Controversial Sainsbury’s application passed (again) by Hackney Council
Campaigners begin letter-writing drive against development in Stoke Newington
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We’ll play no part in ‘biased’ standards committee, say Hackney Conservatives
Tories withdraw from group they brand ‘nakedly partisan’
Now open: Ophelia, Hackney’s newest theatre
Dalston venue hosts production of Absence by Tim Cook
Bl-nk canvas: Hackney Council finds new way to push high tech businesses
Trendy start-ups backed by successor to pioneering Hackney House
Stoke Newington parakeet numbers increasing as residents complain of noise
Experts say there could now be as many as 30,000 of the bright green birds descended from escapees
Squatters occupying 195 Mare Street face eviction this week
Fate to be decided at High Court hearing set for Friday morning
Ears to the ground: an interview with Field Day founder Tom Baker
Promoter Tom Baker is East London’s go-to guy when it comes to live music
The Wapping Project powers down
Long running art space bows out this month with an Ibsen-inspired installation after 13 years in its hydraulic power station home
Diane Abbott joins BSix college students at debate over Education Maintenance Allowance
‘Beer money’ could make a return
Colvestone Primary choir sang along with Joe Stilgoe at carol concert
Event raised funds for charity Children and the Arts
Millfields Community School’s Christmas song to raise funds for playground
Bid to find £250,000
Abney Park Trust’s future still in doubt after ‘jargonistic’ meeting
Talks with Hackney Council ‘not reassuring’
Geraldine Pilgrim at Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall and Studios is the subject of a tour by installation artist Geraldine Pilgrim
Supporting Artists – Acme's First Decade 1972-1982
Whitechapel Gallery exhibition charts the first ten years of Acme, an organisation founded in the 1970s that provided affordable studio space and support for artists
Spitalfields Winter Festival – Remember Me: A Desk Opera
An opera inside a desk is sure to be one of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival highlights
The El. Train delivers Eugene O’Neill triple bill
A collection of one-act plays by Irish American playwright explores life on the dark side of the tracks