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Under Cover Artist: Carrot

Carrots. If you’re looking, you’ll see them painted all over these streets. We got the notorious graffiti artist Carrot to dob us a cover and pull-out poster for this issue, and asked him what’s up, Doc...

LGBTQ+ Notts: Drag Bingo, LGBTQ+ History Month at Broadway Cinema, and more

Caroline Barry has been gallivanting around Nottingham for all the incredible gay and gay-adjacent events. After finding out a bit of LGBTQ+ history at National Justice Museum and playing with some balls at Rough Trade, she’s got her big gay diary out to make plans for February…

X Factor Auditions in Nottingham: This is Not a Drill

Spare your neighbours’ ears and flex your vocal chords in front of a panel of judges instead. X Factor 2019 open auditions are coming to Notts, so it’s time to show ‘em how much talent lies in this citeh.

The Thompson Brothers on the Panto, Gentrification of Sherwood and Notts County Twittergate

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Ayup Duck: The Latest Nottingham News

What's been rufflin' Ayup Duck's feathers this month? 

Live Music Review: TOY at Rough Trade Nottingham

We love a Rough Trade live + signing gig, so we got down there for TOY...

LeftLion Magazine #110

Featuring Sleaford Mods, Stonebridge City Farm, The Urban Worm, Luke Radford, Nottingham Fixers, Small Food Bakery, and loads more...

Local Label Leftback is Throwing a Birthday Party

Leftback turns five this weekend and it’s throwing a tasty party to celebrate. We spoke to owner Dudley Strangeways ahead of the bash…

Light Night 2019: Artist Luke Jerram's Museum of the Moon Installation in the Royal Concert Hall

It's the closest this installation has ever been to Nottingham, so it's dead exciting...

LeftLion Magazine Appoints Ashley Carter as New Editor

That’s right readers. As from next month we are having a bit of a shuffle around…

Theatre Review: The House on the Cold Hill

Beware the old house shrouded in local legend

Live Music Review: Beat The Streets 2019

Is there any better cure for the January blues than a day festival? We sent our Becky and Louise down to Beat the Street this Sunday to find out...

The Best Vegetarian and Vegan Food in Nottingham Presented by GorgeUs

Sam Nahirny yams some of the best plant-based scran the city has to offer...

Nusic Future Session: Elliot Williams

New Nottingham music from this talented bogger...

Help The University of Nottingham Create a Hoodtown Themed Periodic Table

Tuesday 29 January marked the beginning of the international year of the Periodic Table, and the University of Nottingham are planning on celebrating in true Notts style…

Interview: The Staircase lawyer David Rudolf

We caught up with David Rudolf, Michael Peterson’s criminal defence lawyer from the compelling Netflix documentary series The Staircase, as he arrives in the UK for a series of speaking engagements...

Peggy's Skylight Sunday Jazz Jam in Photos

We got down to take some snaps of the jazzy boggers down at Peggy's Skylight...

Live Music: The Hallé

A genuine delight to watch

An Evening With Michael Foale

Michael Foale, born in Lincolnshire, has been into space 6 times and was the first Brit ever selected by NASA. Our Gav wanted to be an astronaut so he went down to hear what Michael had to say.

Left Magpie: Dracula has a Better Record Against Crosses...

Kübler-Ross may sound like the type of enigmatic signing Notts need to pull themselves out of the bleakness that has befallen the season, but its presence at Meadow Lane is almost as significant.

Nottingham Bands and Artists - Send Us Music!

Want your music reviewed in LeftLion? Read on...

Theatre Review: Macbeth

Fair is foul, and foul is fair in this radical restaging

Film Review: Bird Box

The latest big hit from Netflix might have kick-started the craze of daft kids walking around blindfolded, but is actually worth a watch? 

Nusic Podcast #196 with Fast Car to Florence, Indiana, Holly Fallon, Haggard Cat and More...

Rapper and Busker TrueMendous is Coming to Notts for UKYA City Takeover

A master of the multisyllabic rhyme scheme, TrueMendous is a rapper and busker from Birmingham who recently upped sticks to the big smoke. In February, she's back in the Midlands as part of the UKYA City Takeover in Nottingham. A residential artist at The Roundhouse, she's been kicking out multi-genre, story-focused music with a mad work rate, and is currently putting together a new EP and book of lyrics. We caught up with the rising star ahead of her visit…