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Can white people enjoy black comedy?
Panya Banjoko, aka Panya The Poet, is a Nottingham-based writer who’s performed at the 2012 Olympic Games, as part of the award-winning film Brit I Am directed by Andi Osho, and as part of a BBC documentary based on the Olympian Jamie Baulch. On top of all this, her work has featured in various journals and publications, including Guardian Award-winning online graphic novel Dawn of the Unread, and she’s the co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive. We steadied ourselves, and had a chat with the local legend...
Hannah Parker spoke to Philip Brewin from Stroppy Dogs ahead of their charity gig on Friday 23rd June to raise money for the Childrens Hospital QMC.
For those of you who don't know, the Djanogly Gallery was once Highfields Park Lido, which was basically a huge swimming pool in the twenties that Sir Jesse Boot kindly gave to Notts as a gift...
Ashley Wadeson and Dan Boxall don’t do things by halves – more like by the gallon. As the two MSc Brewing Science students prepare to launch their new collaborative beer with Black Iris Brewery as part of their course, they tell us more about probably the coolest dissertation project in the world, why they’re a hit at house parties, and their plans for beery world domination…
Our Elizabeth was stuck in a rut after her degree, but a teaching trip to Guatemala soon sorted her out...
If you’ve been wondering what the bob is going off down Weekday Cross, don’t worry. There’s no fire. We repeat, no fire. There’s no Vape Nation kid chonging on his latest modified piece, and the clouds did not trip over a rogue sock on the stairs to land up in a heap at the bottom. Actually, there’s a new exhibition on at Nottingham Contemporary, and the plumes of water vapour are part of a new public commission that’s left us gritting our teeth with metaphor envy…
Author, publisher, teacher and family man Stephan Collishaw has made a name for himself with his Lithuanian lit publishing press Noir, and his own thriller writing. We had him in for a chat about books, Lithuania and Nottingham with the editor of the NottsLit blog.
We got down to take a few snaps of the upcoming talent in our city...
Did the cut make the cut?
The social housing crisis isn’t easy to get the bonce round, and unfortunately it’s not going away anytime soon, either. Director of Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain, Paul Sng of Velvet Joy Productions, is set to launch a new, independent documentary following in the footsteps of his previous work; contextualising austerity measures in the UK. The latest film is called Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, and it’s set to screen at Broadway Cinema this month...
Catch Busted, Billy Ocean and the Kaiser Chiefs at Splendour this year. For free...
Them Pesky Kids are a film collective from Notts. All Confetti students, the group are aiming to raise £10,000 through a Kickstarter campaign, to fund a new short, Ariella, and they're off to a decent start indeed. Our Screen Editor Ash Carter spoke to Them Pesky Kids' Michael Jobling about the project...
Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...
Persistent military conflicts in the Middle East have left millions of people lost and without. Imagine, just for a second, that Nottingham was plunged into war: hospitals bombed, schools and libraries gone, and your home destroyed. It's a situation you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy, yet mainstream media sources continue to vilify some of the most desperate people on the planet who find themselves in that very situation today. One woman, Caroline Kerr of Bras Not Bombs, is on a mission to make a difference for the better...
Nottingham-based football coach Chris Smith updates us on his travels in Micronesia, where he’s aiming to transform the world’s worst international football team...
Many Nottinghamians enjoy a good booze. But imagine, just for one second, that you’ve found yersen in a time and a place that’s banned the juice, forbade the top-shelf goods, embargoed the plonk. Our Ben Knight has put together a list of places he can imagine making darn good speakeasies if the day of doom ever did rear its bonce...
Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...
On this week’s New Music Podcast features our highlight of Dot to Dot 2017, new music John Kennedy from Radio X is loving, plus the artist Jared from LeftLion is loving...
For May's SciBar talk, Clare Burrage from the University of Nottingham – and from off the telly – joins us to talk about The Dark Side of the Universe...
The history lessons you'd never have got at school...
Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...
With Arc Nade, Endless Grinning Skulls, Cameron Sinclair Harris, Minatore, Daudi Matsiko, Widows, Sawyer, Tom McCartney and London Grammar...
The sun was out and the entry was free, so we sent Gav along to check out the England nearly men as they took on their South African counterparts in the cricket at Trent Bridge…
Carlton Operatic Society get down on the West Side
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