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We were drawn to the illuminated poetry at Station Street, celebrating our UNESCO City of Literature status...

The Endless Rage of DH Lawrence: Zebra Crossings

Nottingham's biggest potty mouth and historical badman tells us what's been gerrin' his goat...

Katie Half-Price Reviews George Monbiot's Latest Book

Nottingham's orangest reviewer tells us what's up with How Did We Get into this Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? - November 2016

With music videos from Scorzayzee, Brooders, Chroma Bay, Georgie, Shookz, The Mocking Jays, and The Hijinks...

Theatre Review: The Commitments at Nottingham Theatre Royal

The production is in town on the Nottingham leg of their UK tour, fresh from a two-year West End run. This musical adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s 1986 book and successful film follows Jimmy Rabbitte, a young working class Dubliner yearning to bring some life and music to his grey and downtrodden corner of eighties Dublin.

German Board Game Designer Reiner Knizia Visited Ludorati Cafe

Wed 09 Nov 2016

He’s had over 600 games published, won several 'Game of the Year' awards, and has made some of the best-selling games of the last twenty years. Modern board games are all a bit different from playing Monopoly with your nan at Christmas, so when Reiner Knizia visited Ludorati, the board game café on Maid Marian Way, Gav Squires sat down with him to talk about all things board game...

This is Your Life: Nottingham

Wed 09 Nov 2016

Our literature editor James Walker is offering a potted history of Nottingham’s literary history...

The Problem With Kaldeep

Wed 09 Nov 2016

After discovering the Art for Impact Film Competition – a San Francisco-based contest that asks creatives to produce films that tackle the subject of mental health – actress Sohm Kapila and former Television Workshop director, Ian Smith, have joined forces to create The Problem With Kaldeep...

Annie on the US Election

Tue 08 Nov 2016

The woman behind Annie's Burger Shack is one of our favourite American ex-pats. Lucy Manning caught up with Annie to find out her views ahead of the presidential election...

Left Magpie: November

We keep you up to date with the last month's action at Meadow Lane...

Gabriel Ebulue Performs Hip-Punk for Nottingham Comedy Festival

"Now I am writing jokes that mean something to me and say something important... rather than a series of elaborate dick jokes"

A Bit of Magic with Stu and Friends Comes to Nottingham Comedy Festival

Nottingham Arts Theatre is set to get taken over with a plethora of cabaret acts, all thanks to Stu Turner. As part of the Nottingham Comedy Festival, the magician and comedian from Surrey is sure to show the city a thing or two that’ll leave the gobs gaping, all alongside his mates. We chatted to the man himself ahead of the show...

SciBar at The Vat and Fiddle: A Naïve Person's View of Chemical (and Other) Measurement

Dr Quentin Hanley from Nottingham Trent University joins us at October's SciBar…

PubhD at The Vat and Fiddle: Cultural Astronomy, Osteoarthritis and Kindertransport

Every month, some of the city’s cleverest clogs meet up in the pub to share, in layman’s terms, what they’ve been researching for their PhD. The next one is on Wednesday 16 November at The Vat and Fiddle if you fancy getting down to learn a thing or two…

Nusic Podcast #141

Those new Notts music champions deliver a fresh podcast, full of the sounds of the city...

9 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

Sun 06 Nov 2016

There's a lot of funny business going on in the city, this week...

How Comedian Josh Howie Spends A Day in Notts

Sat 05 Nov 2016

The international comedian tells us how he likes to kill time in our fair city before making with the funny in the evening…

Theatre Review: The Revenger's Tragedy at Nottingham Playhouse

Tarantino meets Hamlet was Fiona Buffini’s vision for Nottingham Playhouse’s final instalment of their Vengeance Season, as 400-year-old revenge tragedy takes an electric slide into the seventies…

Georgie Talks Columbia Records, Touring with Jake Bugg and Her Debut Single

Mansfield-born singer-songwriter Georgie played a triumphant show at Rock City last Friday, supporting Jake Bugg on a night when fans celebrated two of the brightest talents to have emerged from Nottingham’s music industry in recent years. Alex Thorp spoke with her before the Leeds leg of the tour to talk about signing with Columbia Records, inspiring the next generation of musicians, and being able to give up her job at a Chinese takeaway…

Dystopian Future Movies at The Bodega in Photos

We took some snaps of the gig...

Sleaford Mods' Rock City Gig in Photos