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Big White Shed's Poetry Publisher Anne Holloway Answers Questions in Photos

Founder of the Big White Shed, a meeting place for creatives to seek advice and trade expertise, Anne Holloway has shown us the inner workings of her mind through the art of photography. This month, she’s rounding up some of her favourite poetic pals to perform as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. The likes of Chris McLoughlin, Trevor Wright and Hayley Green will be spraying similes and internal rhymes like nobody’s business over at Debbie Bryan for your viewing pleasure. Word.

Delilah Fine Foods

We got down to the deli with a twist...

9 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

The Nottingham Poetry Festival is well underway this week. Get stuck in...

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...

Theatre Review: Showstoppers

Improvised musical delivers laughter, la-la-las and some moments of inspired lunacy.

Quiet Riot: The Poets Who Do Not Talk, But Have Plenty To Say

Nottingham’s Maresa MacKeith is a poet, educator, and member of the Quiet Riot collective – a group of wordsmiths who are unique in their literary plight, in that each member communicates nonverbally. We visited Maresa to find out more about creating poetry by tapping on a letter board, what it feels like to have it voiced by a personal assistant through facilitated communication, and the Notts launch of the Quiet Riot anthology at Sobar…

Gav at Science in The Park

Our vlogger, Mr. Gav Squires got himself down to Science in The Park to learn all about tardigrades, invisibility, and other crazy things on the Earth...

Art Review: Draw the Line

Get yourself down to The Surface Gallery in Hockley this week, before the Draw the Line exhibition ends.

Theatre Review: Tommy at Nottingham Playhouse

The Who’s rock opera benefits from extravagant production at Nottingham Playhouse…

NRG Prepare for the 2017 Louisey Rider Cup

Following the untimely death of Louise Wright in 2014, Nottingham Roller Derby set up a tournament in her honour last year to celebrate one of her passions while raising cash for the road safety charity, Brake. It’s back again this year, we spoke to one of the event's organisers, Hannah Larham, about what the day involves...

Coffee Shop Blend and Roastery Stewarts of Trent Bridge on Sneinton Market

You might have noticed over the last year that Sneinton Market has been picked up, given a dusting down and had a whole lotta love sprinkled over it. It’s no longer the place that time forgot and is quickly filling up with many a creative endeavour. One of its newest residents is Blend, a coffee shop whose light, airy environment begs you to pop in, and Stewarts of Trent Bridge, a coffee roastery right next door. We spoke to the main men behind the business about what they’re up to…

Thrift Generation Are Reclaiming the Playboy Bunny

Madi Wallner is the woman behind independent clothing company, Thrift Generation. Having recently launched their brand new t-shirt design, and with their upcoming Girl Power Networking event, we had a natter to find out more,

Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

Competition for coffee lovers - big, big prizes

10 Events to get to for Nottingham Poetry Festival

After wiggling their toes in the water back in 2015, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back. Mixing it up with over fifty events, there are local poets of all genres, backgrounds and disciplines, as well as workshops to get wordy in, and plenty of chances for you to get on the mic and give it a go yersen. Plus they’ve got some national treasures popping down – in the form of Britain’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the inimitable John Cooper Clarke, and the lyrical John Hegley. If you don’t think poetry is your thing, think again. If you’re already a fan... well, as you were.

Nyasha at Dizzy Ink Risograph Printing Workshop

Nottingham's risograph specialists, Dizzy Ink, spent the day in Primary Studios letting people unleash their creativity on their printing machines. Our vlogger Nyasha went along to have a go...

Notts Coach Takes Over World’s Worst International Football Team

Chris Smith, a Nottingham-based football coach, who has worked previously with the likes of Nottingham Forest and Lincoln City, is picking up his passport this month to head to Micronesia, a country spread over 600 islands off the Western Pacific Ocean, to embark on one spectacular footballing journey...

Nottingham Poetry Festival: Wendy Cope

Known for her dry wit and keen eye for parody, Wendy Cope has been a staple of British poetry since her debut in the eighties. We caught up with Wendy ready for her appearance at this year’s poetry festival.

Nusic Future Session: Super Furniture

The winners of the 2016 Future Sound of Nottingham competition got in the studio to perform L.A.A and Coloured In Smiles, and to chat to the Nusic crew...

Rapper Scorzayzee on Gangsta Wraps, New EP Illa Scorz, and Nottingham Hip Hop

Rap’s Robin Hood is back with new EP Illa Scorz, and a ton of new merch designed by his eleven-year-old son to boot. We caught up with Scorzayzee for the lowdown on his latest release, plus the burning question of who’d win in a fight between the most famous fast food mascots…

A Brief History of World Snooker Championships in Nottingham

We take a dive into the geographical history of the World Snooker Championship, and dig up an old rivalry…

I'm Not From London On A Decade Of Distortion

It's been two years in the making, but INFL are finally ready to unleash the beast...

Pint of Science: The Plague, Teaching the Brain to Hear, and Survival of the Sexiest...

Last year, Nottingham was one of the host cities for the international science festival Pint of Science. This year, it’s back, and the launch night at The Canalhouse saw four speakers give us a taste of what’s to come…

200 Degrees Coffee Shops

On a wander through town, or on your way past the train station, you may have had a little chortle at the witty A-boards decorating the pavements of Flying Horse Walk and Carrington Street. These are the siren song of 200° Coffee shops, a major player to emerge on the Nottingham coffee scene over the last few years, opening not one, but two cafes within a mile of one another...

Art Works: Anthony Freeman's Grungy Lion Illustration

A local artist lets us in on his artistic process..