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Film Review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

An unabashed, laugh-out-loud voyage into the realms of sexual liberation and self-acceptance - this is a film built to shatter repressed, awkward Britain...

We Chat to Notts Artist Angelo Murphy About His Fascinating Oil Paintings and Winning an Amateur Jackson’s Prize

Nottingham-based artist Angelo Murphy has a special way of capturing the mundane and making it beautiful. His still life pieces are reminiscent of Baroque paintings from the seventeenth century, only he’ll throw in a tin of golden syrup to remind us that this is, in fact, the 21st. The soft colours in his oil paints draw your eyes in, giving you a hazy sense of serenity, and his stunning piece Citrus with Blue Paper has just won the Amateur Jackson’s Painting Prize. We caught up with him to hear about his creative journey so far… 

Alex Henry Foster

High On Fire

Film Review: Spiderhead

Based on the 2015 short story by George Saunders, the Netflix film Spiderhead is a pillow-fisted disappointment...

Nadia on... the Politics of Fear

Regular columnist and Labour MP for Nottingham East Nadia Whittome digs down into the politics of fear...

Knocked Loose

Waterparks

Dionne Warwick ‘She’s Back: One Last Time’ Tour 2021

We Took a Trip to 200 Degrees’ New Milton Street Store - Here’s What We Thought

200 Degrees is one of Nottingham's most successful businesses - rapidly becoming big players in the coffee scene. We took a trip to their new store opposite Victoria Centre to see what all the fuss is about... 

We Hear All About How the Middle Street Resource Centre Is Celebrating Its Fiftieth Anniversary With an Exciting New Project

For the past fifty years, Middle Street Resource Centre has been a source of help and advice for Nottingham residents, providing a variety of support groups and volunteering opportunities to promote mental health wellbeing. To celebrate this golden landmark, researchers from Nottingham Trent University will work with past and present service users, staff, volunteers, peer support groups and local residents to record and document stories and experiences. Leading the project is Dr Verusca Calabria who tells us more…

ELVANA: Unplugged

Nusic New Music Podcast #265 - Future Sounds of Nottingham

This week’s New Music Podcast features Future Sound of Nottingham Final news, our FSN fav that didn’t quite make it, plus Dot to Dot festival highlights

5 Things to do in Nottingham This Week

Nirvana meets Elvis, feminist zines and the Sherwood art week. This week has it all. 

Adrian and Meredith (Nashville TN)

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

Discover How Sauce Shop Went From Selling Bottles at West Bridgford Farmers’ Market to Stocking the Shelves of Sainsbury’s

From selling twenty bottles in a gazebo at West Bridgford Farmers’ Market to being stocked on the shelves of Sainsbury’s and Morrisons up and down the country, the last eight years have been a pretty wild ride for Sauce Shop. But the Notts-based purveyors of artisanal sauces are never one to rest on their laurels, this could just be the beginning of their success story, as co-founder Pam Digva tells us…

JUST THE TONIC COMEDY CLUB - NOTTINGHAM

Robin Hood Town Tour

Jim White

The Quireboys

TITUS: T.Rex is King Exhibition

The Thompsons on Whitesnake, Jubilee Parties and Obi Wan-Kenobi

Featuring eighties hair metal, Jubilee celebrations and a true hatred of Star Wars...

DEATH VALLEY GIRLS

Bob Mould