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The Inside World of Nottingham BID's Festivals...

Nottingham’s blessed with more than its fair share of events, ceremonies and festivals, many of which have been facilitated by the...

Film Review: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

08 September 20

Thinking of watching I’m Thinking of Ending Things? Miriam Blakemore reviews Charlie Kaufman’s latest film...

City Stylin' #29

07 September 20

We took to the streets to find the most stylish folk in town...

LeftLion Magazine #129

01 September 20

Featuring Nottingham's OnlyFans creators, I'm Not From London at 15, Nottingham BID, Young Hustlers, POW, Moan Zine, Brazil's Wauja Indigenous Community, Kate Sharp, Witch from the East, Green Hustle, Ben Rose, Bon Idle, Shreya Sen-Handley, Future Bubblers and loads more

Illustrator Kate Sharp talks Children's Books, Lockdown and Drawing Animals

06 September 20

After catching our eye with a sweet illustration of our magazine stands you can find around town, we’ve had the pleasure of working with recent-graduate illustrator Kate Sharp for our spot-the-difference series and many other illustrations featured in our past few issues. After she bagged a Young Creative Award for her children’s book, Lion’s Hate Pigeons, we took a deep dive into Kate’s colourful world, discussing her past, present and future plans…

20 Years Later: The Way of the Gun

04 September 20

Screen Co-Editor George White takes a look at Christopher McQuarrie's directorial debut, 20 years after its release...

Film Review: Love, Guaranteed

04 September 20

A hapless single man takes an online dating website to court in Netflix’s latest rom-com...

Left Duck - August Review

03 September 20

It's been a long time since Nottinghamshire reached August without losing any games of cricket. Of course, it helped that the season didn't start until August this year! Let's see how they got on in their four Bob Willis games and three T20 matches.

The Thompson Brothers on Goose Fair, Holidays and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

02 September 20

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Broadway Cinema to Reopen This Month

02 September 20

Movie fans will soon get to watch the latest releases in Nottingham's iconic cinema...

Fleximodal: What Wigflex Did Next

01 September 20

Wigflex and friends are set to unleash a new socially-distanced AV experience “unlike anything seen in the UK before”...

Overheard in Notts

01 September 20

It's everyone's favourite time of the month...

Food Review: Roxy Ball Room

01 September 20

We headed to the Thurland Street venue for a night of tequila, pizza and ping-pong...

40 Years Later: Airplane

29 August 20

Non-stop laughs from the parodic cult classic that launched Leslie Nielsen's comedic career…

Wise Owls Take Up Residence in the City Centre

28 August 20

Remember the Hoodwinked Robins? A new family trail of owls along similar lines launches in Nottingham City Centre next week. It promises to be a hoot...

Nottingham's Rock Cemetery is Filled with Mass Graves From the Spanish Flu

27 August 20

If you didn’t catch her article in our June issue, (Little Miss Lockdown, #126) Jagoda Brown-Polanowska explained what lockdown life was like through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl in Nottingham. Having recently turned twelve, Jagoda has continued to explore her local surroundings, making some interesting and timely discoveries at Rock Cemetery in the process…

BelieveMe is Aiming to Create a Safe Space for Victims of Bullying in Nottingham

24 August 20

Being forced into lockdown has seen Notts’ creative cohorts turn their hands to all sorts of projects, from live-streaming music to socially-distanced filmmaking. But for seventeen-year-old Alice Lynn, lockdown provided the opportunity to create something personal. We caught up with her to find out more about BelieveMe, the new project aimed at creating a safe space for victims of bullying...

Film Review: Tenet

27 August 20

Christopher Nolan reaches for the stars and sadly misses with this confusing but beautiful epic adventure, says Chris King…

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

25 August 20

The latest Nottinghamshire releases... 

70 Years Later: Rashomon

25 August 20

Screen co-editor Jamie Morris offers his perspective on Kurosawa’s unsolvable samurai murder mystery...

Homegrown: A Glimmer of Summer this bank holiday

25 August 20

DHP Family have announced their new Homegrown festival, which will be taking place at the Arboretum this bank holiday Monday (31 August).

10 Years Later: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

25 August 20

After initially flopping at the box office, Edgar Wright's comic book adaptation now has a cult following. George White explains why...

Should the Broadmarsh Site Be Turned Into a Green Space?

19 August 20

After shopping centre giant intu collapsed into administration, causing yet another Broadmarsh development plan to fall by the wayside, Ewan Cameron decided it was time for something different. Creating an online petition calling for the area to be turned into a communal green space, his campaign has over ten thousand signatures at the time of printing. Here’s exactly why he thinks the plan to turn Broadmarsh green is essential for Nottingham...

Catching Up and Slowing Down with Darkzy

24 August 20

Following on from his latest single release, Rachael Halaburda has a chat with the homegrown talent to talk career highlights, time spent slowing down and off the road in lockdown, as well as offering advice for budding DJs and producers…

From Sneinton to Xingu: Notts Musician Nathaniel Mann and his experiences with Brazil's Wauja Indigenous Community

23 August 20

When Sneinton-based musician and radio broadcaster Nathaniel Mann responded to a 2018 British Council + PRSF opportunity for a musical residency with the Wauja Indigenous Community in Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. Two years later, he collaborated with the Wauja’s principal Akari Waura, assisted with the recording and preservation of his traditional songs and produced a BBC Radio 4 documentary about their work together. Now, as the community faces the threat of COVID-19, he’s working with the Wauja to help raise awareness and funds to ensure the long-term protection of a people whose descendants have lived in the Xingu territory for over a thousand years…
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