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Live Performance. Gideon: a Play With Music

Clare Hammond

Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe - Gallery Tours

Country Lives Exploring the English Countryside From 1800

Secret Walled Garden Tours

Anti-dating App Social (30s & 40s) @malt Cross 🦩💙

Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds - Alive on Stage!

Crime Club: Murder In the Roaring Twenties (second Showing)

Book Review: Freewheeling - Essays on Cycling

Why wouldn't you just drive there? A new collection from Daunt Books finds the reason to invest in Lycra.

Theatre Review: Animal Farm at the Nottingham Playhouse

George Orwell's literary classic undergoes a searing adaptation with a powerful message as relevant now as it ever was... 

Thrifting in Notts: we chat to Glass Onion, Nottingham’s latest vintage clothing emporium

Following the launch of vintage clothing giant Glass Onion’s new Notts store on Bridlesmith Gate, Fashion Editor Addie Kenogbon-Harley caught up with head of marketing Alice Leadbetter to find out more and explore how vintage clothing and retro styles have had the city in a chokehold for decades.

Corner Cafe brings an ethnically diverse menu to New Art Exchange

Opened at the end of February 2025, the Corner Café is a brand new rejuvenation of the coffee and food spot attached to the New Art Exchange, the UK’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary visual arts from the Global Ethnic Majority. With a lack of community-led food, drink and social spaces present in the Hyson Green area, the NAE team sought to provide that, enlisting community on everything about the venue, from the decor, to the food, to the events. We popped down to see the colourful results.

Knit, Stitch and Bitch

Get a Wiggle On - Mama's Dance Class

Jam Night

Get a Wiggle On - Dance Through the Ages

Feel Good Easter Festival

Suntou & Mamudou Susso

Black Holes On Slides

Boundaries

An Evening With Natasha Brown

Theatre review: Chicago razzle dazzles at the Royal Concert Hall

Time reveals two types of art: that which dates and that which seems timeless. One year shy of a century since it was written, and fifty years since its musical stage debut, Chicago is firmly in the second category. This week, the Royal Concert Hall plays host to the antics of Roxie, Velma and the other ‘Merry Murderesses’ of the Cook County Jail, in a show so full of pizazz it may have even invented the concept.

Have You Got What It Takes To Be Nottingham’s New Nature Poet Laureate?

Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature has announced an open call for a Nature Poet Laureate...

We chat to Cliffords ahead of their Bodega headline show

In this part of the world, it feels as if Cork five-piece Cliffords have come out of nowhere. They broke through onto the scene with their EP Strawberry Scented followed up by the powerhouse single Bittersweet, packed with a gorgeous blend of melody and layered guitars, shoegaze and grunge influences abounding. But as LeftLion found out when chatting with vocalist Iona Lynch, the band have a rich history…

Gig review: Skunk Anansie at Rock City

The force of nature that is Skunk Anansie are on tour promoting their new album The Painful Truth. Three decades since he first witnessed Skin and the rest of the band in action, Mike Hazeldine went down to their sell out gig at what must be one of the best live music venues in the country, Rock City...