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In photos: JJ Lovegrove and Chloe Rodgers at Buonissima Aperitivo Bar

Local multimedia artist JJ Lovegrove celebrated the launch of her new immersive album with a stunning performance at Buonissima Aperitivo Bar. Chloe Rodgers provided support...

Left Magpie: May - OLE OLE OLE

Notts County ARE League One!

LeftLion Magazine Issue #196 June 2026

Our June issue features The Foragers Kitchen, Selina Molinski (AKA Charity Shop Sue), Alison Rashley of Television Workshop, Dusty 4 Track, Green Meadows, artist Julian Pinnick, Nottingham Puppet Festival and lots more.

Ntu Arts Showcase: Myths, Monsters and Magic

24K Magic Men | A Tribute to Magic Mike

How UK Indie Magazines Are Rebuilding Community After Social Media Burnout

Independent magazines never set out to become refuges. They simply carried on being themselves. Something shifted around 2022. Not dramatically — more like a slow leak. Readers, writers and creatives across the UK began quietly stepping away from their feeds, worn down by the noise, the algorithms, and the performative sense of connection that social media had long marketed as community. What they discovered instead surprised even the people offering it: print. Independent magazines never set out to become refuges. They simply carried on being themselves.

Motown Magic

Left Magpie: Play Offs Again

Our Notts County columnist Julian McDougall reflects on a Notts County’s season that has delivered another play-off push - but under a model that feels as safe as it does limiting...

LeftLion Magazine Issue #195 May 2026

Featuring Green Hustle, Notts festivals, ALT BLK ERA, Breakin' Convention festival, Red Sea FC, cinema events by Will Bailey, and plenty more... 

Pick six: playwright Jane Upton

For this month’s Pick Six we turned to local playwright, Jane Upton, who’s new show Scenes from a Friendship comes to Nottingham Playhouse from Friday 15 May.

Le Freak | A Tribute to CHIC and Nile Rodgers

Laura Jane Grace

Left Magpie: The Ides of March and the Known Unknowns

As March turns to April and County face another ‘business end’, our resident columnist Julian McDougall ponders a set of known unknowns. 

MICHAEL | The Magic of Michael Jackson at Binks Yard

LeftLion Magazine Issue #194 April 2026

Featuring Notts County's James Belshaw, Dave Rowntree from Blur, Panya Banjoko, Lace Thief, John Dean's A Semester In Notts, Nadia Whittome on student loans, Nottingham record shops, Jim Glennie from James, and loads more... 

The Celine Experience Starring January Butler

Ntu Concert Band: Myths, Monsters and Magic

Left Magpie March: On the Eternal Recurrence of a Gnat’s Chuff

Julian McDougall's latest column covers the end of six on the bounce, a draw at the league leaders Bromley, two defeats (Shrewsbury and Grimsby), an unlucky red card and a 5-0 thrashing of Tranmere...

LeftLion Magazine Issue #193 March 2026

Featuring Hopkinson art and antiques, Nate Coltrane's Our Yard: Foundations, featured at the New Art Exchange, a love letter to Beeston, Alfreton's 80s Video Shop, the Nottingham Clean Champions, a brand new monthly cartoon, and plenty more to read about... 

The Magic Suitcase

In photos: Midnight Rodeo at The Grove, with Davoli

Midnight Rodeo - NYC Fundraiser

Magdalena Bay

Left Magpie February: Happy New Year

Back with another Left Magpie, Julian McDougall - our Notts County specialist - on what is beginning to look like a promotion-teasing campaign for the Pies! 

Janina Ramirez - Legenda In Conversation