Shacklewell Arms gets new hands
Uber-cool DJs, top bands and ‘secret’ performances have transformed an old-style music pub. The Citizen meets those behind the change
Hackney Citizen
Hackney WickED Art Festival 2011 – review
This popular three day extravaganza drew thousands of art and music lovers to Hackney Wick and Fish Island last month. The Citizen explores the galleries
Hackney: ‘these riots were about lack of opportunity’ – video
Channel 4 video: a local filmmaker talks to two members of a gang about possible reasons for the riot and their relationship with the police
Interview: Joe Dunthorne on his new book, Wild Abandon
The Hackney author discusses his second novel, which readers have greeted with acclaim
Happy Kitchen: Hackney foodie heaven
A new eatery in London Fields leads the way in health-giving, sustainable, ethical food
Young, gifted and back
Kids are coming back to sport as Olympics organisers target couch potato youngsters with enticing outdoor events aimed at reversing negative associations with regimented PE lessons
Hackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’
Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy
What caused the Hackney riots? Local residents speak out
“These teenagers have got nothing better to do… they think that they’re well hard”
UK riots: don’t shut these kids out now
Put the shutters up on the shops, but not in our minds. A punitive and condemning reaction simply mirrors the alienation so many already experience
Boris Johnson says London riots “are not a simple issue.”
London’s Tory Mayor has said that the riots’ “background field of causation” is “very, very, various.”
Are you affected by the Hackney riots?
Hackney Citizens’ Advice Bureau offers information to local residents on what to do
Hackney riots: why here? why now?
What were the reasons for this week’s violent disturbances in the borough?
I’m in two minds over the riots
Half of me wants to whack the rioters with a cricket bat, and the other half blames the world, for being unfair
The militarisation of policing the riots would be a deadly mistake
Yes, we must regain control of the streets, but loose talk about rubber bullets and water cannon will achieve nothing
Hackney riots: taking stock
Local residents and businesses pick up the pieces and hope the next few days will be calmer
London riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief