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Music Video: Grey Hairs - On and Off

The band have a brand new EP out and you can download it for free...

Oscar and Rosie's Have Kicked Us Out

Oscar & Rosie’s has been filling bellies with the best pizza in town for over three years, and now they’re moving premises; to the old LeftLion offices, at The Corner on Stoney Street, no less. We gave restaurant owner and friend Olly Hunter a bell to find out a bit more about his dough-based endeavours, and how he plans to top what he’s created so far…

Left Line-Out: Season Preview

On the eve of the new rugby season, we have a look at the Green & Whites and why you should get yourself down to the Lady Bay Sports Ground this season.

Overheard in Notts

We worry about your lot sometimes...

Review: Summer Nights Outdoor Cinema does Dirty Dancing

"I carried a watermelon"

Book Reviews: Bum Apple Freak Show and Other Stories

Here, have some words about words...

Gay in the 80s: From Fighting for Our Rights to Fighting for Our Lives

The eighties was a period of mixed fortunes for Britain’s LGBT+ communities, or lesbian and gay communities as we were known then. Sustained campaigning throughout the seventies had, by the turn of that decade, seen LGBT+ rights moving into the mainstream political agenda, but the emergence of AIDS in 1981 hit us on both a personal and political level...

An Ode to Brown Betty's

Our favourite St James' street cafe is closing. And we are in mourning...

Theatre Review: Out of Order

May the farce be with you…

Make Your Own Robot with MeArm Pi

Mime Industries are a local company that create build-it-yourself robotic kits, and people can use them to learn to code. To support the release of their newest product, the MeArm Pi, they ran a Kickstarter campaign that was quickly oversubscribed, with 852 backers pledging a whopping £56,376. We sat down with company founder, Ben Pirt; a man who’s very handy with robot arms...

Save Our Heritage with Notts Mining Museum

Ann Donlan and Eric Eaton have got together in an attempt to launch the Notts Mining Museum, in commemoration of our history dahn pit. But they need your help...

Overheard in Notts

You what?

Advertising Sectioned: Tony Gardner, Your Labour & Co-Operative Candidate for Beeston (October 1974)

Local adverts ripped from the pages of history...

Street Tales: The Origins of Nottingham

“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

The 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…

Treat Yourself at Ye Olde Bell Hotel

Our Lucy didn't half have a right good time...

One Day Cup Final: Nottinghamshire vs Surrey

With Nottinghamshire in the final of the Royal London Cup against Surrey at Lords, we headed down to the big smoke for a day to see if our boys could return with the trophy.

Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

Theatre Review: Nonsuch presents The Party's Over at Nottingham Lakeside Arts

We got down to Lakeside's Djanogly Theatre to check out the latest offering from local heads Nonsuch...

Get Drunk and Draw over at Rough Trade

We wanted to know a little more about that there art event...

A Smoking New Exhibition Over At Nottingham Contemporary

If you’ve been wondering what the bob is going off down Weekday Cross, don’t worry. There’s no fire. We repeat, no fire. There’s no Vape Nation kid chonging on his latest modified piece, and the clouds did not trip over a rogue sock on the stairs to land up in a heap at the bottom. Actually, there’s a new exhibition on at Nottingham Contemporary, and the plumes of water vapour are part of a new public commission that’s left us gritting our teeth with metaphor envy…

A History of Nottingham Open Tennis

Alongside Eastbourne and Queens, the Nottingham Open is one of the premier grass-court tournaments held in this country in the run-up to Wimbledon. But does success in Nottingham translate to success in London? We have a look back at past finalists to see how they got on…

Overheard in Notts

The daftest things you lot say...

Live Music Review: Invisible Orchestra at Nottingham Masonic Hall

The 24-piece funk and soul collective bring the party...

Our Literature Editor James Walker Says Goodbye

So long, and thanks for all the fiction...