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This April, Nottingham’s bars are being taken over for a festival to end all festivals – Nottingham Loves Cocktails. If you’re a mixology enthusiast, or simply love the taste of a good booze, then step this way. Each venue has been discerningly paired with a particular brand of liquor, with loads of masterclasses, talks, taster sessions and competitions to get yer cockles warmed right up. Just make sure you bag yourself a wristband before the adventure begins on Monday 24 April...

Nottingham in Photos: April

The city's sickest snappers have been doing bits...

Wired Cafe Talk Coffee Culture in Nottingham

Set up by Très and Vanessa Gretton-Roche in 2014, Wired was right at the front of Nottingham’s coffee shop revolution. We got the lowdown on their success...

LeftLion Magazine Appoints Bridie Squires As New Editor

Big things a gwarn up at LeftLion HQ. We’ve only gone and got oursens a new Editor.

Meet the Man Selling Coffee from a Phonebox in Nottingham

Thu 13 Apr 2017

Luke Thorpe has taken on an unusual venture – selling coffee out of a phonebox. The city’s gone coffee mad recently, so we went down to ask him a few questions about what he’s doing...

10 Nottingham Dessert Gaffs to Try

Are your tegs so sweet that yer Tuth Fairy’s gone bust? Are you one of those weirdos who orders pudding for tea? Yes? Then have we got some treats for you. Our Sally Thurlow explains what’s hot in the Notts dessert world...

Michael Rother Interview

The legendary German musician on Kraftwerk, Neu!, Harmonia, Bowie and Brexit…

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Juga-Naut, Grey Hairs, Shelter Point and more

Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...

Space the Band at Spanky Van Dykes in Photos

Shock, shock. Horror, horror. Everyone's favourite nineties Britpop (with a twist) band showed up in Nottingham after a lengthy hiatus, with new material as well as some golden oldies. We got down to take some snaps of them and local support band Prime...

NottsMan at The Angel Microbrewery: Local Poets and The Cockleman in Photos

On Sunday, NottsMan whacked on a community-filled day of music, poetry and activities in a bid to raise funds for Dave Bartram aka The Cockleman – the man who has been selling fish from his basket to Nottingham pub punters, for over 56 years. Recently, Dave was attacked which led to the discovery of early-stage cancer, which means he will be out of work for a while. So NottsMan organisers raised funds and showed support, all in a grand day of creativity...

Left Panther: The 2017 Elite League Ice Hockey Season Ends

The Elite League ice hockey season is over for another year. It finished in an exciting way for some teams, but certainly not for the Nottingham Panthers, who failed to qualify for the play-off final weekend at the National Ice Centre (NIC) which was ultimately won by the Sheffield Steelers…

Overheard in Notts

Here's what your lot have been chuntering on abaht over the past month...

Theatre Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The second coming of Mark Haddon's novel-turned-play has gone down a treat...

The Thompson Brothers on Sitting at Traffic Lights

Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers on...

Read Nottingham Goth Bands' USA and Mexico Tour Diary

Midnight Configuration and Death Party UK recently had the opportunity to perform at the Los Angeles Gothic Festival and the Mexico City Goth Festival. Trevor Bamford from the bands tells us more...

Flog It! is Coming to Nottingham

Dig our yer crusty cutlery and get yersen on the tellybox...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club 2016 Rundown

To say that 2016 was a mixed season for Nottinghamshire is a bit of an insult to things that usually come mixed, like a bag of nuts with only a couple of cashews...

Can Placenta Be a Model to Study Tumour Invasion? NTU's Dr Sivasubramaniam Explains at SciBar

Dr Sivasubramaniam from Nottingham Trent University joins us at SciBar to discuss whether placenta can be a model to study tumour invasion...

Director Ben Wheatley on His Gun-Blazing Action Thriller Free Fire

Following the success of last year’s High Rise, Ben Wheatley was back at Broadway Cinema for a preview screening of his new film, Free Fire. Starring Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley and Sam Riley, almost the entire film is centred around a gun deal gone awry in a seventies Boston warehouse. We caught what Wheatley had to say about the flick...

The Curious Tavern Launch New Menu: Comfort Food, Pizzas, and Oysters Galore

Since opening, The Curious Tavern has been a happenin’ Hockley hot spot for a bev or two. But they’re not just a pretty face, oh no. They have an array of delicious grub, so we headed down to check it out…

Future Sound of Nottingham 2017 Finalists Revealed in the New Nusic Podcast