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Interview: Stephanie Sirr on The Golden Years of Nottingham Playhouse
Fri 16 Aug 2013The Nottingham Playhouse celebrates fifty years at Wellington Circus this September. We spoke to Chief Executive Stephanie Sirr about the venue, their history and their plans to celebrate...
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Interview: JT Soar
Mon 15 Jul 2013Using a DIY ethos, Joe, Phil and Nick from Nottingham punk band Plaids have turned an old fruit and veg warehouse at the back of Sneinton Market into a music and arts space. Run as a co-operative, together they’ve created a one-of-a-kind venue that’s already hosted bands from all over Europe and the US of A.
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"Bring Back Mat" - How Artist Mat Collishaw Re-Connected With Nottingham
Fri 21 Jun 2013We speak with Matt at Backlit Studios to talk zoetropes, myth-making and the crucial influence of Wollaton Hall...
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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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Homelessness in Nottingham
Wed 17 Apr 2013Nottingham has kept its ‘rough sleeping’ numbers well below the national average. What’s happening differently here to elsewhere?
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Interview: Andy Reid
Fri 08 Mar 2013He arrived at Forest at the turn of the century from Dublin, put in five years graft, moved up to the Premiership, was pinged around four different clubs, came back in 2011.
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BamaLamaSingSong
Thu 21 Feb 2013A hark-back to old-school sing-songs round the pub joanna, karaoke for cowards, or a genuine communal event?
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Dating in Nottingham
Thu 14 Feb 2013Wondering how to meet someone in Nottingham? We sent our community editor out to investigate speed dating, online dating and going to a meat market
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Nottingham Ball Bois
Thu 10 Jan 2013The Nottingham Ball Bois - your gay-friendly neighbourhood football team - are one of the few local clubs in a national league. But, as Scott Lawley (chair and full-back) and Craig Simpson (player-manager) point out, they do a lot more...
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We Are The 25%: The Creative Quarter Launches
Sun 16 Dec 2012The Creative Quarter: another regeneration project, an attempt to catapult Nottingham into the big league of British cities, a massive hand-out for the city’s arty sorts, or the last attempt to drag the city out of its chain-shop morass? Toby Reid, Director of BioCity and Creative Quarter committee member, reveals the people who will be tasked with shaping the destiny of The Lace Market over the next decade - and don’t look now, but one of them could be you...
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Roller Derby Teams in Nottingham
Fri 23 Nov 2012The Hellfire Harlots have just won team of the year at the Nottingham Sports Awards. We have a chat to them and the Nottingham Roller Girls about the sport
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse
Tue 23 Oct 2012If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...
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Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine
Tue 23 Oct 2012It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.
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Goose Fair in the 1890s
Mon 01 Oct 2012Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…
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Non-League Football Teams in Notts
Sun 19 Aug 2012There's more than two football teams in Nottinghamshire: maybe you ought to adopt one
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Nottingham Forest Season Preview: 2012/13
Thu 16 Aug 2012"Play-offs if the owners mean what they say. Threatened by relegation again if they don't"
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Small Theatre Groups of Nottingham
Sat 14 Jul 2012From A (for Actors Workshop) to Z (for Zoo Indigo)
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The Best Caves in Nottingham
Fri 06 Jul 2012The best holes in town, according to Dr David Strange-Walker of the Nottingham Cave Survey
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Interview: Hetain Patel
Sun 01 Jul 2012Since graduating from Nottingham Trent at the turn of the century, Hetain Patel – currently exhibiting at the New Art Exchange - has become one of the strongest voices in British art by drawing upon his Indian heritage, not to mention his own skin...
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Interview: David Strange-Walker of Nottingham Cave Survey
Tue 26 Jun 2012Whether it was for living space, work, shelter or punishment, our ancestors were obsessed with going underground, with over five hundred caves dotted across the city. They’re all being catalogued by the Nottingham Caves Survey - and according to Project Leader David Strange-Walker, putting a sledgehammer through a pub door has
never been more educational...
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Future Sound of Nottingham 2012 in photos
Mon 18 Jun 2012Photos from the contest featuring Joe Danks, Tom Wardle, In The Northwood, Crash Jacket, The Species and eventual winners The Afterdark Movement
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2nd Nottingham Zine Fair
Fri 18 May 2012It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning: The Musical
Fri 11 May 2012Everything you fear it might be, that’s what it’s not...
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Interview: The Austin Francis Connection
Wed 02 May 2012The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...
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Interview: Dilk of Montana Shop
Thu 05 Apr 2012Stephen Dilks - Dilk, to his friends, the global graffiti community, and huge chunks of wall around the city - celebrates ten years of running specialist shops in town and basically running our local street art scene.
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