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It’s crunch time for famous Mare Street hangout The Dolphin

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 16 September 2013 at 16:32

Councillors to decide venue’s fate at Town Hall meeting following police licence review application

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Urban animals the focus of artist Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s film Taskafa

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 16 September 2013 at 10:43

Treatment of street dogs of Istanbul “a whisper of what we do to people”, says longtime Haggerston resident

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Tim Burgess and Aidan Moffat contribute to The Quietus music anthology

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 13 September 2013 at 14:39

Collection by long-time resident of Stamford Hill’s Holmleigh Road Estate now available as e-book

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Connecting Nothing with Something – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 September 2013 at 16:32

Briny collection featuring Salena Godden is latest title from Gary Budden and Kit Caless’ ‘site specific’ Influx Press

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Centerprise – the radical past of a much missed Hackney institution

By Dominic Simpson | Thursday 12 September 2013 at 13:44
A illustration of Centerprise as it looked in the 1970s. The image was provided by Ken Worpole

Iconic bookshop and cultural centre closed its doors last year but had a remarkable history, finds Dominic Simpson

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New East London publishers Hoxton Mini Press launch Kickstarter campaign

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 September 2013 at 11:34

‘Spotter’s guide’ to the people of the East End will be among the first titles company prints

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Complete Poems of Howard Mingham published by imprint Caparison

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 12 September 2013 at 10:12

Writer Ken Worpole pays tribute to gifted Hackney poet who died in mysterious circumstances in 1984

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Hackney New School building scheme approved by council

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 September 2013 at 11:03

Designs get go-ahead despite concerns about overcrowding

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‘Gagging orders could frustrate Greg Wallace investigation’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 September 2013 at 15:09

Unions warn of legally-binding clauses, but Hackney Council says it has no authority to set them aside

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David White obituary

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 September 2013 at 14:10

Tributes paid to community campaigner who spent early life living in lighthouses in Australia

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Hackney Marshes car park plan pulled from agenda at eleventh hour

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 September 2013 at 13:44

Hackney Council says controversial application will be resubmitted as councillor tells Town Hall: ‘Follow due process’

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Life cycle: bike team pedal to Croatia to raise cash for The Steve Reid Foundation

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 9 September 2013 at 12:18

DJ Gilles Peterson’s musicians’ charity benefits from mammoth ride across Alps

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Hackney Council takes plunge and opens West Reservoir to swimmers

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 18:30

Dive into the water on Thursdays and Saturdays this month and next

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Food historian Gillian Riley shows how to dine like a 15th century gastronome

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 17:51

Author of Oxford Companion to Italian Food reveals her recipe for chicken with verjuice

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Sci-fi-like and revolutionary, 3D printing is now available in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 17:31

SPACE Studios and Dalston-based design firm Something & Son among those using the technology

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Hackney’s St Joseph’s Hospice gets five stars from patients

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 16:15
Head of the hospice: Michael Kerin. Photograph: Eleonore de Bonneval

Institution has come far since it was established by Irish nuns in 1900

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David Baddiel to take to stage at Hackney Winter Night Shelter fundraiser

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 6 September 2013 at 13:23

Isy Suttie, Bridget Christie, Ginger and Black, and Paul Sinha will also perform at Belter for the Shelter event

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Plot thickens in second series of Channel 4’s urban saga Top Boy

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 September 2013 at 13:55

Mayor Jules Pipe refused to allow show’s producers to film on Hackney estates, but that hasn’t prevented them creating ‘damn good drama’

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Leader – Save Lea Marshes’ suspicions well founded

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 September 2013 at 12:38

Campaigners are right to be wary about Hackney Council’s car park claims

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Save Lea Marshes campaigners warn of car park ‘threat’ to green space

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 September 2013 at 12:32

Pressure group’s rallying cry to protect ‘common land’

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