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Nottingham’s Best Independent Business 2017 Revealed

The decision has been made. But who has been given the crown?

Blues Singer Louis Antoniou Discusses His Latest Single And Playing In Nottingham

Watch the music video for the song I Don't Want No More Woes...

Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition 2017 Prize Awards

Theatre Review: MissImp Present Millions of Voices

Join Miss Imp for the touching story of a Twilek's erotic adventures

Neil Fulwood talks about the making of his debut poetry collection, No Avoiding It

“The poems are entirely personal expressions. There’s nothing owed, no debt to anybody else’s artistic legacy”

The Best in the Independent Biz

Ears to the ground, it's all kicking off...

Poet Panya Banjoko on Nottingham’s First Young Poet Laureate

Panya Banjoko, aka Panya The Poet, is a Nottingham-based writer who’s performed at the 2012 Olympic Games, as part of the award-winning film Brit I Am directed by Andi Osho, and as part of a BBC documentary based on the Olympian Jamie Baulch. On top of all this, her work has featured in various journals and publications, including Guardian Award-winning online graphic novel Dawn of the Unread, and she’s the co-founder of Nottingham Black Archive. We steadied ourselves, and had a chat with the local legend...

Meet the Two Notts Students Breaking into the Brewing World

Ashley Wadeson and Dan Boxall don’t do things by halves – more like by the gallon. As the two MSc Brewing Science students prepare to launch their new collaborative beer with Black Iris Brewery as part of their course, they tell us more about probably the coolest dissertation project in the world, why they’re a hit at house parties, and their plans for beery world domination…

From Lithuania to Lenton: Stephan Collishaw talks fiction, education, and travel

Author, publisher, teacher and family man Stephan Collishaw has made a name for himself with his Lithuanian lit publishing press Noir, and his own thriller writing. We had him in for a chat about books, Lithuania and Nottingham with the editor of the NottsLit blog.

A Week Inside Labour's "Unwinnable" Broxtowe Campaign

A Labour campaigner gives us the inside scoop on Broxtowe's tense 2017 election battle...

Isaac at Lakeside's Wheee! Festival

Our cutest LeftLion vlogger Isaac went to Wheee! festival at The Lakeside Arts. He saw, he ran, he played, he laughed. If you don't find it adorable you have a heart of stone. Yes, stone.

Live Music Review: Invisible Orchestra at Nottingham Masonic Hall

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

Festival Fashion with Independent Nottingham Designers

As the sun starts to stir from its mighty slumber, folk in Nottingham rejoice. The days are getting longer, the trees are in bloom, beach breaks are being booked and there’s another very important thing on a lot of our minds... festival season. Whether you’re planning on trudging through mud at Glasto, dancing with your dad at Splendour, getting down and dirty at Boomtown or jetting off to hotter climbs in Croatia, we know you’re going to do it in true Notts style.

We’ve been doing a little digging around the city to find the best garms and accessories for you, and have created a festival fashion-inspired lookbook to feast your eager eyes upon. Everything made, designed and sourced in Nottingham...

Music Video: Stacey McMullen - I Wait

Interview with Twin Kidd ahead of their appearance at Dot To Dot Festival

We put some questions to the electro-pop three-piece who will be playing two sets on Sunday...

Interview: Thibault Delferiere

How one artist makes his unique body into art.

Dolcino: Proper Italian Gelato in Nottingham

We got down to sample the cold and tasty goods...

American Poet, Rapper and Political Activist Akua Naru is Coming to Nottingham

Following on from her appearance at The Bodega last year, the internationally renowned hip hop artist, poet and political campaigner Akua Naru is set to land in Nottingham once more, this Sunday. Ahead of the gig at Saltbox Bar, as part of Acoustickle, Vince Wilson talks wanderlust, and how it relates to the star who’s about to grace our humble Notts stage…

Artist Keith Piper on the Importance of Forest Rec

Keith Piper studied art at Trent Polytechnic in the early eighties, and went on to a major academic and artistic career, showing his paintings, digital pieces and video works internationally. Piper was a key figure in the BLK Art Group, heavily featured in The Place is Here, at Nottingham Contemporary, and he continues to address social and political questions in his work. We caught up with him to talk science-fiction, history painting, Ancient Egyptian burials and the importance of the Forest Rec...

The Attenborough, Beeston, and Chilwell Arts Trail and The Importance of Artist Space

At the beginning of June, there's gonna be an art trail in Nottingham South, and our Rita is here to tell us all about it, and provide a little context to the idea...

Being Silent Isn’t Being Strong

Deke, 32, is a Shift Team Leader at Sainsbury’s. He also has battled with Anxiety and Depression. We caught up with him in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week to talk about his own experience with mental health, in the hope that it will encourage others to open up themselves. 

7 Write Lion Poetry Performances at Rough Trade

We miss Nottingham Poetry Festival. Very much. We whacked on a night made up of some of the poets featured on our printed pages over the past year or so, and our mate David Belbin made a few videos of the boggers. Enjoy!

Quiet Riot Collected Anthology Launch at Nottingham Poetry Festival in Photos

Inflatable Structure Don Alan Parkinson Talks The New Luminarium Albesila at Highfields Park

Founded 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

PubhD. 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...