Landlord of council-subsidised cafe Hackney Heart is Labour activist
Hackney Council pays thousands of pounds of public funds to accountant running for election in nearby Enfield
Read MoreEye Opticians shop damaged in riots fears trade will be hit after Specsavers opens next door
Chain giant could outcompete independent small business in Mare Street’s ‘war of opticians’
Read MoreMayfields – review
Former greengrocer’s on Wilton Way is a genuine culinary gem
Read MoreDalston sound artist Atom Eye makes album out of field recordings
Who needs instruments when you’ve got the streets and green spaces of Hackney?
Read MoreHackney Child – review
Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship
Read MoreHackney resident Anna Duffield nominated for a BAFTA award
Film producer recognised for her role in short film Sea View, an unsettling tale of adolescent love
Read MoreMetier: Small Businesses in London – review
A celebration of London’s unorthodox small businesses and shops still managing to keep afloat in an increasingly homogenous high street
Read MoreFilmmaker completes project to make a film every week for a year
Azeem Mustafa overcomes creative block to complete unique project
Read MoreIntroducing the London Fashion Week five
Five East London designers and collections making waves for the autumn/winter season
Read MoreMaeve’s Kitchen – review
Clapton eatery named after Irish writer Maeve Binchy serves up fuss free fare sourced responsibly, cooked slowly and dished up quickly
Read MoreHackney author hails ‘the power of sloth’
The tree-dwelling creatures are slowly taking over according to Lucy Cooke
Read MoreBB&C at the Vortex Jazz Bar – review
Jazz trio play Dalston jazz venue
Read MorePlay tackles subject of 'paupers' funerals'
The death industry and the consequences of dying alone without dependents is the focus of a new play to be staged this month at the Red Gallery in Shoreditch
Read MoreRoy Williams to make return to East London with new play Kingston 14
The playwright is back at Stratford East with a play that explores corruption in Jamaica with Goldie in a starring role
Read MoreHitchcock's East End
The director’s links with East London are well known but until recently little celebrated
Read MoreStephen Willats – conceptual art that is socially and politically relevant
Archive display shows how pioneering conceptual artist Stephen Willats engaged socially and politically with the world around him
Read MoreRare photographs show East End life 100 years ago
Photographs by the enigmatic C.H. Mathews are on display for the first time at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery
Read MorePainting the past in Another Country exhibition
Artists explore themes of memory, travel and dislocation in exhibition at new Bow Arts-run gallery
Read MoreKrista Papista – the sound of 'sordid pop'
Dark lyrics and searing beats are just two features of Dalston-based artist Krista Papista’s ecclectic sound
Read MorePie-oneers of fast food
Childhood memories of pie mash shops led George Steptoe to make a documentary about them
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