East London Painting Prize winner announced
Nathan Eastwood scoops first annual award, but with such a strong shortlist East London was the real winner
East End Review
Turfed: the play that uses football to tackle homelessness
Hackney Downs Studios to stage football-focused play recounting the experiences of street children in dance, poetry and music
Between Us – review: a bold confrontation of class inequality
What price does society pay to allow the middle classes to feel good about themselves? asks Sarah Daniels’ play showing at the Arcola
Iain Sinclair looks back at 70×70 birthday film project
The year-long project to commemorate the writer’s seventieth birthday in which he chose 70 films to be screened across the capital ends this month
Waiting for Godot review – 'not total tomfoolery'
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at the Arcola is given a youthful focus with the casting of comic duo Totally Tom
Graduate Fashion Week review
Graduate Fashion Week saw a budding generation of designers and fashion graduates present their wares to the fashion loving public in the heart of the East End
Still Angry? John Barker on the Angry Brigade and his new novel Futures
John Barker found notoriety as a member of the Angry Brigade, an urban guerilla group based in Stoke Newington which undertook a bombing campaign during the 1970s. Having served his time, he is now an author with a new book about drugs and 1980s capitalism
Everyday Sexism founder Laura Bates: 'I wanted to force people to see how bad the problem was'
Feminist campaigner and journalist Laura Bates will be retracing childhood memories by returning to Hackney to talk at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival this month
Eclectic mix of contemporary art on display at Shoreditch gallery
Moving nudes and serene landscapes are among the works on display at Cock ‘n’ Bull gallery’s latest show
The Trial of the Jew Shylock – review
Adaptation of The Merchant of Venice at the Rosemary Branch theatre explores the complexity and humanity behind one of Shakespeare’s most controversial characters
George Orwell's East London footsteps
George Orwell spent a few months early in his career living rough in East London. Sixty-five years after the publication of his masterpiece 1984, the East End Review revisits the streets that influenced his writing to see what – if anything – has changed
Swimming London: The 50 Best Pools, Lidos, Lakes and Rivers from around the Capital – book review
From its rivers to its lidos and heated pools, London boasts its fair share of places to go swimming
Efendi review – 'Like you’re sitting down to dinner at a friend’s house'
Efendi describes itself as a neighbourhood kitchen, with a menu of everyday Turkish staples
Bones review: 'Remarkably understated and un-gimmicky for Shoreditch'
Shoreditch eatery Bones has a mantra of stripped back quality grub
Sofar so different – the gig movement coming to a living room near you
Holding intimate gigs in unusual spaces is the concept behind Sofar Sounds
Hard times in Hackney as economic slump takes toll
Guardian journalist Tom Clark explains his views on the global economic crisis set out in his new book Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump and how they apply to Hackney