As Hackney Empire marks 125 years, Chris Sudworth talks community, affordability and a 16-month birthday party — with a ...

Ex-Smoking Goat's Ali Borer refines the vast mid-Atlantic region into small plates and open flame on the corner of Nile Street ...

"It has the charge that really good poetry ought to have." This is how writer-director Tony Graham describes the language in a series of oral histories that captured his imagination. They were ...

Swedish puppet sex? It sounds like unlikely material for a theatrical production, but Erik Holmström's whimsical take on The World is Full of Married Men is a charming, lust-drenched frolic. The ...

Remembering Harry Stanley: no memorial, no apology, no justice. Producer Tara Darby’s award-winning audio feature reopens a local tragedy that has gone unmarked for 25 years ...

On 22 September 1999, Scottish painter and decorator Harry Stanley stopped off for a lemonade on his way home at his local Hackney pub, The Alexandria (now The Lauriston). He put a plastic bag on the ...

“Homerton Hospital keeps Hackney alive and well, many were even born there. Let’s show it some love,” says STIK. The words have the plainness of everything the artist makes — no flourish, no irony, ...

New Art Projects has put on a beguiling exhibition of work by painters Jo Chate and Janet Sainsbury. A theme running through the dozen-and-a half canvases on show is the representation of famous faces ...

Maybe you, like me, keep eyeing the Michelin-starred Restaurant St Barts tasting-menu longingly, or bumping it up on that never ending restaurants-to-visit-when-I-win-the-lottery note on your phone.

“Beautiful face”, Rocío Romera González says of her daughter Isabel. “Heart warming smile” she adds, and then “My gorgeous girl. Love of my life”. These are words any parent may use to describe their ...

“It’s such a treat to visit an artist’s studio. Not only do you get to speak directly to artists and learn more about their process and approach – but the spaces themselves are fascinating,” says ...

Barbara Pym is a writer whose popularity has shifted like... well… the seasons. From her six marvellous, natty social-commentary novels in the 50s, to her 70s ...