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Confetti Set to Host British Esports Championship Live Grand Finals this July

The educational institute have teamed up with the British Esports Association to bring one of the biggest events on the esports calendar to Nottingham...

Beeston Set To Welcome New State-of-the-Art Multiplex Cinema

Notts film fans will get the chance to check out a brand new eight-screen cinema at the end of next month...

Feelgood Films: The Movies That Lift Our Spirits

Movies have long been a way to lift the spirits, providing heartwarming moments and tonnes of laughs, fist-pumping action and that ugly happy-cry you do when star-crossed lovers finally end up together. To tie in with our recent self-care issue of the mag, the LeftLion screen team dive into their favourite feelgood films of all time...

Under Cover Artist: Phil Moss

This month’s cover artist, Phil Moss, gives us the lowdown on his process...

The Thompson Brothers on Meditation and Prince Philip's Funeral

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Overheard in Notts

What you been chatting this month?

Sneinton Street Food Club on the 7th May

LeftLion Magazine #135

Our wellbeing issue takes you on a journey of making yourself feel a little bit better, including Skate Nottingham, Wild Swimming, Meditation, Tentickle Toys, MyHouse, Your House, Loudspeaker, Vork Pies, Notts Creatives, Rich and Ed's Excellent Adventure, Joshua Judson, James Sadler, Nadia Whittome on Mental Health, A Yoga Instructor in Notts and more...

Tentickle Toys: The Notts-Based Sex Toy Specialists Offering Something Different

In a year when human-to-human interaction has been strictly forbidden, the sex toy industry has boomed, with more and more people finding pleasure without a partner. With a long and successful career in film prosthetics under her belt, Jayne Hyman took the opportunity to create her own brand of customisable, manga-inspired sex toys, Tentickle…

Film Review: Nomadland

Miriam Blakemore-Hoy takes a look at this year’s Best Picture winner...

LeftLion Sustainability Statement

The climate and nature crisis is the biggest issue humanity has collectively faced, and locally we’re already feeling its impact. Throughout our twenty year history we’ve always cared about the planet, but for the last few years in particular we’ve been working hard to better understand and address our environmental impact directly.

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Saving the Sherwood Library Cherry Trees

TV Review: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

This Captain America spin-off series is a welcome return to the excitement of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, writes Michael Vince...

Bank Holiday Street Food Club on the 1st May

Alfie Templeman

Out of Time: The Pierrepoint Hangmen Dynasty

From rather innocuous beginnings in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, Henry Albert Pierrepoint – who simply went by Harry – would go on to create a rather unique, gruesome family dynasty. For at various times during the first half of the twentieth century, Harry, his son, Albert and brother, Thomas, all held the position of Hangman of England, executing 849 men and women between them…

YMCA Calls for Your Memories for 150 Stories Campaign

The Nottinghamshire charity is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 Stories, an exhibition curated from your memories and experiences...

Dancing On Tables

Ten Years Later: Thor

Michael Vince looks at one of the earliest entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a decade since its release...

Food Review: No Homer

Cold cuts, vegan style...

Wollaton Hall Set For World Exclusive T-Rex Exhibition This Summer

The first Tyrannosaurus Rex to be exhibited in England for over a century will arrive in Nottingham this summer.

Grandad: A Photo Series Showing The Isolation of the Older Generation During Lockdown By Photographer Naomi Williams

It was a single beam of light which inspired Notts-born and Bristol-based photographer Naomi Williams’ Grandad, a series which explores the feeling of loneliness during a global pandemic, and how the interiors of a house represent a person through their belongings...

Frisco Boogie: Reflections of the Mature B-Boy

Many would have you believe that hip-hop is a young man's game. However, Frisco Boogie (aka Duncan Mitchell) would beg to differ. Twenty years ago he turned his back on a record deal and took two decades out of making tunes. Now, nearing his half-century, he’s back enjoying making music (and breakdancing and graffiti) more than ever…

Greentea Peng