Posts by East End Review
Gillian Riley on sausages – the breakfast of centurions
From Roman warrior snacks to Hackney’s designer links, food historian Gillian Riley tracks the many lives of the sausage
Read MoreFacing The Realness: ex-offenders and care leavers to star in new musical at Hackney Downs Studios
A prison leaver tries to get his life back on track with mixed success in new musical The Realness by Big House Theatre company
Read MoreDocumentary charts last days of the Haggerston Estate
After learning that their homes were to be demolished, the residents of Samuel House set about making the most of what time they had left there
Read MoreWalead Beshty brings rubbish installation to Barbican Centre
A year’s worth of detritus and one of the earliest photographic techniques form the basis of Walead Beshty’s installation at the Barbican centre
Read MoreIain Sinclair launches 70×70 birthday book
Iain Sinclair discusses the changing face of cinema at book launch event
Read MoreGallery on Well Street to host Chinese Whispers exhibition
Dutch and British artists to explore how nationality affects their artistic practice in last big exhibition at the Karin Janssen Project Space
Read More'Unique' Bethnal Green gasholders face uncertain future
A petition to save the Bethnal Green gasholders has already gained more than 1000 signatures
Read MoreEast London Strippers Collective wants to empower performers and change attitudes
The East London Strippers Collective (ELSC) is campaigning to redefine mainstream views of stripping – but is it dancing out of time with popular opinion?
Read MoreEast London sees return of Fringe! Underwire and Homeless film festivals
November is a bumper month for film with three film festivals returning to East London screens
Read MoreYesNoDisco asks: is it sexy or sexist?
Public to decide over songs that tread the blurred line between ‘sexy’ and ‘sexist’ at the latest YesNoDisco club night
Read MoreStoke Newington pupils use Shakespeare to settle into secondary school life
Globe Education Project sees Year 7 students at Stoke Newington School explore notion of change by performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read MoreScott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused at St John at Hackney – 'ridiculously sublime, sublimely ridiculous'
Fans of Scott Walker gathered last month at St John at Hackney church to hear the artist’s latest album, a collaboration with Sunn O)))
Read MoreThe Rivals at the Arcola – review
Richard Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is a masterclass in lampooning and satire
Read MoreRay Winstone: I got my big break on the way I walked down the corridor
Hard man of film talks about getting his breakthrough role in Scum and growing up in East London
Read MoreRestaurant review – Rawduck
Reopened restaurant’s quirky and eclectic menu is reasonably priced and packed with unusual (if slightly obscure) ingredients
Read MoreInside two Hackney salmon smokeries
Gillian Riley visits two smokehouses and finds the best smoked salmon
Read MoreLove Hotel documentary – leaving reservations at home
The Japanese phenomenon of short stay ‘love hotels’ is the focus of a new documentary by Hackney’s Native Voice Films
Read MoreBlighty Coffee: classic British breakfasts with a modern twist
Artisan coffeehouse takes a step back to the 1940s with vintage décor and traditional British breakfasts
Read MoreFree film festival to get under way in London Fields
Ryan Gosling ‘all-dayer’ and documentary Under the Cranes are some of the highlights of the first ever London Fields Free Film Festival
Read MoreErran Baron Cohen on The Infidel – The Musical
Erran Baron Cohen talks about writing songs for the new musical alongside David Baddiel
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