LIKE A GOLDEN FLARE these hip-hop walls lit up a scrappy corner of Dalston but now art has fallen victim to philistinism. The portraits,
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What bollards! Street artist has fun with the balls keeping cars off a path in Hackney
THESE ATTRACTIVE VARIATIONS on the car-deterring bollard have been given witty makeovers by a street artist… and Hackney council would like to know their
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
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
Read MoreClowning 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!
* UPDATE 21 August 2018: The venue is due to open next month September 2018 and its name shall be EartH — no, the
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Will M and S Foodhall spark a boost for Dalston, or 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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