LeftLion Magazine #119

The Bodega is Celebrating Its 20th Birthday

Get the party poppers out - one of our city’s most beloved music venues is celebrating the big 2-0 this month. For two decades,...

Art Works: Helena Tyce

21 November 19

The Savoy piece was created as an ode to an unsung hero of Nottingham architecture...

Confetti Has Been Inspiring Our Young Ones for 25 Years Now

21 November 19

Bold Strokes Book Festival Co-Founder on the Importance of LGBTQ+ Literary Representation

19 November 19

Author, development editor and one half of the writing-consultancy collective Global Wordsmiths, Victoria Villasenor, discusses her work...

Author Lise Gold on Her New Novel and Living as a LGBT Woman in Britain

19 November 19

When we hear the word innovation, we often think of scientific breakthroughs. But innovation isn’t always technological advancements – it can also be taking creative risks, making new forms of poetry, art or writing. Nottingham has seen an increase in LGBT+ writing and creative events in the past year, so we sat down with lesbian fiction writer Lise Gold to discuss her work...

The History of Sneinton Market

18 November 19

Take a walk through Sneinton Market today, and you’ll find fancy coffee, football fan-art and luxury vegan chocolates. Not only are the Sneinton Market Avenues now home to over twenty creative businesses, but it’s also the headquarters of a certain culture magazine you’ve been reading for the past few minutes. Throw it back seventy years or so, and this place was the site of a booming wholesale market, and a real pillar of city life...

Bird and Blend Tea Co. Are Smashing The Tea Game

18 November 19

Bird & Blend Tea Co. is an independent, award-winning tea company on a mission to reimagine tea. Started by Krisi Smith and her mate Mike, the business began in the bedroom of a house in Nuthall, and their range of over 200 teas now sit pretty in their eight physical UK stores...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to This Month

16 November 19

Another month, another shed-load of talent...

6 of the Most Hipster Coffees in Notts

15 November 19

Life is rarely ever boring. So why should your coffee be?

City Stylin' #19

14 November 19

We took to the streets to find Notts' best dressed...

Skate Nottingham on the Innovative Development of Disused Spaces and How Skateboarding Enriches the Community

13 November 19

Food Review: Prickly Pear

12 November 19

The newest vegan spot to hit the streets...

Serif Are the Local Tech Company Taking on the Big Guns with Their Editing Software

11 November 19

Five years ago, during the fall of 2014, two revolutions were about to start: the now-famous Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong, and the launch of Affinity Designer,, developed by Nottingham-based company Serif. Affinity Creative Suite – complete with the launch of Affinity Photo in 2015 and Affinity Publisher in 2019 – would eventually provide an interesting, and affordable, alternative to the mastodon Adobe Creative Suite...

Norma Gregory on the Hidden History of Black Miners and Her New Exhibiton

10 November 19

Nottingham has plenty of things to be proud of. Our roots being one of them; history is so deeply embedded in many of the things that we all love about this city. But the narrative isn’t fully complete. Historian Norma Gregory has spent the past few years unearthing the untold stories of several black coal miners who lived and worked in the UK. We spoke to her about her new exhibition, Digging Deep: Coal Miners of African Carribean Heritage which features photos, audio recordings and oral histories that have previously been left unheard…

Food Review: Pokéwaves

08 November 19

We checked out the Hawaiian-inspired eatery, and were dead impressed...

Lyfcycle are Working to Reduce Textile Waste and Improve Fashion's Traceability with an App

08 November 19

Fast fashion is no longer a problem that only hardcore environmentalists are aware of. In 2013, the media extensively covered the devastating Rana Plaza collapse – an incident in which 1,134 garment workers in Bangladesh were killed. And with documentaries like The True Cost and Stacey Dooley Investigates: Fashion’s Dirty Secrets, we’re becoming more aware of the ethical issues surrounding the industry. More consumers and businesses are beginning to wise up. One of those businesses is Lyfcycle, who are working to reduce textile waste and improve the traceability of fashion…

Snap Notts: Lace Market

06 November 19

My First Time... Meeting My Hero

06 November 19

We hear your anonymous stories about the time you came face to face with your childhood hero...

Art Works: Robin Perko

04 November 19

There's not many traditional portrait painters left...

Hackspace Help Nurture the DIY Skills of Nottingham's Creative Crowd

04 November 19

A Teacher in Notts: "The institution won’t survive unless they make changes."

02 November 19

We find out what it's like to teach the next generation under impossible circumstances...

Overheard in Notts

31 October 19

The rumours are true. The Overheard in Notts book hits shelves this month. To celebrate, we put together an extra-long edition of everyone's favourite feature...

The Thompson Brothers on Their Best Invention

30 October 19

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Under Cover Artist: Jay Wilkinson