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We Sit Down With the Organisers of Nottinghamshire Pride 2022 to Discuss What People Can Expect
Fri 22 Jul 2022Craig Martin, co-chair of Nottinghamshire Pride, chats to us about the exciting plans for this year's celebrations...
10 Years Later: The Dark Knight Rises
Wed 20 Jul 2022The finale of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is now ten years old and, even though it doesn't live up to its predecessor, it's still one of top superhero films that Warner Bros has put out…
Film Review: Faya Dayi
Mon 18 Jul 2022This Ethiopian documentary is one of the most beautiful films of the year so far…
5 of the Best Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: Big City Reads, Splendour Festival and More
Mon 18 Jul 2022Mulholland Drive, MANIFESTO and Anne-Marie are all in Notts this week...
We Dive Into Kendo, the Ancient Martial Art Dubbed ‘The Way of the Sword'
Sat 16 Jul 2022Is there anything more impressive than sword fighting? We’ve seen it in films like The Last Samurai and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and tried our hand (more or less) in games like Elden Ring and The Witcher. Yet through kendo, the ancient practice dubbed “the way of the sword”, you can have the chance to do it for real. Despite its exhilarating premise on paper, though, it is the martial art’s values of respect, decency and self-improvement that are most important…
Theatre Review: A One-Act Event by the West Bridgford Dramatic Society
Thu 14 Jul 2022This talented stage group continues to prove itself as a hub for up-and-coming talent...
Dumi Siwo Joins Forces With Nottin Industry to Give Advice to Those Wanting a Career in the Music Industry
Thu 14 Jul 2022Interested in the music industry and want to know more about working in this digital age? Nottin Industry has the perfect event for you…
A Retrospective: Dr. Who and the Daleks/Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Tue 12 Jul 2022Way back in the sixties, Doctor Who hit the big screen with a double-whammy of Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. - we see if they hold up in the 21st century...
Nottingham Artist Victoria Hayward Discusses Pysanky, the Traditional Egg-Decorating Technique She's Using to Raise Money for Ukraine
Mon 11 Jul 2022Victoria Hayward explains how she is using her artist residency at City Arts to decorate 100 eggs using a traditional Ukrainian batik dye technique, raising money for the Ukraine DEC appeal in the process
How Nottingham’s Stone Soup Academy Are Using Comedy to Crack Down on Knife Crime
Fri 08 Jul 2022Though it may have fallen out of popular conversation, knife crime is still a major issue in Nottingham, according to Oliver Sillito from the city’s Stone Soup Academy. That’s why the free school is throwing a creative showcase on Tuesday 19 July to open up conversation and challenge standing perceptions about young people and crime…
35 Years Later: Wings of Desire
Tue 05 Jul 2022This year marks the 35th anniversary of Wim Wenders’ cultured, epic but intrinsically human film: Wings of Desire. The anniversary is marked with a new 4K restoration, screening at cinemas around the world...
We Dive Into Nottingham Forest’s History-Making Season, Which Saw Them Return to the Premier League for the First Time in 8,414 Days
Sat 02 Jul 2022A kebab shop with a firework-fuelled marketing masterstroke. Depeche Mode blaring from passing cars. Our right-back’s mother carried shoulder high in her Calippo-fluorescent replica shirt rhyming ‘shite’ with ‘dynamite’. Red smoke. Handwritten plans taped to a water bottle wrapped in a towel. Que sera, sera…
We Took a Trip to 200 Degrees’ New Milton Street Store - Here’s What We Thought
Mon 20 Jun 2022200 Degrees is one of Nottingham's most successful businesses - rapidly becoming big players in the coffee scene. We took a trip to their new store opposite Victoria Centre to see what all the fuss is about...
5 Things to do in Nottingham This Week
Sun 19 Jun 2022Nirvana meets Elvis, feminist zines and the Sherwood art week. This week has it all.
Discover How Sauce Shop Went From Selling Bottles at West Bridgford Farmers’ Market to Stocking the Shelves of Sainsbury’s
Sat 18 Jun 2022From selling twenty bottles in a gazebo at West Bridgford Farmers’ Market to being stocked on the shelves of Sainsbury’s and Morrisons up and down the country, the last eight years have been a pretty wild ride for Sauce Shop. But the Notts-based purveyors of artisanal sauces are never one to rest on their laurels, this could just be the beginning of their success story, as co-founder Pam Digva tells us…
Theatre Review: Derren Brown
Wed 15 Jun 2022The multi-award winning master of mind control and illusion, Derren Brown is back in Nottingham with Showman, his first new live show for six years…
5 of the Most Fun Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: Warhammer, Nottingham Craft Beer Festival and More
Mon 13 Jun 2022Mountain tours, mini-figure battles and magazine-making are all on the agenda this week...
Rapper, Poet and Podcaster. Jah Digga Is A Major Player In the Nottingham Creative Scene
Sun 12 Jun 2022Few Notts artists have made the sort of impact Jah Digga has over the past decade. The rapper, spoken word performer and podcaster is involved with countless creative projects, from working with schools and youth groups to help combat knife crime to recording the No Blacks, No Irish podcast with co-host Derry Shillitto, he’s just about seen and done it all. We caught up with him fresh off the back of Poetz off the Endz, an evening he curated and hosted as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival, to talk about the importance of sharing a positive message, overcoming fear and what his own priorities are moving forward…
Review: Detonate Festival 2022
Sat 11 Jun 2022Nottingham’s outdoor electronic music festival Detonate returned last weekend to the grounds of Colwick Park bringing some of the biggest names in electronic music right now…
Duo Jimmy Rocket and LVNDLXRD Talk Their New EP, and the Notts Music Scene
Sat 11 Jun 2022There aren’t too many duos doing it better than Jimmy Rocket and LVNDLXRD (aka Curtz) right now. Having been part of the musical fabric of the city for years, the lyrical/producer match-up is garnering praise for the release of their latest EP, Bespoke Verses, which also features the likes of Rico and Vandal Savage. Music Co-Editor Elliot Farnsworth sat down with the pair fresh off the back of a string of shows to find out more about one of the most exciting recent collaborations in the Notts music scene…
A Rich History in Danger: Photographer Nathan Langman Muses on the Iconic Victoria Centre Market.
Thu 09 Jun 2022For the last few months, Notts photographer Nathan Langman has been taking pictures at Victoria Centre’s iconic market - capturing the nostalgic simplicity of a long-running collective tradition. But faced with soaring rent and utility bills, many of these pillars of the community are at risk of collapse, and there is now a fear that this cherished city spot could be lost to history…
Out of Time: Exploring the History of the Victorian Freak Show With Author Dr John Jacob Woolf
Tue 07 Jun 2022How is it that, in the space of less than a century, society’s attitudes towards people born with disabilities changed from them being exploited as the most popular form of entertainment in Victorian society to being seen with sympathy, dignity and respect? Partly based on our intrinsic fear and fascination with ‘the other’, and partly down to a myriad of other reasons - including the intervention of Queen Victoria herself - the freak show played an enormous role in shaping modern attitudes, and remains one of the most macabre, unusual and complex periods of British cultural history. Ahead of his talk at Nottingham Theatre Royal this month, Dr John Jacob Woolf, historian, author and expert on the Victorian freak show, explains more…
Review: Dot To Dot Festival 2022
Wed 01 Jun 2022Nottingham's famous city centre festival Dot to Dot returned last weekend and it brought a range of phenomenal up and coming local and national artists...
It's One of the UK's Biggest Fears, But We Find Out Why Spiders Aren't All That Bad...
Wed 01 Jun 2022Spiders - they’re pretty creepy, right? Without a doubt. But they’re also remarkably smart, they play a vital role in our ecosystems, and they are mostly harmless here in the UK. So is it time to start looking at spiders in a different light? Dr Christopher Terrell-Nield, a Biosciences expert at Nottingham Trent University, certainly thinks so…
7 Fun Things to Do in Nottingham This Week: Meadowlands, Detonate, Wrestling and More
Mon 30 May 2022Live music, live wrestling and a live Q&A with two of the UK's best crime writers - all coming up this week in Notts...
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