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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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Interview: Peter Bowles
Wed 28 Nov 2012Peter Bowles went from a childhood in Hyson Green to an acting career that spans the early days of television, the golden age of sitcoms and the admiration of Marlon Brando - and he owes much of it to a theatre in town that now carries his name...
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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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King Bong: The Xylophone Man
Wed 04 Jul 2012Is it really that long ago? Nearly a decade since we heard that sound? The magnificent cacophony of randomness that went; “Bing Bong Bing Bang Bong”?
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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: 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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Homeless Film Festival 2012
Mon 02 Apr 2012This April sees the inaugural Homeless Film Festival, a nationwide turning of the spotlight back on to a problem that’s getting bigger and runs deeper, than ever before - and it’s all down to Notts and Manchester collective, Donkey Stone. We spoke to Jamie Rhodes about its aims and ambitions...
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Interview: Martin Allen
Sun 19 Feb 2012Some see Martin ‘Mad Dog’ Allen as the epitome of the eccentric, geezerish football manager. But Notts County fans will testify that there is method in the madness, after he saved them from relegation last season. We caught up with him for a chat about Nottingham, posh hotels and a certain League Cup tie...
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Ecoworks: Nottingham’s first permaculture organisation
Fri 17 Feb 2012If they were any greener, Robin Hood would be wearing them. Part community project, part landscape design consultants, part catering service, part suppliers to Notts cafés and restaurants, 100% local produce champions, they’re on a mission to turn the entire city onto home-grown produce, as Business Development Manager John MacDonald points out….
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Nick Turner from The Chameleon on Running an Independent Music Venue
Sat 21 Jan 2012"The Chameleon is a launch pad for bands. Most of them aren’t going to make it... but they’ve got their mates to come down"
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Interview: Roger Caney
Thu 12 Jan 2012Roger Caney: He’s seen more live music in Notts than you. Come, take his hand and let him lead you through the toilet venues of Nottingham...
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