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Lenton locals may have spotted the remnants of The Chimera Plantarium Project on Church Drive. Two vividly coloured and curiously shaped murals command a presence that hints towards their leafy beginnings and leaves passers-by turning their heads. They are just some of the work delivered by artist Chiara Dellerba and the children from Years 5 and 6 at Edna G. Olds Academy, as part of Primary’s Making Place project. Working together, they explored and created artwork based on the idea of spontaneous plants – wild, urban flora. Spontaneous plants are resilient creatures and their perseverance to thrive almost anywhere, even in abandoned, overlooked, or routinely neglected areas, is something us humans could learn from. We spoke to Chiara, to find out more about the project…

Talking Cakes with Fran Jesson, owner of Sugarberry Cake Studio

Wed 16 Sept 2020

Weaving through the avenues of Sneinton Market, you’ll find an eclectic range of shops that will stimulate your senses for one reason or another. There’s Art of Football, with its multicoloured loud and proud exterior, Blend’s toastie bread, which invites you in with delicious smells from across the street… and Sugarberry Cake Studio: adorned with flowers, glossed with minty pastel, and with tasty goods baked to perfection. Formerly Oozee Boozee Bakes, the studio has rebranded to showcase it can do more than tipply treats. Our Food Editor Eve Smallman chats to owner Fran Jesson to find out more…

Free Barbie

Wed 16 Sept 2020

25 Years Later: Chungking Express

Tue 15 Sept 2020

Contributors Charlie Alexander and Michael McCarroll revisit Chungking Express, 25 years after the UK release of this Hong Kong classic...

Nusic New Music Podcast #233 with Megatrain, Chloe Rodgers, Bru-C, The Crying Violets and More

Tue 15 Sept 2020

This week’s New Music Podcast features the Nottingham artist getting love from 1Xtra, free career advice for musicians, plus the Notts MC who’s just hit one million monthly listeners on Spotify.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Food Review: No.12

Tue 15 Sept 2020

As lockdown restrictions started to lift, there was only one place that Jason Edgar wanted to reacquaint himself with...

60 Years Later: Psycho

Mon 14 Sept 2020

It may have been six decades since Alfred Hitchcock’s infamous thriller was first released but god, does it still have the power to scare the life out of you...

Ben Rose on The Angel Microbrewery, Lockdown Recovery and Vegetarian Cooking

Mon 14 Sept 2020

Any regular visitors to The Angel Microbrewery or The Golden Fleece will be familiar with Ben Rose. Having turned two of Notts’ most iconic pubs around, he’s one of the city’s original purveyors of veggie food, with both pubs offering a full menu of meat-free options. And if that wasn’t enough, he even dedicated his kitchen to the Open Kitchens project during lockdown, providing hundreds of meals for those most in need. Christina Geggus caught up with him to find out more...

Hockley Hustle Presents Green Hustle: The Digital Festival Celebrating All Things Sustainability

Sun 13 Sept 2020

A highlight in our calendar comes every October when, on the last weekend of the month, the streets of Hockley are taken over by musicians, poets, street performers, food vendors and punters for the annual Hockley Hustle festival. For obvious reasons, it won’t be returning for its fourteenth year, but that doesn’t mean Team HH are taking a (probably well-deserved) break. Thanks to funding from Arts Council England, they’ll be treating the people of Nottingham to a few different projects. The first of those is Green Hustle, a digital festival celebrating, promoting and exploring all things green in our city…

Artist Mitch Proctor, a.k.a Bon Idle, on his new comic: Henshin

Sun 13 Sept 2020

Nine years ago, a mysterious explosion plunged a city into a seemingly endless blackout. That is, until a Mark Zuckerburg-like tech billionaire rebuilt it into a futuristic metropolis – but to Journalism student Alex, this shady figure’s motivations don’t quite ring true. Alex’s hunch soon thrusts him into a world of superheroes and monsters in Henshin, a new series from Notts-based artist Mitch Proctor, a.k.a. Bon Idle...

Shreya Sen-Handley on Being the First South Asian Woman to write an International Opera

Sat 12 Sept 2020

She’s had two books published by HarperCollins, written for international media and was even the regional head of a television channel at the age of 25. It’s fair to say that there are achievers in this world, and then there’s Shreya Sen-Handley. And if that impressive CV wasn’t enough, she’s now become the first Indian and South Asian woman to write a Western, international opera, called Migrations. We catch up with the multi-talented writer to find out more...

Our resident mental health nurse returns with advice on how to cope with life post-lockdown...

The Inside World of Nottingham BID's Festivals...

Wed 09 Sept 2020

Nottingham’s blessed with more than its fair share of events, ceremonies and festivals, many of which have been facilitated by the Nottingham Business Improvement District (BID). Formed in 2012, Nottingham BID has offered support, information and funding to some of the city’s biggest cultural offerings and, with the upcoming ballot to determine whether they’ll continue next year scheduled for October, we caught up with some of the festivals that have benefitted from their support to see how they’ve coped during lockdown, and what Nottingham BID means to them…