THIS GLOBE THAT HAS BEEN placed in Ridley Road Market is meeting mixed reactions. Aiming to highlight the multimillion-pound African kidnapping business, it is part
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THIS GLOBE THAT HAS BEEN placed in Ridley Road Market is meeting mixed reactions. Aiming to highlight the multimillion-pound African kidnapping business, it is part
Read MoreTIME IS RUNNING OUT for you to crowdfund the first new swimming ponds in London since those at Hampstead were created in 1777. Clean
Read MoreNEXT TIME YOU wait for a bus in Hackney, glance at the advertisements on the shelter walls. One of the posters may make you
Read More* Update Sunday 7 August 2022: today is your last chance to see performances of either/both grand operas. Julia Burbach’s shortened productions will give
Read MoreA SMALL BREWERY is celebrating after social media came to its rescue when the world’s biggest beermaker told it not to use the name Jupiter
Read MoreSTARRY, STARRY NIGHT is a rather charming pop song inspired by a painting of a Vincent van Gogh inspired by the Provençal nightscape. Good
Read MoreTHE CLAIM THAT low traffic neighbourhoods adversely affect less-affluent areas in Hackney and other boroughs has been borne out by new research. Councillors
Read MoreSOMEHOW FOUND ENOUGH MONEY to put a deposit on a flat in the northeast of our fine city? Well, before you offer on that
Read MoreLaunching the eco-exhibition: above, Barbican arts boss Will Gompertz and, below, curator Luke Kemp IT IS a pleasant paradox that a world-famous arts centre funded
Read MoreAbove: birthplace of the Hammers. On the right of Bow Creek / Leamouth is the site of the metal-bashing factory where a works footy
Read MoreBEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced
Read MoreWHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been
Read More* Update spring 2021: The museum reopening is scheduled for Saturday 12 June this year. * Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the
Read More* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos
Read MoreTHE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
Read MoreEAT OUT TO PIG OUT, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s subsidised-dining scheme last month August 2020 was not called, was such a hit that
Read MoreFANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of
Read MoreHow safe is it to pop out for a drink? Clara Murray, right, sets off for a taste of drinking lockdown style PERSPEX
Read More* Monday 170820: News from the extraordinary general meeting held by the new Rio regime will be published by Loving Dalston this week
Read MoreIS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus
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