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Fluffer Pit Party, Dalston Epic, review: Deap Vally attack from all angles

The vaunted 360-degree stage may dilute their energy slightly, but LA’s Deap Vally were still able to blow the crowd away when they hit Dalston last week

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"Ferocious energy": Deap Vally's Lindsey Troy rockets around the 360 degree stage. Photograph: Casey Cooper-Fiske

The Lime Green Mystery, Rosa Schling, book review: Dalston die-hards

The team at On The Record brought us history-walk app a hackney autobiography. Sister book The Lime-Green Mystery delves even deeper into radical HQ Centerprise’s colourful history

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"A hive of creativity, activism and social fizz": outside Centerprise. Photograph: Maggie Hewitt

Two teenagers arrested in Dalston for wielding ‘monster’ knife during fight

Youngsters were waving the 10-inch weapon during a fight in the early evening of Thursday

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"Monster": the knife involved in the Dalston row. Photograph: Met Police via Twitter

Marc Ribot, Cafe Oto, live review: ‘the gentle sentiments of a man who worships music’

This Elvis Costello collaborator and Americana expert, said to be ‘one of the greatest living guitar players’, hunkered down in Dalston for a two day residency

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'More of an altar than a stage': Marc Ribot tunes up at Cafe Oto. Photograph: Ania Walisiewicz'More of an altar than a stage'

New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

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"Magical": the splash screen of a hackney autobiography's website, with illustrations by Joanna Layla

‘Darkness to descend’ on Eastern Curve Garden as nine-storey tower threat looms

Community blog raises concerns over redevelopment plans for neighbouring Thames House

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Mangle ‘acid attack’: second victim goes blind in one eye as police make arrest

Detectives continue to hunt Arthur Collins and appeal for information about ‘awful incident’ in Hackney

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Dalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”

This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel

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“Two older lads on the razz”: detail from Dalston in the 80s. Photograph: Andrew Holligan.

The Last Tenant, Sarah Kisielowski, book review: ‘an elegiac look at post-war Berlin’

Dalston-based first time author Kisielowski explores the recent history of Berlin through the lens of a family coming to terms with its own past

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Sarah Kisielowski, author of The Last Tenant. Photograph: Fragment Press

Owners of controversial LD50 gallery told to ‘vacate premises’, claim campaigners

Shutdown LD50! declares victory in blog post but gallery boss Lucia Diego dismisses claims as ‘false information’

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Dalston’s Hackney Pirates put on a show at the Rio

Literacy charity premieres film made by children at red carpet bash

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Hackney Pirates on stage at the Rio Cinema

Three sheets to the wind: we take a wine-centric look at a trio of new local eateries

Quaffs were taken at Whitechapel Refectory (the cafe located inside the Whitechapel Gallery) as well as Newcomer Wines and Furanxo, both on Dalston Lane

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After Hours at the Whitechapel Gallery's new Refectory.