Hackney gets yarn bombed – Mare Street trees get woolly makeover
The Hackney Citizen meets the mystery ‘Yarn Bombers’ who earlier this week dressed trees outside Hackney Town Hall in knitted woolly jumpers
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A Dangerous Method – review
David Cronenberg examines the pioneering work of psychoanalysts Jung and Freud but the exploration of sexual themes falls short, despite the addition of spanking scenes
Hackney needs more apprenticeships says MP Meg Hillier
As the borough’s jobless figures rise to one of the capital’s highest, local MP Meg Hillier and Hackney Community College join forces to promote apprenticeships for young people
An alternative Olympic tour takes in Hackney’s art, history and fashions
As the Olympics loom, Alexandra Topping takes a tour within sight and sound of the London 2012 site Interactive: an alternative tour around the site [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/london-2012-olympics-blog/interactive/2012/feb/20/olympic-park-alternative-tour]
Men’s fashion: Straight talk with Christopher Shannon
The menswear designer channels singer Sinead O’Connor in his new collection, on show during this London fashion week
Hackney Labour councillor Alan Laing to resign
Four Communications employee and former Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods to resign next month as councillor for Hackney Central ward
Hackney Council assistant chief executive paid direct to limited company
Town Hall comms chief paid since 2009 as a consultant, rather than as a council employee
Adam Deacon: ‘I was too street and too scary for directors’
Adam Deacon talks about his Bafta for rising star and his desire to be a voice for modern youth
Art Against Knives sets up at BoxPark Shoreditch
An anti-knife crime charity set up after the 2008 stabbing of an art student in Shoreditch moves in to the BoxPark pop-up mall
Dalston’s power players
Power Lunches, an arts café which doubles as a rehearsal studio, is boosting Dalston’s growing reputation as a hotspot for musical creativity and innovation
Hackney fashion: spring / summer 2012
The Hackney Citizen finds fashion keeping things sweet this season
Hackney rising star Adam Deacon: my Bafta award is a win for ‘the underdog’
This year’s Bafta rising star award, voted for by the public, went to Adam Deacon who wrote, directed and starred in the film Anuvahood
Social Fabric: threads of colonialism laid bare
If an antidote were needed to MP Diane Abbott’s notoriously clumsy tweets on the legacy of colonialism, it can be found at a subtle new exhibition which uses the textile trade to unpick the history and impact of the colonial past
Horrible Histories at the Hackney Empire: don’t spare the blood and gore
With a stage version of his Horrible Histories soon to open at the Hackney Empire, Terry Deary explains why blood curdling accounts of historical events and newspapers can be good for kids
Sense and Sensibility – review
A new stage production of Sense and Sensibility at the Rosemary Branch liberates its characters from distracting period trappings to reveal the wit and soul of the original novel