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Beyond Otherness
“What skin colour would you like your child to be?” asks the advisor seated across from the black couple.
“You could have a white baby,...
A Not So Silent Night
Kicking off his “Grumpy Christmas Stocking” tour, Rick Wakeman CBE, pop impresario, author of over 90 solo albums and star of TV’s Grumpy Old...
Bowie’s 75th Birthday Exhibition
The pop-up exhibition based on David Bowie’s career has opened on Heddon Street in London, in celebration of what would have been his 75th...
REVIEW: Howzat For A Return?
Last Friday morning, I did something I don’t think I’ve ever done at 3.45 am: I smiled.
I’d be willing to wager than anybody else...
Charlton Athletic Women’s Season Review
19 Aug: Lewes (A)
An injury-plagued Charlton side opened the season with a 5-0 defeat at Lewes in the FA Women’s Continental Cup. Despite a...
Drake’s Plan
Drake's new video "God's Plan" has got us all feeling a tad emotional. The video was shot in Miami, and starts off with some...
Orient Breathe A Sigh Of Relief
Leyton Orient will live to see another day, as the owner has been given until the 12th of June to clear all debts or...
Orient Demolished By Accrington
Leyton Orient’s struggle continued as the O’s lost ground in their relegation battle after a disastrous performance last Saturday’s as the O’s slumped to...
O’S Geared Up For Grimsby
Danny Webb’s Orient side will be looking to build on their 4-0 thrashing of fellow strugglers Newport County last weekend as they return to...
Orient ‘Running Themselves Into the Ground’
Leyton Orient suffered their sixth consecutive loss in the league last Tuesday, against Morecambe, leaving the Londoners with zero points out of 18 in...
Accrington Stanley!? Who Are They?
East London side Leyton Orient will be looking to secure their first home win since August as they host Accrington Stanley in a huge...
Gabriela’s Top Three
When I'm feeling lonely in London - just because it's not home, this is where I go to get a taste of where I'm...
Warehouse (Tour) Party
After hearing about the opening of the new gallery at the Museum of London Docklands I couldn’t resist checking it out. I’d never been...
A Turkish Restaurant To Luxuriate In
Jess Gray indulges all her senses at Tas Firin.
Tas Firin is a traditional Turkish restaurant on Bethnal Green Road. From the street it does...
EPulsive Not Repulsive!
Molly Horne goes for a fully body workout using electrical muscle stimulation.
Healthy ice cream, free gym membership, getting fit whilst having a cuppa....only in...
My Brother the Devil
Pamela Kokoszka is moved by the love between two brothers
My Brother the Devil is a 2013 British crime drama directed by Sally El Hosaini.
The...
Made (History) In Dagenham
Pamela Kokoszka reviews a film about a key moment in the history of women's rights
Made in Dagenham is a 2010 British film directed by Nigel...
To the (ill) Manors Born
Pamela Kokoszka respects a director who stands his own ground.
Ill Manors (2012) was the first full length feature film directed by Plan B – real...
Bricked Up In Brick Lane
Brick Lane is a 2007 British drama directed by Sarah Gavron and adapted from the novel of the same name by British writer Monica...
Exhibit A: Good Food In A Homely Setting
The Great Exhibition is long gone and the surroundings are some way short of palatial, yet there is food to marvel at in Crystal...
Six Top Pix For Summer
Goosebumps Alive
In London’s latest immersive experience, you are invited to re-live your childhood through the 1990s cult horror series that prompted your irrational...
The Year of Comic Con: so good you’ve got to live it twice?
The season of Comic Conventions since September 2015 has been staggering, providing infinite entertainment and loads to write about.
We decided to collect the best...
Too Far To Reach?
The Reach outruns the rumours that preceded it, reports Tom Hedley. But it has yet make inroads into its own constituency.
Dropping just shy of...
Vinyl Junket
Aurora Krogh gets high on Hackney’s oil-based music party.
“The world's first festival for vinyl lovers,” claims Flying Vinyl. Taking over Shapes, the warehouse venue...
Goulding’s Good To Go
Drew Goodsell got value for money from Ellie Goulding’s lengthy set at the O2 arena.
Thursday 24 March was the penultimate date in the European...
Rudimental Reach Out To The Cheap Seats
When Rudimental got the whole arena rocking, Emma Brand joined in with the best of them.
You might assume that being in the front seats...
Dear Entertainments Officer, Book Us Some Magic, Please!
Aurora Krogh notifies the UEL students' union Entertainments Officer: what we want is The Magic Gang; when do we want them - now!
The Magic...
Low Brow versus High Brow – And That’s Just The Prices
Hair removal consist of a thin thread of cotton (or polyester) doubled, twisted and rolled over areas of unwanted hair, removing rows of hair...
‘Tis The Season…To Bring New Orleans To Canary Wharf
Tom Hedley re-visits Crossrail Place to find the Big Easy going up market.
Canary Wharf has produced some amazing eats in the past half-decade. At...
‘Tis The Season For……Hyper Priced Japan?
Held in East London's Tobacco Dock, this year's Hyper Japan’s Christmas Market seemed to be a roaring success. It was filled to the brim...
Emily Jacir: Material Sadness
Marius Holtan is moved by an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
The highlight of the Emily Jacir: Europa exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is an...
’Tis The Season To….Pick The X-Factor Winner
Emma Brand listened in while her flatmates judged the final show in this year’s X-Factor series.
You know it’s nearly Christmas when it’s time for...
Stone Baked In Shoreditch
Tom Hedley goes the extra Yard.
Slap-bang in the centre of Shoreditch, there’s plenty to love about Yard. Its super-airy, warehouse-themed space will make for...
Night Of Angels
Samantha Curry reveals the Victoria Secret show.
Earlier this week the Victoria Secret fashion show was held in New York. Three thousands guests watched 47...
The Hussain Legacy Exhibition
Kay Ayed visits an exhibition devoted to the Battle of Karbala.
An exhibition has opened that sets out to explain one of the most significant...
Rising Feast: the Breakfast Club at Canary Wharf
Join the Breakfast Club, says Tom Hedley. You don't even have to get up early to do it.
I don’t eat breakfast. Mornings start with...
Locked In, Lucked Out
Cally Skinner did not get lucky at Westfield’s discount day for students.
If you ever were a Boy Scout you might remember the motto ‘and...
Rooftop Film Club – See You Next Year
Callum Crumlish bids a fond adieu to one of the highlights of his summer.
As the weather outside turns frightful, I can’t help feeling wistful...
Cereal Saga
For some people, this year’s big hit has been Serial, the true-crime podcast. Others would opt for Cereal Killer, the Brick Lane café which...
Café At The End Of The Journey
Maloko (the name means ‘journey’ in Cameroon) proves a fitting final destination for Nika Jazaee’s odyssey across East London eateries.
Regardless of the weather, Maloko...
Still Playing After All These Years
Callum Crumlish was posted to the Old Blue Last, one of the first live music venues in East London and now one of the...
From Pop-Up To Set-Up
Hannah Blacklock sees a 'travelling' café turn into an East London fixture.
Starting in 2012 as a partnership between Jackson Boxer, Missy Flynn, Gabriel Pryce...
Elbow Room
Nika Jazaee refuses to give Elbows Cafe the cold shoulder.
The brown and beige exterior of the family-owned Elbows Café next to Hackney’s Victoria Park...
Full Stop
Nika Jazaee says stop right now in the name of good coffee.
Yes, make a full stop when you get close to this café on...
Come In For Coffee And You Won’t Want To Leave
Nika Jazaee gives maximum points to a café called Muxima.
Muxima is your local hipster café, if you live in Bow. They don’t have a...
‘Light Pink And Blackened On The Sides’
Tom Hedley is back in burger heaven.
I’d had enough of micro-brewed ales and nine-cheese pizzas, so decided to make a Haché of it. I...
From Amersham To Bunker
Tom Hedley enters two of south east London’s most celebrated venues.
Camouflaged in graffiti, the Amersham Arms is a south east London landmark. Oft-praised in...
Beer You Can Eat
Tom Hedley relishes the Peckham bistro opened by former Shoreditch chef James Beer.
Peckham isn’t renowned for elegance. Not even slightly. But its reputation may...
Flowered Up
Nika Jazaee enjoys a little china down the Lane.
Pretty Cuppa definitely lives up to its name. In the heart of Brick Lane you will...
Popping In For Fish And Chips
Cod comes well battered in the street behind Brick Lane, reports Emma Brand.
The Brick Lane area is best known for curries – and before...
Worth Crossing Town For
Callum Crumlish is not likely to nix the NXI.
Deep within the labyrinth of South-East London, across the hipster-filled plains of New Cross, lies a...
In Bed With Your Favourite Films
Azana Francis gets comfy at the cinema.
Behind Shoreditch High Street station and adjacent to Allen Gardens, there is a heavily graffiti’d, half-hidden building that...
Unobtrusive Yet Implacable
Callum Crumlish feels the build-up of support for Tweed & Hyenas.
Most of the bands you find in post-millennial pubs are aiming for the catchiest...
‘Best Burger Ever’ (Maybe Not The Burgundy)
Tom Hedley has got no beef with New Cross House.
I’ve just had an excellent February. No, not because it was National Bird Feeding Month,...
No Fear Of Freedom
Katy Sharp-Watson marvels at the mature work of a radical, young film maker.
Director and producer Tarquin Ramsay was only 15 years old when he...
Elvis Is IN The Building
Callum Crumlish enjoys feeling close to the King.
Across the hall from the Game of Thrones extravaganza, London's O2 Arena is also graced with an...
EastEnders 30 Years On: how was it for you?
Since they weren’t even born when the first episode of EastEnders aired 30 years ago this week, Rising East’s young journalists are obliged to...
Abortion – Ha, Ha, Ha!
Katy Sharp Watson finds herself unexpectedly amused.
Unwanted pregnancy has featured in a number of Hollywood comedies such as Juno and Knocked Up. But abortion...
Barbed Bouquet
Tom Hedley is horrified to see the New Cross Hobgoblin transformed into a rose.
I wasn’t surprised to hear that The Hobgoblin pub had been...
A Tale of Two Cinemas
Katy Sharp-Watson commutes between rich and poor picture houses in the borough of Hackney.
The London Borough of Hackney has gone upmarket in recent years....
The Tastiest Table In This Part Of Town
Nika Jazee couldn't resist a new array of flavours.
The wide range of pastries in the front window acts like gravity on your stomach, pulling...
All Eyes On Gaza
Katy Sharp-Watson saw Gaza stripped back on film.
Think of the Gaza strip and you think of war, Israeli occupation, starvation, and a population under...
African Dance Explosion
Hannah Odonkor explores the African dance scene.
African Azonto dance is already well established across East London. But thanks to promoter DJ Afro B, a growing...
Living Well In Our Last Hours
Matthew Wright listened to a ‘positive’ interpretation of the end of the world.
‘The final hour could be today. This is inevitable’.
On a damp, dank...
Chronicles Of A Forgotten Black Britain
Vanessa Jubey is carried back in time by a photo exhibition in Shoreditch.
Click on any image for the slide show.
Autograph ABP’s exhibition entitled Black Chronicles II...
All The World’s A Play
Emma Rouillon enjoys a photographic collection of the children of the world and their favourite toys.
Some artists have the ability to take the stuff...
Home And Abroad
Watched by Katy Sharp-Watson, American documentary The Overnighters opened the second Homeless Film Festival in East London.
This year’s Homeless Film Festival opened at Hackney’s...
Jack The Ripper: truth versus tourism
Nearly 130 years after London’s most infamous series of sex murders, can it be right to turn them into a tourist attraction? Kristina Falk...
I Inhaled But Did Not Smoke
Ferdia Carr gets the vapours in Shoreditch.
It’s been seven years since smoking in a pub was banned in England. Pro-fag publicans complained that pubs...
More Than Merely Rhetorical
Nika Jazaee enjoyed an unashamedly political play about South Africa.
A play based on political speeches? You must be joking! Turns out some of it...
Not Yer Actual East End?
At the end of Channel 4’s Educating The East End, Katy Sharp-Watson asks if the series has progressed the public image of East London’s...
Black History Month: is that it?
Azana Francis dislikes the downsizing of black history.
‘It’s over there, love,’ says the librarian, pointing to a small wall of pictures in Tower Hamlets’...
Hackney Under The Lens
Katy Sharp-Watson attended a special screening of a ‘film-poem’ depicting the voices, sounds and movements of Hackney.
Under The Cranes is a documentary that mixes...
Expletives Definitely Not Deleted
Hannah Blacklock is drawn to the dirty words on the walls of a Shoreditch gallery.
‘I can’t come in today so fuck off’.
Haven’t we...
Satire With Sadness
Jessie Cumming is haunted by a theatrical satire on the First World War.
Theatre Royal Stratford East has revived Oh What A Lovely War! to...
Song of Blackheath
Phoebe Horswell enjoyed the mood music at a local, charity concert.
A concert in Blackheath has raised £2000 for the reminiscence charity, Age Exchange.
St Margaret’s...
Cafe Football Set To Score
Jonathan Slatter finds out that Neville and Giggsy are the new foodies in E20.
‘I’ll be honest with you, I’m not sure any of them...
Uggghhh!
Jenna Johnstone gets Down Under on Ugg boots and uggliness.
The weather outside is frightful, but my feet are beautifully warm in my Uggs. Or...
Something for The Weekend?
Alina Kay witnessed The Weeknd party which never really got started.
The Canadian R’n’B star Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd (yes, the spelling is correct),...
Baking Hot
Bryn Faulkner-Walford introduces 'Bake and Destroy', the blisteringly cool skateboading video
Baker Skateboards notched up a milestone by giving away their new video, ‘Bake and...