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Film Review: Mucho Mucho Amor - The Legend of Walter Mercado
Sat 11 Jul 2020The stars align in Netflix's latest documentary feature...
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Notts’ Panto Legends Kenneth Alan Taylor and John Elkington on Bringing Sleeping Beauty to the Playhouse This Christmas
Thu 05 Dec 2019This year marks 35 years since Kenneth Alan Taylor first brought pantomime to the Nottingham Playhouse when he arrived as Artistic Director. For a generation, his gentle northern tones were the voice of the quintessential panto dame, a role he reprised over and over before hanging up the costume changes for writing instead. It’s also been 21 years since John Elkington first appeared in a Playhouse panto and solidified himself as the current dame of choice. Our Stage Editor – and massive panto fan – sat down with them both during rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty to find out about this year’s production…
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NTU Student MJ the Art Traveller to Appear on Sky Arts' Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
Thu 14 Feb 2019It's that time of the year again. Portrait Artist of the Year returns to Sky Arts with a new round of contestants ready to get painting. The set-up is simple: paint a portrait of a surprise celebrity in your own style in be in the chance to win a £10,000 commission for a major British Institution, plus £500 of materials from Cass Art. What’s not so simple is that you are judged by some of the best art curators and artists in a portrait you can do in four hours under the glare of TV lights. This year, the competition features Nottingham Trent MA student Michael Sheppard aka MJ the Art Traveller...
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Tribute: Gordon Pollitt (Wholesome Fish) 1965-2018
Sun 11 Nov 2018Gordon Pollitt, a founder member of Wholesome Fish died last month at the age 53 after a two-year journey with cancer. Here’s a tribute to him from his wife and bandmates…
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Street Tales: The Shepherd's Race
Tue 01 Nov 2016We delve a little deeper into the history of Nottingham's streets to tell you the tales they never would have taught you at school...
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Theatre Review: The Legend of Lady Rock
Wed 12 Oct 2016We got down to Nottingham Contemporary to see the musical based on a historical Scottish murder scandal
Sarah Walker-Smith on The Legend of Lady Rock
Mon 19 Sept 2016"I didn't want to create a straightforward, evil baddie who sticks his wife on a tidal rock - I wanted to make him human"
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Hood: The Legend Continues
Mon 21 Sept 2015The Robin Hood legend reimagined through 150 years of Nottingham 'istreh
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Legend
Sun 13 Sept 2015Tom Hardy plays both of the Kray twins, in this latest British gangster flick
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Ian Jones: Nottingham Landmarks and Legends
Fri 14 Aug 2015All the best things about Notts, whacked into one crackin' collection for you
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The Legend of Barney Thomson
Thu 23 Jul 2015Robert Carlyle adapts a Douglas Lindsay novel for his first film in the director's chair
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Live: John Legend and Judith Hill
Tue 14 Oct 2014We were serenaded by a nine-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter at the Royal Concert Hall
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Interview: Stuart Pearce
Tue 19 Aug 2014Brought to the City Ground by Cloughie, Stuart Pearce played for Forest for twelve years, becoming their most capped international player and a stone cold cult favourite as he earned his ‘Psycho’ moniker. Ending his time here as a caretaker player-manager in 1997, he is now back as manager after proving his mettle with Manchester City, England under-21s and the 2012 Olympic Great Britain team. As the club prepares for an assault on promotion to the Premier League, we had a chat with the man himself…
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Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Wed 23 Jul 2014Mike Myers tries his hand at documentary making.
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Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend
Sun 06 Oct 2013He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.
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Nottingham Legends
Thu 23 May 2013After his iconic Byron Clough painting, Rikki Marr asked a group of artists to share their takes on other members of Notts royalty...
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Interview: James Hooton
Sun 29 Apr 2012He’s spent the last seventeen years playing a member of the most infamous Yorkshire soap family on TV, but James Hooton is still a Nottingham lad through and through. So when he got a call from an old friend who was putting on a play about the Motherland then he decided it was an opportunity worth skipping a few of episodes of Emmerdale for…
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Interview: Ade Edmondson
Tue 19 May 2009"These days it seems that there’s no kind of real subculture at all. In the seventies and eighties people were justifiably angry about stuff"
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Our Style Is Legendary: The Art of LeftLion
Sun 08 Mar 2009Like our website and our magazine? Well come and have a look at our first exhibition...
Interview: Wholesome Fish
Sat 26 Apr 2008"We were accepting anything. We’d do any gig to get anywhere. I remember doing one for a Ginsters pasty."
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Interview: Derrick May
Sun 16 May 2004Derrick May is a founding father of the Detroit techno scene. Two decades ago he began to play with and develop an aesthetic, skeletal and melancholy sound that has led critics since to dub him "the Miles Davis of techno"...