* Update 211219: the Wonder Factory is open. Booking A PRESS RELEASE announcing “the ultimate Instagram experience” and “marshmallow swimming pools, confetti cyclones, mirrors that
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A Walthamstow revelation: what William Morris brought to Bauhaus
WILLIAM MORRIS and Bauhaus are not names that easily go together. The great Victorian-era English designer was in love with not just craft
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The Hackney café scene heats up: as Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures
* Update November 2019: not long since the F Cooke sign, top, was reinstated, the virtually vegetarian Dudleys at 123 Kingsland High Street E8
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Mod rule is coming to Dalston as mods return… or is it? Scooterists say they’ll give E8 a miss
DALSTON SHOULD BE RESONATING some time this bank-hol weekend to a great tock-tock, a brmmm-brmmming, a hum-humming. No need for alarm: it would not,
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I’m from northeast London and I’m pledging allegiance to the caliphate
EVERY YEAR FOR ONE WEEKEND, and usually it happens to be one of the hottest of the summer, I leave my Ilford home for
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Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston
ANYONE WORRIED about the creeping corporatisation of Dalston should stop reading now. Pret a Manger is opening a huge shop on the site, above, in
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Tune into opera: great music, intimate Stokey venue, fine company, good price. Nuff said?
* Update 060419: As good as Covent Garden is the verdict on the performance Loving Dalston saw last weekend. The singing was stunning, especially
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus but it can help
HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecturer and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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School meals are getting healthier yet in Hackney students still pay to eat junk food
BY THE TIME HACKNEY CHILDREN finish primary school, one in four will be obese. And when they enter their teens, half of them will
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