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Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Loads of charitable occasions to be getting on with, this week...

Hoodwinked: A Robin Hood Treasure Hunt Around Nottingham

Get geared up for 2018, when we'll be seeing all kinds of mysterious, hooded creatures knocking about...

The Particle Beast book launch at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio

Nottingham based author, Ian Douglas, explores life on Mars in the third instalment of his teen sci-fi adventure. We headed down to the book launch at NWS, where Douglas spoke about what’s in store for Zeke Hailey in this gripping nigh-apocalyptic tale…

Theatre Review: The Addams Family

Our favourite spooky family are back in a morbid musical

Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...

Rest in Style, the Rock City Nottingham Graffiti Wall

Writers have been throwing up pieces on the wall next to Rock City for over a decade. Recently, the bogger was demolished, so local artist Onga gives us a bit of background to the Notts graffiti scene, and what the art form means for hip hop in the city...

Nusic Advice: Getting Your First Radio Plugger

Some more advice for up and coming musicians, from Nottingham's finest...

Golesedi at Lady Bay Arts Festival

Right then, we're right in the middle of festival season and our vlogger Golesedi and her mate Mark ditched the wellies, booze and music for tea, cakes and art at Lady Bay Arts Festival...

Theatre Review: MissImp Present Millions of Voices

Join Miss Imp for the touching story of a Twilek's erotic adventures

In Focus: Emily Catherine

Hip hop head and scribbling sensation Emily Catherine can be found in every arty corner of Nottingham city. Having worked alongside Risograph stalwarts Dizzy Ink, as well as poetry publishing house Mud Press, our Emily knows a thing or two when it comes to beautiful creations. The absolute badgyal is a specialist in hand-drawn and hand-painted pieces, but here she swaps the art utensils for a camera to answer our questions in photographic form...

Get Drunk and Draw over at Rough Trade

We wanted to know a little more about that there art event...

Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It

“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”

Theatre Review: Comedy Summerslam

Can white people enjoy black comedy?

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

No time to chill, there's things to do...

The Best in the Independent Biz

Ears to the ground, it's all kicking off...

Poet Panya Banjoko on Nottingham’s First Young Poet Laureate

Panya Banjoko, aka Panya The Poet, is a Nottingham-based writer who’s performed at the 2012 Olympic Games, as part of the award-winning film Brit I Am directed by Andi Osho, and as part of a BBC documentary based on the Olympian Jamie Baulch. On top of all this, her work has featured in various journals and publications, including Guardian Award-winning online graphic novel Dawn of the Unread, and she’s the co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive. We steadied ourselves, and had a chat with the local legend...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Come rain or shine, there's plenty of stuff to do this weekend...

Live Music Review: Kraftwerk At The Royal Concert Hall

The electronic music legends brought their 3D techno pop to Nottingham…

Art Review: #NTUDEGREESHOW

Our Rachel popped down to the #NTUDegreeShow to get inspired for her future career...

Stroppy Dogs and DONuT Panic Charity Gig

Hannah Parker spoke to Philip Brewin from Stroppy Dogs ahead of their charity gig on Friday 23rd June to raise money for the Childrens Hospital QMC.

The Guerilla Art Lab

The Guerilla Art Lab, also known as GAL, is an artist collective and studio space based on Broad Street. We had a word with founder Rachel Parry, and collective member Sarah Todino, to dig a little deeper into the group’s philosophies...

Progressive Jazz Folk Musician Jimi Mack on His New EP

Reminiscent of musicians such as John Martyn, Joni Mithell and Van Morrison, with a plethora of progressive influences to boot, Jimi Mack is about to release his anticipated debut EP.

Nusic Podcast 156 with Babe Punch, Bru-C, Daudi Matsiko and more

The best in new Notts music, from the champions over at Nusic...

Art Review: Lido to Lakeside Transforms Djanogly Gallery into Twenties Swimming Pool

For those of you who don't know, the Djanogly Gallery was once Highfields Park Lido, which was basically a huge swimming pool in the twenties that Sir Jesse Boot kindly gave to Notts as a gift...