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The Mousetrap

Can the best-kept twist in theatre stump Nottingham crowds?

LeftLion sponsors Any Means Necessary

How long have you known your other half? Three years? Maybe four? Do you trust them with your secrets? Do you know theirs? Now imagine if everything you knew about them was a lie

Left Pie-On: The Notts County Column - January

"It is fair to say the club have endured a colourful recent history"

Film Review: The Revenant

Nominated for twelve Oscars, but is Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s latest film really any good? Our reviewer says not

Big Game: A Poem by Adrian Reynolds

The brains behind online comic, Dadtown has written us a right good poem

Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature Football Squad

We've rounded up Nottingham's best writers and whacked them into a football team, seeing as we are now the dons of both disciplines

Nusic Podcast #120,Nusic

New year. New music. Yes please.

Pick of the Week: 18 - 24 January

Step away from the Netflix, get your bottom in gear and hop back on that horse that is life

Future Session 101 - Kalli Ashton

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

Terms of Love: A Nottingham Filmmaker’s Powerful Depiction of Domestic Violence

An interview with writer/director Carol Savage about her short film - plus the film in question for you to view

Ray Gosling Archives

"You would find a draft script next to jottings made on a train trip to a sea-side town, with an allotment catalogue and a letter from an irate radio listener"

Left Brian: The Nottingham Forest Column - January

"It would seem a ten-game unbeaten run is only good for a two-place climb"

Street Tales: Park Row

Joe Earp delves a little deeper into the history of our city's streets to give you the tales they'd never have taught you at school

No Man's Audience

"Anyone who hides books away because they might offend is only a step away from burning them"

Revolucion De Cuba

Jonny Owen Directs I Believe in Miracles: A Film About Nottingham Forest's Triumphs

We caught up with the former actor about his new film, I Believe In Miracles

Nottingham Council Tax to Rise in the Face of Government Cuts

"Over half the money the council spends is on adult social care and these tax increases, set against massive budget slashes, will not generate an adequate amount to bridge the gap"

European Archery Championship Countdown Pops Off at Nottingham Council House

A ballsy balloon trick shot kicks off the search for the real life Robin Hood

Live Music Review: Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger 10th Anniversary at Rock City

"The sold-out venue is throbbing with a mosh pit like the crowd is in their mid-twenties again, all while Smith climbs speakers like a mountain goat"

Music Reviews: December/January 2016

With Ady Suleiman, Daudi Matsiko, Haiku Salut, Kount Masloff, Lost Pets, Louis Antoniou, Rolo Tomassi, Unknown Era and more

Theatre Review: The Circus of Horrors

Aerial hoopists, acrobats and contortionists, And a whole load of blood, guts and gore

Live Music Review: Can't Stop Won't Stop

Proving that the hip hop never stops, the first week in January saw a night filled to the brim with live music and DJs

Henry Normal: Patron of City of Literature

"Looking at the rich history of dissent and protest in Nottingham I feel very much at home in my small way."

Tom Clay Launches Debut Single

With his debut solo single out anytime now, we had a chat with the Alt-Rocker

Remembering Reformist, Philanthropist and Stocking Maker, Samuel Morley

Backlit have been involved in a year long project based around the prior owner of their building, Sam Morley. And what a guy he was