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Dark times are ahead for zine fans. After years of sticking two fingers up at the man, Hand Job zine are shutting down the presses for an indefinite amount of time. But in spite of their planned hiatus, the press decided to go out with a bang: Friday 3 March marked the launch of the Hand Job Zine Anthology. Never one to miss a party, I decided to pop down to see the old lot off. I paid my £3 entry, got my hand stamped, slammed back a tequila shot, and dove into the punky, home-grown fun.

PubhD at The Vat and Fiddle: Deafness and Blindness, Carbon Capture, and Global Studies

Spring has sprung, science is in the air. Three more researchers came down to PubhD to tell us all about their work over a pint or two, and our Gav Squires was there to gather up the good stuff…

Film Review: Beauty and the Beast

Disney remake their own film - turning animation to live action.

Happy 1st Birthday to Board Game Cafe Ludorati

While café culture has never really taken off in the UK, mainly due to our notoriously inconsistent weather, board game café culture is making big strides. While pubs such as the Malt Cross and BrewDog have always had board games in them, and some places even have board game nights, the last couple of years have seen the opening of two dedicated board game cafes in Nottingham. With Ludorati recently celebrating being open for a year, I headed off on a grey, drab Sunday afternoon with a few friends to see if board games have really shed their boring image…

Theatre Review: Cartoonopolis

What are we going to do tonight, Brain? See a one-person show about autism, family life and cartoons? Nerf!

DJ Greyskull Talks Alternative Queer Night DirtyFilthySexy

Find out a little more about one of Nottingham's favourite events, full of drag queens, music and laughs...

Poetry and Chat with Nottingham Trent University's Rory Waterman

Not only is Rory Waterman Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, his debut poetry collection, Tonight the Summer’s Over, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2014. We had a chat with him about what politics and poetry mean to him…

Theatre Review: The St Petersburg Classic Ballet perform Swan Lake at the Royal Concert Hall

It's strictly ballet...

The Nottingham Bucket List

Once you've worked through this list, you can call yourself a real Nottinghamian. Click the image below to enlarge and print, so you stick it in your wall and can tick off the boxes as you go along. You're. Welcome.

The Navigation Inn

Sun 19 Mar 2017

We got down to the old reliable for a bit of pub grub and a good time...

10 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

Sun 19 Mar 2017

Hold onto your hats, boys and girls. It's a biggun...

Music Video: Louis Antoniou - Bad Apple

Sun 19 Mar 2017

One of two independent singles the blues-rocker has released this month...

Live Music Review: Brad Dear EP Launch at The Bodega

Sat 18 Mar 2017

The singer-songwriter celebrated the release of his The Only Road I Know EP...

9 Theatres To See Plays and Comedy and Stuff

Fri 17 Mar 2017

We've got a massive music scene, but there's so much more going off on Nottingham's stages...

Notts Artist Video Mat on Writing a Book About His Indian Adventure

We spoke to the man behind White Dolemite about his upcoming novel A Honky's Journey Through Chaos...

Art Works: Alys Power's Contemporary Jewellery

A local artist lets us in on her creative secrets...

Electro-Pop Queen Ronika Talks New LP Lose My Cool

Ronika has been pumping out banging electro-pop for years. As she releases new album, Lose Your Cool, the Notts-raised songstress spoke to us from her London home, which we can only assume is a huge mirrorball-ed space palace in the capital’s trendiest ends…

Nusic Advice Guide: Getting a Manager

The second video in a series of helpful advice guides from our pals over at Nusic, who want to see you do well in the music industry. In this vid, you can find out about whether or not it's appropriate to get a manager, and the steps you need to take to make it happen...

NTU Fine Art Student Gill Howell-Jones Exhibits Shoes for Homeless Fundraiser

Gill Howell-Jones, an NTU fine art student, has put together an exhibition of student-designed canvas shoes that she is auctioning off. The money raised will be used to buy new trainers for homeless and vulnerable people in Nottingham in an exchange at Emmanuel House. We caught up with her to find out about the project and how people can get involved in the auction…

Connecting Communities: Film Screenings in North Notts