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You seen that alcohol-free pub on Friar Lane? We had a peep behind the curtain and there's certainly a method to the madness

Pick of the Week: New Year's Eve Special

We know how hard it can be deciding what to do for New Year, so we've saved you a job

Santa Deaths and How to Avoid Them

Nottingham born Tom Rourke works with fellow animators on this Christmassy short animation

Street Tales: The Bubonic Bell Inn

Find out more about the plagued history of that owd pub on Angel Row from a man who tells Nottingham stories you've never heard before...

Still the Enemy Within

A documentary looking back at the 1984 mining strike is showing at Broadway Cinema this week

LeftLion Stereo: December - January

Get stuck in to what we reckon is a cracking selection of Notts tunes to keep your tabs happy

Tales From The Darker Side Of Winter

Mike Payton and Tim Ralph give us a few winter's tales on a storytelling night in Beeston

Judit Ferencz: Subways, Side-Streets and Skylines

The Hungarian-born artist chats to us about her upcoming course that combines cityscapes with text to create visual storylines

Future Session 76 - Cedric Peters

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

Sound of the Lion #32,Sound of The Lion

With Ear Vings, Cecil Chamberlain, Reckless, Blue Vulture, Beth Frisby, Lviv, Jamie Moon, IVORYSERFS, Lois, Karhide and Apalusa

Interview: Joe Buhdha

Producer, promoter, label boss, rapper, DJ, lecturer, Joe Buhdha has held down just about every job in hip-hop, bar leather trackies inventor. As Can’t Stop Won’t Stop’s first release hits stereos, he told us about how it all started, and why he’s got no plans to let up anytime soon…

Interview: Bob Robinson

Born in County Tyrone, Bob Robinson has called Nottingham home for the last forty-odd years. It’s here he’s created work that is equally bold, humorous and grotesque, yet has gained little recognition. Now aged 63 and living with terminal cancer, we spoke to him about the inspiration behind his art and how it feels to have a retrospective at such a poignant time.

Rough Trade Open Up In Nottingham

Stephen Godfroy, director and co-owner of Rough Trade, is credited with revitalising the company after joining a decade ago. Firstly he introduced the subscription-based ‘Album Club’ and then helped develop Rough Trade East, the company’s flagship store on trendier-than-thou Brick Lane. After setting up Rough Trade New York last October, the independent record store has opened its first UK store outside of London on Broad Street. He came to Nottingham for the store’s opening, so we nipped in for a chat…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the funniest of them all?

Interview: Owl Man Frank Shelton

You might have seen Frank Shelton walking around town with a majestic bird and cute little hound but, like us, probably refer to him as his more sophisticated alias – Owl Man. We grabbed a cuppa with him at the Malt Cross, along with his dog Lucy and barn owl Kim…

Future Session 75 - Alcedo

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

New Wave Short Films

We chat to Derry Shillitto about his production company and short film festival

YMCA Digital

Musicians and artists from all over the city have been helping out our youths to develop their creativity

I'm Not From London Studios

I'm Not From London have branched out and opened a brand spanking new recording suite

Sound of the Lion #31,Sound of The Lion

With Origin One, The Madeline Rust, Trekkah, Merrick's Tusk, Rattle, The Wild Man Of Europe, Separation Anxiety and Amber Run

Bang! Short Film Festival Is Calling It A Day

Short films are perfect. Perfect for the filmmaker wanting to showcase what they can do, perfect for the YouTube generation struggling to concentrate on anything for more than an hour, perfect for creating some of the most diverse film festivals out there. Bang! Short Film Festival started off small but, as the digital age took hold and their audiences got bigger, it grew into a beast of a festival. Unfortunately, after fifteen years of filling Broadway’s screens with bite-sized reels, they’ve called it a day. We get all nostalgic and look at what the festival meant to filmmakers and audiences alike...

15 Bands You Wish You'd Seen At The Bodega

As The Bodega (formerly The Social) celebrates its fifteenth birthday, we look at fifteen bands who played there before they made it big

Jim's Smokehouse

Advertising Sectioned

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history, with Player's and Henry Farmer and Co

Safe at Last Charity Music Video

The charity who work with, and on behalf of, young people at risk through running away are releasing a song, with a video made by Nottingham's Rebel Yell