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Outdoor Theatre Review: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in Notts' Beer Gardens

Tue 14 Aug 2018

Get yersen' some culture with your beer this summer

Clean Yoga are on a Mission to Reduce Plastic Waste in Nottingham

Mon 13 Aug 2018

Clean Yoga sessions are run by two local fitness instructors, Victoria Douglas and Hannah Appleton, and combines their skills with their care for the environment. At each event, yogis take part in an stretching session, followed by a park clean and litter pick. We had a chat with the organisers...

PubhD Preview: An Interview with Simon Tarr

Sun 12 Aug 2018

PubhD is back at The Vat & Fiddle on Wednesday - we sat down with one of the speakers, Simon Tarr, to learn about how he has been preparing

Live Music Review: Sundaze at The Chameleon

Sun 12 Aug 2018

Americans The Pleasure Routine bring their UK tour into Nottingham in support of Sundaze who are holding their single release party. We headed down to The Chameleon see if there was anything routine about pleasure.

Nottingham Women's Centre Have Won an Award for Voluntary Service

Sun 12 Aug 2018

Standing proudly at the end of Chaucer Street, Nottingham Women’s Centre enables women in our area to reach their full potential, providing the tools to achieve social, political and economic equality. Having just been presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, we thought it was high time we had a word with CEO, Helen Voce, who’s now a year into her post...

Left Brian: Solid Start for the Reds

Sat 11 Aug 2018

What a summer it’s been; a seemingly never ending heat wave engulfed the country, football almost came home as the men’s national team finally restored a bit of pride in the England shirt (although the muppets who went around smashing up taxis and bus stops can do one), and Forest looked to be building a squad capable of winning promotion back to the big time.

F for Film: Scarlett Johansson and the LGBTQ+ controversy

Sat 11 Aug 2018

Our Screen Editor's tackles the issue of transgender castings...

Film Review: Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Sat 11 Aug 2018

There's bad films, there's terrible films, and then there's this pile of cack...

10 Places to Quaff Afternoon Tea in Nottingham

Fri 10 Aug 2018

Monday 13 – Sunday 20 August is Afternoon Tea Week. The perfect excuse to sit back and scoff an abundance of cakes, scones and sandwiches with a cuppa or two. Here are a few places for you to try on every day of the week...

City Stylin' #4

Fri 10 Aug 2018

We took to the streets to find a couple of mighty fine fashionistas...

Broadway Cinema Summer Sale

Fri 10 Aug 2018

Broadway Cinema are offering you a second chance to see some of 2018's biggest films on the big screen...

Them Pesky Kids Screening at Nottingham Contemporary

Thu 09 Aug 2018

The Nottingham four-piece film collective invited us down to check out some of their latest projects, including the Premier of the highly anticipated Ariella…

Nusic Future Session: Laurie Illingworth

Thu 09 Aug 2018

The latest Nusic Future Session, for your lugholes and your eye pipes...

The Masked Man of Boomtown Talks Revolution

Thu 09 Aug 2018

Boomtown Fair – the immersive festival that tells the story of a grapple between revolutionaries and the establishment – has kicked off in Matterley Bowl, Hampshire. We grabbed the regime-toppling Masked Man for a chat as the tenth chapter kicks off good and proper...

How to Do Death

Wed 08 Aug 2018

In the UK, death tends to be awkward and unfamiliar. The logistics are dealt with behind the scenes by trained professionals, and the grieving process is viewed as something linear, after which your misery is cured. The stiff-upper-lip attitude fails to prepare us for when death taps on the door. The most honest conversation I ever had about death was with my brother, Kosta. He would get frustrated at me for being afraid of it. He thought that as much as we embrace life, we should embrace death, but that grief was a selfish and indulgent thing.

Kosta died on Monday 2 March, 2015, in Rojava, Syria. He was hit by an RPG, fired by a member of the Islamic State, while fighting alongside the YPG (Kurdish Protection Unit). In the months after his death, his words stuck with me, and made me feel guilty for grieving. It’s just over three years later and I’m only just grasping what this “process” of grieving actually is; I’m working out how to come to terms with death as Kosta did, but also how to grieve as he thought I shouldn’t. This is partly down to what I’ve learnt from a collection of creative and talented people in Nottingham who are opening up the conversation about grief in their own, individual ways...