Punters petition to get The Joiners Arms listed as a ‘community asset’
Campaigners seek Asset of Community Value status for ‘legendary’ Shoreditch gay pub facing closure in the new year
Read MoreMove to change arts funding could ‘penalise’ grassroots, says charity
Fears that diverting arts council funding away from London will harm small organisations the most
Read MoreJames Lucas: 'I’d like to produce a film that’s stylish, unflinching, slightly feral and entertaining'
With his debut short film tipped for an Oscar, Hackney based screenwriter James Lucas offers a preview of his latest script about an East London motorcycle gang
Read MoreEthiopian food comes Haile recommended
Food historian Gillian Riley discovers the unique culinary heritage of Africa’s oldest independent country
Read MoreNo moor room: canal boat families fight for their own stretch of water on River Lea
Hackney Boating Families seek to create ‘community moorings’ in Lower Clapton
Read MoreWhat does the future hold for East End galleries?
Shoreditch’s Kemistry Gallery has announced it will soon be the latest casualty of the area’s spiralling rents. Nick Hagan explores a gallery scene in flux
Read MoreBilly the kid review: panto hoedown
Acting the goat is encouraged down at the Rosemary B-ranch for panto-western Billy The Kid
Read MoreConstructing Worlds – review: architecture that compels to silence
Barbican’s winter photography exhibition captures 80 years of modern architecture in all its diversity
Read MoreSowing the seeds of Hackney City Farm
Built on the site of a defunct brewery, the farm was founded 30 years ago on the principle that caring for animals and plants brings people together
Read MoreHackney Greens announce general election candidates
Charlotte George will stand in Hackney South and Shoreditch and Heather Finlay in Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Read MoreRepairs leave Bow Mission mural damaged
Early work by iconic muralist Ray Walker has been dissected by two girders
Read MoreHave a Scandi Christmas at Nordic Yulefest
Popping up in time for Christmas is a Scandinavian banqueting hall set for yuletide revels
Read MorePerson and plate: a morning shandy with Tunde Roberts
Annalies Winny meets the vicar on a mission to unite Woodberry Down, with or without God
Read MoreCouncillor Philip Glanville makes history with midnight wedding
Hoxton councillor and partner Giles McCrary convert civil partnership into marriage one minute after changes to law come into effect
Read MoreDarren Coffield: Psycho – review
Darren Coffield’s Warhol-inspired works often fail to live up to their own high aspirations
Read MoreFake Bush to perform at Winterville
Tribute artist Fake Bush talks about her life as someone else in the run up to a special performance at Winterville
Read MoreSleeping Booty!
More panto records will be smashed as the the creators of the critically acclaimed Dick!, are back with yet another fithy and festive frolic.. The Evil Mangelina (Dusty O), is wreaking havoc over our precious, perverted pantoland with an unruly and slippery iron fist … Together with her randy but downtrodden sidekick ‘Tit-bit’, they preside…
Read MoreLeader — If it is broke, do fix it
What are the implications of recent events in Tower Hamlets for Hackney’s executive mayoral model?
Read MoreTitbits — Secular snack tables, Boris bagels and graveyard gossip
Abney Park suffers hatchet job, Boris gets bagels named in his honour and ‘affordable’ micro-homes arrive in the borough
Read MoreChristmas appeal: Trussell Trust calls for tins off your trolleys
Hackney Foodbank needs experienced advisors, sorters, and ‘someone with a large-ish car’
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