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Nick Wood on The Underground Man at Nottingham Playhouse

"He's mainly known for being an eccentric who built loads of tunnels and a huge underground ballroom underneath Welbeck Abbey – but there was so much more to him"

Curious Manor

The Man Behind The Sneinton Dragon: Robert Stubley

I saw a dragon gate by Gaudi, in Barcelona, and I thought, "I'll have a go at making a dragon in my spare time."

Music Video: Mannequin - Shark Eyes

Giving us a taster of the band's forthcoming Nobody's Listening EP

Mannequin Answer Our Questions in Photos

A three-piece rock 'n' roll band who like to smack you right in the face with their off-the-wall blend of punk, garage and art rock

The Intake Club in Mansfield is Closing Down

The venue is set to close its doors for the last time on 4 June. We look back and say goodbye

Interview: 8mm Orchestra Ahead of Their Vinyl EP Launch at NVA

"...we wanted to get away from the post-rock eight minuters and come up with riffs and lots of movement and parts"

Billie Interview

"I loved singing Hannah Montana and would record myself over and over until I got the best take"

Doug Fishbone on his Latest Exhibition, Leisure Land Golf

"It's golf, it's inherently fun. So even if we wanted to talk about some heavily political things, like we have, it always has a certain lightness of touch"

Filmmaker Interview: Jonathan Hawes

We had a chat with the Notts bred filmmaker and his recent short film On the Wagon

Interview: We Are Scientists

"It’s actually a pretty frequent problem for me - I wear a lot of hats in public, to thwart inappropriate hair tousling"

Interview: David Lilley talks Short Stack

We spoke to the man behind the regular short film screening event

Van the Man Banged Up in Nottingham

Local cartoonist and general badass, Brick, has done us a comic about one of the biggest and best typos in Nottingham

Interview: Ben Wheatley talks High-Rise

We spoke to the film director about his latest film, in cinemas now, adapted from the JG Ballard novel

Interview: Local Filmmaker Jason M.J Brown

We spoke to the film director about his new horror feature film Dark Vale

Big Fish Little Fish - Take Your Kids Raving in Nottingham

"Everyone has a mad old time raving along to some of their favourite tunes from 'the old days' - it's brilliant to see all the smiley faces with kids on parents shoulders bouncing up and down to a bit of drum 'n' bass"

Art Works: Tony Fisher Photography

"Birds – particularly deceased ones – feature a lot in my work. A Little Death At McDonald's, for example, is of a bird who smashed into a window at a burger place I was eating at in Almeria, Spain, and fell at my feet"

New Mansfield Club Night for People with Learning Disabilities

"We want to involve people to make TENFIFTY a club night that is run by and for people with a learning disability"

Mantic Games: Bridging The Gap Between Tabletop Miniatures and Board Games

"I thought some of the areas Games Workshop no longer focused on could be interesting businesses, so Mantic was born"

Theatre Interview: Maggie Fox of Lip Service

"The more people have seen our work, the more mad and ridiculous we can become!"

Interview: Ben Bloore of B Squared Productions

Interview with Any Means Necessary Actor Kate Sissons

"They were having seriously intimate relationships with people, and lying to them for years on end. That cannot be good for their psyche. You're bound to crack at some point"

Interview with Kate Sissons

Hinds Interviewed by Babe Punch

"It's a fact we are not that popular in Spain and it sucks because we love Spain"

No Man's Audience

"Anyone who hides books away because they might offend is only a step away from burning them"