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Live Music Review: Boak, Lugubrious Children, Hex and Bezerk at The Angel Microbrewery

Four bands playing loud and fast and making an unholy racket in the recently refurbished live music room, The Chapel, at the former Old Angel pub...

Theatre Review: Police Cops at Nottingham Playhouse

It's true what they say. Cops and comedy do mix.

Left Panther: October

The Nottingham Panthers attempt to continue with their winning form early in the season.

Theatre Review: The Effects of Gamma Rays on the Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

The Lace Market Theatre plays home to Paul Zindel's all-female play...

Theatre Review: Julian Clary

Bumsex as light entertainment

Theatre Review: Cathy

"Half a century later, it is not a case that Britain’s housing crisis has moved steps forward or steps back, more like a step to the side"

Live Music Review: Trekkah's The Enlightening Album Launch at Rough Trade

"As I walked down Broad Street I could hear the welcoming whine of the sitar floating its way out of Rough Trade's door"

Art Review: Making Beauty at Djanogly Gallery

Beauty comes from the inside, as Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva proves in her latest exhibition

Live Music Review: Babe Punch EP Launch at The Bodega

The angsty fivesome ready the release of their Control EP with a headline show

Theatre Review: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Family

Ben Norris' autobiographical play made its way home over the weekend

Art Review: Anna K.E's Leaving The Rock Stage at Primary

"It's an open question as to whether these explicit but neutral images... are designed to invite or deflect the act of looking"

Theatre Review: The Legend of Lady Rock

We got down to Nottingham Contemporary to see the musical based on a historical Scottish murder scandal

Live Music Review: Hockley Hustle 2016 - Part 1

"The signature mix of MC-ing, reggae, gypsy and ska ... has already earned them a following across the midlands"

Book Reviews: Spokesman Books

Want to get stuck into some seriously good books that tackle everyday issues? Step this way for an introduction to some worthy works

Live Music Review: The Buzzcocks at Rock City

"Every generation needs a soundtrack for revolution, even if the revolution sputters out under the weight of its own ideals"

Win Season Tickets for 'Voyeurtopia' at Contemporary's The Screen

There are two pairs of season tickets to be won for some top quality films

Live Music Review: The Nottingham Pop All-Dayer at The Maze

celebrating ten years of all things jingly and jangly

What's On the LeftLion Stereo - October 2016

With Kagoule, Sleaford Mods, Be, Indiana, VVV, Ronika, Revenge of Calculon and Metaphi Metske

Theatre Review: Darkness Darkness

"The plot centres round the discovery of a dead body by, rather aptly, a Polish worker. It turns out to be a young woman"

Theatre Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

A celebration of African-American culture from the darkest moments to the most joyous

7 Wordy Endeavours for National Poetry Day in Nottingham

There's loads of stuff to be getting up to, reading, and listening in on for National Poetry Day in Nottingham

LeftLion Magazine #83

With Bru-C, Wigflex, Watson Fothergill, Matt Berry, Spokesman Books, Jo Caulfield, Raw Print, National Poetry Day, and more...

Film Review: Under the Shadow

This new Iranian supernatural horror is in cinemas now

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Live Music Review: Musicians Against Homelessness at Rough Trade

Between the 18 September and 9 October musicians around the country are rallying together to perform shows in aid of homeless charity Crisis