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Skate for Life: Chris Lawton on How Skateboarding in the City Has Progressed Over the Past Year

Skate Nottingham’s Chris Lawton reflects on the events of the past year, exploring how skateboarding continues to help people in Nottingham...

Summer in the City: Three Nottingham BID Members on The Re-Opened City Centre

It’s been a long time coming, but it feels like life is finally being breathed back into Nottingham. The city centre no longer resembles the ghost town it has done for the majority of the past year; in its place, pavements are covered with Parisian-style seating, filled with friends laughing and catching up over long-overdue drinks. And with the next deadline of May 17, in which dozens more venues like cinemas, arcades and bowling alleys will open, just around the corner, it’s a time to be cautiously optimistic that the city is finally returning to normal. To celebrate the city’s next steps to opening up, we spoke to some of the Nottingham Business Improvement District locations to find out how the process of reopening has gone, and to find out which places they’re most excited to visit...

We Tried Wild Swimming in Colwick Park...

While your morning trip to Colwick Park might usually be reserved for a brisk dog walk, fitness group Whole Health are encouraging nature lovers to experience the beauty spot in an entirely new way. Is wild swimming the cure to all physical and mental ailments, or just a quick way to lose your toes to frostbite? Our Assistant Editor, Emily Thursfield, finds out… 

Antenna Are Relaunching Nottingham’s Most Cutting-Edge Co-working Space

After many months of working from home, you might breathe a sigh of relief when you hear that Antenna are reopening their doors to welcome members (and newbies) back to their state-of-the-art co-working spaces.

Nusic New Music Podcast #246 with Beka, Saint Raymond, Wolf Club, Spotlight Kid and More...

This week’s New Music Podcast features the return of festivals, the return of Saint Raymond, plus the return of last-minute venues to host live sessions. 

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Nottingham Playhouse Announces Big Names for Digital Theatre Project Still Life

The digital theatre anthology features some well known faces from British television and film...

This Girl Can Teams Up with The Renewal Trust for Series of Sporting Summer Roadshows

The summer roadshows will offer women and their families the chance to try out a range of new sports and activities for free...

Confetti Set to Host British Esports Championship Live Grand Finals this July

The educational institute have teamed up with the British Esports Association to bring one of the biggest events on the esports calendar to Nottingham...

Beeston Set To Welcome New State-of-the-Art Multiplex Cinema

Notts film fans will get the chance to check out a brand new eight-screen cinema at the end of next month...

Feelgood Films: The Movies That Lift Our Spirits

Movies have long been a way to lift the spirits, providing heartwarming moments and tonnes of laughs, fist-pumping action and that ugly happy-cry you do when star-crossed lovers finally end up together. To tie in with our recent self-care issue of the mag, the LeftLion screen team dive into their favourite feelgood films of all time...

Tentickle Toys: The Notts-Based Sex Toy Specialists Offering Something Different

In a year when human-to-human interaction has been strictly forbidden, the sex toy industry has boomed, with more and more people finding pleasure without a partner. With a long and successful career in film prosthetics under her belt, Jayne Hyman took the opportunity to create her own brand of customisable, manga-inspired sex toys, Tentickle…

LeftLion Sustainability Statement

The climate and nature crisis is the biggest issue humanity has collectively faced, and locally we’re already feeling its impact. Throughout our twenty year history we’ve always cared about the planet, but for the last few years in particular we’ve been working hard to better understand and address our environmental impact directly.

Saving the Sherwood Library Cherry Trees

TV Review: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

This Captain America spin-off series is a welcome return to the excitement of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, writes Michael Vince...

YMCA Calls for Your Memories for 150 Stories Campaign

The Nottinghamshire charity is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 Stories, an exhibition curated from your memories and experiences...

Wollaton Hall Set For World Exclusive T-Rex Exhibition This Summer

The first Tyrannosaurus Rex to be exhibited in England for over a century will arrive in Nottingham this summer.

Grandad: A Photo Series Showing The Isolation of the Older Generation During Lockdown By Photographer Naomi Williams

It was a single beam of light which inspired Notts-born and Bristol-based photographer Naomi Williams’ Grandad, a series which explores the feeling of loneliness during a global pandemic, and how the interiors of a house represent a person through their belongings...

Inspiring the Next Generation: Shekayla Maragh on Running Workshops to Help Musicians Create Lasting Jobs in the Industry

Tenacious, driven, yet always humble, Shekayla Maragh is a cultural producer making moves for musicians in the Midlands. Supporting minority musical talent on a regional level, encouraging people to have ownership, equality and build careers with integrity and longevity is important to Shekayla. She turned down a traditional industry A&R role in London to carve out her own organic career path; staying curious and being empowered by her work is also key. Led by her passion, she launched musical development agency, CUBE, in 2019...

Win Tickets to Every Motorpoint Arena Show For the Next Year

Nottingham's biggest live venue are welcoming people back with the biggest competition in their history...

Film Review: The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Andra Day literally sparkles in this moving and cinematic biopic about an American tragedy, writes Roshan Chandy...

Film Review: Sound of Metal

Hollie Anderson bangs the drum for Sound of Metal’s story of reliance, recovery and resilience.

School of Hard Notts: Twelve Year Old Jagoda Brown-Polanowska on Returning to Class and Saving the Planet

Jagoda Brown-Polanowska has been contributing to LeftLion throughout the pandemic, updating us on the state of affairs through the eyes of a twelve-year-old. As students have returned to a COVID-age schooling, we hear how uncomfortable masks, loneliness and Google Meet are a part of the story that shaped the next generation… 

Nusic No Rules Session: Alex Mighten - Take The Leap (Prod. Jack Wolff)

The next No Rules session - the NG legend that is Alex Mighten (ya may know him as Karizma)...

Notts Screenwriter William Ivory on the Films That Influenced His Success

Southwell’s own William Ivory, BAFTA-nominated screenwriter of Made in Dagenham and Burton and Taylor, discusses the films that have influenced him throughout the years – from the scarring impact of Bambi to the rage-inducing absurdity of The Lighthouse...

Meet Coralie: The Electronic Producer Carving Out His Own Sound

Coralie is a Nottingham-based DJ and producer whose work in the studio has been attracting serious attention. With news of an EP coming out soon, Rory Evans catches up with the man responsible for making some of the most recognisable tunes to come out of the city, finding out more about his releases, his inspirations and how he makes music…