Less schmaltz, more syphilis: how Valentine’s Day is upping the anti
The annual love fest isn’t all about saccharine covered roses and teddy bears this year
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Are you running right?
Free talk for runners to ensure maximum performance while avoiding injury
Improved GCSE results in Hackney, but are our schools making the grade?
Results were up again in 2013 but a closer look at the data reveals a nuanced picture
Hackney Council refuses to release report into alleged irregularities at Best Start federated schools
Mystery still surrounds demise of Greg Wallace as ‘superhead’ of Best Start Federation primaries
London Collections: Men
East London designers make fashion a male prerogative at three-day event
Going The Way of the Dodo
Documentary is a celebration of a dying medium and portrait of a true film aficionado
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light – review
Iain Sinclair leaves Hackney for the US on a Beat poetry pilgrimage in his latest book
Fifty people of East London who are true to type
Well-observed guide to East Londoners is packed with satire and observational humour
Boxed In prepares to branch out
Producer Oli Bayston is looking forward to the year ahead with his project Boxed In
Macs from way back – East London's museum of all things Apple
The ‘Mac-smith’ Paul Marc Davis uses collection of rare computers and other Apple-related curios to create a museum on Hackney Road
Driven to abstraction – Roxy Walsh and Wilhemina Barns-Graham prints
Watercolours and screen prints by two abstract artists form two parallel shows at the Leyden gallery
Jeremy Deller's English Magic brought to William Morris Gallery
Iconoclastic artist rails against oligarchs, tax havens and war in latest exhibition at Walthamstow gallery
Platterform's Sea Adventure Series – review
Pop-up perennials Platterform lift anchor on their Sea Adventure Series in London Fields
Platterform’s Sea Adventure Series – review
Pop-up perennials Platterform lift anchor on their Sea Adventure Series in London Fields
Practical matters – Walthamstow's new public building the Blackhorse Workshop
The Blackhorse Workshop offers tools, tuition and bench space in a bid to encourage people to rediscover lost manual skills
Transgender roles as Jacobean tragedy brought into modern era in Cover Her Face
Performance artist La JohnJoseph stars in fifties take on John Webster’s revenge tragedy