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Base51 Chief Janet Lewis Is Retiring After 25 Years

The Chief Executive of Nottingham-based young people's charity, Base 51 is stepping down from the role after 25 years of service...

Free Barbie

Film Review: Ammonite

Manvir Basi brings our London Film Festival coverage to a close with a review of romantic period drama Ammonite...

25 Years Later: Get Shorty

John Travolta picked up a Golden Globe for his performance in this film, but was it deserved? Screen Co-Editor George White finds out... 

Film Review: Supernova

Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth each offer a deeply moving performance in Supernova, says Joanna Hoyes...

Nusic Advice Video: Why Music is Such a Headsrr PT. 2

Part two of our why music is such a 'thing youtube won't let us say' - this time focussed on Identity....

Exhibition Review: Jimmy Roberts' Akimbo at Nottingham Contemporary

Akimbo, Guadeloupean-born artist Jimmy Robert’s latest exhibition currently on view at Nottingham Contemporary, captures an important moment not only in the artist’s career but also the social moment we are living in.

Film Review: Rocks

Rocks is a riotous riot of pure girl power, writes Roshan Chandy...

The Licengoons: A Short Film Which Pokes Fun at the BBC's Decision to Scrap Free TV Licenses for Pensioners

Our Screen co-editor Jamie Morris speaks to the stars of The Licengoons, Miles Anthony and Alex Greensmith, about their hilariously punchy new short film…

Shaun Hoolan, New Owner of Hockley Vintage Store Wild Clothing, on Preserving the Shop's Legacy

Wild Clothing first opened its doors in 1983 and, when its original owners decided to retire recently, word spread that the legendary location would be shutting its doors for good. But this couldn’t be further from the truth: our fashion editor, Anna Murphy, chats to Wild’s new owner, Shaun Hoolan, about his passion for this iconic Nottingham store and his plans for the future.

Film Review: Trial of the Chicago 7

Miram Blakemore-Hoy reviews Netflix’s timely new legal drama...

Places to Visit in North Nottingham

For anyone who grew up in the city and its suburbs, north Nottinghamshire was either where you sometimes ventured to feed the ducks in Rufford, or to perhaps explore the patchy remains of Sherwood Forest, communing with Robin and his Merry Men. In fact, to many city-dwellers, it is defined by its coalfield status, an imaginary wasteland of former mining towns. But North Nottinghamshire, centred around Worksop and Retford, has always had more to offer and, lately, is undergoing a renaissance. The 2020 pandemic-induced rediscovery of the day trip or overnight stay close to home make this the perfect time to venture up the M1...

Just The Tonic Comedy Club

Heavens Gate

Robin Hood Town Tour

Local Promoters Now Offering To Sell Your Soul for £666

In a move that would make Rishi Sunak and the government's new careers advice service proud, Nottingham-based music promoters I’m Not From London have diversified into beer, book publishing and satanic rituals…

40 Years Later: The Elephant Man

Charlie and George Alexander look back on David Lynch's tragic true story of the "Elephant Man"...

Nottingham BID Secure New 5-Year Term

The Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID) has been successful in securing the votes required for a new five year term from 2021 to 2025, having received the overwhelming backing of businesses in Nottingham.

Lakeside Art's Djanogly Gallery Reopens with Mat Collishaw Exhibition

After closing doors in March due to the pandemic, Lakeside Arts will be reopening from Saturday 17 October with the first major solo exhibition of a Notts-born contemporary artist… 

Art Preview: The Near Room at Bonington Gallery

Muhammad Ali described “The Near Room” as a mental space he would enter during a boxing match – an otherworldly state where you are accutley aware of your own mortality. Sophie Cundale’s new moving-image work, The Near Room (2020), gives substance to this imagined space. Set in a vivid hallucination in the mind of a disorientated boxer, The Near Room muddles historic references with the fantastical and supernatural...

The Black Crowes

Nottingham Contemporary is Reopening with Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio

It’s hard to sum up someone like Grace Jones in a single word. Singer, model, actress, songwriter, record producer. Icon. With a life as eclectic as it was iconic, it’s only fitting that she’s the subject of the expansive, multimodal new exhibition, Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio at Nottingham Contemporary. Caroline Barry headed there for a sneak preview to find out more... 

Banksy Visits Nottingham To Create Hula Hooping Girl

Excitement has built across the city over a piece of artwork on Ilkeston Road by Banksy. The piece is of a girl hula-hooping a bicycle tyre, next to a post with a broken one-wheeled bike attached to it.