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April means the kick-off of the cricket season and Nottinghamshire's first three matches featured the full range of English "spring" weather. We have a look back at how they got on out on the pitch.

Live Music Review: British Sea Power at Rock City

British Sea Power proved popular enough for their gig to be upgraded from Rescue Rooms to Rock City. We headed down to the new venue to check ‘em out.

Blather #1

We've let our Adrian Reynolds loose, to bring you some proper off-the-wall brain splodges of brilliance...

Left Magpie: Nolan Breeds Wingless Magpies

Much has already been said about the transformation of Notts County under Kevin Nolan, as Saturday’s game vs Luton Town testified. For fans the familiar anxiety is still there, but its source is a possible promotion rather than the perennial relegation scrap...

Ayup Duck: The Latest Nottingham News

Sun 06 May 2018

Ay Up Duck has lept from the pages of our magazine, and found himsen a seat behind a news desk...

Don't Be So Soft! Sit-Down Chat with Psychedelic Dream-Pop Band Soft Girls and Boys Club

Sun 06 May 2018

Known for their groovy licks and mellow atmosphere, those cheeky chaps at Soft Girls and Boys Club are some of Nottingham’s most entertaining up-and-comers. We had a sit-down with them over a cup of tea at their shared flat in Sneinton ahead of their new release Treadmill, set for May 10^th, 2018.

Film Review: Tully

Sun 06 May 2018

Jason Reitman, Diablo Cody and Charlize Theron, the director/writer/actor team behind 2011's Young Adult have reunited for a no-holds-barred look at the less glamorous side of motherhood...

Left Hand Lane: Noise From The Next Generation 'Audience Winners'

Sat 05 May 2018

Noise From The Next Generation is an annual music competition organised by Nottingham Music Service to offer young musicians the opportunity to perform in front of a live audience. The joint winners of the Audience Award at this year's competition answer some of our questions...

Theatre Review: Queen - A Rock and Symphonic Spectacular at Theatre Royal

Sat 05 May 2018

We weren't massively impressed, to be honest...

Poetry Profile: Translating Activism Workshop with Kalyani Thakur, Sipra Mukherjee, and Jo Dixon

Sat 05 May 2018

If you thought that we'd be sick of poetry after last week's festival, you'd be dead wrong. Today we're highlighting the incredible work of Kalyani Thakur, a Dalit poet and political activist from West Bengal, following her appearance at the Translating Activism workshop hosted by the Postcolonial Studies Centre at Nottingham Trent University.

GorgeUs present The Best Coffee in Notts

Our Sam treats us to another dose of proper Notts nosh...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Nina Smith, Rag Doll, Blood Wizard and more...

Here's what our music editor reckoned to some of Notts' latest releases...

Hoops for Humanity Have Returned From a Refugee Camp in Greece

A little under a month ago, our Chloe spoke to Rochene Johnston from Hoops for Humanity about her upcoming trip to a refugee camp in Greece, where she would be running workshops and distributing hula hoops to the children. The workshops aimed to put a smile on the faces of refugee kids and allow them to truly be children. Fresh off her return flight from Athens, Rochene sat down to tell us how well the trip went...

Beings Magazine Shares People's Anecdotes from Travelling the World

Gavin Williams is a Nottingham local who moved down to London, travelled to many other places and has just published the first issue of his travel magazine, Beings. It's a pocket-sized, beautifully designed magazine packed with long-form stories, evocative photography and inspiring anecdotes. We caught up with Gavin to learn a little more about his adventure.

Snap Notts: Alfreton Road

Every month, we'll be giving you the latest installment of Snap Notts - the series that sees a bunch of photographers and poets divvied up into pairs and given a location to create work around. First up, Alfreton Road...

Nottingham in Fashion: City Catwalks in Photos

The city was taken over by some of the sharpest dressed boggers abaht, so we went along to take some snaps...

Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018 in Photos

We had a bleddy blast checking out what the bards had to say...

Robin Hood Vs Sheriff of Nottingham Rap Battle and Mark Grist at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

It was absolute carnage down at the Fox and Grapes for Poetry is Dead Good, as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival...

Nottingham Roller Derby: What Went Down at 2018's Louisey Rider Cup?