The brighter the light, the darker the shadow
Surgical bandages, men in bikinis and Ancient Greek: these are some of the ideas that are being bandied around a table by a group of artists
Read MoreThe faces of Church Street
Photographer Richard Nolan-Neylan presents ‘The Face of Church Street’, featuring portraits of small business owners in Stoke Newington
Read MoreMP calls on healthcare body to listen to “critical voices”
An MP has criticised a healthcare body after it emerged it was refusing to investigate concerns about its TB services
Read MoreCausing a scene – 6 Day Riot
Matt Hanley catches lead singer and songwriter Tamara Schlesinger before the band go supersonic
Read MoreGentrification – a neighbourhood ‘grey area’?
Clearly there are winners and losers in a changing neighbourhood, but what can be done to ensure we end up with the kind of community we want to live in?
Read MoreGP surgeries – what’s happening
“Any change in premises will not involve somebody having to lose their GP”
Read MoreSpirit loses fight to stay
Spirit has lost his fight to stay at 71 Broadway Market – his shop and home since 1993
Read MoreOlympic follies, fools’ gold?
Why Hackney businesses are struggling to win Olympic contracts
Read MoreWhose green? Whose turf? Whose space?
Another visit to Butterfield Green
Read MoreDalston’s fried and tested
Kevin Clark searches out Dalston’s finest fried. All appraisals have been made on the basis of a typical veggie breakfast
Read MoreUsed bookshops – turning up the volumes
The first of a series of investigations into where to get quality second-hand goods
Read MoreLegacy in the Dalston dust
The Hackney Citizen talks to film-maker Winstan Whitter about his new documentary, ‘Legacy in the Dust’
Read MoreThe art of the London 2012 Olympics: the Cultural Olympiad
Whilst it is generally viewed positively, the Cultural Olympiad has its critics
Read MoreClissold Rangers – London in their hands!
Sweeping all before them, Clissold Rangers FC have their eyes on the stars
Read MoreGone to seed
Peter Jones observes nature’s latest offering
Read MoreHoxton’s Hallam moves to HMP Bullingdon
Here’s the latest on the Sam Hallam campaign, with words of support from Patrick Maguire of the Maguire Seven
Read MoreEast by northeast – Hackney Podcast ahoy!
Whilst there may well be global crises, there is still local enjoyment to be had. Hackney’s cultural, social and political life has become the subject of a recently-launched series of monthly podcasts.
Read MoreAffordable autumn fare
Make some noise for the humble potato – and the equally modest cabbage
Read MoreThe goy next door
What’s it like for an outsider to live alongside Stamford Hill’s Orthodox Jewish community, ‘the square mile of piety’? Ben Locker and ‘The Shaigetz’ swap perspectives and wonder whether they might be the best of neighbours.
Read MoreDark art on the Downs
WW is a new artists’ run project space in a Victorian terraced house on Hackney Downs, showing artists using humour and darkness in contemporary art
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