From Melanie Symonds, who set up the popular Quiquiriqui mezcal pop-up last year and events duo Stagg & Barber, comes 184 Hackney Road
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Zavier Ellis – Type One Zealotry at Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery
Exhibition in basement gallery contemplates the nature of spirituality, insanity and the occult, and their place in urbanised society
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There’s a Monster in the Lake – review
Attitudes towards care for the elderly is the sober subtext to a surreal play at the Rosemary Branch
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Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works
Raven Row hosts first exhibition in which live performances of Yvonne Rainer’s dance works feature alongside her theoretical and lyrical writing
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The Frida Kahlo of Penge West – review
Hilarious two-woman show retells the life of the feminist revolutionary artist Frida Kahlo
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Hackney Empire cafe reopens as the latest food and music venture by Platterform
Former cafe has become the newest addition to Hackney’s ‘cultural quarter’
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East End designers celebrate summer at London Collections: Men
The pleasures of going on holiday provided inspiration for menswear designers at this year’s London Collections: Men SS15
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Futures – book review: things are never ‘stupid A to B’
Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker
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Joseph Mercier: ‘The erotic has a different appeal to that of pornography’
Director and choreographer Joseph Mercier talks about his new show Of Saints and Go-Go Boys that opens this month at Toynbee Studios