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She Found It At The Movies: Author Christina Newland on Her Book on Female Desire in Film
Thu 16 Apr 2020Nottingham-based freelancer Christina Newland has penned articles for film mags from Empire to Sight & Sound, but now it’s her turn in the editor’s chair. We spoke to her about her new collection of essays, She Found it at the Movies...
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COMPETITION: Create Your Own LeftLion Cover
Mon 06 Apr 2020Ever fancied having a crack at a LeftLion cover? Well now's your chance...
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Nottingham City of Literature are Running a Creative Writing Competition for Writers Aged 10-25
Mon 09 Dec 2019Are you a youngster in our city who has gifted gears whirring away? We have a corking competition for you…
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Film Review: Between Two Ferns - The Movie
Tue 08 Oct 2019Does Zach Galifianakis' popular web-series transfer to the big screen?
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Film Review: Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
Mon 12 Aug 2019Terry Deary's books might an institution to those of us that grew up in Britain, but how will our French-born film reviewer react to the big-screen adaptation of Rotten Romans?
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The Thompson Brothers on Glastonbury, Beer and Shots in the Dark
Mon 01 Jul 2019Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...
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Win Two Tickets to Splendour Festival 2019 with Manic Street Preachers, Rag'n'Bone Man, All Saints and More...
Tue 04 Jun 2019There'll be plenty of local acts taking to the stage too...
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Win Tickets for Sean Paul at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
Fri 01 Mar 2019Sean da bleddy Paul is coming to Nottingham, and we've got two tickets to give away...
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Live Music Review: John Wilson Orchestra - At The Movies
Fri 14 Dec 2018Classic Hollywood scores from a superstar orchestra
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Get Snapping: Read On Nottingham Launches Social Media Selfie Competition
Wed 03 Oct 2018Bust out them reading glasses, dads — You've got some work to do.
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Superhero Movie Season at The National Justice Museum
Tue 31 Jul 2018The National Justice Museum are back with another brilliant film season...
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Win Two Tickets to Splendour Festival 2018 featuring Paloma Faith, The Stranglers and More...
Fri 11 May 2018With plenty of local acts taking to the stage, you don't wanna miss out...
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Top 10 Boxing Movies
Thu 29 Mar 2018Ahead of the release of Paddy Considine's Journeyman, we count down ten of the best boxing flicks ever made...
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THiNK are Running an Album Art Competition for their Spring Open Exhibition
Tue 13 Feb 2018Have you ever looked at an album cover and thought “I could gi’ that a go”? If so, then you can show off your artistic prowess at THiNK’s Spring Open Exhibition. Whether you’re an established artist or just interested in trying something new, between Thursday 29 March and Sunday 29 April, you can have your artwork hanging in a proper gallery. With no entry fee and the competition open to all ages, there is only one rule: all works must be original pieces.
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The Write Stuff: Nottingham-Based Author Jon McGregor Set to Judge Leicester Writes Competition
Tue 06 Feb 2018Not content with being “Britain’s second-best short story writer”, Jon McGregor is set to judge the 2018 Leicester Writes short story competition.
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Short Story Competition: City Arts at 40
Thu 11 Jan 2018They celebrated their fortieth birthday in September, and have been ringing in the celebrations ever since. We were promised a year-long schedule of exciting opportunities and events, and they haven’t disappointed…
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Book Review Competition: Win a £25 Token and Get Published
Fri 05 Jan 2018We’ve teamed up with the UNESCO City of Literature squad to deliver a book review competition...
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Boilermaker's Manager Makes Final of Gabriel Boudier Liqueur Competition
Wed 08 Nov 2017Turns out Nottingham has a secret cocktail wizard who has created the next best thing in flavoured booze...
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Competition: Win Tickets for Kagoule and Catholic Action at The Bodega
Fri 27 Oct 2017We have got a pair of tickets to giveaway to one lucky reader...
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Film Review: The Lego Ninjago Movie
Fri 13 Oct 2017They may be a bastard to step on, but the movie franchise juggernaut is rumbling on...
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Buzzword: A Poem for Beeston Competition
Mon 11 Sept 2017Them lot over at The Beestonian have been running their very own poetry comp, looking for poems inspired by Beeston. With the deadline fast approaching, they’re on the look-out for some young scrawlers…
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Earache Records Bring the Heavies to Glastonbury
Fri 21 Jul 2017When Earache Records founder, Digby Pearson, put out Anglican Scrape Attic – a compilation of hardcore and thrash metal – in 1985, even he would have failed to predict the impact the DIY flexi disc would have on the British metal scene over the next three decades. Pearson followed it up in 1986 with a split 7” between Heresy and Concrete Sox, and then shortly after, in 1987, an album by The Accused became the first release to officially carry the Earache name.
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Declan James is Squashing His Competition
Fri 30 Jun 2017Squash isn’t all about city types taking out the frustrations of failed business deals on little rubber balls. It’s a fun, energetic, social sport, and one in which Notts is lucky enough to stake claims to a rising star. Declan James invited us to his fancy club in The Park at the end of his season to talk about his recent appearance in the British Open, his England call-up, and why more people should be picking up a racket and getting a sweat on down their local squash club…
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Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards
Thu 29 Jun 2017National Writing Day fell on the longest and muggiest day of the year, but thankfully the Pimms flowed freely at Bromley House Library in Nottingham on Wednesday 21 June for the second Aurora Poetry and Fiction Prize Awards...
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