As Hackney Empire marks 125 years, Chris Sudworth talks community, affordability and a 16-month birthday party — with a little help from Lenny Henry, Chaka Khan and Hackney Women's FC.
Residents launch petition after London Fields branch is repossessed in a 3am lockout — with over 1,500 signatures now urging the landlord, MP and Post Office to reopen its doors
Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed — but the party insists they witnessed no violence
The O'Donnell + Tuomey-designed dance house on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is one of 32 buildings honoured this year — and, the judges say, an icon made for the people who live around it
The seminal American provocateur brings a career-spanning screening to the Rio and a three-night noise residency to Cafe OTO — his video work and his experimental sound practice, side by side, for one week only
The Hackney artist has donated a rare complete set of his five-colour lithographs to raise money for the hospital where, as he puts it, half the borough was born
Christine Bacon's expansive new play at the Arcola, drawn from Jason Hickel's The Divide, takes aim at 80 years of 'international development' — and is very nearly saved by a strong cast from a script that wants to do everything at once
