Hackney Child – review
Memoir of Hope Daniels is story of an upbringing characterised by neglect and hardship
Hackney Citizen
Dalston sound artist Atom Eye makes album out of field recordings
Who needs instruments when you’ve got the streets and green spaces of Hackney?
Maeve’s Kitchen – review
Clapton eatery named after Irish writer Maeve Binchy serves up fuss free fare sourced responsibly, cooked slowly and dished up quickly
Introducing the London Fashion Week five
Five East London designers and collections making waves for the autumn/winter season
Filmmaker completes project to make a film every week for a year
Azeem Mustafa overcomes creative block to complete unique project
Metier: 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
Hackney author hails ‘the power of sloth’
The tree-dwelling creatures are slowly taking over according to Lucy Cooke
Progressive preservation
Dean Smith looks at how London’s identity, diversity and contemporary architecture is affected through the preservation of existing buildings, conservation areas and spatial policies
Titbits – Four Communications, Hackney Today and parties’ row over Cazenove
Find out who’s namechecked in our new diary column
Hackney author looks at the gardens of the British working class
Are we a nation of gardeners? asks Margaret Willes in her new book
Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales to be staged at Shoreditch Town Hall
‘A story is better than a commandment’ author of His Dark Materials tells the Hackney Citizen
Jane Eyre to show us ‘how to be right in love’ at Rosemary Branch theatre
Stage adaptation of nineteenth century novel returns for a second run at Off West End award-winning theatre
Artists from London and Los Angeles team up for Head Grammar exhibition
Transition Gallery to hold mixed media group exhibition
Berlin Wall painter Thierry Noir to exhibit in Shoreditch gallery
The Howard Griffin Gallery is to hold the first ever Thierry Noir retrospective in April
Hackney Council approves plan to demolish Dalston’s historic Georgian terrace
Total demolition of heritage buildings to go ahead after close-run vote at Town Hall