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Preview: The Screen at Contemporary: American Rebel Season

The Screen at Contemporary, the cinema programme bringing curated seasons of classic, cult and art house films to the art centre is back with the American Rebel season, celebrating "the other, the outsider, the misfit and the loner of American cinema."

In Focus: Sci-Tronic

Malcolm Skyylab, aka Malcolm Bliss-Brown, is a laser display, VJ and underground trance-tune specialist who’s been on the Notts scene since 1996. Whacking on epic lighting shows at club nights under Skyylab Laser Lighting UK, he also runs Sci-Tronic: the night dedicated to hard trance, psygressive, and everything in between. Having appeared everywhere from Cookie Club to The Angel, this month Sci-Tronic celebrates its fourth birthday at its new home: The Irish Centre. Ahead of the event, we got our Malcolm to answer a few questions in photographic form…

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Get stuck in to the fruits of Nottingham...

Film Review: My Pure Land

We checked out Nottingham director Sam Masud's debut feature ahead of its release at Broadway Cinema...

Left Panther: Nottingham Panthers News & Updates

The Panthers have made a bleddy brilliant start to the season. Our Sally takes us through all of the on-ice excitement

Could This Nottingham Filmmaker Win An Oscar?

Sam Masud is in with a shot to be Nottingham's first ever Oscar nominated director for his brilliant debut film My Pure Land

The Artist Who Makes Famous Faces Out Of Cans

Kelly Ann Holmes is a self-taught mixed media artist specialising in the use of recycled drinks cans. She’s a homegrown Nottingham gal, and draws inspiration from the vibrant scenes our city has to offer. She won the first Open Exhibition at THiNK in Cobden Chambers, and is gearing up for her first solo show, Wasted Talents and Glorious Tragedies: an exhibition in portraiture based on fame and glamour, touching on the topics of mental health and substance abuse...

The School of Artisan Food is Hogwarts for Bakers

Long-forgotten baking techniques are seeing a new lease of life thanks to The School of Artisan Food, based up in North Nottinghamshire. The School is a not-for-profit organisation that teaches anyone, from the enthusiastic foodie to the professional baker, the art of artisan food production. After it was shortlisted for awards by the Great Food Club and the Great British Food Magazine, we popped over to the Welbeck Estate, eager to learn more about the movement that’s taking the culinary world by storm...

Top Ten Alternative Westerns

To celebrate the release of Sam Masud's My Pure Land at Broadway this week, we take a look at some more quality alternative Westerns... 

Ian Livingstone Talks Fighting Fantasy

To celebrate 35 years of the Fighting Fantasy books, Ian Livingstone came to Central Library to talk about their history and run a workshop on how to write your own adventure.

Could You Be A Future Leader of Nottingham?

Should the next leaders of our fine city be more representative of minorities? The Renewal Trust certainly thinks so. Whether you’ve directly experienced homelessness, or you’re from an ethnic minority, this charity’s new training programme aims to get you into the driving seats...

Nusic Podcast #162 with The Chase, Gallery 47, As December Falls, and More

Film Review: Oxide Ghosts - The Brass Eye Tapes

Michael Cummings' documentary about the cult TV series screened at Broadway this week...

Film Open at Broadway Cinema

We went down to Broadway Cinema to check out the selection of films from Female, Black and Minority Ethnic directors

Street Tales: St. Mary De Roche

The Nottingham caves are found in clusters, in various locations throughout the city. Perhaps the best known and most recognisable of these are those of Castle Rock...

Tumble Audio's Oli Gibbons on the Sounds That Make Him Tick

Notts lad Oli Gibbons of Tumble Audio has had his imagination captured by soundsystems. From attending raves like Misst, Futureproof, Rubberdub, Basslaced and Detonate in his teenage years, to running the go-to label for guaranteed dancefloor madness, his involvement and dedication to the culture has led him to spawn his own musical powerhouse, right here in Notts...

Buzzword: A Poem for Beeston Competition

Them lot over at The Beestonian have been running their very own poetry comp, looking for poems inspired by Beeston. With the deadline fast approaching, they’re on the look-out for some young scrawlers…

Arianne Churchman is Wearing a Horse's Head at Nottingham Castle

Arianne Churchman won the Solo Exhibition Prize at the Nottingham Castle Open last year, and the result, Horse-Play, delves into the folklore of Hopper Joe, the Minehead Hobby Horse, and Arnold Rattenbury's 1977 exhibition about clowning. We talked to Arianne, and Rattenbury's publisher John Lucas, ahead of the opening later this month.

Film Review: IT

Want a balloon?

Notes from the Middle Kingdom: Let’s Censor like Lions and Tigers and Bears.

Oh my! Our man in Beijing is back with an unconventional approach for Nottingham's 2023 City of Culture bid. The real question is, how deep is your love?

Homeless: A Photography Exhibition

Local photographer Dan Hughes is hosting a photography competition – Homeless – alongside the organisation that helps our community’s most vulnerable: Emmanuel House. Here, Dan tells us all about the hows and whys of the project...

Film Review: Day of the Gusano

Matt Smith checked out the new Slipknot documentary...

Pick of the week 11 - 14 September

Five things to do in Nottingham this week

Overheard in Notts

There's nothing you won't say...

Music Video: Grey Hairs - On and Off

The band have a brand new EP out and you can download it for free...