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Smash Up Your Telly with a Crowbar at The Rage Cage

Sat 11 Mar 2017

Out in the sticks there's a lovely little place where you can pick a few items, take them into a room, and smash the absolute shit out of them with your choice of crowbar, baseball bat, hammer... you name it. Earlier this year, our Editor Ali Emm decided to take them up on their offer of household-object violence...

Nusic Future Session: Hashtagobi

Sat 11 Mar 2017

A brand new live goodness from upcoming Nottingham talent...

Nusic Advice Guide: Making a Living from Music

Thu 09 Mar 2017

The first in a series of advice videos from our mates over at Nusic. This week, find out the best ways to sell stuff, play live, and get free(ish) money...

Theatre Review: Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes

Thu 09 Mar 2017

The classic film of an aspiring ballerina’s rise and fall gets the Matthew Bourne treatment…

7 Organisations Combatting Misogyny in Nottingham

Wed 08 Mar 2017

Nottinghamshire Police are the first police force in the country to rule misogyny as a hate crime. That includes physical or verbal harassment directed at women, because they are a woman, via any means. So, if you’re walking home and a group of guys decide to shout inappropriate, sexual comments at you, or someone grabs your arse on a night out, you’re well within your rights to report the behaviour to the authorities.

All you have to do is ring 101, and if the assault is particularly severe, call 999. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the perpetrator will be punished, but it does mean the police can collect information regarding these types of incidents – where, when and how often they happen – and work on making the streets of Notts safer for all. It also means that they can direct you to any support and guidance you may need following the event. There are some incredible local organisations who’ll go out of their way to help you...

Supporting The Sex Worker Community with POW Nottingham

Wed 08 Mar 2017

Prostitution. What connotations does that word throw up for you? The media have helped develop various collective viewpoints about sex workers, and it ain’t all pretty. Real as they come, POW Nottingham is just one organisation aiming to maintain dignity and safety for people working in the industry, through both creative projects and practical schemes. With International Women’s Day coming up on Wednesday 8 March, we got down to POW’s premises to talk to CEO Daniela Scotece…

The Monthly Gift Notts: Donate Sanitary Products for Homeless Women

Wed 08 Mar 2017

Periods. They absolutely, categorically suck. So imagine not being able to afford the very things that spare you some dignity. In the age of austerity, this has become a problem for many women, so local lass Paige Bromley decided to start an organisation that makes it dead easy to donate products for those in need...

The Dilettante Society on Suffragette Helen Watts

Wed 08 Mar 2017

"Votes for women will not be won by drawing-room chatter... it has got to be fought for in the market-places, and if we don't fight for it, no one else will"

Sound of the Lion #56

Sat 04 Mar 2017

With Underdark, Tom John Hall, Rosie Abbott, Mowbeck, Matt Blick, The Last Pedestrians, The Amber Herd, Kirk Spencer, and Sleaford Mods...

Street Tales: Castle Rock BC

Thu 02 Mar 2017

We delve a little deeper into the history of our city's streets to give you the tales they never would have taught you at school...

Five Leaves Shortlisted for Independent Bookshop of the Year

Wed 01 Mar 2017

Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham's radical and independent seller of paged goods, is on the shortlist for the regional round of the UK and Ireland Independent Bookshop of the Year Award, for the second year running. Gerrin.

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Wed 01 Mar 2017

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

Film Review: Sing

Wed 01 Mar 2017

We give our thoughts on this talent show-themed animation.

Nottingham Secular Society Fracking Debate: INEOS Shale Vs Frackfree Nottinghamshire

Tue 28 Feb 2017

With the news that there might be fracking potentially starting in Sherwood Forest still fresh in the mind, Nottingham Secular Society hosted a debate on the subject. Garry Harwood, CEO of INEOS Shale, and Dennis May from Frackfree Nottinghamshire were invited to debate the motion, "This house believes that fracking is intrinsically safe and will be of great benefit to the country"

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle - Biomolecules in The Fossil Record: Sequencing Proteins in Amber

Tue 28 Feb 2017

The monthly science event stomps into the pub, causing ripples in all the pint glasses. This month, Dr Victoria McCoy from the University of Leicester comes to talk…

Nusic Future Session: Ashfields - Is it Alright Now?

Sat 25 Feb 2017

A new Nusic Future Session for your eyes and ears...

Nusic Future Session: Ashfields

Sat 25 Feb 2017

New Notts music from the purveyors of local sound...

Shakespeare's Rosalind Comes to Nottingham

Fri 24 Feb 2017

James Cousins has given Shakespeare's fearless heroine a makeover through contemporary dance...

Shakespeare's Rosalind Gets A Contemporary Makeover

Fri 24 Feb 2017

James Cousins is bringing Shakespeare's Rosalind to Hoodtown...

Theatre Review: The Machine Stops

Thu 23 Feb 2017

The tale of a dystopia where a single machine rules humanity - perhaps we'd better back off the iPods before it becomes a prophesy...

De La Soul Talk Crowdfunding Their Latest Release

Thu 23 Feb 2017

Since releasing their debut 3 Feet High And Rising in 1989, De La Soul have been hip hop pioneers. Eight albums and almost three decades later, they decided to forsake record labels and crowdfunded their latest release, and the Anonymous Nobody…, instead. We chatted to founder member Posdnuos about Kickstarter, guest vocalists and their upcoming Rock City gig…