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Hackney WickED art festival

Friday 30 July – Sunday 1 August 2010, Hackney Wick

News

Phillips Idowu produces leap of gold to soar to triple jump title

• Idowu sets personal best of 17.81m in triple jump final
• Briton now holds world, European and Commonwealth titles

Muslim schoolgirls show that faith and fashion are not incompatible

Students gave traditional dress a makeover after winning places on an Islamic fashion course

One last thing… Professor Green

He looks like Michael Cera, sounds like a Cluedo character, and sings with Lily Allen. Rich Pelley wises up to Professor Green

Au revoir, Bardens Boudoir

Dalston says goodbye to iconic underground club

Diane Abbott labels Labour leadership rivals as ‘geeks in suits’

MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington stirs things up with jibe at her opponents

Newington Green to get Wollstonecraft memorial sculpture

Suffragette colours planted under trees in advance of permanent tribute to ‘mother of feminism’

Broadway gets bigger: market teams up with London Fields primary

School set to benefit from news stalls in yard

A strude awakening in Stamford Hill

Take an historical hike in Hackney and you might find something rather sweet

The improper and disgraceful conduct of Hackney Council

Legal blogger Jack of Kent’s take on the recent legal threat to Hackney Citizen

What's on

Art and the brain

Kate Kellaway admires an exhibition of artworks exploring the experience of neurological damage

Field Day

Saturday 31 July 2010, Victoria Park

Ping Brazil

1pm-9pm Sat 24 July, Gillett Square, Dalston

The thin grey line

Doodled in minutes or laboured over for months, drawings reveal an artist’s most intimate thoughts. Adrian Searle gets up close and personal at the White Cube’s inspiring new show

The 1234 Shoreditch 2010

Saturday 24 July 2010, Shoreditch Park

Made in Hackney – Arcola Writers: Ozdemiroglu, Davis and Miller

Three plays by three of the borough’s best playwrights, Sat 24 – Sun 25 July 2010

Southern Africa: Past and Future

7pm Tuesday 20 July, Pages of Hackney

In the moment: music, raving and nightlife in Hackney

From vinyl to iTunes – explore Hackney’s musical legacy with Patrick Vernon

Hackney books in brief: July 2010

Literary news and events this month

The Dalston Project

Come down to the World War II bunker in Ashwin Street from Wednesday 14 July

Puce Moment

Transition Gallery hosts show of four bold artists