporary, Margate

Based at Primary in Nottingham, Kashif Nadim Chaudry spent the last year developing The Three Graces, his biggest commission to date at Turner Contemporary, Margate. We headed down to the seafront to catch up with the man himself during the opening weekend.

11 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week

We've rounded up all the best activity-based goods of this fair city, of this fair week, of this fair life...

Poet and Smallholder Di Slaney Talks Writing About Chickens

After appearing on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, rescuing a whole bunch of farmyard animals, running her own small farm and publishing her first poetry collection, Di Slaney must be about ready for some down time over the festive period...

The Abdication

We got a'gluggin' down Daybrook, at one of the many micropubs to have popped up in our fair city of late

10 Proper Bob Films from 2016

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding, and proper film buff Ash Carter, have put their heads together to reveal the bobbest of the bob, the shonkiest of the shonk, the gashest of the gash...

10 Awesome Films from 2016

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding and top film buff Ash Carter have rounded up the best flicks from an otherwise dreary 2016

Left Brian: January

Our Nottingham Forest columnist Richard Crouch takes a different tact for his first column of 2017 and writes an open letter to outgoing Chairman Fawaz Al Hawasi...

The Nottingham Restaurant Quiz

Are you a connoisseur? Or just a conno? Are you a fine diner? Or just... fine? Find out today.

6 Greatest Robin Hoods on Film and TV

Despite what people in Yorkshire might claim, Robin Hood is a Nottingham icon – he even has his own tram. Here, Ant and Gav, who don’t half love a list, take a look at the six best Robin Hoods in film and TV…

4 Books To Read Over The Festive Period

One year ago, Nottingham became a UNESCO City of Literature. Since then, creative writing courses have been closed down, the DH Lawrence Heritage Centre has been sold off, and the fate of the Central Library lies in the hands of a property developer. Offsetting this is the Festival of Literature, the Line of Light installation on Station Street and, most importantly of all, the authors who keep banging out beautiful books...

Art Exhibition Review: Marguerite Humeau and Otobong Nkanga at Nottingham Contemporary

This stunning and immersive two-part exhibition presents work from Antwerp-based Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga with her first solo exhibition in the UK, alongside work from London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau.

Theatre Review: Handmade Theatre's The Twelve Birds of Christmas

The Nottingham-based theatre company's bird-themed Christmas show had us chirping with glee

20 Top Nottingham Music Releases of 2016

A rundown of some of our favourite Nottingham-related music releases of the year, in alphabetical order...

8 Things To Do For New Year's Eve in Nottingham

Right then, what's going off on the last day of the year? A duck-ton of bleddy parties, that's what. We've got the lowdown on all the places worth gerrin' to as midnight chimes its way into 2017...

Nottingham Cello Player Sheku Kanneh-Mason on Winning BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016

Being crowned BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016 is only one of the many accolades and awards that seventeen-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason has won. And, on top of those, he’s also bagged himself a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. Not bad for an A-level student from Nottingham…

Advertising Sectioned: Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia (1913)

Marketing material ripped from the pages of Nottingham's history...

The Lobster Pot

Shellfish was flying all over the shop when we went for summat to eat on Mansfield Road

Cooking Fusion Food with Nottingham Rapper Juga-Naut AKA Chef-Jugz

You may know Juga-Naut as one of Notts’ finest hip hop emcees and producers, but he’s also got mad skills behind the stove, fronting his own Caribbean-inspired catering company as Chef-Jugz. With winter now upon us, we thought we’d ask him to don his chef hat and come up with a couple of recipes to trounce the traditional Christmas turkey and bring a bit of warmth to those long cold nights…