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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

Fri 16 Oct 2020

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

Nottingham BID Secure New 5-Year Term

Fri 16 Oct 2020

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

Fri 16 Oct 2020

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

Fri 16 Oct 2020

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

Fri 16 Oct 2020

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

Thu 15 Oct 2020

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

Thu 15 Oct 2020

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.

10 Years Later: The Social Network

Thu 15 Oct 2020

Is this just another blockbuster film that glorifies people who don’t deserve it? Hollie Anderson finds out...

15 Years Later: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Wed 14 Oct 2020

15 years later, contributor Alex Mace is still crackers about the feature-length Wallace and Gromit film...

Free Barbie

Wed 14 Oct 2020

Film Review: Days

Tue 13 Oct 2020

Daniel Turner reviews the 11th feature film from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang following its UK debut at the 2020 London Film Festival...

Back to School: Twelve-year-old Jagoda Talks Returning to Education During a Pandemic

Tue 13 Oct 2020

With all the talk of politicians, parents and teachers, it’s easy to forget those most affected by the decision to reopen schools after lockdown: the students. Twelve-year-old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska lets us know what returning to school in the midst of a global pandemic is really like...