Your intrepid correspondent casts his net in search of delicious seafood
Beach House, Deerhunter and Four Tet also set to perform at festival’s tenth anniversary in Victoria Park
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
A pamphlet first published by Centerprise explores working class political life in Victorian Hackney
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression
Famous names including David Bailey and Benjamin Zephaniah talk about how dyslexia has enabled them to be creative and successful
Cosy family-run restaurant offering ‘Californian cuisine’ boasts an inventive menu of seasonal, small-scale dishes
Street artist furious over ‘destruction and commercial exploitation’ of mural painted with local children in Polish city of Gdansk
Punk-poet Brigitte Aphrodite brings her acclaimed musical My Beautiful Black Dog about mental health to Hackney Showroom
Political activist premieres video for Pussy Riot single ‘Refugees In’ at Connor Brothers exhibition
A new play at the Arcola looks at the legacy of the ‘anti-psychiatrist’ whose mental illness centre in Bow became notorious for its controversial methods
A Hackney three-piece were so amazed by the recording of a recent gig at Oslo that they made it their debut LP
