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Pick of the Week: 12 - 18 January

Wondering what to do with your life? Fear not, we have separated the wheat from the chaff to give you an idea

Pick of the Week: 5 - 11 January

With stuff to help you stick to your resolutions, and some that might tempt you to break some, step inside

Pick of the Week: 5 - 11 January

With stuff to help you stick to your resolutions, and some that might tempt you to break some, step inside

Top of the Notts 2014

A round-up of some of our favourite music that has come out of Nottingham this year

Top 14 LeftLion Articles of the Year

We get all nostalgic and have a look back at the cream of our wordy crop from the past twelve months

Tales From The Darker Side Of Winter

Mike Payton and Tim Ralph give us a few winter's tales on a storytelling night in Beeston

In Focus: I'm Not From The Farmyard

Two of the city's most musical men joined forces to tell us a few secrets in disturbing, pictorial form

Pick of the Week: 15 - 21 December

The turkeys and nut roasts are getting fat, and there's plenty of seasonal fun to be had

What Notts #1

Some weird stuff what happened in the ends over the month of November, including a dirty dentist, the Gordon Scott monkey, fires and more

Notts Nosh Kitchen

Pick of the Week: 8 - 14 December

With poetry and storytelling gigs, a video game documentary, a Christmas covers party, the chance to get your face snapped, and more

I'm Not From London Studios

I'm Not From London have branched out and opened a brand spanking new recording suite

Pick of the Week: 1 - 7 December

Ditch the winter blues with things to do. This week there's cinema screenings, art exhibitions, an austerity protest, a sunny reggae gig and more

15 Bands You Wish You'd Seen At The Bodega

As The Bodega (formerly The Social) celebrates its fifteenth birthday, we look at fifteen bands who played there before they made it big

Live: Farmyard presents Natalie Duncan and Friends

One of Nottingham’s greatest musical exports returns to her home town to collaborate with a host of local vocals and musical talents

Pick of the Week: 17 - 23 November

We've started to mention Christmas... sorry. There's loads of other stuff going off if you're still burying your head in the sand, though

Interview: Origin One

After dominating this year’s summer line-ups, Origin One now possess a body of work with a bassweight to bust your tabs ten times over. With their reggae, dub and digi-dancehall vibes, they’ve become notorious in Nottingham for turning rooms wild. We caught up with Kevin Thompson, the bloke behind the beats…

Pick of the Week: 10 - 16 November

Get your hat and scarf on and go and grab yourself some fun

Street Tales: Body Snatchers of Barker Gate

During the Industrial Revolution, advancement in medical sciences came to Nottingham and with them, a gruesome new trade...

Interview: Chris Read

One of Notts’ best loved servants and county cricket’s most respected performers, Chris Read arrived at Trent Bridge seventeen years ago and has been club captain for the last seven of those. We caught up with the Outlaws’ talisman to reflect on his time here…

Interview: Alex from Ideas on Paper

Despite the digital revolution, reading a magazine on a device is never quite as good as the real thing. It’s not all nostalgia - although yes, there is something wonderful about flicking through pages at leisure while getting a hit of the distinctive smell of ink and paper - physical print is actually easier to read. We spoke to Alex Smith, the man behind the independent magazine shop Ideas On Paper, about why print is here to stay...

Pick of the Week: 13 - 19 October

Enter into the world of Nottingham events. You'll only find the cream of the crop in this here breakdown

Photos: Soul Buggin' 10th Birthday

They love a good party, especially when it's celebrating a decade of them

Pick of the Week: 6 - 12 October

Let's hope you didn't empty your pockets too much last week at Gooseh, there's some right good stuff coming up

Lenton Flats from This Is England and Control Scheduled for Demolition

Once a shining hope for the post-war housing crisis, and the backdrop for films such as This Is England, Control and Weekend, the Lenton Flats were slated for demolition three years ago. By late 2015 they will be but a memory. We look into why they outlasted similar housing projects and why the five tower blocks are the subject of Rubber Goat Films’ latest documentary.