If you feel as though algorithms, emails and newsfeeds are dominating your life, perhaps it’s time to take a step away from the screen, hark back to our ancestors and consider slower traditions...
Have a look at our interview with the Nottingham Folklore Society on the site.
Sarah Cunningham: Midnight Sun is the @Nottm_Contemp's latest exhibition celebrating the work of the late artist. Click the link on our profile to read about it 🌃
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For my most recent @LeftLion column, I wrote about the Pride in Place programme, which will invest £19.6 million in St Ann’s East over the next ten years, and how you can get involved as a local resident.
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Notts rockers Eyre Llew have toured their immersive and distinctly local sound across continents. Now, they’re back with their second album: Bloom, and a show 15 November at The Nest, which is set to be truly spectacular…
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Making friends as an adult is hard – despite loneliness being a common issue, it is rarely talked about openly. Enter Soft Launch Social...
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This week Notts welcomes back former students @MylesSmithUK and @decobanduk for gigs in the city and much more.
What other great local events have we missed? Let us know in comments…
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Arthur Smith is one of the headliners of the Nottingham Comedy Festival, which started on Friday. Our stage editor Ian C Douglas had a slightly surreal chat with him in advance...
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Our resident investigator of Nottingham urban myths and curiosities has a look at stories behind the 'witches marks' at Creswell Crags...
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Club Jok is a Nottingham-based film curation team that is bringing cultures from around the world to the big screen through films both new and old. We speak to film enthusiast and Club Jok’s lead programmer Samuel Leary, to hear more…
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Over the years, Divine has become one of the most instantly recognisable drag performers. She also had a pop career that took her on UK tours, including two performances in Nottingham.
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We head to cosy pasta and small plates joint Pici for a chat with Dylan...
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Our latest conversation with Nottingham's most opinionated grocers.
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After thirty years at the heart of Lowdham village, The Bookcase — an independent bookshop founded and owned by Jane Streeter – has now closed its doors.
Jane told us about the journey of the bookshop...
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The spooky season has arrived with @nottartstheatre @bloodworm_band , Paranormal Disco, @DetonateUK , @Groovebox and more...
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A short chat with Bradley, who owns Heathcoat Street's Mecca for drinks and DJs: Jamcafé .
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For the past 25 years Nottingham Arts Theatre has been serving the city. Here their director looks back on that time.
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Our resident investigator of Nottingham weird history looks at how the 'ten o' clock 'hosses' came to be...
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Starting Friday 30 October, the Nottingham Comedy Festival is back, bringing ten days of national talent and hilarity to bars, pubs and clubs of Nottingham. We spoke to a few comedians involved to find out what’s so funny…
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