Posts by Hackney Citizen
Elite wheelchair basketball players to shoot hoops at Hackney Sparrows base
Eight teams to compete in winner takes all tournament on 6 July
Read MoreHackney Weekend pop gig made no money for Marshes upkeep admits Council
2012 concert that caused damage to green space was cited as example in debate about money-making events
Read MoreWildlife trust makes splash with plans to open up Hackney reservoirs to visitors
Birds could also benefit from scheme to make manmade Victorian lakes more accessible to public
Read MoreKill time at death talks: Morbid Anatomy lecture series at Last Tuesday Society
Batty events for those with grave concerns take in such subjects as the Neapolitan cult of the dead and London’s folk medicine
Read MoreHooded Gainsborough Primary School pupils leave desks to spraypaint playground wall
Luckily it was part of an official art project or they could have risked detention or worse
Read MoreOver a decade after Stephen Lawrence inquiry, how has stop and search changed?
Judicial inquiry into 1993 murder condemned disproportionate use of powers. Now experts hear too many young people still feel the law is ‘not for them’
Read MoreMother Clucker at the Shacklewell Arms – review
Free range fried chicken wings and thighs bring Southern soul to Hackney
Read MoreMaster and Servant – review
Simply masterful eatery named after Depeche Mode track
Read MoreCriminal London: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime – review
Fiendish history of our streets laid bare in criminally good volume
Read MoreCompetition – win tickets to see Circle Mirror Transformation at the Rose Lipman Building in July
Toby Jones stars alongside Imelda Staunton in hotly anticipated Royal Court show
Read MoreSkin Tight at Park Theatre – preview
Relationship issues are unpacked with explosive intensity in a new show by Epsilon Productions
Read MoreArtist Nick Sellek’s toy town vistas present scaled down versions of East End streets
Less than bucolic miniature landscapes on show at Darnley Gallery reflect his fascination with gritty urban architecture
Read MoreStill no automatic right to film or tweet Hackney Council meetings despite new guidelines
Town Hall refuses to amend constitution that bars use of electronic devices but claims to have a ‘relaxed approach’ to bloggers
Read MoreHackney Mayor Jules Pipe re-elected as Chair of London Councils
Political leader of borough vows to help protect city’s funding as he begins fourth term as chair of cross-party organisation
Read MoreGerry Cottle Jr raises roof with new ‘Cine-Gigs’ series
Is it a concert? Is it a film? Son of famous circus owner tells why his new venture straddles both realms
Read MoreCult actor Toby Jones returns to Hackney for part in Royal Court production
Ahead of his appearance in play Circle Mirror Transformation at the Rose Lipman Building in Haggerston, performer tells the Citizen about transforming into ‘an ordinary person’
Read MoreMan of Steel – review
Punchy effort by superhero film dream team pushes alien origins of Superman
Read More‘Even memorial as big as the Empire State Building would not do justice to Maureen Middleton’
Couple unveil their own plaque to late Hackney councillor after Town Hall allegedly gives plan the thumbs down
Read MoreMiscarriage of justice victim Sam Hallam injured in police incident just months after release
Court hears he was wrongly accused of assaulting officers who stopped a car he was travelling in with his brother and friends
Read MoreBeagle – worth making a voyage to
Nestled under the arches of Hoxton station, this stylish new establishment is howlingly good
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