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Live Music Review: Michael Rother and Kogumaza at the Rescue Rooms

The legendary former member of Neu! and Harmonia performs selected highlights from his influential back catalogue...

Live Music Review: Rag'n'Bone Man at Rock City

Human singer wows the Nottingham massive...

Every Notts Act Playing This Year's Dot To Dot Festival

The definitive rundown of every local artist performing. Clue: It's long...

The Man Who Makes Artificial Eyes

Ever wondered how artificial eyes are made? Nope? We didn't either until we met John Pacey-Lowrie and he showed us all this cool stuff...

Kold Chillin' Talk Hip Hop Events at Rough Trade Nottingham

The legendary hip hop promoters fill us in on their events...

Totally Tapped Microbrewery

We went a'guzzlin' down Beeston...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

In this nostalgic journey back to Egypt, prepare for talking camels, inflatable sheep and bags of cheesy fun!

Ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie Talks Making Artificial Eyes in Nottingham

John Pacey-Lowrie is the only ocularist in the whole of the Midlands. He’s spent forty years perfecting his craft, and people travel from all over the world to be fitted with one of his handmade, acrylic prosthetic eyes. He is constantly striving to make his prosthetics as realistic as possible and is currently at the forefront of the development of an artificial dilating pupil which reacts to light...

High Stakes and Sportswear at Poetercize! the Poetry Game Show

Scores were settled and mischief was made at Rough Trade this Saint George's Day, but which of our contestants won the championship title in this zany gameshow? We sent LP Mills to the hottest sporting event in Nottingham to find out. 

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Miner David Amos and Linguist Natalie Braber on Poetry in Pit Talk

If you don’t know your ‘elephant’s tab’ from your ‘Monday hammer’, fear not. Seventh generation miner David Amos and linguist Natalie Braber have all the gobbings you need to understand Pit Talk...

Big White Shed's Poetry Publisher Anne Holloway Answers Questions in Photos

Founder of the Big White Shed, a meeting place for creatives to seek advice and trade expertise, Anne Holloway has shown us the inner workings of her mind through the art of photography. This month, she’s rounding up some of her favourite poetic pals to perform as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. The likes of Chris McLoughlin, Trevor Wright and Hayley Green will be spraying similes and internal rhymes like nobody’s business over at Debbie Bryan for your viewing pleasure. Word.

Delilah Fine Foods

We got down to the deli with a twist...

9 Things To Do In Nottingham This Week

The Nottingham Poetry Festival is well underway this week. Get stuck in...

Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show at Nottingham Poetry Festival

Stephen Thomas is a locally-based poet and rapper whose show Poetercize: The Poetry Game Show will be performed as part of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. We had a chat with him about his latest projects in preparation for this year’s festival...

Theatre Review: Showstoppers

Improvised musical delivers laughter, la-la-las and some moments of inspired lunacy.

Quiet Riot: The Poets Who Do Not Talk, But Have Plenty To Say

Nottingham’s Maresa MacKeith is a poet, educator, and member of the Quiet Riot collective – a group of wordsmiths who are unique in their literary plight, in that each member communicates nonverbally. We visited Maresa to find out more about creating poetry by tapping on a letter board, what it feels like to have it voiced by a personal assistant through facilitated communication, and the Notts launch of the Quiet Riot anthology at Sobar…

Gav at Science in The Park

Our vlogger, Mr. Gav Squires got himself down to Science in The Park to learn all about tardigrades, invisibility, and other crazy things on the Earth...

Art Review: Draw the Line

Get yourself down to The Surface Gallery in Hockley this week, before the Draw the Line exhibition ends.

Theatre Review: Tommy at Nottingham Playhouse

The Who’s rock opera benefits from extravagant production at Nottingham Playhouse…

NRG Prepare for the 2017 Louisey Rider Cup

Following the untimely death of Louise Wright in 2014, Nottingham Roller Derby set up a tournament in her honour last year to celebrate one of her passions while raising cash for the road safety charity, Brake. It’s back again this year, we spoke to one of the event's organisers, Hannah Larham, about what the day involves...

Coffee Shop Blend and Roastery Stewarts of Trent Bridge on Sneinton Market

You might have noticed over the last year that Sneinton Market has been picked up, given a dusting down and had a whole lotta love sprinkled over it. It’s no longer the place that time forgot and is quickly filling up with many a creative endeavour. One of its newest residents is Blend, a coffee shop whose light, airy environment begs you to pop in, and Stewarts of Trent Bridge, a coffee roastery right next door. We spoke to the main men behind the business about what they’re up to…

Thrift Generation Are Reclaiming the Playboy Bunny

Madi Wallner is the woman behind independent clothing company, Thrift Generation. Having recently launched their brand new t-shirt design, and with their upcoming Girl Power Networking event, we had a natter to find out more,

Find Out What's Happening In Nottingham For Record Store Day 2017

Marking ten years of celebrating independent record stores, there's plenty going on this Saturday...

Competition for coffee lovers - big, big prizes