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Van the Man Banged Up in Nottingham

Local cartoonist and general badass, Brick, has done us a comic about one of the biggest and best typos in Nottingham

A Room with a Brew

We got down for some words, and a pint of the good stuff...

Ugly Bread Bakery

French Living

Literature Review: Austerity Cafe

Local poet Andy Szpuk's long-form literature show that uses poetry and music to take a look at austerity

Short Film Review: The Captain

A delightful little tale about youth, death, misery and revenge

Book Reviews: March

With Don Wright's Forever Forest, Jaq Hazell's I Came to Find a Girl, Darren Simpson's Dust on the Moth, Judith Allnatt's The Silk Factory, Carl Peter Robinson's A Dip in the Jazz Age, and Gerard Byrne's No Man's Audience

Art Works: Joff and Ollie's Beam Table Lamp

The Lane By Post chaps reveal all about their lamp and how much they love it

Nusic Podcast #125,Nusic

With Navigation, Shookz, Lauren April, Lacey, Snowy, Tusk, Billie, Jonny Olley, Fleets, Silver Wilson, Alisha, Heck, That Jimmy Person, and Black Rose Garden

Pick of the Week: 28 March - 3 April

Well blow us down, Nottingham ain't half providing for us lot this week. Not sure how we're going to cram it all in, but we'll give it a good go

Future Session 106 - Billie

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

Narrative Music Video: The Inner Carriage Metaphor

This will blow your mind

Film Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane

We give our verdict on the new film set in the same world as 2008's Cloverfield

LeftLion Stereo: March

With Lawnmower Deth, Eyre Llew, Fonzse, Subway Circus, heurt, Billie, Crosa Rosa and We Show Up On Radar

Forced School Academisation Protest Rally at Nottingham Speakers' Corner

"Under current plans Nottingham will have the largest cut to schools funding outside of London with a 17% cut by 2020"

Emma Smith and Her Whistling Orchestra

"I was also thinking about work songs as a form for expressions of community and protest. Almost as soon as I began my research I found stories about miners whistling on buses"

Live: Boyce Avenue at Rock City

The Florida-based covers band sent Rock City all acoustic

Left Pie-On: March

"Fullarton’s appointment will come to be seen as Ray Trew’s gorge-himself-on-Toblerone-and-drive-to-Dundee-in-his-bare-feet moment"

Game On: The YouTube Show About Videogame Culture

The opinion-based TV show about video game culture has been going since last year. We spoke to co-creator David Wayman about its progress

Theatre review: Hobson's choice

Classic comedy as a red nosed bootmaker struggles to tame his three class conscious daughters

Syson Gallery Gets a New Home... Again

With an exhibition from acclaimed Nottingham-based artists John Newling, they're ready to proudly show off their new gaff

Theatre Review: Annie

"The idea that a rich bachelor wants to borrow an orphan child for a couple of weeks rings alarm bells in this day and age"

Music Reviews: March 2016

With Heck, Sam & Joe, Some Skeletons, Felix M-B, The Five Hundred, Daniel Shipley, Bru-C, Be, and Friend of a Friend

Art Works: Joana Quintas Faria

"I covered the plates with layers of white thread to simultaneously create the feeling of a web and fog. A cobweb suggests things that were abandoned or left behind, holding the object tight but rendering it inaccessible at the same time"

PubhD #25: Literature, Mathematical Physics and Microbiology

Did you know there's about 30,000 useful chemicals in crude oil? Or that you can model a black hole in a bath tub? Us neither