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Breaking The Walls Down: LeftLion meets Chris Jericho

Pro Wrestler, Rock Star, Author, Podcaster, Actor, Multi-faceted entertainer – have we missed anything?! When it comes to show business, there isn’t much that Chris Jericho hasn’t done or achieved at this point. While most will know him for his legendary wrestling career, Jericho has recently hit a big milestone with his metal band, Fozzy, having been together now for a quarter century. With Nottingham playing a key part in the band’s history, we caught up with Chris Jericho ahead of the band’s return to Rock City…

Prostate Not Prostrate: When Silence Becomes the Real Thief

Portraits In Silence - Meet the Artist

Breaking Bread: charity FoodCycle talk promoting communal eating in Nottinghamshire

A keystone of human culture since the dawn of time, communal eating is underpinned by ideals of compassion, connection, and care for those in our community. FoodCycle, a nationwide charity with three branches in Nottinghamshire, provides just that and more. Frances Danylec went to one of their weekly dinners to see what was on the menu, and how the charity tackles food waste, poverty and loneliness.

Theatre Review: Hamlet - The Rest is Silence

A unique Notts community rework of the classic tragedy

Breaking Point - Greenpeace Nottingham Art Exhibition and Launch

How Sarah Bard went from battling chronic illness to breaking through in wheelchair tennis

Wheelchair Tennis player and Nottingham resident Sarah Bard is nothing less than a soldier. Having fought through lifelong chronic pain and mobility problems, which peaked after an accident she suffered at age thirty, she’s cemented her position as one of our city’s most admired sportspeople. Back in 2018, LeftLion joined other local media in promoting Sarah’s story, and ‘Go-Fund-Me’ for a new wheelchair to help her travel to national tournaments. Here we pass Sarah the pen to tell her inspiring story.

Breaking ground: we catch up with Nottingham Forest Women

Forest Women are no strangers to the top of the table. The dream of climbing the ranks to the Women’s Super League is aspirational, but with the recent announcement that  Nottingham Forest  Women will be a full-professional club by 2025/26, now feels within reach. Megan Hill caught up with Amber Wildgust, Head of Women and Girls Football at Nottingham Forest, to find out what turning pro means for the future of the club, both on and off the pitch.

Music to Our Ears: We Look Back at a Record-Breaking Year for Nottingham’s Award Winning DHP Family

We caught up with our friends at DHP Family for their reflections on a milestone year for the live music company which brings hundreds of top tier artists to Nottingham, as well as giving a platform to our finest homegrown talent...

In Photos: Breaking Convention at the Royal Concert Hall

Breakin' Convention, the world’s ground-breaking festival of hip hop dance theatre, returned to the Royal Concert Hall this week...

Breakin' Convention: The Boundary-Breaking Hip Hop Event Taking Over the Theatre Royal

Ever heard of Breakin’ Convention? If not, why not? It’s only been around for twenty years, and has changed the theatre industry as we know it. This May, the Convention is returning to the Royal Concert Hall, bringing the finest acts in breaking, popping, locking, and krumping to the historic venue - and giving you a chance to see what all the fuss is about first-hand. Ahead of the exciting event, we chat to Jonzi-D, hip hop legend and the brains behind it all, about street dance, the stage scene, and everything in between… 

How Notts Photographer Lucie Nechanická’s Book I Didn’t Ask For It Is Breaking Stereotypes Around Sexual Harassment

Tired of the victim blaming narrative around sexual harrasment, photography student Lucie Nechanická created I Didn’t Ask For It - the photobook chronicling sexual harrasment in Nottingham. We chat to the budding photographer about breaking stereotypes, better sex education, and her process behind making the book…

Silence of the Jams at Rough Trade

Best friends Sarah Chapman, Frances Rooke and Kat Clayton created Silence of the Jams, a silent disco offering all round party tunes across three channels. Starting in the suburbs of Manchester, they are bringing their event to Notts for a night at Rough Trade on Saturday 4 December, and we had a chat with them about the event, and what can be expected… 

Exhibition Review: Breaking the Mould at Djanogly Gallery

Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945 makes its way to Djanogly Gallery, surveying foundational works by artists including Barbara Hepworth, Sarah Lucas, and Mona Hatoum, defiantly attempting to reclaim the place women hold in art history...

Notts Tully Kearney and Charlotte Henshaw on Winning Gold at Record Breaking Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

We catch up with two of Nottingham’s Paralympic heroes after a record-breaking games in Tokyo...

30 Years Later: The Silence of the Lambs

The psychological horror classic The Silence of the Lambs celebrates its 30th year of terrifying audiences of all generations with the story of cannibal Hannibal Lecter...

Meet the Two Notts Students Breaking into the Brewing World

Ashley Wadeson and Dan Boxall don’t do things by halves – more like by the gallon. As the two MSc Brewing Science students prepare to launch their new collaborative beer with Black Iris Brewery as part of their course, they tell us more about probably the coolest dissertation project in the world, why they’re a hit at house parties, and their plans for beery world domination…

Film Review: Scorsese's Silence

We review the latest flick from our Martin...

The Look of Silence

We review Joshua Oppenheimer's follow up to his documentary The Act of Killing

The Look of Silence

We review Joshua Oppenheimer's follow up to his documentary The Act of Killing