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Son of Steak: A Pretty Rare Thing

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Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Screens at Broadway Cinema This Month

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...

Want Two Free Tickets to Splendour? Read On...

Catch Busted, Billy Ocean and the Kaiser Chiefs at Splendour this year. For free...

Notts Film Collective Them Pesky Kids Talk Crowdfunding for Crime Short Ariella

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...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Daisy Godfrey, Birthrights, Little Barrie and more...

Our Music Editor picks out some of the best tunes to have come out of our city recently...

The Woman Sending Bras to Refugees

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...

A Nottingham Football Coach in Micronesia: Settling In

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...

5 Speakeasies that Should Exist in Nottingham

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...

Advertising Sectioned: The Photo Centre on Pelham Street c.1958

Nottingham adverts ripped from the pages of history...

Nusic Podcast #155 with Wolf Club, Bone Cult, Stacey McMullen, and more

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Clare Burrage on The Dark Side of the Universe

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...

Street Tales: Spotlight on the River Trent

The history lessons you'd never have got at school...

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...

Sound of the Lion #59

With Arc Nade, Endless Grinning Skulls, Cameron Sinclair Harris, Minatore, Daudi Matsiko, Widows, Sawyer, Tom McCartney and London Grammar...

England Lions V South Africa A at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground

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…

Theatre Review: West Side Story

Carlton Operatic Society get down on the West Side

Music Video: Stacey McMullen - I Wait

NTU Final Degree Fashion Show 2017 in Photos

We got down to take a few snaps of Nottingham Trent University's final-year talent...

Our Literature Editor James Walker Says Goodbye

So long, and thanks for all the fiction...

NTU Knitwear Final Degree Show 2017 in Photos

We got down to take some snaps of the budding fashion talent in the city, all as part of Nottingham Trent University's final-year degree show for knitwear students...

6 Record Shops in Nottingham

Nottingham has an absolute beast of a music scene, featuring the likes of Sleaford Mods and London Grammar. With such bustle, it makes sense that fans of music need somewhere to buy their records from. So let’s rifle through a few a few choice picks to help you pick up some bangin’ records in good ol’ Notts...

Exploring Sci-Art at Pint of Science Festival

We had a grand old time at Pint of Science Festival this year. One of the events explored sci-art, so our Adrian Shaw got down to enjoy a subject close to his heart...

#NTUDEGREESHOW Competition: Rough Trade and Broadway Vouchers to be Won

Sabrina Sandhu Starts in East is East at Nottingham Playhouse

When the film East is East hit our screens in the late nineties, the UK was tickled and charmed, with heartstrings up and down the country receiving a right good tug. This month, the Nottingham Playhouse sees the story unfold in theatrical form, and we can’t bleddy wait. We had a chat with Television Workshop alumni Sabrina Sandhu, who plays Meenah, in her first ever interview; an honour, seeing as she’s sure to be a right star soon...

6 Books to get Stuck into This May

Books from Nottingham's finest, reviewed for your pleasure...