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Theatre Review: M¡longa

A tango dance party, where friends or total strangers go to experience the joy and intimacy of tango

Art Review: Lara Favaretto's Absolutely Nothing at Nottingham Contemporary

We got down to the latest art exhibition from Nottingham Contemporary...

Live Music Review: Dot To Dot Festival 2017

After Friday in Manchester and Saturday in Bristol, the multi-city new music extravaganza arrived in Nottingham to close out the weekend. Taking place at over 30 venues, we headed along to join the dots...

Theatre Review: Ventoux at Djanogly Theatre

We got down to Djanogly Theatre to check out the play from the Nottingham-based theatre company 2Magpies...

Live Music Review: Invisible Orchestra at Nottingham Masonic Hall

The 24-piece funk and soul collective bring the party...

James Busby on All Things Detonate

Detonate has been championing bass music in this city for yonks. We grabbed the founder of the organisation, James Busby, to talk plans for this year’s Detonate Festival, two decades of promoting drum ‘n’ bass, as well as the highs and lows of running an event for thousands of punters...

Theatre Review: West Side Story

Carlton Operatic Society get down on the West Side

Theatre Review: East is East

Nottingham Playhouse transforms into 1970's Salford for Suba Das' production of East is East, starring Nottingham Television Workshop's Sabrina Sandhu...

Music Reviews: May

With Alice Short, Alec Bowman, Ben McElroy, Brooders, Crimson General, Fonzse, Gallery 47, Jum and I'm Not From London...

Theatre Review: The Perfect Murder

A perfectly chilling piece...

Live Music Review: One Night in Nottingham at The Maze

We had a trek up Mansfield Road for a proper old-school rave that did it like they don't do 'em any more...

Theatre Review: Ross Noble

Ross Noble, 4 other comedians, and some pissed students. High comedy, low alcohol tolerance.

6 Books to get Stuck into This May

Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...

Theatre Review: Rent

Devastating. Uplifting. Beautiful.

Live Music Review: Rose Elinor Dougall at The Bodega

We got dahn to check out a performance from an artist who’s played in front of thousands alongside Mark Ronson, but who played to a humble crowd of about 100 at Nottingham’s Bodega in early April…

Theatre Review: O No!

Cynicism is too easy - Jamie Wood conjures playful magic in Yoko Ono tribute

Theatre Review: Out of This World

A bewildering drug induced dreamscape condenses into a tough decision

Love and Longing in Sarif's The World Unseen

Nottingham Trent University's Re:Vision series welcomed author and filmmaker Shamim Sarif to the Broadway on Wednesday 10 May to watch and talk about her novel and film The World Unseen. Sue Barsby went down to hear the author's thoughts on the book, and the importance of love in a time of segregation. 

7 Write Lion Poetry Performances at Rough Trade

We miss Nottingham Poetry Festival. Very much. We whacked on a night made up of some of the poets featured on our printed pages over the past year or so, and our mate David Belbin made a few videos of the boggers. Enjoy!

Quiet Riot Collected Anthology Launch at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

Theatre review: The Wedding Singer

A feel good 80s trash-glamour salute to the Adam Sandler film

Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Our favourite guardians are back doing what they do best – saving the Galaxy. Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot first leapt onto the big screen in 2014 where it quickly became the most successful Marvel film at the time.

This year, we’re introduced to new characters, new planets, and gain new love for characters we didn’t have much for in the first instalment...

Live Music Review: The Orielles, Babe Punch and Cherry Hex & The Dream Church at The Chameleon

Up-coming Halifax band alongside new Notts talent...

Art Review: Women of a Nervous Disposition

Around the corner from LeftLion HQ is the Lace Market Gallery, based in the NCN arts building. We had a wander down to check out Denise Weston’s Women of a Nervous Disposition...

Poets Phlexx Their Muscles at Suede

Phlexx Records put on a hell of a show down at Suede Bar last week: 24 Poets, four heats, one final. With some seriously sick prizes up for grabs.