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Broadway Cinema to Reopen This Week

After months of closed doors, the popular city centre cinema is finally back... 

Nottingham Contemporary's Loudspeaker: An Artist-Led Creative Project Encouraging Women to Express Themselves

17 May 21

Mayhem Film Festival to Return to Broadway This Year

16 May 21

After hosting a scaled-down 'Skeleton Event' last year, the organisers of the iconic Mayhem Film Festival are hoping to bring the event back to its full gory glory this October.. 

Myhouse Yourhouse: Coming Out of Retirement, Mental Health, and a Virtual Festival

15 May 21

It was only when the world came to a crashing halt and gig venues, clubs and record shops were forced to shut their doors, that people realised just how important music is in bringing us all together. But out of that dark period came the resurrection of Myhouse Yourhouse. Part-online gig, part community and part virtual venue, it entertained over 80,000 listeners during the last twelve months, raising huge amounts for charity in the process. Addie Kenogbon talked to creator and Notts DJ Alex Traska and DJ and events organiser Jakki Denton to find out just how this Nottingham subculture became a beacon for mental health awareness, hope and togetherness...

Summer in the City: Three Nottingham BID Members on The Re-Opened City Centre

13 May 21

It’s been a long time coming, but it feels like life is finally being breathed back into Nottingham. The city centre no longer resembles the ghost town it has done for the majority of the past year; in its place, pavements are covered with Parisian-style seating, filled with friends laughing and catching up over long-overdue drinks. And with the next deadline of May 17, in which dozens more venues like cinemas, arcades and bowling alleys will open, just around the corner, it’s a time to be cautiously optimistic that the city is finally returning to normal. To celebrate the city’s next steps to opening up, we spoke to some of the Nottingham Business Improvement District locations to find out how the process of reopening has gone, and to find out which places they’re most excited to visit...

We Tried Wild Swimming in Colwick Park...

13 May 21

While your morning trip to Colwick Park might usually be reserved for a brisk dog walk, fitness group Whole Health are encouraging nature lovers to experience the beauty spot in an entirely new way. Is wild swimming the cure to all physical and mental ailments, or just a quick way to lose your toes to frostbite? Our Assistant Editor, Emily Thursfield, finds out… 

Antenna Are Relaunching Nottingham’s Most Cutting-Edge Co-working Space

12 May 21

After many months of working from home, you might breathe a sigh of relief when you hear that Antenna are reopening their doors to welcome members (and newbies) back to their state-of-the-art co-working spaces.

Nadia on... Mental Health

12 May 21

In her monthly LeftLion column, Nadia Whittome, MP for Nottingham East, discusses issues affecting both Nottingham and Westminster. This month, she talks about mental health...

Film Review: The Mitchells vs. The Machines

11 May 21

This animated family adventure is sweet and silly, with a little sprinkle of delightfully dystopian humour, writes Hollie Anderson...

A Yoga Instructor in Notts

11 May 21

"I practice yoga every day, and every session is an opportunity to meet new people, hear new stories."

Nottingham Playhouse Announces Big Names for Digital Theatre Project Still Life

10 May 21

The digital theatre anthology features some well known faces from British television and film...

This Girl Can Teams Up with The Renewal Trust for Series of Sporting Summer Roadshows

10 May 21

The summer roadshows will offer women and their families the chance to try out a range of new sports and activities for free...

Confetti Set to Host British Esports Championship Live Grand Finals this July

10 May 21

The educational institute have teamed up with the British Esports Association to bring one of the biggest events on the esports calendar to Nottingham...

Beeston Set To Welcome New State-of-the-Art Multiplex Cinema

10 May 21

Notts film fans will get the chance to check out a brand new eight-screen cinema at the end of next month...

Feelgood Films: The Movies That Lift Our Spirits

10 May 21

Movies have long been a way to lift the spirits, providing heartwarming moments and tonnes of laughs, fist-pumping action and that ugly happy-cry you do when star-crossed lovers finally end up together. To tie in with our recent self-care issue of the mag, the LeftLion screen team dive into their favourite feelgood films of all time...

Under Cover Artist: Phil Moss

10 May 21

This month’s cover artist, Phil Moss, gives us the lowdown on his process...

The Thompson Brothers on Meditation and Prince Philip's Funeral

09 May 21

Nottingham's most opinionated grocers on...

Overheard in Notts

08 May 21

What you been chatting this month?

Metronome’s Music and Comedy Line-up for 2021 Announced

04 May 21

Metronome have been boldly booking ahead for an entertainment-filled 2021, with the return of Just the Tonic and well-loved Notts festivals topping off a selection of upcoming gigs to get even the most reclusive of music buffs in a ticket-buying frenzy…

Tentickle Toys: The Notts-Based Sex Toy Specialists Offering Something Different

04 May 21

In a year when human-to-human interaction has been strictly forbidden, the sex toy industry has boomed, with more and more people finding pleasure without a partner. With a long and successful career in film prosthetics under her belt, Jayne Hyman took the opportunity to create her own brand of customisable, manga-inspired sex toys, Tentickle…

Film Review: Nomadland

03 May 21

Miriam Blakemore-Hoy takes a look at this year’s Best Picture winner...

Saving the Sherwood Library Cherry Trees

30 April 21

A week is a long time in activism. This time last week Sherwood’s glorious array of flowering cherry trees seemed doomed. Today – thanks to the collective people power of the Sherwood community and beyond – it’s looking increasingly hopeful that they can be saved. Sherwood resident and local author Clare Stevens takes up the story.

Out of Time: The Pierrepoint Hangmen Dynasty

28 April 21

From rather innocuous beginnings in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, Henry Albert Pierrepoint – who simply went by Harry – would go on to create a rather unique, gruesome family dynasty. For at various times during the first half of the twentieth century, Harry, his son, Albert and brother, Thomas, all held the position of Hangman of England, executing 849 men and women between them…

YMCA Calls for Your Memories for 150 Stories Campaign

28 April 21

The Nottinghamshire charity is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 Stories, an exhibition curated from your memories and experiences...

Ten Years Later: Thor

27 April 21

Michael Vince looks at one of the earliest entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a decade since its release...
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