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Film Review: Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis' final film, Paul Thomas Anderson directing, a score from Johnny Greenwood and the 1950's London fashion scene.  What more do you want?

Little John the Bare-knuckle Boxer

When Pete Radford arrived backstage for the closing night of Romeo and Juliet, the first thing the director noticed was the state her actor was in. His lip was split in two from front to back; he had a shiner under his right eye, a graze under his left eye, his cheeks were still swollen and he bore the unmistakable pallor of a man who’s been in a scrap...

Beat The Streets 2018 in Photos

DHP managed to raise £100,000 for Framework thanks to the efforts of everyone involved in Beat The Streets on Sunday last week. Well in! The charity can continue their work in helping the city's homeless community with a massive leg-up, all thanks to you lot. Any road, here are some snaps we took of the big day...

LeftLion Magazine #98

With David Rodigan MBE, Mark Thomas, Sharewear, The Hempolics, Nottingham Sticker Heads, A Bouncer in Notts, The Bestwood Partnership, Lloyd Byfield, Little John the Bare-knuckle Boxer and more...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Last month's headlines from your beloved city...

Sharewear Are On A Mission To Clothe Nottingham

A fifth of the UK population now lives in poverty: that's 14 million people, including working-age adults, children and pensioners. We've seen the stories about the increased usage of food banks – with Trussell Trust citing 41,000 three-day packages being handed out in 2010 compared to 1.2 million in 2017 – but another problem, sitting under the radar, is the need for clothing. We sat down with Louise Cooke, founder and CEO of Sharewear, to find out more about her story, and what the organisation is doing to help both local and international communities...

Film Screening and Q&A Review: Loveless at Broadway Cinema

The Russians came to town for a Q&A on the screening of Loveless at Nottingham’s Broadway, as part of the cinema's Andrey Zvyagintsev season…

Theatre Review: Son of a Preacher Man

The Dusty Springfield musical that's nowt to do with Dusty Springfield

Art Review: The Real DMZ at New Art Exchange

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a no-man’s-land strip that has divided North and South Korea since the end of the Korean war in 1953. Contrary to its name, it’s one of the most heavily militarized areas in the world, and has been the unwitting inspiration for some seriously interesting pieces of art...

Light Night 2018: Meet The Artists

Meet the award winning eco artists and designers who upcycles waste materials into luminous scultpures...

10 Places to Go on Light Night 2018

Overheard in Notts

New year, same daft old tosh coming from your lot...

Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity 2018 is Coming to Town

Thanks to STEMCity and Ignite, this month sees Nottingham being taken over by the cleverest clogs abaht. We had a word with the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity producer, Megan Shore, about what’s in store this year…

Music Video: Slumb Party - Questions

Check out the brand new song from our favourite skronky post-punkers...

Nusic Podcast #171 with Joey Costello, Pretty Babs, Dollie Demi, Ken Samson and more...

Paloma Faith Announced as Splendour 2018 Headliner

Splendour celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and what better way to celebrate than by pulling in one of the UK’s biggest singer-songwriters?

Maltese Band Fuzzhoneys Talk Music and Their Love of Nottingham

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Angel

Holy Bouncer come all the way from sunny Spain to play the latest I'm Not From London Fuzzbox night. The least we could do was to pop down to The Angel and have a listen.

Nottingham Playhouse's New Artistic Director Adam Penford on His Upcoming Adaptation of Holes

Is it a book? Is it a play?...

Live Music Review: Fuzzhoneys at The Chameleon

Garage rock duo Fuzzhoneys from Malta bring their Glitter tour to the Chameleon Arts Café with support from local faves Babe Punch. Our Gav headed down to check things out

Lord Beestonia’s Nottingham Literature Facts

Matt Turpin aka Lord Beestonia on Nottingham’s literary didja-knows...

Film Review: The Post

Hanks and Streep bounce off one another brilliantly in a story that showcases the true purpose and power of the press

Beat The Streets: The Ruffs Discuss Their Debut EP

Frontman Connor Spray answers our questions about the band's recent release as well as their appearance at this Sunday's fundraiser for homelessness charity Framework...

14 Literary Organisations in Notts

If words are your thing, our city is the place to be. Full to the brim with places to go and things to do, Nottingham is built for the bookish, laid out for the lyrical, and pruned for the poetic. Here, we’ve bashed out a little guide to get you started on the road to the literary community in all its scribbled glory...

What's Life Like on the MA Creative Writing Course at NTU?

Tuesday Goacher talks boosting confidence with academic study...