Posts by Hackney Citizen
Swear Down – review
Russ Litten’s crime novel fixes its gaze on a fictional Hackney shooting
Read MoreBarbican brings Leandro Erlich’s Dalston House to heart of Hackney
Surreal installation artwork inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski
Read MoreGold star: Can Phreeda Sharp conquer the female rapper throne?
Hackney-based French-Ghanaian ‘fem-cee’ wants to ‘give women the balls to say what they want’
Read MoreThe Picture of Dorian Gray at the White Rabbit Cocktail Club – review
Wilde’s tale is reimagined in suitably decadent surroundings by Second Skin Theatre Company
Read MoreCharity records shocking 180 per cent increase in use of emergency aid centres
The Trussell Trust plans more ‘crisis intervention’ foodbanks for Hackney after spike in usage over 12 months
Read More‘My home is not a toilet’: fury after floating festival sinks into anarchy
Recriminations fly after event as residents allege debauched anti-social behaviour by hordes of revellers
Read MoreNo damp squib: revellers hoist anchor despite ‘danger’ warning
Big turnout for canal festivities after Trust says event could lead to ‘disaster’ and organisers pull plug
Read MoreSafety fears sink Canalival: plug pulled on floating festival
Waterway carnival runs aground as Trust warns “caravan of calamity” could be “recipe for disaster”
Read MoreBillionaire brothers’ plans for hotel on Foundry site stalled
Controversial designs being revised to include new flats on site of former arts venue, Reubens’ spokesman confirms
Read MoreFirefighters rescue man from flat above Turkish restaurant during blaze
Fire in Stoke Newington Road leads to closure of parts of A10
Read MoreYellow Face at The Park Theatre – review
Reality and fiction collide in David Henry Hwang’s satire about race and identity
Read MorePolice ‘increasingly concerned’ for welfare of missing Stoke Newington woman Edelle Shiels
38-year-old has not been seen since Friday 17 May
Read MoreFOUND Festival – preview
House, techno and garage from around the world comes to Haggerston Park
Read MoreStoke Newington Literary Festival – preview
Caitlin Moran, Martin Rowson, Danny Baker and Irvine Welsh on bill for bookish event
Read MoreBouchon Fourchette – review
Mare Street restaurant executes classy French cooking without a fuss
Read MoreIsrael on reel: Israeli Film and Television Festival Seret comes to PictureHouse
Gala night features quirky ‘falafel western’ Ballad of the Weeping Spring
Read MoreBlackfish, film about captive whales, among highlights of East End Film Festival
Hard-hitting flicks to be screened at Rio Cinema as part of annual event
Read MoreFrom the flawless to the ‘minxed up’: how Field Day performers shone
Bat for Lashes, Kurt Vile and Animal Collective were among highlights at festival on Saturday
Read MoreHot Tub Cinema – preview
This summer… get ready for… rooftop hot tub flicks!
Read MoreRiddles of the Market: Lorenzo Vitturi’s art tells story of Ridley Road
Sculptures lend new meaning to everyday items found in carnivalesque street
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