Phoebe Unwin, Wilkinson gallery: art review – paintings with a slow mystery
Painter’s latest collection uses a highly layered style resembling early cameraless photography
Hackney Citizen
Resident sues ‘callous’ Hackney Council to prevent playground eclipse
Call for Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe to enforce historical agreement protecting Colvestone Primary School’s access to light
Re-Defining Beauty at Leyden Gallery: taking a fresh look at the naked male form
Life drawing group Nude for Thought wants the male nude to regain its stature in contemporary art
To treat naked artist Poppy Jackson as a joke is to dismiss something powerful
Straddling the roof of Toynbee Hall, Jackson’s performance at Spill festival was a daring piece of experimental art. So why did most media reports reduce it to the lowest common denominator?
London Fields residents clash over car-cutting measures
Rival petitions launched after council announces plans to block off roads to through-traffic
Sarai: stage review – Old Testament drama proves power of the scriptures
One woman show at Dalston’s Arcola Theatre is a tour de force
Reflections on Mirrors festival: stellar venues and sounds
Big names and lesser known acts wreaked musical havoc at the first ever Mirrors festival in Hackney this weekend
New play Lines looks at how peace is 'just a gap between wars'
Four soldiers struggle to adapt to not being at war in the latest production at the Yard Theatre
Leader – No sense in handcuffing dying prisoners
The treatment of Sabri Karatas echoes several cases where the authorities have shown a lack of common sense and decency
Dying prisoner Sabri Karatas granted compassionate release
Sabri Karatas’s brother criticises Ministry of Justice for delay in decision
Sadness over closure of Bliss Café as gentri-fried breakfasts order of the day
Regulars express sadness over the closure of Dalston Lane’s ‘haven for old timers’ after 15 years of trading
Family of prisoner dying in Hackney hospice beg for his release
‘He might be a criminal but he is still a human,’ says brother of Sabri Karatas who has days left to live
Mayor 'deeply shocked' at plans to close the Cass
Petition gathers momentum against relocating art school, described as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, out of East London
Mayor ‘deeply shocked’ at plans to close the Cass
Petition gathers momentum against relocating art school, described as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, out of East London
Cancellation of witchcraft play is 'akin to censorship'
Girls’ school pulls plug on touring play citing explicit references to child abuse
Cancellation of witchcraft play is ‘akin to censorship’
Girls’ school pulls plug on touring play citing explicit references to child abuse