WHAT, TWO DISTRICTS in London are more enterprising than Shoreditch and Hoxton? Yep, Holborn-St Pancras, and Islington South-Finsbury have more small businesses per person
Read MoreTune 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
Read MoreThese free courses in East London could be the business for you and your great adventure
GOT A GREAT BUSINESS IDEA or having trouble with your present project? If you need advice, a new help scheme looks like a good
Read MoreHow you can play an easy part in a contest at Clapton to find a new clutch of talented Londoners
* Update 191117: The winner, the judges agreed unanimously (true: Loving Dalston overhead their deliberations), was Jessica Odeleye, above, of Hackney LONDON IS
Read MoreFodder pops up anew in Islington, promising ‘a month of local, wild and seasonal ingredients’
THE FOODIE SCENE is so lively in northeast London that deciding what is newsworthy can be difficult, especially for a site that lacks a
Read MoreIt’s like that, the way it is, for Darryl McDaniels, his comics in Stokey and some Run-DMC hip-hop
HIS IMPECCABLE MANNERS at odds with his band’s reputation as one of hip-hop’s most notorious, Run-DMC founder Darryl McDaniels posed happily for selfies in
Read MoreWanna buy in Dalston? Best check whether you are just an investment opp. for an offshore speculator
* UPDATE June 2017: property firm Taylor Wimpey announces it will allocate £130 million to solve leasehold-ground rent problems, but it is being cagey about
Read MoreHave a heart: how East London galleries and art promoters cope with the property boom
Melina Payne, right, gets the inside story on the struggle of those trying to make a not-for-profit operation work for artist and art-lover alike THE
Read MoreWe can be an ‘ironic’ republic says hip Hackney
HACKNEY is to restyle itself “the Home of the Hipsters”. In a move that will reopen arguments about gentrification, the council is to replace its
Read MoreBoris knocks down bid to save East London gem
* Update January 2016: The Spitalfields Trust says it will seek a judicial review, in other (non-legal) words, the trust will ask the High
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