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The Thompson Brothers on National Gherkin Week

Notts' most opinionated grocers...

Lucy Does Kickboxing

"I felt like my kidneys were about to fall out my arse"...

Theatre Review: Hedda Gabler

Fresh take on Ibsen classic gives it a new Hedda Steam

The Write Stuff: Nottingham-Based Author Jon McGregor Set to Judge Leicester Writes Competition

Not content with being “Britain’s second-best short story writer”, Jon McGregor is set to judge the 2018 Leicester Writes short story competition. 

Sound of the Lion #66

With JC and The Sunshine Band, Taco Hell, Gallery 47, Cherry Hex and The Dream Church, The Chase, Louis Croft, Faceless, The Ruffs and T.O.W.E.R.S...

Nusic Future Session: Fast Car to Florence - English Skin and Hypnotise You

The latest Nusic Future Session, for your lugholes and your eye pipes...

Lloyd Byfield Trained with the Shaolin Monks

At the age of 55, award-winning martial arts enthusiast Lloyd Byfield spent six months training with the Shaolin Monks in China. Fresh from his travels, we sat down with Lloyd while he explained what he has in store for his new martial arts school for children in Notts...

Ziggy Starbucks Rules, OK: A Poem by Dave Bishop aka Lord Biro

Gentrification is this week's poetic commentary from the prolific artist/poet Dave Bishop, aka Lord Biro...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Plenty to be gerrin on with...

Film Review: Phantom Thread

Daniel Day-Lewis' final film, Paul Thomas Anderson directing, a score from Johnny Greenwood and the 1950's London fashion scene.  What more do you want?

Little John the Bare-knuckle Boxer

When Pete Radford arrived backstage for the closing night of Romeo and Juliet, the first thing the director noticed was the state her actor was in. His lip was split in two from front to back; he had a shiner under his right eye, a graze under his left eye, his cheeks were still swollen and he bore the unmistakable pallor of a man who’s been in a scrap...

Beat The Streets 2018 in Photos

DHP managed to raise £100,000 for Framework thanks to the efforts of everyone involved in Beat The Streets on Sunday last week. Well in! The charity can continue their work in helping the city's homeless community with a massive leg-up, all thanks to you lot. Any road, here are some snaps we took of the big day...

LeftLion Magazine #98

With David Rodigan MBE, Mark Thomas, Sharewear, The Hempolics, Nottingham Sticker Heads, A Bouncer in Notts, The Bestwood Partnership, Lloyd Byfield, Little John the Bare-knuckle Boxer and more...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Last month's headlines from your beloved city...

Sharewear Are On A Mission To Clothe Nottingham

A fifth of the UK population now lives in poverty: that's 14 million people, including working-age adults, children and pensioners. We've seen the stories about the increased usage of food banks – with Trussell Trust citing 41,000 three-day packages being handed out in 2010 compared to 1.2 million in 2017 – but another problem, sitting under the radar, is the need for clothing. We sat down with Louise Cooke, founder and CEO of Sharewear, to find out more about her story, and what the organisation is doing to help both local and international communities...

Film Screening and Q&A Review: Loveless at Broadway Cinema

The Russians came to town for a Q&A on the screening of Loveless at Nottingham’s Broadway, as part of the cinema's Andrey Zvyagintsev season…

Theatre Review: Son of a Preacher Man

The Dusty Springfield musical that's nowt to do with Dusty Springfield

Art Review: The Real DMZ at New Art Exchange

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a no-man’s-land strip that has divided North and South Korea since the end of the Korean war in 1953. Contrary to its name, it’s one of the most heavily militarized areas in the world, and has been the unwitting inspiration for some seriously interesting pieces of art...

Light Night 2018: Meet The Artists

Meet the award winning eco artists and designers who upcycles waste materials into luminous scultpures...

10 Places to Go on Light Night 2018

Overheard in Notts

New year, same daft old tosh coming from your lot...

Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity 2018 is Coming to Town

Thanks to STEMCity and Ignite, this month sees Nottingham being taken over by the cleverest clogs abaht. We had a word with the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity producer, Megan Shore, about what’s in store this year…

Music Video: Slumb Party - Questions

Check out the brand new song from our favourite skronky post-punkers...

Nusic Podcast #171 with Joey Costello, Pretty Babs, Dollie Demi, Ken Samson and more...

Paloma Faith Announced as Splendour 2018 Headliner

Splendour celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, and what better way to celebrate than by pulling in one of the UK’s biggest singer-songwriters?