Whistle to blow on Romance FC’s women’s five-a-side tournament in Shoreditch this Saturday
The all-female football collective will take on 11 other teams from the South East and France for charity in the 2017 edition of Playing For Kicks
East End exhibitions – five of the best for October
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more
Hackney Downs Vegan Market to go weekly from this weekend
The free Saturday plant-fest, which attracts thousands to Hackney Downs Studios, is run by popular local blogger Fat Gay Vegan
Rich Mix to host ‘rowdy, political knees up’ Question Time Cabaret next week
Artist Talia Randall and a panel of journalists and performers will tackle ‘gentrification and the art of the East End’ in an inimitable way – albeit without any Dimblebys
London Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’
Six designers will be showing off collections at Hackney Showroom this time next week, Wednesday 20 September
‘Porn is a medium, not a genre’: performer, director and activist Pandora Blake talks ethical smut
The spanking specialist gave a talk – and screened some explicit clips from throughout porno history – at Shoreditch venue The Book Club at the start of the month. Our reviewer was there to ‘listen and learn’…
Essence Cuisine, Shoreditch, restaurant review: raw and order
This shiny new Shoreditch hangout is part-takeaway salad joint, part-molecular gastronomy café, and 100 per cent meat, dairy, gluten and refined sugar-free. Rabbit food or raving success?
Amateur hour: 85-year-old AmDram group Tower Theatre Company set sights on Stoke Newington
Booze license approved for site on Northwold Road despite objections from locals
Hackney One Carnival returns on 10 September – we have all the details
Find out the new route, what’s on, the prospective weather and more in our guide to next weekend’s festivities
London Fields Lido finally gets reopening date – after end of summer
The pool will throw its doors back open to swimmers on the last day of September