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Nottingham’s Best Independent Business 2017 Revealed

The decision has been made. But who has been given the crown?

Blues Singer Louis Antoniou Discusses His Latest Single And Playing In Nottingham

Watch the music video for the song I Don't Want No More Woes...

Nottinghamshire County Cricket June Roundup

Our Gav gives us the cricket rundown of the month past...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Up, up and away, Hoodtown...

Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Loads of charitable occasions to be getting on with, this week...

Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...

Golesedi at Lady Bay Arts Festival

Right then, we're right in the middle of festival season and our vlogger Golesedi and her mate Mark ditched the wellies, booze and music for tea, cakes and art at Lady Bay Arts Festival...

Theatre Review: MissImp Present Millions of Voices

Join Miss Imp for the touching story of a Twilek's erotic adventures

Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It

“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

No time to chill, there's things to do...

The Best in the Independent Biz

Ears to the ground, it's all kicking off...

Poet Panya Banjoko on Nottingham’s First Young Poet Laureate

Panya Banjoko, aka Panya The Poet, is a Nottingham-based writer who’s performed at the 2012 Olympic Games, as part of the award-winning film Brit I Am directed by Andi Osho, and as part of a BBC documentary based on the Olympian Jamie Baulch. On top of all this, her work has featured in various journals and publications, including Guardian Award-winning online graphic novel Dawn of the Unread, and she’s the co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive. We steadied ourselves, and had a chat with the local legend...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Come rain or shine, there's plenty of stuff to do this weekend...

Progressive Jazz Folk Musician Jimi Mack on His New EP

Reminiscent of musicians such as John Martyn, Joni Mithell and Van Morrison, with a plethora of progressive influences to boot, Jimi Mack is about to release his anticipated debut EP.

Meet the Two Notts Students Breaking into the Brewing World

Ashley Wadeson and Dan Boxall don’t do things by halves – more like by the gallon. As the two MSc Brewing Science students prepare to launch their new collaborative beer with Black Iris Brewery as part of their course, they tell us more about probably the coolest dissertation project in the world, why they’re a hit at house parties, and their plans for beery world domination…

A Smoking New Exhibition Over At Nottingham Contemporary

If you’ve been wondering what the bob is going off down Weekday Cross, don’t worry. There’s no fire. We repeat, no fire. There’s no Vape Nation kid chonging on his latest modified piece, and the clouds did not trip over a rogue sock on the stairs to land up in a heap at the bottom. Actually, there’s a new exhibition on at Nottingham Contemporary, and the plumes of water vapour are part of a new public commission that’s left us gritting our teeth with metaphor envy…

From Lithuania to Lenton: Stephan Collishaw talks fiction, education, and travel

Author, publisher, teacher and family man Stephan Collishaw has made a name for himself with his Lithuanian lit publishing press Noir, and his own thriller writing. We had him in for a chat about books, Lithuania and Nottingham with the editor of the NottsLit blog.

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Week

Notts is mobilising, this week. Make sure you're involved...

5 Things to Do in Nottingham This Weekend

Party pants on, kids. It's gonna be a biggun...

Detonate Festival 2017 in Words and Photos

Our Lucy and Tom got down to Colwick Park to skank out to some right good tunes, write a few words, and take a few snaps...

Want Two Free Tickets to Splendour? Read On...

Catch Busted, Billy Ocean and the Kaiser Chiefs at Splendour this year. For free...

A Week Inside Labour's "Unwinnable" Broxtowe Campaign

A Labour campaigner gives us the inside scoop on Broxtowe's tense 2017 election battle...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Daisy Godfrey, Birthrights, Little Barrie and more...

Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...

The Thompson Brothers on Not Being Tories