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Sarah Maple's Not My Cup of Tea at New Art Exchange

Fri 18 Aug 2017

We got down to Hyson Green to check out the latest art exhibition on offer...

LL Stereo: With Bru-C, Katie Cooper, April Towers and more...

Thu 17 Aug 2017

What you need in your ear holes this month...

Nottingham 2023 European Capital of Culture Bid Launch at Sneinton Market in Photos

Wed 16 Aug 2017

Ayup Notts, it’s possible that we’re about to become the next tourist hotspot for all them tourists looking to get a little more creativity in their lives. Nottingham’s Cultural Strategy Partnership (CSP) announced its bid to become a European Capital of Culture 2023… in a giant light-up inflatable structure – otherwise known as a luminarium – no less...

Nusic Podcast #160 with As December Falls, Gallery 47, Kelsey Shaw and more

Wed 16 Aug 2017

Get your lugholes around this badboy...

Rescue Rooms Beer Festival

Wed 16 Aug 2017

"Shave the head off the top, duck"

The Lincolnshire Poacher's Brother From Another

Wed 16 Aug 2017

27 years ago, a sweet pub friendship blossomed. To this day, The Lincolnshire Poacher up Mansfield Road, and In De Wildeman in ‘Dam are twinned like the brotherly boozers they are, so we hopped across the pond and through the seasons, to search for the answers behind the bond. And for a couple of swift ones...

Art Works: Sophie Johnson-Hill

Tue 15 Aug 2017

The illustrator and animator on the beauty of a child's imagination. N'aww...

Lucy Does Burlesque

Mon 14 Aug 2017

There’ve been several times in my life when my mouth has signed me up to something before my brain has had the chance to work it out. Nominating myself to be school-council representative in year seven was disastrous for my street cred, and stepping up to the Ayia Napa boat party drinking competition went as successfully as one can imagine. Now, for the entertainment of you lot, I agreed to attend a burlesque class and write about my experience for dear old LeftLion. Why?

Advertising Sectioned: “It’s the local sound… and it’s all yours!” (BBC Radio Nottingham, 1979)

Sat 12 Aug 2017

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...

A Word With the Beasts Behind Wild Boar Books

Sat 12 Aug 2017

New pigs on the block, Lincolnshire-based indie press Wild Boar Books, boast some proper weird, proper original releases. We thought we’d hit up our neighbours, and snorted in the direction of founders and editors Guy and Richard about the Midlands lit scene, gold star awards, and anti-establishment, porcine publishing...

Dan Hardy To Become Sky Sports Regular

Fri 11 Aug 2017

With the billion dollar super fight between Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor breathing down our necks, MMA fans throughout the world have been hit with some knockout news...

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Rebecca Dewey on Watching Your Brain

Fri 11 Aug 2017

Having previously appeared at PubhD and the University of Nottingham's Public Lecture Series, Dr Rebecca Dewey continues her quest to appear at all of Nottingham's scientific public outreach events by coming to SciBar to talk about Watching Your Brain.

Left Panther: Season Preview

Thu 10 Aug 2017

We have a look at the Panthers before the 2017/2018 season begins...

Author Mark Latham on Creating the Perfect Sherlock-Dracula Hybrid

Thu 10 Aug 2017

The former Editor of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf magazine, self-confessed Victoriana and history nerd Mark Latham took the leap to become a full-time author and games designer. The Lazarus Gate, his debut novel, was the first in his Victorian sci-fi Apollonian Case Files series, with the second, The Iscariot Sanction, released the following year.

This year, he’s had his first Sherlock Holmes novel published with the world’s greatest detective investigating Dracula, and the third Apollonian novel, The Legion Prophecy, is set to hit the shelves in September. He’s not been slacking, so we thought it was high time we popped the kettle on and invited him over for a natter…

What Notts: The Latest News and Stories

Tue 08 Aug 2017

Last month's news. You lot are daft.

Should Alex Hales be Selected by England?

Tue 08 Aug 2017

Is it time to unleash a Hales storm?

Review: Summer Nights Outdoor Cinema does Dirty Dancing

Mon 07 Aug 2017

"I carried a watermelon"

Sound of the Lion #61

Sat 05 Aug 2017

With Juga-Naut & Michall Parknsun, David J Newton, Jimi Mack, Yazmin Lacey, Huw Costin, Charlie Ulyatt, Wolfclub, Verbal Warning and Little Barrie...

Notes from the Middle Kingdom: Chuan'r, Beijing Street Food and Drunken Accents

Fri 04 Aug 2017

Our Notts man in Beijing gives us the lowdown on food stuffs...

New Nottingham Forest Signing Kieran Dowell

Fri 04 Aug 2017

An Everton fan's view on Nottingham Forest's new loan signing

Art Works: Anna Wheelhouse's The Fair at Stanley Road

Fri 04 Aug 2017

A local artist lets us in on her creative process...

The Man Who Makes Canal Boats

Fri 04 Aug 2017

When I picture myself retiring, I imagine an armchair, a cuppa, and Countdown on the telly box. Maybe I’ll have a hobby: card making or gardening; nothing too strenuous. What I definitely don’t expect to do is start a business making narrow boats. But that’s exactly what James Blackburn has decided to do in his twilight years. Yep, he’s decided to make two of ‘em a year. Just because...