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We Are The 25%: The Creative Quarter Launches

The Creative Quarter: another regeneration project, an attempt to catapult Nottingham into the big league of British cities, a massive hand-out for the city’s arty sorts, or the last attempt to drag the city out of its chain-shop morass? Toby Reid, Director of BioCity and Creative Quarter committee member, reveals the people who will be tasked with shaping the destiny of The Lace Market over the next decade - and don’t look now, but one of them could be you...

Photos: IMAX launch

We snuck along to the opening of Nottingham's monster IMAX cinema screen to see just how big it is

Interview: Reactor

Fancy some audience participation, but hate panto? How about being coerced into submitting to a make-believe totalitarian regime, or having aliens decide if you’re worth being enslaved or just got rid of? That’s the kind of thing that Niki Russell, Dan Williamson and their Reactor collective get up to...

Interview: Hatch's Nathan Miller

For five years now, Hatch have taken away the pretentiousness of performance art, brought back the fun, and have redrawn the boundaries of the stage by refusing to acknowledge them. Playwright Michael Pinchbeck is one of the founders, and the other - Nathan Miller - used to put in serious work for an independent magazine you may have heard of...

Interview: Kappa Gamma

Picked up by Denizen Records, linked up with Dog Is Dead, championed by Dean Jackson and glommed onto the  Radio One playlist, it’s been a very decent year for Kappa Gamma and their freewheeling dream-pop stylings. Time, then, to talk to Tom Towle and Max Starbuck of the band...

May Contain Notts: Oct-Nov 2012

The news diary that leaves its Christmas lights up all year round and doesn’t give a toss what the neighbours think

Interview: Gonzo Unit

Gonzo Unit - a collaboration between Anna Schwanz and Rachel Murray - aimed to bring together artists from Notts and beyond to create and perform new works. Problem was, they didn’t have gallery space - so they got really creative and found space in an unexpected place...

Interview: Peter Bowles

Peter Bowles went from a childhood in Hyson Green to an acting career that spans the early days of television, the golden age of sitcoms and the admiration of Marlon Brando - and he owes much of it to a theatre in town that now carries his name...

Katie Half-Price: Issue 48

Nottingham’s orangest book reviewer in't very happy...

Interview: Play No Games

The multi-faceted globe-trotting vanguard of the new school of electronic club sounds in Notts

Interview: Don Masson

Club skipper during the iconic Jimmy Sirrel era that propelled the club from the bottom to the top. Part of the QPR team that lost the league by one point in 1976. A key component of the doomed Scotland '78 World Cup squad. A prodigal son who finished his career helping his beloved 'Pies into the top flight. There's been 150 years of Notts County football, and - according to those who saw him in action - no-one has played it better than Don Masson...

Notts County: 150 Years of History

A potted history of the last century and a half in the life of world football's oldest league club...

Interview: MulletProofPoet

"I started when I was about thirteen or fourteen; I was writing lyrics for a band that didn’t actually exist"

Interview: Shide Boss

One of the most successful musicians in Notts right now has won TV talent shows, is up for two music awards, has worked with the President of Def Jam South and has someone from Hollyoaks on his video. He’s Shide Boss, and it’s about time you recognised him...

Interview: Brent Wilson and Tom Calladine

It seems like they’ve been in the Championship for ages. They’ve come achingly close to promotion. They’re hoping to finally break into the Premiership and bring the crowds flooding into Meadow Lane. Hang on, so this is a rugby interview... with Brent Wilson - a veteran from New Zealand - and local lad Tom Calladine.

Interview: Jake Bugg

Scooped up from the mean streets of Clifton into the loving arms of a record deal. All over Radio One. Tours of the UK and Europe. Live TV appearances. Two glorious hometown gigs lined up at Dot To Dot and Splendour. Spends his spare time wondering what Fearne Cotton thinks of him. He’s Jake Bugg, and he’s only just old enough to get into pubs...

Preview: GameCity7

"We basically want to be the best village fete about videogame culture ever"

Interview: Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie used to cane it full-time in Skins. Now - when he’s not bagging plum roles in Birger Larsen’s Murder and This Is England ‘86 - he gets medieval on our arses in Game Of Thrones. We blocked his way on Trent Bridge refusing to let him pass until he answered a load of riddles...

Interview: Jon Ronson

People who believe twelve foot-tall lizards run everything. Robots with souls. Real life superheroes. Conspiracists, fundamentalists, and extremists. He's hung out with them all...

A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye

Rob Cutforth says goodbye in his final column for LeftLion. Now, for God’s sake, someone stop him before he lets the cat out of the bag...

Interview: World Event Young Artists Director Silke Pillinger

1,000 of the world's most talented new artists from over 100 countries, in town for ten days...

WEYA 12: Preview

What to look at, listen to, and experience this month at World Event Young Artists 2012...

Mike Breckon on the 1972 Murders of the Israeli Olympic Team

On 5 September 1972, two weeks into the Munich Olympics, members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and later murdered eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team - witnessed by Mike Breckon, Yorkshire-born manager of the Canadian cycling team, who was based in the opposite apartment. He now lives in Nottingham, and speaks for the first time of what he saw.

Acoustic Rooms vs Our True Intent – Gallery

Art Works: Louisa Jane Irvine

" As a child I loved going to fabric shops to look at the spools of ribbons and threads, feeling and collecting different colours and textures"