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FourFour DJ Academy is Streaming A Virtual Festival Until 5am This Saturday

Even while staying in, the team at Four Four still manage to keep us up ‘till the early hours with their mammoth online festival featuring Charlie Four Four, Matt Guy, Luke Nukem, Ark-S, Colombian Frank and more...

Bless Our Hustle - The New Website for Self-Employed Creatives

Quite a few of us have had our lives turned upside-down or, more specifically, outside-in, over the last few weeks. But for some their work, as well as their lifestyle, has suffered...

Yoga at Home Routine with Victoria Louise

Being stuck indoors all day can have a hugely negative impact on both your physical and mental wellbeing, particularly during a time of so much anxiety and uncertainty. So we’ve teamed up with local yoga expert Victoria Louise to offer some simple moves that can help keep your body and mind on track…

A Self-Isolator in Notts

We hear how one Notts-based self-isolator is dealing with their new routine...

Emmanuel House Launches Appeal After Covid-19 Closure

Nottingham charity Emmanuel House has launched an urgent appeal this week after the support centre in Hockley was temporarily forced to close...

Film Review: The Truth

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film makes its UK debut on Curzon Home Cinema...

£129m Support Package for Nottingham Companies Begins

Nottingham City Council has now begun to make grant payments to thousands of businesses as part of a £129m package of support to local firms...

City Stylin' #24

We take to Nottingham's streets to ask you stylish folk about your lives...

Fundraising Festival Goes Online: We Shall Overcome Isolation Fest

Imagine a festival where the music is great, it’s dry and comfy, drinks are cheap and plentiful and the toilets are actually clean - our community editor Caroline Barry shares what’s in store at WSO Isolation Fest this weekend...

Your Disco Needs You! How to support Nottingham's LGBT+ Community

Overheard in Notts: Corona Special

If Big Baby don't laugh about it, Big Baby might cry... 

The Thompson Brothers on Self-Isolation, Keeping Calm and Carrying On

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Live Music Review: The Big Moon At Nottingham Contemporary

It’s amazing how much can change in the space of a month, isn’t it? Back in early March our Addie enjoyed a night of live music from The Big Moon at Nottingham Contemporary, following their previous intimate show at Rough Trade last January...

Bid to Recruit 1600 Care Workers in Nottingham

Nottingham City Council is urging people to come forward to take on essential care worker roles during the Covid-19 crisis

COMPETITION: Create Your Own LeftLion Cover

Ever fancied having a crack at a LeftLion cover? Well now's your chance...

Film Review: Coffee & Kareem

Netflix’s latest comedy sees the unexpected duo of mediocre police officer James Coffee (Ed Helms) and feisty Kareem Manning (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) as they take us all on a joy ride as they run away from the typical film baddies…

Our Favourite Moments from Light Hustle

Yesterday, over £5500 was raised by our friends at Circle of Light and Hockley Hustle with their mammoth 8-hour online music festival. If you missed it here's our guide to the highlights and how to watch them back...

10 Years Later: How to Train Your Dragon

As it reaches its tenth anniversary, this action-packed Viking comedy proves it itself to be an age-old family classic...

From Beijing to Boris

Having lived in China for ten years, Chris Ainsworth returned to Nottingham in January with the impending threat of COVID-19 looming. Here he shares his thoughts on how the two countries are dealing the global health crisis differently...

Nottingham City Council Now Offering Food Parcel Service

An army of council workers has begun distributing food parcels to vulnerable people isolating in their homes in Nottingham...

50 Years Later: Patton

Franklin’s J. Schaffner’s Oscar-winning epic celebrates its 50th anniversary this year…

LeftLion Magazine #124

Our first-ever online only issue, designed to keep you lot comforted and entertained through these uncertain times... 

25 Years Later: Before Sunrise

It's been over two decades since Richard Linklater began his Before trilogy, starting off with that fateful meeting on a train in Vienna... 

Nottingham Castle Trust Launches Voices of Today

Nottingham Castle Trust are celebrating the city's proud history of rebellion, and want you to get involved...

20 Years Later: X-Men

It's been 20 years since a group of mutants teamed up to save the universe in 2000's X-Men. Nathan Warby discusses how they also changed the world of comic-book movies forever...