AS IT TRIES TO shrug off its Geffrye skin, the Museum of the Home is showing signs of desperation as it tries to appeal
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Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen
THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as
Read MoreHappy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre
WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre
Read MoreTop Boy, top grime; yep, it’s gotta be another TV series about gang crime
A TV DRAMA about gangs and drugs… now where might they film that? Why, Hackney, of course. Gentrifiers (as if anyone would admit to
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Open up! This door is essential — yet was left out of a Hackney council rental property
THIS PICTURE SHOWS the door that has cost council taxpayers almost half a million pounds in lost revenue. It should for the last five
Read MoreA Dalston Italian festival shows how to cook pasta… and how to eat it (like we need to be told)
LIVEWIRE LONDONERS Maia Rossi and Alessia Mastroleo are fulfilling every Hackney foodie’s guilty fantasy: a pasta festival in the heart of Dalston. The eat-out
Read MoreHaggerston Baths will stay dry. A century of serving Hackney ends as pool-saving plan sinks
* UPDATE November 2017: Hackney sells the Haggy. Full story — New York financiers get baths for 250 years * UPDATE Monday 271116:
Read MoreLondon Fields Lido to close as Hackney council searches for solution to its off-the-wall horror
* Update, Friday 141016: Hackney council late yesterday announced the closing period, the end of November 2016 until spring 2017, for repairs to London Fields Lido, as exclusively reported
Read MoreHackney Downs loses lively Russet café, a victim of the ‘gentrification’ it helped to create
THE RUSSET café is to close. On Sunday 5 June 2016 this semi-secret venue on the northwest edge of Hackney Downs will serve its
Read MoreAll bets off as Abbott blames Labour over bookies
ANTI-GAMBLING campaigner Diane Abbott has reacted to a Hackney council boast about a betting-shop clampdown by criticising her own party as having caused the problem.
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