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What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

LeftLion Magazine #87

Featuring Babe Punch, Ronika, POW Nottingham, Lee Stuart Evans, Balletboyz, The Place Is Here, Leanne Moden and more...

Review: The Art of Black Hair at New Art Exchange

NAE looks at the various ways in which black people style and celebrate their hair in the gallery's latest exhibition...

Film Review: Sing

We give our thoughts on this talent show-themed animation.

Nottingham Secular Society Fracking Debate: INEOS Shale Vs Frackfree Nottinghamshire

With the news that there might be fracking potentially starting in Sherwood Forest still fresh in the mind, Nottingham Secular Society hosted a debate on the subject. Garry Harwood, CEO of INEOS Shale, and Dennis May from Frackfree Nottinghamshire were invited to debate the motion, "This house believes that fracking is intrinsically safe and will be of great benefit to the country"

Derrick Buttress: My Life as a Minor Character

Our Literature Editor James Walker talks the literary legend...

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle - Biomolecules in The Fossil Record: Sequencing Proteins in Amber

The monthly science event stomps into the pub, causing ripples in all the pint glasses. This month, Dr Victoria McCoy from the University of Leicester comes to talk…

Live Music Review: Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation at Nottingham Contemporary

With the ‘hypnotica’ film screenings taking over the Contemporary, it was no surprise that the Swedish group took over The Space. Full of hazy trance like sounds, the band created a hallucinogenic experience...

Curious Tavern

Mon 27 Feb 2017

We got down to a most unusual gaff for a serving of oysters...

Nusic Podcast #148

Mon 27 Feb 2017

This week’s new music podcast features the opening of R1 Future Sound of Nottingham 2017, the MC who likes to rap in his dressing gown, and information on to meet Radio One, 1Xtra, Metal Hammer and Radio X...

Live Music Review: Julia Jacklin and Keto at The Bodega

Sun 26 Feb 2017

The Australian singer-songwriter returned to Nottingham as part of her sold-out UK tour, with local favourite supporting...

11 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

Sun 26 Feb 2017

Notts has got tons of juice for the blend this week...

Nusic Future Session: Ashfields - Is it Alright Now?

Sat 25 Feb 2017

A new Nusic Future Session for your eyes and ears...

Nusic Future Session: Ashfields

Sat 25 Feb 2017

New Notts music from the purveyors of local sound...

Will Does Running

Fri 24 Feb 2017

I'm Not From London's Will Robinson is organising a Marafun in May 2017. We put him through his paces, challenging him to a Sunday morning 5k run with our local branch of the Mikkeller Running Club...

Shakespeare's Rosalind Comes to Nottingham

Fri 24 Feb 2017

James Cousins has given Shakespeare's fearless heroine a makeover through contemporary dance...

Shakespeare's Rosalind Gets A Contemporary Makeover

Fri 24 Feb 2017

James Cousins is bringing Shakespeare's Rosalind to Hoodtown...

Theatre Review: The Machine Stops

The tale of a dystopia where a single machine rules humanity - perhaps we'd better back off the iPods before it becomes a prophesy...

De La Soul Talk Crowdfunding Their Latest Release

Since releasing their debut 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989, De La Soul have been hip hop pioneers. Eight albums and almost three decades later, they decided to forsake record labels and crowdfunded their latest release, and the Anonymous Nobody…, instead. We chatted to founder member Posdnuos about Kickstarter, guest vocalists and their upcoming Rock City gig…

Theatre Review: Touched

From Lady Bay to Enola Gay. Tanya Raybould went along to see if she was Touched by the revival of Stephen Lowe's Nottingham-based modern classic at the Nottingham Playhouse.

10 Notts Hip Hop Artists to Watch Out For