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Film Review: Misbehaviour

Wed 18 Mar 2020

This insightful depiction of the 1970 Miss World competition leaves audiences with a lot to reflect on...

Netflix’s Lost Girls tells the horrific true story of Shannan Gilbert, a young girl who went missing in 2010 in Jersey City, leading to the discovery of murdered sex workers and an unknown serial killer on the loose...

Stay Strong Notts: LeftLion Covid-19 Update

Tue 17 Mar 2020

Firstly, we’d like to express our sympathy and solidarity to all of you going through a tough time at the moment. Foremost, we wish you and all friends and family the best of health throughout. Stay strong Nottingham...

Theatre Review: Emilia

Mon 16 Mar 2020

Next up in the Television Workshop's play season is a piece about the patriarchy, featuring Shakepeare himself and focusing on his much fabled 'dark play'...

Object Walk: Charlotte Bryant's Final Letter Before Execution

Mon 16 Mar 2020

We’ve teamed up with the National Justice Museum to put objects from the past into the hands of people of the present. This month, in a special extended edition to celebrate our history issue, we visited Usha Sood at Trent Chambers with the final letter written by Charlotte Bryant before her execution for murder in 1936…

We Went Magnet Fishing in Nottingham Canal with Youtubers The New Magneterz

Mon 16 Mar 2020

From guns, knives and bombs to bikes, trolleys and train carriages, you wouldn’t believe what's lurking at the bottom of our rivers and canals. And with the practice of magnet fishing – the process of retrieving such objects with industrial magnets attached to lengths of rope – growing increasingly popular around the UK, we decided to tag along with East Midlands collective The New Magneterz to find out what all the fuss was about...

The Diaries of Nottingham WWI Soldier Are Being Made into an Exhibition and Play

Sun 15 Mar 2020

For years they lay hidden away in the attic of a house in New Zealand. But now, the missing World War One diaries of Nottingham soldier Billy Richards have been discovered, and are being used as the basis for a new exhibition and play...

Food Review: The Hand & Heart

Sat 14 Mar 2020

We popped down into the caves for a vegan roast...

Film Review: Spenser Confidential

Sat 14 Mar 2020

Netflix fails to leave an impact with Mark Wahlberg's new comedy-thriller...

March Mix of the Month: Beane’s Proper Notts House Party

Sat 14 Mar 2020

In this mix series we invite local DJs to get creative with each issue’s theme. For March's history focus, Beane Noodler serves up Nottingham's house output from the 90s to now...

Marching Through Multimodal: Sensing Systems Revealed

Fri 13 Mar 2020

Matt Woodham’s most ambitious project to date features a busy schedule of events happening every weekend this month. From exhibitions to talks and fully blown parties, here’s where you can catch ‘em all…

National Bystander Awareness Day: What to do if you witness a hate crime

Fri 13 Mar 2020

It’s Friday 13 March. National Bystander Awareness Day (#NBAD) - a day when we raise awareness of safe and simple ways you can intervene in hate incidents. This important initiative has its roots in Nottingham and was established in 2018 by a local social enterprise Communities Inc.

Live Music Review: Exodus x Death Angel at Rescue Rooms

Fri 13 Mar 2020

As darkness falls upon the streets of Nottingham, the rain soon follows. Many seek refuge in the comfort of their homes following yet another gruelling Monday, but us metalheads have different plans...

Nusic New Music Podcast #222 with Holly Fallon, Do Nothing, Juga-Naut, Cinema Gold and More...

Fri 13 Mar 2020

This week’s New Music Podcast features chat about International Women’s Day, a song with an incredibly moving history, plus we play the singing life coach.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Brass Monkey Turns 20: Manager John McDermott Shares How…

Fri 13 Mar 2020

We track down the general manager of the bar that’s open ‘till the early hours seven days a week, to learn why it hasn’t run out of steam, or rum, just yet…

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Fri 13 Mar 2020

Five ways to spend yer weekend...

Theatre Review: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Wed 11 Mar 2020

Ooh Betty, he’s back! Ian Douglas went to see Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em at the Theatre Royal

Nottingham Filmmaker Daniel Turner's Work is Featuring on Indie Platform NoBudge

Wed 11 Mar 2020

We talk to local filmmaker Daniel Turner, whose new short film Dve Místa has been chosen to feature on indie platform NoBudge, about his inspiration for the project, Nottingham’s role in his moviemaking career and what he’s got planned for the future...

6 Nottingham Soldiers and the Historical Turning Points They Found Themselves in

Wed 11 Mar 2020

It’s a sad fact of history that the fate of nations was often decided on the field of battle. In amidst the smoke of firing muskets, the explosions of cannonballs, the clashing of swords and the screams of dead and dying men, history was written in blood, and the world as we now know it was formed. In a new six-part podcast series, we’re bringing to life the stories of six Nottingham soldiers who were witness to these historical turning points, uncovering how life took them from the streets of Nottingham to some of the most definitive battles in world history…

6 Nottingham Venues with a History of Murder, Poison and Intrigue

Wed 11 Mar 2020

From T C Hine to Watson Fothergill, Nottingham has had more than its fair share of renowned architects leaving their stamp on the city’s skyscape. But beyond the outer beauty of the structures they created lie stories of deceit, murder, poison and intrigue. These are the weird and wonderful true stories from some of Nottingham’s most stunning historic buildings...