Cult club night How Does It Feel To Be Loved has made a new home at The Shacklewell Arms. We speak to its founder, Ian Watson
Posted inFOOD & DRINK
Poco – restaurant review: ethical tapas on Broadway Market
Everything down to the ‘non-mafia’ wine is eco-friendly at Poco. But does the new recruit to Broadway Market pass the taste test?
Posted inMUSIC
Beirut – gig review: ‘meeting up with an old friend’
A trip to St John at Hackney to see the Balkan folk maestros stirs old passions
Posted inCULTURE
Winterville to make welcome return to Victoria Park
Winter is creeping in as East London’s favourite seasonal town announces its return with its biggest festive programme to date
Posted inSTAGE
Absent – stage review: ‘a series of questions never made explicit, let alone answered’
Immersive play at Shoreditch Town Hall about the enigmatic Duchess of Argyll proves compellingly ambiguous
Posted inFILM
East End directors get their shorts on for the London Film Festival
Short films about dating culture and a boy’s religious struggles provide diverse portraits of the East for this year’s BFI extravaganza
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Art review – The Poor Door: ‘a mini-Dismaland’
Activist artists take on the housing crisis with exhibition at Hackney Downs Studios
Posted inSTAGE
Octagon – stage review: poetry that ‘shivers your timbers…and sizzles your spine’
Poetry hotshots spit out their rhymes in a battle for poetry supremacy in Octagon at the Arcola
Posted inSTAGE
Brenda – stage review: ‘detached from the commonplace’
The Yard’s run of demanding and socially perceptive plays continues with Brenda
Posted inART
How the Berlin Wall became a catalyst for creativity
After the Fall at Red Gallery revisits the unique art and dance music scene of post-Wall Berlin