Posts by East End Review
Crime is of the essence: Where now for the East End gangster flick?
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?
Read MoreStephen Gill: Conceptual chronicler
Photographer Stephen Gill captures East London like it’s never been seen before
Read MoreFetishising East London's past
Why is there such a fascination for ‘grit and squalor’ representations of East London’s history?
Read MoreAkiine: dream-pop from rural Stockholm
Akiine channels ‘otherworldly feelings’ in her unorthodox approach to music making
Read MoreBacchus review – Roasts with the most
Simplicity is key at new kitchen specialising in Sunday roasts
Read MoreThe Planner- review
A town planner is seduced into a life of decadence in Tom Campbell’s satire on modern urban life
Read MoreFuchsia Dunlop: the land of plenty and me
Dalston’s resident expert in Chinese food Fuchsia Dunlop talks about falling in love with Sichuan cuisine and how to make it yourself
Read MoreThe Morning Star: black, white and red all over
Communist newspaper The Morning Star is continuing to take the fight to capitalism from its base in Hackney Wick
Read MoreWave Caps: Former hack turns poet
Poet and journalist Miguel Cullen talks about his debut collection Wave Caps
Read MoreBoom time for radio in East London
Hyperlocal radio is on the increase in East London with a slew of stations catering for niche audiences
Read MoreNewton Dunbar: 'The New Four Aces is wherever I play'
After running iconic Dalston club The Four Aces, Newton Dunbar has now reinvented himself as a reggae DJ
Read MoreLife of Justin Fashanu remembered in song
Debut single by Elephant and Castles commemorates the life of Hackney-born footballer Justin Fashanu
Read More'Too much silence around FGM perpetuates the tradition'
Director Alex Crampton talks about Little Stitches, four short plays about female genital mutilation, to be performed in three London theatres, including the Arcola, this month
Read MoreHackney WickED celebrates community of artists
Annual art festival returned this month with performance art, exhibitions, open studios and street food galore
Read MoreDalston's Grimeborn festival is underway
It’s the time of the season for alternative opera at the Arcola with annual Grimeborn festival
Read MoreSecret Cinema: Back to the Future review – a party for the fans
Fictional town of Hill Valley is brought to life by impressive 1950s set and actors larking about as jocks and nerds
Read MoreHackney Wick Food Assembly sweeps away the supermarkets
Hackney Wick Food Assembly is wresting control from supermarkets by creating a direct relationship between producers and consumers
Read MoreHackney pensioner wins Mervyn Peake prize for short film
Two-minute film about Parkinson’s asks whether ‘control’ is a friend or foe
Read MoreDan Tobin Smith wants 'kipple' for London Design Festival installation
Artist wants the public to donate unwanted clutter for an exhibition inspired by Philip K. Dick’s concept of ‘domestic entropy’
Read MoreThe Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes – review
An Iraqi asylum seeker looking to make a fresh start in the UK finds it’s not so simple in black comedy by Nicolas Kent at the Arcola
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