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Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Rock City, Stealth and Rescue Rooms with Bicep, Skream, Redlight and More

Wed 13 Dec 2017

It’s about to go off...

Nusic Future Session: Bone Cult

Wed 13 Dec 2017

Brand new live goodness from upcoming Nottingham talent...

Sherwood Forest by Chris Dale

Wed 13 Dec 2017

The Calverton photographer got snap-happy in the home of Robin Hood for his latest publication...

5 World Food Restaurants to Sample in Nottingham

Wed 13 Dec 2017

One of Nottingham’s greatest assets is its multiculturalism. And how best to celebrate our diversity, than to taste it?

Being Human Festival 2017: Switchboard III

Wed 13 Dec 2017

This live literary event, hosted by Dr Sarah Jackson of Nottingham Trent University, brought together the words of callers and poets in a vibrant celebration of the cultural history of the telephone. Two earlier events in the Switchboard series invited members of the public to produce new writing about the varied and vast telephone archive at Nottingham Industrial Museum, or to leave telephone-themed answer machine messages in the phone box adjacent to Dialling In café, Low Pavement. These voices were combined on Thursday evening with poems inspired by the telephone from open-mic performers, staff and students from NTU, and special guest poet Russ Litten...

This Short Sweet Life: Interview With Huw Costin

Tue 12 Dec 2017

The Torn Sail frontman discusses the band's debut album...

26 Nottingham Independents to Buy Creative Christmas Gifts From This Year

Mon 11 Dec 2017

It’s easy to get bogged down in the conveyor belt of tax-dodging chain shops in the UK. You know the story: it’s a few days before Crimbo and you’re wading through the Market Square gaggles, with oodles of ornamental cats and willy-shaped salt shakers spilling out of your arms. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there duck.

This year, you can pack in the panic buys and consult our handy guide to the best independent makers, doers and sellers in Nottingham. That’s right, we’ve rounded up some of the top creative establishments in the city, and have highlighted a few of their top buys to stuff in yer nan’s stocking. Argos? Do one.

Advertising Sectioned: The Modern Way to Loveliness (Woman’s Magazine, 1948)

Sun 10 Dec 2017

The last ever installment of Wayne Burrows' marvelously dry series...

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Peter Wigmore on the Hippocampus

Fri 08 Dec 2017

For the final SciBar of the year, Peter Wigmore joins to talk about "The Hippocampus - A Memorable Part of the Brain"

Nottingham's Homeless Community Create Photography Exhibition

Fri 08 Dec 2017

Student-led community interest company, People of the Streets, handed out disposable cameras to Nottingham's homeless community. The end result? An incredible photography exhibition, Stories of the Streets, that provides us with an insight to what life is really like when you don't have a house to call your home. We sent our own photographer, Tom Morley, down to the exhibition in Broadmarsh, to provide us with a very meta photo gallery of a photo gallery.

Eyre Llew on Success in South Korea

Thu 07 Dec 2017

Sam Heaton, Jack Bennett and Jack Clark have been wowing audiences as Eyre Llew with their orchestral take on post-rock since forming in August 2014. Their music has taken them on tour around the UK and Europe, as well recent dates in South Korea. Fresh from a headline show at Rescue Rooms, and having just released their debut album, they joined us for a chat about their musical endeavours...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Wed 06 Dec 2017

Some of the daftest things to happen in Notts...

SOLD OUT: Overheard In Notts Tea Towel 2

Wed 06 Dec 2017

Who wouldn't want a tea-towel covered in ludicrous things you lot have said? We're coming at you with this years must have Notts based gift!

Street Tales: The Nottingham Canal

Tue 05 Dec 2017

A look back at Nottingham's watery roads...

SoJo Publishing Mouse

Tue 05 Dec 2017

Founded earlier this year by author and playwright Helen Goodbarton, and artist and animator Sophie Johnson-Hill, Sojo Publishing Mouse is intent on bringing some wacky anarchy to the world of independent children’s publishing. We popped down to Sobar for a chat with them about their latest project, the very Christmassy children’s book The Glowing Snowman, and to learn all about what makes these two fun-loving publishers tick...

Film Review: Battle of the Sexes

Mon 04 Dec 2017

Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in the story behind the most watched televised sports event of all time

Surface Gallery Leftovers Volunteer Show

Sat 02 Dec 2017

The variation was simply stunning. In one corner you had Displaced/Replaced with his glitched photo montages coming to life, and another you had stunning glasswork by Phoebe Joy.

Sound of the Lion #65

Sat 02 Dec 2017

With Taurtollo, Lokumu, Yashmak Webs, Charlesworth, heurt, Torn Sail, Slumb Party, Oliver Whitehouse and Saint Raymond...

Nusic Future Session: Homesick

Thu 30 Nov 2017

The latest up and coming Nottingham band play a few tunes for Nusic...

The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum

Mon 27 Nov 2017

For the last seventeen years, the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum has been providing support, practical advice and friendship to the local refugee and asylum seeker population. The centre on Hungerhill Road supports those who are seeking refuge, and those who have been granted refugee status, as they try to rebuild their lives here in Nottingham.