Nottingham Articles, Interviews and Features

Left Duck - August Review

It's been a long time since Nottinghamshire reached August without losing any games of cricket. Of course, it helped that the...

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…

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…

Film Review: The Sleepover

22 August 20

Netflix’s new comedy sees a sleepover gone wrong as a mother is taken and her kids must find her, as well as finding out about her seedy past…

Goose Fair 2020 Cancelled

21 August 20

For only the eleventh time in 729 years, we're sad to report that there will be no Goose Fair in Nottingham this year...

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum Having Been Helping Asylum Seekers For 20 Years

20 August 20

Stranded boats at sea. Last breaths in lorries. Traumatisation by traffickers. These are just some of the horrific risks refugees take to reach the UK – a place that historically has been full of promise and hope for them. Yet when they arrive here, they’re met with a hostile government and campaigns of hate. However, the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum provides a range of services to help them survive and thrive in the face of adversity. As it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, Eve Smallman talks to Director Matt Atkins about what they’ve achieved and how you can help them carry on their work…

Leading From the Back: The Backlit Artists Creating Exciting Projects

18 August 20

From its three-story base in the heart of Sneinton, BACKLIT is home to more than eighty studio artists, spanning a diverse range of practices, including fine art, contemporary craft and creative businesses. The independent, artist-led gallery has provided affordable studio spaces for artists, graduates and emerging local talent for almost twelve years. With the studio currently still closed to the public, we took a look around to find out more about some of their exciting artists, including what they’ve been up to during lockdown...

Film Review: Project Power

18 August 20

Jamie Foxx stars as a five-minute superhero in Netflix's Project Power...

70 Years Later: Sunset Boulevard

17 August 20

Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard marks its 70th birthday and unlike the film’s star Norma, remains a timeless, never-ageing classic from the heights of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Feixue Huangdu's Videos of Nottinghamshire Have Gone Viral in China

16 August 20

One of the fascinating by-products of increasing globalisation is the thought that, right now, someone in China is watching a tour of Ruddington Village Museum online. The reason for that is Feixue Huangdu, whose tours of local heritage spots have gone viral in her native China. We caught up with Nottingham Trent Museum and Heritage Development graduate to discuss the surprise success of her videos and the importance of sharing cultures...