The gruesome twosome will make their radio debut, since ‘Sachsgate,’ when they record a live podcast for Absolute Radio, from their show at the Hackney Empire on 30th September. Brand said: “I’ll be doing a series of podcasts and the first one will be with Jonathan. Then I’ll be doing between five and ten with [...]
A court last week heard that Michael McCarthy was stabbed and run over, in retaliation for his part in a drug connected kidnapping and torture of a rival drug dealer. McCarthy was killed as he walked his dog just before 11 pm on Yoakley Road last November, when a Fiat Punto pulled up with two [...]
October is Black History Month and Hackney will be celebrating and honouring the achievements of Black, African and Caribbean communities in creative art and media. Events are free and taking place at Hackney Museum and libraries until December 2010. There is something for everyone including sessions featuring guest speakers, music workshops, seminars, creative writing sessions [...]
Hackney Council’s licensing committee is inviting residents to help shape the borough’s town centres by taking part in a public consultation looking at the way sex establishments are licensed. The licensing committee is responsible for regulating sex shops, sex cinemas and sex entertainment venues, such as lap-dancing clubs and erotic dancing venues, and has drafted [...]
Darn you, Casey Affleck! Just as I was about to publish my opinions on your directorial debut, ‘I’m Still Here’, you go and spoil it all by revealing the truth about this so called documentary. Following much speculation over whether or not the film really shows the actor Joaquin Phoenix having a spectacular public meltdown, [...]
Clapton based Independent book store Pages of Hackney, was awarded Best new business at the Mayor of Hackney’s Business Awards 2010, on Tuesday September 14th, after beating off stiff competition from Dezeen Limited and Lock 7. The awards where handed out at a reception on Tuesday 14 September, by Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe. Now in [...]
On the 200th Anniversary of Mexican Independence, Hackney residents are invited to a unique Latin Farm Party organised by a local Latin American Community Project. The group was founded by Olimpia Tissier 23yrs old, a local resident, at the beginning of 2010, with the intention of celebrating Latin American Culture in East London. The party [...]
He’s been described as ‘Borat in reverse’ but Dan Edelstyn is a one of a kind. Adventurer, visionary, documentary and film maker, entrepreneur, self proclaimed time traveler and fantasist. Fantasist? Young Edelstyn believed he could meet up with the father he lost at a young age, through time travel. But it’s Edelstyn’s current projects, that [...]
‘Metropolis’ is the ripe old age of eighty-three and, therefore, hardly qualifies as a new release. Yet wait, for this is a version of the film which you are guaranteed never to have seen before, unless you happened to have caught the sci-fi classic on its initial German release in 1927. After that, both UFA, [...]
Young people who live, work or go to school in Hackney are invited to the borough’s first ever Youth Conference, offering thought-provoking debates, screenings and interactive workshops, on Saturday 11 September, 11am to 4.30pm, at Hackney Town Hall. Members of the Hackney Youth Parliament (HYP) and the four Area Youth forums (Homerton, North East, Shoreditch [...]
