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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The glorious Hackney Empire goes grimey for the Arcola’s astonishing opera festival
* 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
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Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world
Launching 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
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Pubs opening for a Christmas Day pre-dinner pint — and now we are optimistic
UNTIL THE COVID PANIC — sorry, pandemic — Loving Dalston published an exclusive guide to Christmas Day pub openings in and around Hackney. The
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This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world
BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced
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Silence from officialdom over Hackney job only for ‘Black… and People of Colour’
OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney
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Whiteout! How fake news wiped away some of Hackney’s finest street art
SOME OF THE FINEST ART SEEN on the streets of London has been wiped out by fake news. Hip-hop Raised Me, a striking collage
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Two thirds of Jewish ultra-orthodox have Covid, says study, as Stamford Hill struggles with virus
COVID-19 IS LIKELY TO HAVE infected two thirds of the UK’S ultra-Orthodox Jews, suggests a study commissioned by the community itself. The rate
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Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park
WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been
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🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season
IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered
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