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Posts Tagged ‘review’

Crudelia review – ‘Fantastic weaving of culture, fun and fandom’

By Gabriel Wilding | Thursday 6 November 2025 at 11:25

Crudelia’s comida exquisita now has a permanent residency

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The Black Eel review – ‘Can I ever forgive Fisher?’

By Gabriel Wilding | Sunday 26 October 2025 at 09:02
Riley's

Have you ever been swimming with eels? A nightmare for some, a strange fascination for my friend and me.

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Bad Boy Pizzeria, Bethnal Green, food review: ‘One for the die-hard pie fans’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 11:31

The New York-style restaurant is proof that the ‘appetite for pies with zippy, cartoonish branding has not abated’

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On the Boardwalk, Martin Sherman, book review: ‘Deliciously droll’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 16:37

The playwright’s ‘intensely personal’ memoir focuses on the years before he found fame

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Mossbourne: complaints review led by Anne Whyte KC expected to conclude ‘in the autumn’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 July 2025 at 20:10
Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy

‘The Federation is permitted the opportunity to reflect on the recommendations and they may choose to make a public comment thereafter’

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Dragon Flame, Hackney Downs, food review: ‘Bloated, besmirched, and oh so happy’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 4 July 2025 at 10:25

At The Star By Hackney Downs, the BBQ experts from Dragon Flame are cooking up fare that is ‘far from standard’

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How to Fight Loneliness: ‘Show, don’t tell’ – review, Park Theatre

By Selina Mills and Sarah Birch | Thursday 15 May 2025 at 16:32
How to Fight Loneliness

Neil Le Bute’s play is a tale of dark, unforeseen consequences

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All the Young Queers, Nathan Evans, book review: ‘Deliciously creative’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 10:56

The local author’s collection of short stories provides a ‘kaleidoscopic portrait of growing up as LGBTQ+ in Britain’

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Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years – review

By Sarah Birch | Monday 19 August 2024 at 15:43
James Baldwin

‘The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it’

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Multiple Casualty Incident, Yard Theatre, stage review: ‘A tale of two acts’

By Gabriel Wilding | Thursday 23 May 2024 at 10:47

Sami Ibrahim’s play impresses in its first half, only to lose the audience in the second

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Deep Cuts London, Mare Street, review: ‘An infinitely pretty space to get classily trollied on aperitivos’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 30 January 2023 at 12:16
Drink in a glass

‘Bringing obscure spirits and vermouth to the forefront of the operation, this bar is a lively addition’

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Shirley Collins, Live from the Barbican, music review: ‘Long live the queen of folk!’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 15:41

The singer, accompanied by the Lodestar Band, doesn’t disappoint in her long-awaited return to the stage

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Hymn, Almeida Theatre, stage review: ‘Writing at its most perceptive’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 22 February 2021 at 14:40
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani

Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani shine in Lolita Chakrabarti’s play, which was live-streamed over a four-day run

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Good Grief, Original Theatre Online, stage review: ‘Tasteful exploration of our capacity for regrowth’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 19 February 2021 at 16:00

Blurring the line between a play and a film, this unique portrayal of loss is ‘sharp and biting’

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A Hero of Our Time, Arcola Theatre – review

By Sarah Birch | Friday 30 November 2018 at 22:15
“Was I put on this earth to destroy the hopes of others?” Oliver Bennett plays Pechorin. Photograph: Oleg Katchinsky

Fast paced and bursting with emotion, this is a new adaptation of Mikhail Lermontov’s neglected 1840 novel

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Stokey Bears, Haggerston, restaurant review: fresh beef and vegan relief

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 2 August 2018 at 12:51
Burgers and shakes

The already established eatery has a new place to call home, where it successfully unites those age-old friends, burger and milkshake

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I Never Lie review: psychological thriller bursting with local colour and fizz

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 1 August 2018 at 14:26
I Never Lie book cover

Jody Sabral’s third novel is also a moving portrayal of the ravages wrought by alcoholism

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Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey – review

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 31 July 2018 at 13:34
Adam Weymouth on the Yukon River

From his houseboat on the Lea, it takes Weymouth three days to reach McNeil Lake, the salmon spawning ground most distant from the Bering Sea where the Yukon eventually emerges

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Do Ho Suh, Passage/s @ Victoria Miro Gallery review – ‘unquestionably masterful technique’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 6 February 2017 at 10:59
Do Ho Suh’s Entrance, Unit G5, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7SB, UK, 2016. Courtesy the Artist, STPI and Victoria Miro, London

The show evokes both the transience of an artist’s nomadic life and the intimacy of domestic calm

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The Frog – restaurant review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 July 2016 at 14:55

It is the quality of the food by which a restaurant lives or dies, something chef Adam Handling understands, judging by his new venture

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