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LL Stereo: With Gallery 47, Babe Punch, Nick Aslam and more...
Mon 31 Jul 2017What you need in your ear holes this month...
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Make Your Own Robot with MeArm Pi
Thu 20 Jul 2017Mime Industries are a local company that create build-it-yourself robotic kits, and people can use them to learn to code. To support the release of their newest product, the MeArm Pi, they ran a Kickstarter campaign that was quickly oversubscribed, with 852 backers pledging a whopping £56,376. We sat down with company founder, Ben Pirt; a man who’s very handy with robot arms...
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Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is
Wed 05 Jul 2017One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...
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Music Video Premiere: Gallery 47 - Cold Fire
Fri 02 Jun 2017The first track to be taken from his forthcoming new album, Adversity Breeds...
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Young Books Run Wild: Celebrating 30 Days of British Wildlife Literature with the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Thu 01 Jun 2017Determined to get us bookworms out and about in the sunshine, the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust has launched a month-long campaign to review books about all things wild.
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6 Books to get Stuck into This May
Sat 20 May 2017Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...
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Mental Health Issues Can Affect Anyone
Sun 07 May 2017Simon is 37, and works as a Healthcare Professional and a Musician. He also has lived experience of an eating disorder, self harm, depression and anxiety. We caught up with him in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about his own experience with mental health, in the hopes that it will encourage others to open up themselves.
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Five Leaves Shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year
Wed 01 Mar 2017Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham's radical and independent seller of paged goods, is on the shortlist for the regional round of the UK and Ireland Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, for the second year running. Gerrin.
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4 Books To Read Over The Festive Period
Mon 02 Jan 2017One year ago, Nottingham became a UNESCO City of Literature. Since then, creative writing courses have been closed down, the DH Lawrence Heritage Centre has been sold off, and the fate of the Central Library lies in the hands of a property developer. Offsetting this is the Festival of Literature, the Line of Light installation on Station Street and, most importantly of all, the authors who keep banging out beautiful books...
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The Roy Stone Foundation Supports Young Musicians with Mental Health Issues
Tue 20 Dec 2016When Roy Foster, aka Roy Stone, died in October last year, it was not only a devastating loss to those close to him, but also to the city he had entertained for over twenty years as a singer and frontman of the band Performance. The Roy Stone Foundation has been set up to honour his memory. We spoke to one of the organisers, Sally Jackson, to find out more…
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6 Nottingham Books to Curl Up with this November
Tue 01 Nov 2016If you don’t have time to read these books, visit Karlsruhe Friendship Bridge, Station Street, and read Jo Fairfax's selection of one-line poems for the Line of Light exhibition...
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Book Reviews: Spokesman Books
Wed 12 Oct 2016Want to get stuck into some seriously good books that tackle everyday issues? Step this way for an introduction to some worthy works
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Nottingham's Most Peaceful Publishers, Spokesman Books
Tue 11 Oct 2016"Russell facilitates all sorts of discussion in China, including topics which might otherwise be regarded as taboo, such as homosexuality"
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4 Nottingham Books To Read
Mon 19 Sept 2016If your eyeballs are feeling a little bored, fear not. We've got your back with these words about words
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4 Books Nominated for the East Midlands Book Award 2016
Tue 05 Jul 2016Includes a powerful poetry collection, a children's story that champions stories, the winning crime novel, and an emotional wallop from Tom Preston
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Sound of the Lion #47,Sound of The Lion
Thu 26 May 2016With Snowy, Little Bribes, Michael Reddington, We Show Up On Radar, Future Shinjuku, Vincent Bella, Merrick's Tusk, Vandal Savage and Wolf Club
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6 Nottingham Books To Read
Thu 12 May 2016With Jonathan Taylor, Sam Maxwell, Ana Salote, Tony Simpson and Helen Macdonald
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ExLibris: Ten Years of Selling Books and Wearing Masks
Sun 24 Apr 2016"ExLibris follows in the tradition of maverick Victorian bibliophile Josiah Saithwaite, who rescued and distributed books very cheaply to poor workers in a mask"
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The Notts PCC Election in under 3 Minutes
Thu 21 Apr 2016Confused? Struggling to find any information to help you make a decision on who to vote for? So were we. So we asked all five candidates to sum up their campaign in 30 seconds
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Crowdfunder Campaign: Wash Club
Wed 20 Apr 2016Help fund this Notts film, the true story of poet Ross Sutherland's inadvertent involvement in a death cult while at university
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Future Session 107 - Jonny Olley
Sat 09 Apr 2016New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is
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Music Video: Phoebe Katis feat. Sam Posener - Held Under Water
Sat 02 Apr 2016Get some of this in your lugholes and your eye crevices
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Future Session 106 - Billie
Sat 26 Mar 2016New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is
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Donald Trump's Triple Xmas Whammy
Sun 20 Mar 2016Dave Bishop - aka LordBiro - takes a cheeky poke at the American businessman who is running as a candidate for the Republican party
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