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Scibar at The Vat & Fiddle: John Brookfield on Jumping Genes

John Brookfield from the University Of Nottingham is July’s speaker at SciBar, talking about Jumping Genes in the Genome. We headed down to the Vat & Fiddle to hear from the gene genie.

A Cave Tour, Quiz and Batman Screening for National Justice Museum’s Superhero Season

The National Justice Museum kicked off their Superhero Movie Season with a screening of the 1989 classic Batman. Jason England took a break from sweatin’ cobs to head down and check out the event…

Nusic Podcast #184: Live From Splendour with Ady Suleiman, Nina Smith, Ashfields, Ferocious Dog and more

This week, it's festival fever on the podcast, featuring a live interview with Future Sound of Nottingham 2018 winners The Dandylions, and a load more boggers who played Splendour this year...

The Woman Behind Notts Tender-Stem Band Flöat

Soul-touching vocals accompanied by incredibly chilled instrumentals, flöat are fresh out of Nottingham and the woman behind the music, Heather Blore, tells us why we should be listening…

Sustainability Notts: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

Welcome to August’s edition of Sustainability Notts. Our aim: to highlight where you can get involved and make difference to our local Notts environment...

Notts Lad Gabriel Kidd Set to Appear on ITV'S New Show WOS Wrestling This Saturday

Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and now Gabriel Kidd; we were well chuffed to hear about Gedling lad Gabe forming part of the impressive roster for ITV revamp, WOS Wrestling.

The Next Step for England’s Football Team...

Gareth Southgate’s England team endeared themselves to the country with a string of joyous, entertaining performances in Russia at the World Cup. Their trajectory to the semi-finals captured the imagination of the nation, but how exactly do England go about building on the firm foundations at this tournament, and how will their achievements carry forward into the future?

Snap Notts: Forest Fields

Short Stack - July

Short Stack is back, Jack.  

Superhero Movie Season at The National Justice Museum

The National Justice Museum are back with another brilliant film season...

Live Review: Fuzzbox at The Angel

When I say Fuzzbox is a hot night you better believe I mean it H-O-T! We headed down to The Angel to check out the latest selection of cool bands.

Live Review: Fan Club at JT Soar

The fabulous Fan Club folk formulate an excellent evening’s entertainment. We head down to the sweatbox that is JT Soar to check it out.

Review and Photos: Splendour Festival 2018 at Wollaton Park

Sun shining, six-week holidays tantalisingly close, ice cream vans tittering merrily in the distance… Summer has arrived, and this July, so did Splendour. This year, we partied like a ten-year-old as the festival opened its metaphorical doors to another musical bash that celebrated the completion of its first decade in true style...

Snap Notts: Attenborough Nature Reserve

This month's latest installment of Snap Notts - the series where photographers and poets are paired up and sent to an area to get inspired... 

Art Review: Mountain of Tongues at Backlit Studios

Our Adrian went to Backlit to find that although Mountain of Tongues has just finished, but nothing stops him from a good review. Better late than never, he says...

Nottingham's Finest Dogs in Shops

Dogs in shops have become a thing of late and as a bunch of committed dog lovers, we are very much in favour of this trend. But who among us has time to seek out the finest four-legged shop denizens that Nottingham has to offer?...

Film Review: Mary Shelley

There's much more to Mary Shelley than just Frankenstein...

Comedy Review: David Sedaris

The Radio 4 fave packed out the Concert Hall

World Cup 2018 Review: A Tournament of Thrills, Spills and VAR

Well, what a tournament that was. Four weeks of exhilarating jousting on the football field which saw France crowned as World Cup champions for only the second time...

LeftLion's Top 10 Pixar Films

As The Incredibles II prepares to hit cinema screens, we take a look back at ten of the best films from Pixar...

City Stylin' #3: So Fetch Edition

We took to the streets to find a couple of mighty fine fashionistas, and ended up wi' a couple of doggos instead...

6 Nottingham Books to Read This Summer

Surely you must be in need of a beach side read. Give one of these a try...

Splendour Celebrates Its Tenth Birthday

We say happy bothdeh to Splendour; the festival celebrating ten years at Wollo Park this year...

Let's Make Some Mischief: Dennis, Gnasher and Horrid Henry to head this year’s Summer Reading Challenge

Listen up, hell-raisers: The Nottinghamshire County Council have set up another summer reading challenge to get some noses in books. Our man Ian C Douglas is here to give us the low-down. 

Tommy K on the Side: Sea Fish

Our condiment connoisseur is bringing the sauce to you, and this time he's made his way to Sea Fish...