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Sobar: Nottingham's Alcohol Free Bar from Double Impact
Tue 27 Jan 2015Binge drinking has been a problem in Britain for a long time. After what feels like hundreds of government initiatives, there’s still a lot of emphasis placed on social responsibility. But how can we tackle this head on? Sobar is just one of the unique ways that society is having a go…
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Nottingham Loves...
Wed 21 Jan 2015If you thought you couldn't love Notts more, this poem'll prove you wrong
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Music Reviews: December 2014 - January 2015
Tue 20 Jan 2015With Lviv, Apalusa, Beth Frisby, Blue Vulture, Cecil Chamberlain, Ear Vings, Ivory Serfs, Jamie Moon, Karhide, Lois and Reckless
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Book Reviews: December 2014 - January 2015
Fri 16 Jan 2015With Kim Slater, Andrew Graves, Matt Haig, Al Needham, Rikki Marr, Jai Verna, and Andy Croft
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All Schools Should Be Art Schools
Thu 15 Jan 2015NTU’s School of Art and Design celebrates their 170th anniversary with a specially commissioned performance at Nottingham Castle
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Cycling in Nottingham: History of Raleigh Bikes
Thu 15 Jan 2015You can hardly move in Nottingham, or anywhere else for that matter, for Raleigh bikes. Not the new ones, which aren’t sold by as many bike dealers as they once were, but second-hand and restored classic machines – from rare pre-war models to the ‘all steel’ bikes of the fifties and sixties, to fold-up twenties, to Choppers, Grifters, Activators and Team Banana racers of the eighties.
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All Schools Should Be Art Schools
Thu 15 Jan 2015NTU’s School of Art and Design celebrates their 170th anniversary with a specially commissioned performance at Nottingham Castle
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City Arts Move From Radford Into City Centre
Mon 12 Jan 2015The newest face in town is City Arts. Parked next door to the Writers’ Studio on the border of Sneinton, the new office and creative space is the most centrally located in the organisation’s nearly forty-year history…
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Top 14 LeftLion Articles of the Year
Tue 30 Dec 2014We get all nostalgic and have a look back at the cream of our wordy crop from the past twelve months
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Art Works: Corrina Rothwell
Tue 30 Dec 2014'There's nothing more rewarding than engaging people and getting a reaction: it could be laughter, or recognition, or "Ewww"
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Street Tales: The Bubonic Bell Inn
Thu 25 Dec 2014Find 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...
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Live: Christmas Jazz Fest with the Nottingham Jazz Orchestra
Thu 18 Dec 2014"This is just what you want from a Christmas jazz gig – a big warming, accessible hug of an experience, like a Die Hard box set with a large brandy"
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Interview: Bob Robinson
Thu 11 Dec 2014Born 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.
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Rough Trade Open Up In Nottingham
Wed 10 Dec 2014Stephen 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…
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Interview: Owl Man Frank Shelton
Tue 09 Dec 2014You 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…
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Art Works: Kit Anderson
Fri 28 Nov 2014A local artist reveals all her secrets of fusing her photographs onto ceramics...
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Art Works: Adrian Tasker
Tue 25 Nov 2014"The cardinal sin for any designer is to not research your subject"
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Rough Trade Opens in Nottingham
Mon 24 Nov 2014A new era begins as London's favourite indie record store opens up a branch in Nottingham. Photography of the store's first day by Shaun Gordon...
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Being Arthur
Fri 21 Nov 2014The first ever live 24 hour Twitter presentation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning happens this weekend as part of the Being Human humanities festival
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Music Reviews: November 2014
Thu 20 Nov 2014With Amber Run, Origin One, Separation Anxiety, Trekkah, The Madeline Rust, Rattle, Merrick's Trust, and The Wild Man of Europe
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Cycling in Nottingham: Tram Tracks
Mon 17 Nov 2014Continuing on our bicycle endeavours, we tackle the problems tram lines cause for pedallers all over the city...
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Book Reviews: November 2014
Sat 15 Nov 2014With The Esplanade, Celeste, Duke and Disorderly, Nottingham: From Old Photographs, and more
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Nottingham Contemporary Turns Five
Fri 14 Nov 2014It's now five years since the city's green and gold art institution first opened its doors to the public
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Interview: INJ Culbard
Thu 13 Nov 2014INJ Culbard has drawn Sherlock Holmes, the unknowable and unnameable horrors of HP Lovecraft, clockwork universes, medieval mercenaries battling horrors, animals fighting aliens, Japanese Oni demons on the rampage and a crime fighting Edwardian vampire. Intrigued, we sat down with him for a cuppa and a chat...
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The History of the Malt Cross Nottingham
Thu 06 Nov 2014After scooping a £1.38m grant from Heritage Lottery Funding this year, the Malt Cross closed its doors for four months to undergo a massive restoration. Now re-opened, it’s the largest Victorian music hall outside of London and one of only a fistful left in the country. As one of Nottingham’s most beautiful buildings, it’d be remiss not to have a dig in to its colourful history…
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