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Metal 2 The Masses

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

How Nottingham’s Stone Soup Academy Are Using Comedy to Crack Down on Knife Crime

Though it may have fallen out of popular conversation, knife crime is still a major issue in Nottingham, according to Oliver Sillito from the city’s Stone Soup Academy. That’s why the free school is throwing a creative showcase on Tuesday 19 July to open up conversation and challenge standing perceptions about young people and crime…

Jack Symes

Review: Forbidden Forest 2022

Well established electronic music event Forbidden Forest took place at new local Nottinghamshire location Belvoir Castle last weekend, and we sent down one of our music writers Michael O'Donohoe down to check it out...

We Hear All About Hart of the Wood, the Immersive Event That Highlighted the Importance of the Country’s Magical Woodlands

Wanting to promote the importance of protecting our environment without giving out lectures, Nottingham artist Benjamin Wigley decided to emphasise the magic of our woodlands through more immersive, enchanting means. And so, at the National Trust’s Comer Woods, he put together an engaging event like no other. Our Environment Editor hears all about it…

eNGine Room Label Showcase

Slothrust

Nadia on... Palestine

In her regular column, Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome recounts her recent visit to Palestine and its story of injustice...

The Thompsons Chat Forest, the Panthers and Their Greatest Sporting Achievements

The Thompsons flex their punditry muscles for this month's sports issue...

35 Years Later: Wings of Desire

This year marks the 35th anniversary of Wim Wenders’ cultured, epic but intrinsically human film: Wings of Desire. The anniversary is marked with a new 4K restoration, screening at cinemas around the world...

KENNYHOOPLA

Rival Sons

40 Years Later: Blade Runner

You might have heard of this one... After bombing at the box office, Blade Runner has become one of the most famous films of all time - but is it worthy of its iconic status? 

Meet Circus Hub, the Notts Specialists in Aerial Hoop, Silks and Trapeze

Teaching everything under the banner of aerial fitness, Circus Hub have made a name for themselves giving lessons in aerial hoop, silks, trapeze and sling and rope. But what first attracted them to this unusual hobby? And how can you have a try? We chat to Circus Hub’s Ria Ashcroft and Kay Monrose about  cirque du soleil, the adrenaline of being high in the air and increasing your flexibility…

Exhibition Review: Catching Matter at Beam Gallery

A series of lime plaster boards with interwoven patterns and inky shapes have the appearance of stone tablets with galaxies and constellations on them. They are the product of experiments from the past several years with traditional craft techniques and natural materials in a meditation on the meaning of material and form. This is artist Geoff Diego Litherland’s latest series of work Catching Matter, which is now presented at Beam Gallery

5 Fun Things to Check Out This Week: From Newark Book Festival to Repton Filmfest

With book fairs, film festivals and celebrations for Nottingham's freshest musical talent, there really is something for everyone around here this week...

VLTIMAS

You Can Get Your Hands on Four Free Books in Nottingham This Month, All Thanks to City of Literature

Interested in four free books? Well then you’re in luck, because Nottingham’s City of Literature are giving away just that as part of their Big City Reads campaign. And with stories ranging from loneliness to police injustice, and styles varying from prose to graphic novel, there’s something for every kind of reader. Set to take place this summer, our Literature Editor catches up with Matt Turpin and Eleanor Flowerday from City of Literature to find out more…

Together Pangea

Darden Smith

Sneinton Street Food Club on the 3rd July

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

We Dive Into Nottingham Forest’s History-Making Season, Which Saw Them Return to the Premier League for the First Time in 8,414 Days

A kebab shop with a firework-fuelled marketing masterstroke. Depeche Mode blaring from passing cars. Our right-back’s mother carried shoulder high in her Calippo-fluorescent replica shirt rhyming ‘shite’ with ‘dynamite’. Red smoke. Handwritten plans taped to a water bottle wrapped in a towel. Que sera, sera…