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Theatre Review: Sleeping Beauty

Grimm turns grim in this gritty adaptation of the classic

As She Pleases: Interview with Madison Beer

The rising American pop singer answers some of our questions ahead of an intimate performance at The Bodega...

Riding on Solomon’s Carpet: Poetry from Nottingham’s Refugees

“Projects like this open doors for people like me,” says Victoria Mponda, of her experience with Riding on Solomon’s Carpet, an anthology of poetry from refugees and asylum seekers living in the East Midlands...

Art Works: Siddharth Varma

Sun 25 Mar 2018

Local artist, Siddharth Varma, on his beautiful ink masterpiece...

Film Review: The Square

Sat 24 Mar 2018

Hang on to your champagne and get ready to squirm – this is going to be the worst week of Christian the art curator's life.

Crop Up Gallery: The Student Run Curatorial Group Giving Art Students Their Big Break

As any depressed graduate will tell you, a lot of jobs will ask you for experience in your field. But you’ve been too busy studying… well, sort of. Actually you’ve been playing prosecco pong and skinny dipping in the Market Square fountain. When were you meant to get this experience anyway? Well, that’s where Crop Up Gallery is lending a hand...

Anton Lockwood: The Man Who Made Rescue Rooms A Success

As Rescue Rooms basks in the glory of its fifteenth birthday, we sat down with the man who transformed the place from a run down sports bar to a renowned music venue...

Life After Spanky Van Dykes

The sun rises and sets, empires rise and fall, and Spanky Van Dykes has closed. Even though it’s been a few months since the alternative bar – the big, dark place that projected He-Man episodes in silence – closed its doors unto wooden boards, its regulars still find themselves in a lost state. Those dejected lot who once found their homes - and their lives - in Spanky’s now wander the street in utter confusion. We wrangled as many of them as we could to ask how they’re getting on.

Strike Site: Exhibition Curator Sacha Craddock Talks Unreality and Insistent Physicality

Strike Site is an exhibition which attempts to create the contradictory yet palpable sense of the temporary that comes with an exhibition of arts. Now in it's second manifestation, after being previously exhibited at Pi Artworks London, curator Sacha Craddock worked closely with the Nottingham Refugee Forum to explore notions of displacement, movement, freedom and barriers...

Live Music Review: Sounds Against Slavery 2 at Rough Trade

Rough Trade was humming for a night of live music in aid of Anti-Slavery International, organised by the University of Nottingham’s Anti-Slavery Society in partnership with Impact Magazine...

Photos: St Patrick's Day in Nottingham

We got in the thick of the snow in St. Patrick's Day to take some snaps...

Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a YouTube Sensation

Nottingham is crazy about science, with a grand history of making leaps and bounds in innovation and research. The University of Nottingham has a large part to play in this, and for those who get a kick out of seeing what happens when you mix up chemicals, set a flame to gases, and the behaviour of volatile substances, their Research Professor of Chemistry, Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff, has made a series called The Periodic Table of Videos to satiate the inner nerds in us.

Fluent Females: Third Annual Women Say Stuff Event at Cafe Sobar