Shakespeare’s classic undergoes a cross-cultural makeover
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Buskers and musicians are taking over vintage shop off Brick Lane
What used to be a vintage clothes shop on Bacon Street is now a live music speakeasy
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Absolutely pho-bulous food from Hanoi by way of Shoreditch
Food historian Gillian Riley looks at the provenance of Vietnamese food and offers recipes and tips on how to make it at home
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East London’s finest: Alexander McQueen – Savage Beauty at the V&A
Nice ticket if you can get it. Alexander McQueen’s must-see retrospective takes the V&A by storm
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That inking feeling: inside London’s only vegan tattoo studio
London’s only vegan tattoo studio offers body art for the ethically-minded
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Jago – restaurant review
Jago serves up inventive small plates in a space age setting
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The Wash café – review
The Wash on Well Street is a coffee drinker’s cafe with a community focus
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Hackney Flashers make a comeback with childcare exhibition
1970s photography collective feature in History is Now exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
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Celeb-studded new film is set in a parallel East London world
Set The Thames on Fire is a dark, fantastical vision of East London starring the likes of Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips
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Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at the Barbican – review
This collection of artists’ collections including those of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, is fascinating though by its very definition a mixed bag