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Film review: The Last Spy

Katherina Otto-Bernstein’s insightful documentary ‘The Last Spy’ delves into the life of Peter Sichel, a German-born Jew who served in the United States’ secret service throughout the aftermath of Nazi occupation and throughout the Cold War.

Yellow Days

Lastheatre Christmas at Lakeside: the Littlest Yak

Theatre Review: The Last Noel at the Lace Market Theatre

At the Lace Market Theatre, Christmas nostalgia meets the sting of memory,  with nowhere to hide from either...

The Last Noel by Chris Bush

Vona Vella - The 3rd and Last Time!

Gig review: The Last Dinner Party at The Level

Nottingham's Shakespeare Street is lined with hundreds of people dressed in long skirts, corsets and Victorian-esque clothing. Some wear hoodies with red embroidered writing that says From The Pyre. We know we're in the right place: The Level, where the incredible The Last Dinner Party are performing their latest album, released only a few days before...

October Half Term Family Activities: Dream Days

Heritage Open Days -historical Trial Reenactment

Heritage Open Days - Architecture Tour

Theatre Review: The Last Stand Of Mary Whitehouse at the Nottingham Playhouse

Today's youth might think Mary Whitehouse was some cartoonish figure-of-fun. A prude and a bigot, leftover from the Victorian era. Not at all. Known as the most dangerous woman in England at the time, she wreaked havoc. The Playhouse's brand new play shares the horror...  

The Last Noel - Auditions

The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse

Playwright Caroline Bird on writing The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse

The Playhouse continues its streak of consequential new plays with the upcoming The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse, starring Maxine Peake behind those infamous horn-rimmed spectacles. Caroline Bird speaks to Leftlion about how and why she wrote about the 'most dangerous woman in Britain'... 

Save the last dance: how Torvill and Dean put Nottingham on the ice dancing map

Beeston, 14 February 1984. I was fourteen, with nowhere to go for Valentine’s Day and zero interest in ice skating. However, these were the days of four TV channels (and the fourth was quite new), so mass TV events were a must watch. Plus Torvill and Dean were from Nottingham! So, we joined the twenty million to tune in to their Bolero at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics…

Three days of darkness and light: the Nottingham attacks as they happened

Two years on, Benedict Cooper remembers how the city came together in the wake of the Nottingham attacks, in which students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber and caretaker Ian Coates were tragically killed.

The halcyon days of printed matchday programmes and a long-forgotten 1980s Notts County football tournament

In an increasingly technology-driven era in football, Julian McDougall harks back to the halcyon days of the printed matchday programme and a long-forgotten 1980s football tournament Notts County took part in…

Film Review: One of Them Days

Keke Palmer and SZA are the comical duo we didn’t know we needed. Join us as we review this jam-packed tragicomedy… 

Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Tribute)

Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Tribute

Tubeway Days - the Gary Numan Live Experience 1979/'80

The Last Horror Show at Backlit is a creepy yet curiously dark delight

Backlit Gallery have just launched their new, Halloween-appropriate exhibition The Last Horror Show, we went along to check out its otherwordly appeal...

Until the Last Drop + Q&a

The Last Dinner Party

LeftLion's Latest Listens #6: Notts music we're currently spinning

After a week off, LeftLion's Latest Listens is back with our music team's picks of the latest and greatest sounds from all around Nottingham and the Midlands. This time, we feature new releases from Drew Thomas, London Grammar, The Days of Tomorrow, The Publics and flöat...