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Left Magpie: January

Adam Taylor talks us through an eventful last month for the Magpies. New manager, new chairman, new consecutive losses record...

Tash Bird at Hockley Hustle 2016

More footage from the LeftLion stage at Nottingham's favourite charity music festival... 

Keto at Hockley Hustle 2016

More footage from the LeftLion stage at Nottingham's favourite charity music festival...   

11 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week

Find out what's going off in Nottingham over the next seven days...

14 Music Albums to Stuff in Your Tabs

If you're from Nottingham and you'd like your tunes reviewed, drop us a line at music@leftlion.co.uk

Live and Explained: Sleaford Mods - Tarantula Deadly Cargo

Jason Williamson lets us in on some of the meanings behind his lyrics...

Nusic Future Session: K.Ji

Left Panther: January

Find out how the Nottingham Panthers have been doing over the past month with our Salleh...

Sleaford Mods Release New Music Video for B.H.S

The first video release from the duo's upcoming album English Tapas...

Nottingham's Young Creative Awards 2017 is Now Open for Entries

Check out this gallery of work from last year's winners, then get entering with all your creative wares...

Film Review: Scorsese's Silence

We review the latest flick from our Martin...

Live Music Review: Wigflex New Year's Eve 2016 Cage Party

New Year’s Eve is a prime event in every party person’s calendar, and for the dancefloor-inclined community in Notts there was no place to be other than the Wigflex NYE Cage Party...

Bulwell-Born Sculptor Kashif Nadim Chaudry Exhibits at Turner Contemporary, Margate

Based at Primary in Nottingham, Kashif Nadim Chaudry spent the last year developing The Three Graces, his biggest commission to date at Turner Contemporary, Margate. We headed down to the seafront to catch up with the man himself during the opening weekend.

11 Things To Do in Nottingham This Week

We've rounded up all the best activity-based goods of this fair city, of this fair week, of this fair life...

Poet and Smallholder Di Slaney Talks Writing About Chickens

After appearing on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, rescuing a whole bunch of farmyard animals, running her own small farm and publishing her first poetry collection, Di Slaney must be about ready for some down time over the festive period...

The Abdication

We got a'gluggin' down Daybrook, at one of the many micropubs to have popped up in our fair city of late

10 Proper Bob Films from 2016

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding, and proper film buff Ash Carter, have put their heads together to reveal the bobbest of the bob, the shonkiest of the shonk, the gashest of the gash...

10 Awesome Films from 2016

Our Screen Editor Harry Wilding and top film buff Ash Carter have rounded up the best flicks from an otherwise dreary 2016

Left Brian: January

Our Nottingham Forest columnist Richard Crouch takes a different tact for his first column of 2017 and writes an open letter to outgoing Chairman Fawaz Al Hawasi...

The Nottingham Restaurant Quiz

Are you a connoisseur? Or just a conno? Are you a fine diner? Or just... fine? Find out today.

6 Greatest Robin Hoods on Film and TV

Despite what people in Yorkshire might claim, Robin Hood is a Nottingham icon – he even has his own tram. Here, Ant and Gav, who don’t half love a list, take a look at the six best Robin Hoods in film and TV…

4 Books To Read Over The Festive Period

One year ago, Nottingham became a UNESCO City of Literature. Since then, creative writing courses have been closed down, the DH Lawrence Heritage Centre has been sold off, and the fate of the Central Library lies in the hands of a property developer. Offsetting this is the Festival of Literature, the Line of Light installation on Station Street and, most importantly of all, the authors who keep banging out beautiful books...

Art Exhibition Review: Marguerite Humeau and Otobong Nkanga at Nottingham Contemporary

This stunning and immersive two-part exhibition presents work from Antwerp-based Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga with her first solo exhibition in the UK, alongside work from London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau.

Theatre Review: Handmade Theatre's The Twelve Birds of Christmas

The Nottingham-based theatre company's bird-themed Christmas show had us chirping with glee

20 Top Nottingham Music Releases of 2016

A rundown of some of our favourite Nottingham-related music releases of the year, in alphabetical order...