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LeftLion's Latest Listens #45: Notts music we're currently spinning

In this week's edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from The Littlemen feat. Hector Moralez, Lucy Crisp, Darling I Dreamt and Kid Spirit...

The Letters Page: The Art of Letters and the Intimate Stories of Identity and Connection Found Within Them

It’s no secret that letter writing has now become a thing of the past, long since replaced by our ability to instantly communicate with each other via text message or phone call. But there is still a certain charm to letter writing, that literary lovers amongst us will never quite get past, and for good reason. Grace Sanders sat down with Zoe, Soha, Arwyn and Elodie, interns working at The Letters Page, to find out more about the latest issue, the work they do and how the purpose of letter writing has evolved from an essential form of communication to an intimate art form.

Theatre Review: The Nottingham Drag Pageant at The Nottingham Arts Theatre

It’s official- Nottingham cannot get enough of drag- and it knows how to do it better than most cities!...

Theatre Interview: The Nottingham Drag Pageant Contestants

Meet the competitors in the Nottingham Drag Pageant 2025. Queens and kings slug it out in a feast of jaw-dropping costumes and laugh out loud humour. But there can only be one and who will win the coveted crown...?   

Turning a new page: How Meadows Library escaped closure

Set up to support the library in the Meadows, Friends of Meadows Library has provided an essential hub for almost 100 years. Thanks to community togetherness and smart campaigning, the Meadows Library was recently saved from closure. We met Jackie and Di from the group, to find out what Friends of Meadows Library is there for, and why this special library was so worth saving.

Chapters of history: author Simon Smalley turns the pages on Nottingham’s queer past

The history of St. Ann’s has always been a fascinating one. Today, the idea that the council could bulldoze entire areas of communities separating neighbours and friends is one that is difficult to imagine. However, for those who lived it, it’s still all too real. CJ De Barra speaks to St Ann’s born-and-bred author Simon Smalley about growing up in the area as a young gay man in the 60s and 70s.

We Catch Up With Jon McGregor, Chief Editor of The Letters Page, About the Evergreen Tradition of Letter Writing

As The Letters Page journal turns ten, chief editor Jon McGregor looks back at the beginnings of his journal and delves into how the evergreen tradition of letter writing weaves into the digital age as he sheds light on what makes the appeal of finding a letter in your postbox forever greater than a ping on a screen…

A Pageant Contestant in Notts

Forget what you think you know about pageants - our Pageant Contestant in Notts is here to tell you they’re not all they seem… 

Meet Stephen L. Holland, Owner of Nottingham's Page 45 Comic Book Shop

Meet Stephen L. Holland, the owner of Page 45 who’s changing perceptions about what comics can be…

45 Years Later: Star Wars

We look back on the legacy of one of cinema's most iconic franchises with the one that started it all...

45 Years Later: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

For a big-budget sci-fi epic, this is still surprisingly down-to-earth... 

45 Years Later: Eraserhead

In March 1977, the world was introduced to David Lynch – and cinema was never the same…

40 Years Later: Ms .45

Ms .45, the second feature film by the controversial cult icon Abel Ferrara, is a powerful and haunting descent into trauma and revenge, writes Sebastian Mann…

Thank You Key Workers Colouring Page

Our Emily Catherine has kindly whipped up a peach of an illustration for you lot to colour in – all you need to do is click the link below to download a printable PDF. So grab your pens, pencils and crayons, turn off your phone, ignore the outside world and relax. Happy doodling…

Nusic Podcast #194 with Page Three Boys, Indiana, Soft Girls and Boys Club, Nebula and More...

Nottingham Adverts Ripped from the Pages of History

This month, our Wayne Burrows talks us through the advert for the old women's clothes shop Birdcage, which used to be located on Bridlesmith Gate

Sound of the Lion #45,Sound of The Lion

With Sam & Joe, Bru-C, Heck, Daniel Shipley, Felix M-B, Friend of a Friend, Some Skeletons, The Five Hundred and Be

Future Session 100 - Babe Punch

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

All I Want for Christmas is a Pint of Cobra Venom

There's a few sleeps left till Christmas, and what better to get you in the mood than a seasonal message from Bus Pass Elvis

Future Session 99 - Joseph Knight

New music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

New Single Video Exclusive: Lowrie - Another Trip Around The Sun

Frazer Lowrie has dropped his first name and has got a new single out in a week's time. You heard it here first Nottinghamite

Any Means Necessary - Trailer

When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred spirit. Dave soon becomes central to her life and her activist friends. But is he who he appears to be? An emotionally compelling drama that explores love, betrayal, secrets and lies and exposes the brutality of a police policy that used any means necessary to undermine political protest. Any Means Necessary is based on the events surrounding a group of environmental activists and the 2011 court case which charged them with trespass at nearby Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. This real-life event set in Nottingham uncovered a national scandal and is the inspiration for this major new commission, written by Kefi Chadwick and directed by Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director Giles Croft.