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Dinosaur Stories From the Kiddos
Mon 17 Jul 2017In honour of the Dinosaurs of China exhibition, we asked some of our most worldly paleontologists – aka some kids we know – to imagine a world in which dinosaurs roamed the streets. And bleddy hell are we glad we did. These lot’ll be putting us out of a job soon...
Amulet, Sonder and Short Weekends at Rough Trade in Photos
Mon 17 Jul 2017We got down to check out Amulet at Rough Trade...
Nusic Podcast #158 with Rob Green, Super Furniture, Brotherhood, Bru-C and more
Mon 17 Jul 2017Stuff this in yer lugholes...
The Students Leave, a Mole Person Speaks
Thu 13 Jul 2017Who, or what, comes to the surface of the city when the clever clogs go back home?
Advertising Sectioned: Tony Gardner, Your Labour & Co-Operative Candidate for Beeston (October 1974)
Wed 12 Jul 2017Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...
British Cyclist Tommy Simpson Died 50 Years Ago Today
Wed 12 Jul 2017In the days before Team Sky, asthma medication and bubble suits, the most famous British road cyclist was Tom Simpson. Thursday 13 July is the fiftieth anniversary of his death while climbing Mont Ventoux during the Tour de France and so we take a look back at the life and times of the fastest Nottingham resident on two wheels…
Debbie Bryan's Got Nottingham's Best Independent Business
Wed 12 Jul 2017Last year, lace lover Debbie Bryan was awarded Nottingham’s Best Independent Business as part of It’s In Nottingham’s Independents Festival. In her quaint, Lace Market shop, she does Crafternoons, supper clubs, and keeps her trinket-adorned tea room stocked with the tastiest of cakes. We sat down with the woman herself to talk all things textiles, and to see how things have been going since her commendation…
England vs South Africa Test Match at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground
Wed 12 Jul 2017South Africa are in town to play against England at Trent Bridge. After a shellacking in the first test at Lords, the visitors will be eager to make amends when they arrive in Nottingham, but is history on their side? We look back at previous meetings between the two nations beneath the sacred windows of the Trent Bridge Inn...
Live Music Review: Public Service Broadcasting at Rough Trade
Wed 12 Jul 2017Where do you go after an album about the space race? If you're Public Service Broadcasting, the obvious answer is recording an album about the coal mining in the Welsh valleys. The band come to Rough Trade to host an album launch party for new LP Every Valley.
The Jungle Book is Coming to Nottingham Lakeside Arts
Tue 11 Jul 2017In a collaboration between Nottingham Lakeside Arts and New Street Theatre, The Jungle Book is coming to town. True to the Kipling score, and definitely not Disney, the production has an awesome new musical makeup. We speak to director of the show Martin Berry about what to expect from the bogger...
Sound of the Lion #60
Mon 10 Jul 2017With Bloody Head, Brad Dear, Russian Linesman, Issaka, Dystopian Future Movies, Hashtagobi, Joseph Knight, flöat and Stacey McMullen...
Street Tales: The Origins of Nottingham
Mon 10 Jul 2017“Both for the buildings on the side of it, for the very great wideness of the streets, and the clean paving of it, it is the fairest without exception of all England.” – Said of Nottingham in the time of Henry VIII, c 1512
Nottingham's Outdoor Theatre Season
Sat 08 Jul 2017The thing about theatres is they get a bit narky when you bring a box of sarnies and a six-pack into their shows. That’s no problem with this lot of summer plays, all taking place in the great outdoors. So pack yourself and your friends a tasty hamper of food, bring some blankets, and snuggle down for a bit of culture, gentle evening sun, and some tasty bites. Here are seven of our picks for the season…
The East Midlands Flower Show at Newstead Abbey in Photos
Fri 07 Jul 2017We got down to check out the flowering talent down Lord Byron's old gaff...
Ride Bar is Closing Down
Fri 07 Jul 2017You heard. One of the city’s prime sesh spots is doing one…
Film Review: Baby Driver
Fri 07 Jul 2017We see if Edgar Wright's highly-anticipated car-chase musical is all it's cracked up to be...
SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: David Cook on The Research Behind Your Pint
Thu 06 Jul 2017Talk to some brewers and you may come away with the impression that making beer is a cross between art and alchemy. Fortunately, David Cook from the University of Nottingham is here to tell us all about The Research Behind Your Pint.
Nottingham’s Best Independent Business 2017 Revealed
Wed 05 Jul 2017The decision has been made. But who has been given the crown?
Five Leaves Bookshop Don't Know When Their Birthday Is
Wed 05 Jul 2017One of the highlights of Five Leaves Publications’ tenth anniversary was the argument between those present as to whether the anniversary was actually the eleventh or twelfth. We know for sure our twentieth anniversary was either 2015 or 2016. It certainly is not 2017. Either way, we forgot about it until LeftLion asked us what we’ve learned in two decades of publishing. What we’ve learned, is that we’re crap at anniversaries...
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