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Bethnal Green

'Water holds memory in the way we think of fossils'

Phoebe Boswell's new work sends Black swimmers dancing up and down the escalators at Bethnal Green, reclaiming water as a place of refuge rather than loss

Author: Michelle Tonta

'Water holds memory in the way we think of fossils'

Requiem for a night out - Fiona Connor at Maureen Paley

What happens to a place once the locks are changed for the last time? Sculptor Fiona Connor explores the 'different sort of heat' found in recreations of our most familiar, yet fleeting, urban artifacts

Author: Sarah Birch

A series of doors featured in Fiona Connor's Closed Down Clubs exhibition

Revolutionaries and rebels - inside East London's breakaway suffragette movement

Under the leadership of Sylvia Pankhurst, the East London Federation of the Suffragettes (ELFS) championed women's suffrage rights from its base in Old Ford Road for years

Author: Sarah Birch

Revolutionaries and rebels - inside East London's breakaway suffragette movement

Wallace & Gromit fans go crackers for Young V&A exhibition celebrating iconic animations

A little slice of West Wallaby Street is coming to Bethnal Green

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Wallace & Gromit fans go crackers for Young V&A exhibition celebrating iconic animations

Clubs boycott Saucony Run Shoreditch 10km over event sponsor's links to Israel

'We cannot allow the sport we love to be used to gloss over oppression'

Author: Claudia Lee

Waking Dreams ahead of their 10km in Victoria Park, Sunday 21 September

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

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

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

Tasca at Câv, Bethnal Green, food review: 'Flavour fiesta'

Paradise Row's newest restaurant may offer only tiny plates, but we licked them all clean

Author: Hackney Citizen

Tasca at Câv, Bethnal Green, food review: 'Flavour fiesta'

Short Road Pizza, Three Colts Tavern, food review: 'Like Italy and New York have made sweet love'

A husband-and-wife team have turned their pandemic charity venture into an 'exciting' reality

Author: Hackney Citizen

Short Road Pizza, Three Colts Tavern, food review: 'Like Italy and New York have made sweet love'

Jordy Kerwick: I’ll Come Back Again, Union Gallery: ‘Dream-like imagery mixed with personal symbolism’

The artist’s show in Bethnal Green ‘leaves one wondering what exotic stories lurk deep in our minds’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Jordy Kerwick: I’ll Come Back Again, Union Gallery: ‘Dream-like imagery mixed with personal symbolism’

Take a look at The Green House

The Ethical Property Company shows off its fully serviced eco workspace on Cambridge Heath Road

Author: Advertising Feature

Take a look at The Green House

Fifteen painters join up to explore the ‘underbelly of urban existence’ for Bethnal Green show

Urban Contemporaries at Espacio Gallery features 80 artworks looking at the ‘essential forces of the city experience’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fifteen painters join up to explore the ‘underbelly of urban existence’ for Bethnal Green show

Liberal Democrat activist ‘knocks out’ UKIP MEP in Brexit-charged ‘chessboxing’ match

York Hall hosted the political bout of sport that alternates chess and pugilism as a test of mental and physical strength

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dominant: Lib Dem Toby White lands a blow. Photograph: London Chessboxing