Gentrification and the battle for Clapton’s soul
Clapton is changing fast as rising house prices in other parts make this once run-down area increasingly des res. But is an influx of newcomers creating tensions with existing residents?
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Tell Them That I Am Young And Beautiful
He moved to Hackney almost two decades ago, but only now is celebrated director Marcello Magni bringing an ambitious international work to his local theatre. He explains why it’s taken him so long and why empathy is critical to his art
Interview: Reverend Joyce Daley on the Hackney riots
A local minister gives her eyewitness account of last month’s civil unrest in the borough
Interview: Made in Britain author James Gavin Bower on the Hackney riots
A Hackney novelist gives his take on the recent unrest
Third London Fields aquathlon announced
The increasingly popular multi-sport event is to be held on Sunday 2 October
Interview: Yvvette Edwards, Man Booker Prize longlister
Hackney-raised author’s début novel A Cupboard Full of Coats has met with great acclaim
Ozzy hops for hipsters’ tipple: London Fields Brewery opens
A new Hackney brewery is taking the artisanal approach to booze – with a bit of help from down under
Leona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Simon Cowell a lesson in taste
Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia Patterson
Donna Walker makes aMEND
Award-winning artist’s new collection comes to The Residence in Victoria Park Village
Dalston photo exhibition captures backstreet Delhi life
Father and son photographers document Indian city life from the 1950s to the 1970s
Infinite Blue: exhibition revisits life in Ceausescu’s Romania
Stefan Constantinescu’s first solo exhibition at Galerie 8 explores the notion of art in a totalitarian state
Colin O’Brien photography exhibition comes to Pages of Hackney
The renowned photographer’s lesser known shots of working-class London life are on show at one of Clapton’s bookshops
The Fishwick Papers: East London’s printmakers
A group of Hackney artists pay tribute to the borough’s printmaking heritage with a new exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery
Will the National Citizen Service stop young people rioting?
David Cameron says the scheme will restore values, responsibility and self-discipline. Its critics say it is too expensive and will not help disaffected youngsters