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Return to Sender: How We Managed to Track Down the Author of a Postcard from 1908

Sat 07 Mar 2020

Postcards were the “u ok hun?” texts of their day. Used by past generations to check in on their distant siblings, and by more recent ones to boast about exotic holidays to their friends, they’ve never really been blessed with messages worth a third or forth glance. Which is why our Assistant Editor, Emily, was shocked to discover cards dating back to 1908 sitting on the shelf of Hopkinson Vintage, Antiques and Art Centre. She decided to track down the families of their senders, to ask them why…

Art Review: Crying Shadows, Flesh and Bones at Surface Gallery

Tue 25 Feb 2020

Our writer Shaw had a lot of thoughts about this...

The Nottingham Anime and Manga Society Meet Every Week for Special Screenings, Events and More

Mon 03 Feb 2020

Nottingham’s anime and manga society, aka NAMSOC, invited LeftLion to come to one of their weekly meetups to talk all things community, anime, and identity...

LeftLion Football Podcast Episode 5: Jim McRae on the Managerial Change at Mansfield

Fri 03 Jan 2020

Colin and Gareth are joined on the line by Jim McRae to discuss the managerial change at Mansfield. Largely positive festive results at both Forest and Notts PLUS why ‘The Snowman’ is to blame...

Out of Time: Fred Karno, the Man Who Discovered Charlie Chaplin

Fri 11 Oct 2019

From growing up on the streets of Nottingham to becoming a pioneer of British comedy, few people made as great an impact on the entertainment industry as Fred Karno. Credited with discovering Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, his meteoric rise to fame was only matched by his rapid fall from grace with the advent of film…

The Waco Siege: How a Man from Nottingham Became Part of an American Tragedy

Wed 24 Jul 2019

26 years ago, a religious centre in Texas was home to one of the most brutal massacres in US history. Among the survivors was Livingstone Fagan, a young man from Nottingham – but how did he get there, and what part did he have to play in the infamous and calamitous Waco siege?

Film Review: Spider-Man - Far From Home

Wed 10 Jul 2019

While Endgame was an excellent conclusion to the first decade of the Avengers saga, it left moviegoers with a lot of questions regarding the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The big task of answering these just so happens to fall on the shoulders of our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man - but is Far From Home a satisfying follow-up to this year’s biggest film?

Win Two Tickets to Splendour Festival 2019 with Manic Street Preachers, Rag'n'Bone Man, All Saints and More...

Tue 04 Jun 2019

There'll be plenty of local acts taking to the stage too...

Film Review: The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot

Mon 03 Jun 2019

Robert D. Krzykowski's slightly surreal American drama delivers exactly what it says on the tin...

The History of Robin Hood and His Links to The Green Man

Mon 25 Feb 2019

He’s plastered on movie posters, book covers, bank logos and the sides of buses, but there is a side to Robin Hood that you may not be aware of. Today, Literature Editor LP Mills takes a deep dive into the strange and ancient history of Nottingham’s best-loved outlaw, Robin Hood...

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at The Nottingham Contemporary

Fri 22 Feb 2019

A rainforest in the middle of Nottingham you say? I mean I know the weather's been positively tropical lately but that sounds rather absurd. Not in the art world. Our Dan got down to the Contemporary to check out how their new exhibition is more than just forestry...

Manu Delago's Parasol Peak: A Music and Film Project Recorded in the Alps

Mon 07 Jan 2019

What happens when a group of musicians lug their instruments up a mountain in the Alps to record an album? This month, multi-instrumentalist and composer Manu Delago brings his fascinating new project, Parasol Peak, to Metronome. Fusing music and film, the result is raw and mesmerising. We caught up with Manu ahead of the screening and live performance…

Film Review: The Old Man and the Gun

Wed 12 Dec 2018

We checked out the final film in the legendary career of Robert Redford...

The Nottingham Hidden History Team Have Saved Many a Cave From Destruction

Fri 07 Dec 2018

The Nottingham Hidden History Team, fittingly, have been around for yonks. Uncovering all sorts of tales about this city of ours, the organisation has saved caves from being destroyed in local redevelopment, and has held the torch up to many-a past goings-on. LeftLion Street Tales columnist and current member of the organisation, Joe Earp, gives us a little look-in to the origins of the team, and what’s driven them to lift the lid on Notts, for the past fifty years...

Film Review: Mandy

Sat 20 Oct 2018

Is Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy more than just a Nicolas Cage movie?

Poetry Profile: A Self-Help Group for People With Too Many Feelings

Thu 06 Sep 2018

One year on from their debut, Between the Shadow and the Soul has quickly become a bastion of pleasant poetry. Ahead of their big birthday bash, I had a chat with co-founders Jim Sharpe and Kaia Hristova about the success of their infant poetry night, their own creative processes, and the importance of celebrating good feels.

Film Review: Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Sat 11 Aug 2018

There's bad films, there's terrible films, and then there's this pile of cack...

The Masked Man of Boomtown Talks Revolution

Thu 09 Aug 2018

Boomtown Fair – the immersive festival that tells the story of a grapple between revolutionaries and the establishment – has kicked off in Matterley Bowl, Hampshire. We grabbed the regime-toppling Masked Man for a chat as the tenth chapter kicks off good and proper...

Xylophone Man to be ‘Immortalised’ in Historic England exhibition?

Mon 30 Jul 2018

Nottingham legend Xylophone Man, aka Frank Robinson, may be about to be 'Immortalised' in a new exhibition down south by Historic England

Comedian Doug Stanhope Reckons The Fish Man Is Well Odd

Fri 01 Jun 2018

He’s one of those stand-ups that you’ve either never heard of or are obsessive about. British viewers may know him from a glut of appearances on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe and Screenwipe back in the early- and mid-noughties, but there’s a lot more to Doug Stanhope than that...