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11 Bangin' Beer Gardens in Notts
Wed 31 May 2017The old weather man is having a right laugh; sun one day, rain all week. That there Summer is being a right tease. But that doesn’t mean we can’t plan ahead for those rare days of sunshine and know exactly where to go when the sun's a shinin’ and our thirsts need a quenchin’...
Maria Toledo-Rodriguez Talks Fake News Ahead of Pint of Science Festival 2017
Fri 12 May 2017Last year, the international festival Pint of Science came to Nottingham for the first time. This year, it's coming back even bigger and better, with an additional emphasis on combining art and science. We sat down with one of the speakers, Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, to get the lowdown.
We Asked Notts How To Stay Happy...
Thu 11 May 2017We got ourselves down to Market Square to find out how you guys keep yourselves positive...
Inflatable Structure Don Alan Parkinson Talks The New Luminarium Albesila at Highfields Park
Wed 10 May 2017Founded in Notts, Architects of Air are famous for globally touring their giant, colourful, inflatable structures you can wander around in, and they’re bringing their latest offering home at the end of this month – that’s right, the luminarium is back. This time, it’s the brand new Albesila that’s landed, just in time for Architects of Air’s 25th birthday. Our Mary Dansie got down to experience the trippy tunnels first hand, and had a chat with the creator Alan Parkinson...
Talking Sexuality and Gender Identity in the Pub
Mon 08 May 2017PubhD. The evening that combines research with... pints. With the Lavender Language and Linguistics conference taking place in Nottingham, PubhD put on a special event, inviting some of the conference attendees to speak. The theme of the conference was Language, Gender and Identity, and each of the talks fitted into this theme...
Left Magpie: Notts County Football Season Round-up
Mon 08 May 2017Life at Meadow Lane is rarely dull and the 2016-17 season was no exception; the club doing its usual trick of taking a merry band of followers to the very edge of despair before, rather unusually, getting its shit together long before the traditional scramble to avoid relegation. The real intrigue, however, has been in the off-field matters...
Talking About Mental Illness Must Be Normalised
Sun 07 May 2017Student Ben Lomas, 20, has lived with anxiety and depression since he was a child. We caught up with him in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about his own experience with mental health, in the hopes that it will encourage others to open up themselves.
Notts County Cricket: April Round-Up
Thu 04 May 2017Our Gav gives us the cricket rundown of the month past...
What Notts: The Latest News and Stories
Thu 04 May 2017Find out what's been going off around and about Nottingham city for the past month...
Every Notts Act Playing This Year's Dot To Dot Festival
Fri 28 Apr 2017The definitive rundown of every local artist performing. Clue: It's long...
Kold Chillin' Talk Hip Hop Events at Rough Trade Nottingham
Thu 27 Apr 2017The legendary hip hop promoters fill us in on their events...
Ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie Talks Making Artificial Eyes in Nottingham
Tue 25 Apr 2017John Pacey-Lowrie is the only ocularist in the whole of the Midlands. He’s spent forty years perfecting his craft, and people travel from all over the world to be fitted with one of his handmade, acrylic prosthetic eyes. He is constantly striving to make his prosthetics as realistic as possible and is currently at the forefront of the development of an artificial dilating pupil which reacts to light...
Miner David Amos and Linguist Natalie Braber on Poetry in Pit Talk
Mon 24 Apr 2017If you don’t know your ‘elephant’s tab’ from your ‘Monday hammer’, fear not. Seventh generation miner David Amos and linguist Natalie Braber have all the gobbings you need to understand Pit Talk...
Quiet Riot: The Poets Who Do Not Talk, But Have Plenty To Say
Fri 21 Apr 2017Nottingham’s Maresa MacKeith is a poet, educator, and member of the Quiet Riot collective – a group of wordsmiths who are unique in their literary plight, in that each member communicates nonverbally. We visited Maresa to find out more about creating poetry by tapping on a letter board, what it feels like to have it voiced by a personal assistant through facilitated communication, and the Notts launch of the Quiet Riot anthology at Sobar…
Notts Coach Takes Over World’s Worst International Football Team
Tue 18 Apr 2017Chris Smith, a Nottingham-based football coach, who has worked previously with the likes of Nottingham Forest and Lincoln City, is picking up his passport this month to head to Micronesia, a country spread over 600 islands off the Western Pacific Ocean, to embark on one spectacular footballing journey...
Wired Cafe Talk Coffee Culture in Nottingham
Fri 14 Apr 2017Set up by Très and Vanessa Gretton-Roche in 2014, Wired was right at the front of Nottingham’s coffee shop revolution. We got the lowdown on their success...
NottsMan at The Angel Microbrewery: Local Poets and The Cockleman in Photos
Wed 12 Apr 2017On Sunday, NottsMan whacked on a community-filled day of music, poetry and activities in a bid to raise funds for Dave Bartram aka The Cockleman – the man who has been selling fish from his basket to Nottingham pub punters, for over 56 years. Recently, Dave was attacked which led to the discovery of early-stage cancer, which means he will be out of work for a while. So NottsMan organisers raised funds and showed support, all in a grand day of creativity...
Overheard in Notts
Tue 11 Apr 2017Here's what your lot have been chuntering on abaht over the past month...
9 Things to do as a Notts Newbie
Thu 06 Apr 2017Have you found yourself in a city surrounded by big gobs shouting 'Ayup duck!' and suchlike phrases? Are you confused and bewildered by all these new sounds and smells? Fear not, us owd mucker. Our favourite Notts newbie Alex Kuster has compiled a foolproof list of things to check out if you're new to the city, just as she did, with a hop, skip, and a stomp...
9 Notts Music Albums, Reviewed: Scorzayzee, Clay Shaped Boy, Damn Craters and more
Thu 06 Apr 2017If you're from Nottingham and you want your tunes reviewed, hit up leftlion.co.uk/sendusmusic...
What Notts: The Latest News and Stories
Wed 05 Apr 2017Find out what's been going on around and about the city for the past month...
Henry Normal Talks Nottingham Poetry Festival and His Castle Rock Brewery Beer
Tue 04 Apr 2017After the success of the first Nottingham Poetry Festival in Autumn 2015, there are over fifty events going on from Friday 21 - Sunday 30 April. We had a natter with curator and Baby Cow Productions funnyman Henry Normal to talk all things poetry, being a Nottingham lad and his new beer, obviously...
Nottingham Trent Win Notts Varsity Ice Hockey Match Two Years on the Trot
Tue 04 Apr 2017Once again, Trent trumps UoN on the ice with a score of 5-4. At Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham holds one of the biggest university events of the year...
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