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Interview: Jon Ronson

People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...

A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye

Rob Cutforth says goodbye in his final column for LeftLion. Now, for God’s sake, someone stop him before he lets the cat out of the bag...

Goose Fair in the 1890s

Babies 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…

LeftLion Magazine #49

Featuring Joe Dempsie, Play No Games, Don Masson, Shide Boss, Jon Ronson, MulletProofPoet and more

Judge Dredd comics

The definitive reading list

Art Works: James Michie

"An object that is familiar but altered is satisfying to me, like a good puzzle"

Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger

1,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...

WEYA 12: Preview

What to look at, listen to, and experience this month at World Event Young Artists 2012...

Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team

On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.

Acoustic Rooms vs Our True Intent – Gallery

Caribbean Carnival in Pictures

Nottingham was awash with colourful costumes and Caribbean fun at the weekend, check out the photos

Review: An Audience with Carl Froch

"He moved to Newark and discovered that the locals would rather steal his bike or jump him on his way home than face up to him in the ring"

Non-League Football Teams in Notts

There's more than two football teams in Nottinghamshire: maybe you ought to adopt one

Art Works: Louisa Jane Irvine

" As a child I loved going to fabric shops to look at the spools of ribbons and threads, feeling and collecting different colours and textures"

Caribbean Carnival 2012

This weekend: get ready to feel the Forest Thump...

Interview: Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn: two small-town Lincolnshire lads who fuse blistering lyrics to brutalist loops, bolt on an uncompromising stage presence, and call it Sleaford Mods.

Nottingham Forest Season Preview: 2012/13

"Play-offs if the owners mean what they say. Threatened by relegation again if they don't"

Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13

"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"

Interview: The Afterdark Movement

Your brand-new Future Sound of Nottingham winners and Splendour-openers spit bars, bend notes, chop beats, defy pigeonholing and kick arse. They’re the Afterdark Movement, and we managed to get two of them - Bru-C and Trekkah - to stand still long enough to hear their story...

Sound of the Lion #17,Sound of The Lion

With Sleaford Mods, Junkie Kut, Captain Dangerous, Felix, The Afterdark Movement, Moscow Youth Cult, 8mm Orchestra, Tribute To Nordberg, Russian Linesman, You Slut!, Natalie Duncan and We Show Up On Radar

Interview: Olympians Grace Carter and Tesni Ward

"When I was six, I told my teacher that I was going to be in the Olympics, and I would buy her a ticket"

A Canadian at the London 2012 Olympics

"I want to lose myself in the joyous atmosphere of the world’s middle class getting together to cheer on its fastest and best at throwing heavy objects"

Interview: Alan Moore

Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...

Interview: The Gramophones

The Gramophones: they’ve been from Lands End to John O’Groats by London Bus, microlight and even DeLoreans. Now they want to show you their holiday snaps in their brand new show, End To End, before they go back up North to Edinburgh for the Fringe. We spoke to Hannah Stone about what it’s like to live a road movie with your mates...

Stories From The Raleigh Factory

Walking straight out of school on Friday and into work on Monday. Grafting in a building the size of a small town. Workmates walking around with their giant appendages hanging out near machinery that could rip an arm off. Suicidal staff members helping themselves to cyanide. Mass copulation in the Pump Shop. Your workplace having its
own fishing pond and ballroom. If you weren’t around when Britain was the workshop of the world instead of its pound shop, only one word springs to mind when you read the tales of those who worked at Nottingham's iconic bicycle factory; Raleigh.