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Ballet Black

A disappointing return for a top-class company let down by mediocre choreography

Live: Bru-C Black 'N Red EP Launch

We went down to Rough Trade to see a rapper who's making movements on the Nottingham scene and beyond

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"I’m glad that Rock City has stuck around like a shelter from the storm. It's good when you have a club that has that energy to it and has been taken care of"

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

"I’m glad that Rock City has stuck around like a shelter from the storm. It's good when you have a club that has that energy to it and has been taken care of"

Art Works: Kirsty Black

"I'll be stood in ASDA and see someone who looks like a Quentin Blake character from a Roald Dahl book, and I'll go home and draw them"

Art Works: Kirsty Black

"I'll be stood in ASDA and see someone who looks like a Quentin Blake character from a Roald Dahl book, and I'll go home and draw them"

Untangling the Politics of Black Hair: Bea Udeh on Black Hair

Nottingham’s art galleries are obsessed with hair at the moment, and why on earth not? From straight to frizzy, soft curls to tight spirals, black to blonde, short to long, our hair is shaped and styled as a way to express ourselves. With the upcoming discussion at New Art Exchange, Untangling the Politics of Black Hair, Nottingham Playhouse curator and Mouthy Poet Bea Udeh talks Afro hair...

Ballet Black

The company that celebrates black and Asian dancers gave classic Shakespeare a cheeky twist in their latest production

Interview: Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang

In The Woman Who Lost China Nottingham-based author Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang takes us back to 1949 where the Chinese Republic is collapsing under Mao Tse Tung’s communist onslaught.

Interview: Michael Eaton on Fellow Traveller

"There’s nobody else who has spread across all the generations in so many forms"

The Black Keys

Toby Kebbell Dead Mans Shoes Interview

Notts actor Toby Kebbell has got a lot to be proud of. His first major part, as Anthony  in Shane Meadow's influencial Dead Man's Shoes earned him a Most Promising Newcomer nomination (British Independent Film Awards).Since then he's landed parts in Oliver Stone's Alexander and Woody Allen's newest project. He writes books and plays and on the side, he's studying plumbing. And, ladies and gentlemen, he is still just 22 years young.

Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman

If you thought Elizabeth in Blackadder was extreme, here she is a manipulative, foul-mouthed, incontinent hermaphrodite on the verge of insanity

The Woman In Black

Everything is here. The rocking chair that rocks on its own, a spooky carriage in the mist and the mysterious figure...