Green Room: Arcola Theatre aims to steal show in Sustainability category at The Stage awards
The magazine gave the Dalston performance hub the nod for its recent LED lighting scheme and its many other environmental credentials
Read MoreChristmas (Baby Peas Come Home): Food banks to receive fresh produce courtesy of Growing Communities
The community-driven Hackney non-profit is helping to make up for many food banks’ inability to store and hand out newly harvested food
Read MoreBlack Cat vegan cafe to combat cold winter night with soup kitchen
The cooperatively run Clarence Road spot say reveal the menu for the inaugural evening on 22 December, where ‘nobody will be refused food’
Read MoreBeavertown Brewery’s sudden decision to axe former Hackney home Duke’s Brew & Que leaves drinkers stunned
The brewpub and BBQ restaurant on Downham Road, de Beauvoir, closed permanently on 4 December
Read MoreHackney Citizen wins BBC funding for a Local Democracy Reporter
Contracts have been awarded to publishers across the country as part of the BBC Local News Partnership scheme
Read MoreHackney Citizen Christmas Listings 2017: food, music, booze, gift shopping, children, charity and more
Almost every day of the big countdown to Christmas brings something local and exciting to enjoy
Read More‘They believe because we believe’: an interview with the stars of the Empire’s panto Cinderella
We talk to Aisha Jawando and Kat B, playing Cinderella and an Ugly Sister respectively, about what panto is all about
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for December ’17
Christmas jazz, a Scottish troubadour, chicken nuggets and new music from SEO-unfriendly London band Totally – it’s all in this month’s gig guide
Read MoreModern Art is Rubbish: Gavin Turk on making a packet – literally – for the Skip Gallery
“I look back at the rubbish and think “shit, that rubbish can tell us the story of everything!”
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for December
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
Read MoreFrom Russia to Watford: OperaUpClose to perform restaged, rewritten Tchaikovsky libretto in Arcola show
We speak to the Olivier Award-winning lyricist Robin Norton-Hale about the company’s unique take on Eugene Onegin
Read MoreGeffrye Museum announces last events before two-year closure
Next January’s traditional Epiphany celebration is the highlight of the Kingsland Road institution’s ‘last big shindig’ until early 2020
Read MoreOnce in a Lifetime opportunity: Talking Heads tribute band to run through two classic albums at MOTH Club
We chat to Speaking In Tongues, who will play Talking Heads: 77 and Remain in Light in full later this month
Read MoreNot-So-Still Life tackles elderly loneliness with drawing classes
All are welcome at this new social enterprise, with the next session taking place in Clapton this Saturday 11 November
Read More‘We’ve got the homeless of Hackney sick of sourdough!’: Volunteer project dishes up weekly meals for the needy
A spin-off from a project born in the Calais Jungle, Refugee Community Kitchen sets up shop every Thursday outside Hackney Central Library
Read MoreBanner Repeater, Hackney’s train platform art gallery, to celebrate new deal with fundraising party
The former shop at Hackney Downs station has inked an agreement with Arriva and TfL that secures its existence until 2020 at least
Read MoreSmoking Goat, Shoreditch, restaurant review: ‘like they’ve entered a cheat-code to my heart and stomach’
New Shoreditch restaurant Smoking Goat takes inspiration from Northern Thailand and its culture of aharn glam lao – drinking food
Read MoreInsignificance, Arcola Theatre, theatre review: ‘Bailey Johnson plays Marilyn with speedily unwinding energy’
This production of the witty, contemplative 1982 play brings together thinly-veiled versions of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe McCarthy and Joe DiMaggio
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for November ’17
From punk to experimental electronics; Strong Asian Mothers to the “worst rapper ever” – it’s this month’s gig guide
Read MoreCockney-themed Christmas supper club slammed for ‘poorface’ press image
Zebedee Theatre artistic director Zoe Wellman defends upcoming Homerton production as ‘tongue-in-cheek’
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