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Art Preview: The Near Room at Bonington Gallery

Muhammad Ali described “The Near Room” as a mental space he would enter during a boxing match – an otherworldly state where you are accutley aware of your own mortality. Sophie Cundale’s new moving-image work, The Near Room (2020), gives substance to this imagined space. Set in a vivid hallucination in the mind of a disorientated boxer, The Near Room muddles historic references with the fantastical and supernatural...

Nottingham Contemporary is Reopening with Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio

It’s hard to sum up someone like Grace Jones in a single word. Singer, model, actress, songwriter, record producer. Icon. With a life as eclectic as it was iconic, it’s only fitting that she’s the subject of the expansive, multimodal new exhibition, Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio at Nottingham Contemporary. Caroline Barry headed there for a sneak preview to find out more... 

Banksy Visits Nottingham To Create Hula Hooping Girl

Excitement has built across the city over a piece of artwork on Ilkeston Road by Banksy. The piece is of a girl hula-hooping a bicycle tyre, next to a post with a broken one-wheeled bike attached to it.

10 Years Later: The Social Network

Is this just another blockbuster film that glorifies people who don’t deserve it? Hollie Anderson finds out...

Back to School: Twelve-year-old Jagoda Talks Returning to Education During a Pandemic

With all the talk of politicians, parents and teachers, it’s easy to forget those most affected by the decision to reopen schools after lockdown: the students. Twelve-year-old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska lets us know what returning to school in the midst of a global pandemic is really like...

Food Review: Bar Iberico

We got down to one of Notts' best loved tapas-spots to see how things have changed post-lockdown... 

City Stylin': Luke Ridsdill Smith

We took to the streets to find Notts' best dressed...

Doughnotts Have Been Nominated for a National Award - Here's How You Can Help Them Win

They've been delivering tasty treats...

The History of Nottingham's Goose Fair

If 2020 hadn’t been enough of a stinker, this year’s Goose Fair has officially been cancelled for only the third time in its long history. In recent years, nearly half a million of us have flocked down to Forest Rec for both peas and prizes, and while both a reduced capacity or a longer ten-day run were considered, it was not meant to be. While we mourn the fate of all the pennies we could have wasted on the Waltzers, we did some investigating into the fair’s colourful history, and discovered twelve things you didn’t know about Goose Fair… 

Burra Khana Have Got a Tantalizing New Menu - And You Can Get a Mega Discount

Delicious and discounted? Yes please. 

Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games Raised £90,000 in Two Days to Create a Hogs of War Minatures Game

There’s an element of risk in launching any crowdfunding campaign. If you don’t reach an audience, the failure can hang around the neck of a project like an albatross. But get it right, and the rewards can be limitless. The latter situation is one that Sherwood-based Stone Sword Games found themselves in recently, when their Kickstarter campaign for a miniatures version of classic PS1 game Hogs of War smashed through £90,000 in just two days. We caught up with co-owner Paul Allen to find out more...

Comedian Sara Pascoe on Her Move From Actress to Comedy and Singing For Robbie William's Dad

Stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, author, podcast host. There aren’t many things in the world of entertainment that Sara Pascoe can’t do. Ahead of her return to Nottingham to play Just the Tonic this month, we caught up with the popular comic to talk lockdown, her two new TV projects and being a backing singer for Robbie Williams’ dad…

Nusic Advice Video: How to Smash Your Branding as a Musician

In 2020, branding yourself well as a musician is real important. It's no longer just the major labels that are thinking about it. As an independent artist - you should spend time working out what your brand is, and how best to communicate that brand - as it'll help you reach your musical goals.

Why Zelda’s Hyrule Is Secretly Nottingham: A Link To Our Town

Teo Eve docks a deerstalker hat, picks up his magnifying glass and investigates the links between Robin Hood, Peter Pan and The Legend of Zelda...

Wollaton Hall Are Having a Light Extravaganza This Crimbo

They’re also looking for a special superstar to switch on the magic…

Exhibition Review: Lost Stories at Surface Gallery

Kelly Palfrey headed down to Surface Gallery to check out their latest exhibition, Lost Stories...

Under Cover Artist: Kate Sharp

Local artist and LeftLion regular Kate Sharp was kind enough to take a crack at our October cover, and I’m sure you’ll agree that she did a beautiful job. Here’s what inspired it...

The Thompson Brothers on Joe Biden. Birthday's and Chrimbo Trees

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Road to Recovery: Hospitality Venues on How Nottingham BID Helped Them Through COVID

With the hospitality industry in the most precarious state it’s been in for a generation, we catch up with five of Nottingham’s most popular venues and organisations to find out they’re thoughts on the ever-changing Government policies, adapting to life post-lockdown and the important role the Nottingham Business Improvement District has played in supporting the sector...

Nusic New Music Podcast #234 with Scorzayzee, Project Zeus, Blle, Karizma and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features Mark’s most humiliating moment since starting Nusic, new music from not one, but three of NG’s most respected MC’s, plus advice on how to cope with the mind fuckery that is being a musician.

This podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Pete 'Woosh' Birch on the History of DiY Soundsystem

The DiY Soundsystem were one of the biggest raving crews of the nineties. Their ethos was all about rejecting profits and putting on damn good parties. Founding member Pete Woosh talks us through some of the highs and lows of being in the gang during the nineties...

Goosey In The Market Square

What is going on? The Goose Fair goose statue is the Market Square right now...

25 Years Later: Seven

What's in the box? Miriam Blakemore-Hoy revisits David Fincher's Seven on its 25th anniversary...

Future Bubblers: Nottingham's Ella Knight and TONYSPARK on the Gilles Peterson Discovery Scheme

Now in its fifth year, the Gilles Peterson and Brownswood recordings-backed talent discovery scheme Future Bubblers has a long-standing connection to supporting new musical talent here in Nottingham. We caught up with Ella Knight and TONYSPARK, two of the Y5 Bubblers that will follow in the footsteps of many, now household, names that have been through the programme…

Food Review: Secret Burger Club

Frequently found at Nottingham Street Food Club, we put their patties to the test...