Debenhams restaurant: space to talk, think and enjoy

(featured image Stephanie Palmer and Kirsty Anderson, Debenhams) Great service: my granny used to come here on a Saturday when Debenhams was Griffin and Spalding. I was meeting Stephanie Palmer who is developing a new service for people who care for adults to help them look after themselves in every way: Wellbeing and You. I love the […]

Social Reform: rich money, poor money: how we need to make rich money and poor money understand each other

(Featured image: St Ann’s Allotments Nottingham) Money makes all the difference but it’s what we understand by money that will really make an impact. It’s all about people and what their aspirations are. What we don’t admit is how we really want to make our money work, see it make a difference. Below a collage […]

Pauline Mayers: culture is ours, how to use culture to reimagine what art is: performance at home brings the news…

‘We impact and influence people in ways we don’t realise’. Pauline Mayers Take an ordinary girl and make her a Darcy Bussell Photo: Arthur Elgort or a Pauline Mayers: Pauline Mayers photo Lizzie Coombs Darcy was a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, Pauline Mayers was trained at Ballet Rambert. Pauline has worked across […]

The Musical Map Of The UK and the US: Discover

It’s a “chart of human experience, unearthed through music.” Brooklyn Magazine presents a musical map of the United States, with a personal essay to accompany each representative song. via The Musical Map Of The United States — Discover

How to Create a Museum, Wherever You Are — Discover

At the TED Ideas blog, a curator and an artist show how they transformed the Mumbai setting of Slumdog Millionaire into a vibrant, community-made museum. via How to Create a Museum, Wherever You Are — Discover

Crime Fiction: Dreda Say Mitchell: Liberty, Equality and….the sisters in your neighbourhood

Latest thriller Blood Mother Crime novels can encourage conversation, discussion, debate, even regeneration! Dreda Say Mitchell’s first novel bursts in on the vibrance and horror of the way gangs impinge on the lives of families and their children in the East End of London. Running Hot, ISBN 9781904559092, Maia Press is about a crime that offers […]

New Waterside: beautiful homes, streets and a river running through it….Mark Patterson’s: Connecting City Life and Waterside Living

Featured Image Martyn Williams Photography Environmentalist, historian and former Nottingham Post staff journalist Mark Patterson has produced a really rich insight into the people, places and history of the Trent Basin for the new Waterside development along the River Trent. Called Connecting City Life and Waterside Living, it’s available as a PDF The new development is by developer […]

Alphabet of Opportunity: Pop Press Hand Printed Shop, St James Street (and order online!)

Featured image: Pop Print Hand Press Nottingham and Newcastle fire many fantastic careers: they’re similar, with a heritage that just won’t shut up. Both cities have a strong and creative industrial history, encouraging insightful experimentation because there’s a respect for people and the past that’s challenging yet respectful. As you may know, Nottingham is the […]

Victoria Centre Market: Can we speak truth to power, explain why the fishmonger, the butcher the baker, the nut shop, the plants, the cafe, the bag shop, the fabrics and the quality make up shop are so important to the beautiful shopping mall in the Centre?

Featured Image Martyn Williams Photography Above the very good looking JW of JW Stone and Ravinder and Kamla Karwal Vicoria Centre Market Below: George and Veena Sharma of Sharmas Fabrics, Ravinder and Kamla Kawal of Classic Handbags, Sandra Handley of Madhouse Cards (and the Nut Centre), Elaine McFarlane of Peggy’s Kitchen, Kamal and Sharda Verma of […]

Glowing lights wrapped inside deep darkness: looking at the inspiration of Pat Murray Newark Artist

Pat Murray Newark artist brought up in West Bridgford is going from strength to strength. The work she does is growing and developing all the time. Pat trained at Leicester and London College of Print working as an illustrator for many years and is now a full-time artist. She lives in Newark and you can […]