STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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Clowning around: another year, another festival of idiocy as an old art form shows its staying power
CLOWNS USED TO BE a highlight of circuses. But then cinema and TV made them into sinister figures and they never quite recovered. The
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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
JUST AS FALLING property prices around London start to hit in Hackney, along comes a cultural scheme bound to add to the appeal of
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Will M and S Foodhall spark a boost for Dalston, even lead to the return of the department store?
PUSH YOUR WAY THROUGH the crowd that Marks and Spencer hopes will mill about in Kingsland High Street next Wednesday and you may pocket
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Drama down the Ditch: two Edinburgh hits coming to the town hall saved as an arts centre
* Update 250418: The Nature Of Forgetting impressed at tonight’s press preview. Loving Dalston can recommend this play, along with the venue which, in a
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Ghostly visitor spooks concert as it haunts pianist in ancient mansion near a Hackney graveyard
THE PIANIST was well into the notoriously hard-to-play piano composition when concert-goers noticed a balloon eerily descending towards him. With sinister precision, it stopped
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East End entrepreneurs find money in Muslim dating: an app to lead to love and marriage
WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT there’d be money in a dating agency for Muslims. Dating? As entrepreneur Shahzad Younas says, “Muslims don’t date, they marry”. Yet
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Play up, play the game: subteens at a Stokey school learn how to figure the numbers that count
WHEN DIANE ABBOTT heard that a school in Stoke Newington was devising a play to explain the world of finance too children, she just
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A tiny theatre down a market street in Hoxton is something for Hackney to shout about
* Loving Dalston does not usually review theatre. In this case it has been persuaded to make an exception. See the succinct critique at the
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Lots of hope in the Rio report, less in the figures provided by the Dalston cinema bosses and board
THE RIO CINEMA’S MANY FANS will be hoping the long-awaited second screen is getting the Dalston community organisation into shape. The annual report indicates
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