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 do 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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Stamford Hill Jewish schools are winning their battle to keep modernity at bay
ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS in Hackney who shield their male children from the national curriculum can relax. They will not have to engage with the education
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Cheer up, sleepy dreamy, Blue Monday may have an East End surprise coming your way
* Update: All copies of the Hoxton Mini Press book were taken within two hours. See pic at bottom of this story PSST,
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Wreathed in glory and jollity… or homely Hackney Christmas competitiveness?
HANGING A CHRISTMAS WREATH on your door is like a henna tattoo: it adds colour and decoration but is not permanent. And like
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Another Happy Hackney Christmas Day: best guide to pubs opening around the area this year 2017
IF THESE WORDS sound familiar, it could be that you read more or less the same in 2016 because every year Loving Dalston publishes
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Art or act… does it matter? Miss Valentina takes you on a journey starting at a Whitechapel library
THANK HEAVEN for the Arts Council. Without it we might never see shows with names like Ideas In Ideas which, in keeping with the
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