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Theatre Review: My Fair Lady

Wed 25 Oct 2017

By George, she’s got it!

The Thompson Brothers on Goose Fair

Sat 07 Oct 2017

Nottingham's most opinionated green grocers...

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

Fri 04 Aug 2017

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

Fine Craft Fair Lustre at Nottingham Lakeside Arts This Weekend

Sat 12 Nov 2016

For those of you who enjoy creativity and the finer things in life, this is the Christmas market for you. Over the course of the weekend, the Nottingham Lakeside Arts' Djanogly Gallery, Wallner Gallery and Djanogly Theatre have been turned into an indoor bazaar full of quality art and handmade luxuries that you can ogle at, swoon over and take home if you wish.

Canadian Comedian Chris Betts is Coming to Nottingham Comedy Festival

Tue 01 Nov 2016

He's made the UK his home and is currently putting the finishing touches to his new show, Bewilderbeest. We caught up with Chris Betts ahead of his show at Sobar for Nottingham Comedy Festival…

Boomtown Fair 2016: The LeftLion Story

Fri 26 Aug 2016

Festival, you say? Nay. Boomtown is no festival. It is the home to many a warped reality, to disparate wealth, and the revolution of original ravers

Bridie Goes To Boomtown Fair

Fri 26 Aug 2016

We got our Bridie - and Snake - down to Boomtown Fair to check out a few Nottingham acts, and have a grand old time in the sunshine

10 Reasons to Go to Boomtown Fair

Fri 22 Jul 2016

"From the deifying political campaign posters of Mayor Comrade Jose, to the books hanging from the trees in the Wandering Word, there are so many things to find if you keep your eyes wide open"

Goose Fair 2015

Fri 16 Oct 2015

We went down to capture the delights of Nottingham's 700-plus year old waterfowl-themed funfair

Boomtown Fair 2015

Fri 04 Sep 2015

No ordinary festival, Boomtown Fair has the ability to suck out your brain and replace it with silly putty for the weekend

Boomtown Fair 2015

Thu 06 Aug 2015

We've got the rundown of what merry festival goers can expect from this year's fantastical romp in the depths of Matterley Bowl

A Canadian In New Basford Says Goodbye

Mon 01 Oct 2012

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...

Goose Fair in the 1890s

Mon 01 Oct 2012

Babies in bottles, armless women, lion petting zoos… these were the sights of Goose Fair that Nottingham diarist Sydney Race recorded over a century ago. Ann Featherstone reviews his fascinating chronicles from a time when people used to pay to look at massively fat kids, instead of waiting in queues with them…

A Canadian at the London 2012 Olympics

Thu 09 Aug 2012

"I want to lose myself in the joyous atmosphere of the world’s middle class getting together to cheer on its fastest and best at throwing heavy objects"

A Canadian On The Diamond Jubilee

Mon 04 Jun 2012

"Canadians pay more to support the Queen per person than the Brits do. Let me say that again: Canadians pay more. Not less. Not an equal share. More."

2nd Nottingham Zine Fair

Fri 18 May 2012

It's time to celebrate the world of glue, paper, scissors and pens on the 26 May

A Canadian on the British Government

Sun 29 Apr 2012

"Privatising the police force. How do you even do that? Adorn police stab vests with 888.com patches, like him off the snooker?"

A Canadian On Cycling

Sat 24 Mar 2012

Think once, think twice, think Rob Cutforth in tight fluorescent lycra…

A Canadian on British Winters

Thu 02 Feb 2012

"In Alberta, the earth would have to open up and swallow a city school before it would close. Even then you would only get the afternoon off"

A Canadian on the British Christmas

Sat 24 Dec 2011

"Why do you do this to yourselves?"

A Canadian at Goose Fair

Wed 05 Oct 2011

We dispatched our resident CanAlien Rob Cutforth off to Goose Fair, and told him not to come back without a slab of coconut ice, some brandy snap and an Elvis mirror...