From Roman warrior snacks to Hackney’s designer links, food historian Gillian Riley tracks the many lives of the sausage
A prison leaver tries to get his life back on track with mixed success in new musical The Realness by Big House Theatre company
After learning that their homes were to be demolished, the residents of Samuel House set about making the most of what time they had left there
A year’s worth of detritus and one of the earliest photographic techniques form the basis of Walead Beshty’s installation at the Barbican centre
Iain Sinclair discusses the changing face of cinema at book launch event
Dutch and British artists to explore how nationality affects their artistic practice in last big exhibition at the Karin Janssen Project Space
A petition to save the Bethnal Green gasholders has already gained more than 1000 signatures
The East London Strippers Collective (ELSC) is campaigning to redefine mainstream views of stripping – but is it dancing out of time with popular opinion?
November is a bumper month for film with three film festivals returning to East London screens
Public to decide over songs that tread the blurred line between ‘sexy’ and ‘sexist’ at the latest YesNoDisco club night
Globe Education Project sees Year 7 students at Stoke Newington School explore notion of change by performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fans of Scott Walker gathered last month at St John at Hackney church to hear the artist’s latest album, a collaboration with Sunn O)))