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Ayup Notts, it’s possible that we’re about to become the next tourist hotspot for all them tourists looking to get a little more creativity in their lives. Nottingham’s Cultural Strategy Partnership (CSP) announced its bid to become a European Capital of Culture 2023… in a giant light-up inflatable structure – otherwise known as a luminarium – no less...

Nusic Podcast #160 with As December Falls, Gallery 47, Kelsey Shaw and more

Get your lugholes around this badboy...

Rescue Rooms Beer Festival

"Shave the head off the top, duck"

The Lincolnshire Poacher's Brother From Another

27 years ago, a sweet pub friendship blossomed. To this day, The Lincolnshire Poacher up Mansfield Road, and In De Wildeman in ‘Dam are twinned like the brotherly boozers they are, so we hopped across the pond and through the seasons, to search for the answers behind the bond. And for a couple of swift ones...

Notts County vs Everton U21

With Everton U21s in town, our Gav headed off to Meadow Lane to check out the Checkatrade Trophy match and to get some opinions on whether these youth teams should be in the competition at all.

Art Works: Sophie Johnson-Hill

Tue 15 Aug 2017

The illustrator and animator on the beauty of a child's imagination. N'aww...

Theatre Review: Holloway Jones

Tue 15 Aug 2017

Teen crime drama packs a punch

9 Albums You Have To Listen To This Month

Mon 14 Aug 2017

With Yazmin Lacey, Little Barrie, Jimi Mack and more...

Lucy Does Burlesque

Mon 14 Aug 2017

There’ve been several times in my life when my mouth has signed me up to something before my brain has had the chance to work it out. Nominating myself to be school-council representative in year seven was disastrous for my street cred, and stepping up to the Ayia Napa boat party drinking competition went as successfully as one can imagine. Now, for the entertainment of you lot, I agreed to attend a burlesque class and write about my experience for dear old LeftLion. Why?

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Sun 13 Aug 2017

There's nuff stuff to do for the kids, the grown ups, and all those in between, this week...

It's A Pie for a Pie at Pieminister

Sun 13 Aug 2017

Mine’s a Moo. A Moo and Blue.

Advertising Sectioned: “It’s the local sound… and it’s all yours!” (BBC Radio Nottingham, 1979)

Sat 12 Aug 2017

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...

A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books

Sat 12 Aug 2017

New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...

In Focus: Mellonie Page

Conscious, funky and unsigned, Mellonie Page aka Mellonie Williams, has gorra sound that moves between reggae-gospel and seventies soul, her Mother-Earthly voice in tow. You might have clocked her down Nottingham Contemporary launching her most recent album, Back to the Garden, or covering reggae classics alongside The Ites Band down Southbank. This month, she’s got a new single out – Women Women – and will be gigging all over the shop, so keep your tabs pricked for that nostalgic voice and them positive vibes.

Dan Hardy To Become Sky Sports Regular

With the billion dollar super fight between Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor breathing down our necks, MMA fans throughout the world have been hit with some knockout news...

YNOT Festival 2017 in Photos

We managed to wade through the mud and strife, to grab a few photos of musicians, dahn the Derbyshire chaos...

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Rebecca Dewey on Watching Your Brain

Having previously appeared at PubhD and the University of Nottingham's Public Lecture Series, Dr Rebecca Dewey continues her quest to appear at all of Nottingham's scientific public outreach events by coming to SciBar to talk about Watching Your Brain.

Art Review: Kaleidoscope at Nottingham Lakeside Arts' Djanogly Gallery

We got down to Highfields Park to check out all the colours going on behind the doors of Djanogly Art Gallery...

Left Panther: Season Preview

We have a look at the Panthers before the 2017/2018 season begins...

Author Mark Latham on Creating the Perfect Sherlock-Dracula Hybrid

The former Editor of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine, self-confessed Victoriana and history nerd Mark Latham took the leap to become a full-time author and games designer. The Lazarus Gate, his debut novel, was the first in his Victorian sci-fi Apollonian Case Files series, with the second, The Iscariot Sanction, released the following year.

This year, he’s had his first Sherlock Holmes novel published with the world’s greatest detective investigating Dracula, and the third Apollonian novel, The Legion Prophecy, is set to hit the shelves in September. He’s not been slacking, so we thought it was high time we popped the kettle on and invited him over for a natter…

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

This weekend's looking proper tasty. Get involved lads and lasses...

6 Creative Writing Pieces You Need To Read Today