Dalston

Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb enjoys the latest hip-hop beef

The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Hip Hop Weekly to the Source, urban music magazines offer a mixed approach to covering rap's inner conflicts What was I thinking? After two and a half years of striving to inspire a heated debate with an outmoded combination of impassioned polemic and old-school Bernstein and Woodward-style investigative journalism, last month's bulging crop of enraged responses confirmed that all you need to...

Towards a Fluid State - (or how I survived a liquid brunch)

Essex Eating (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

A couple of Saturdays previous saw me invited to a 'brunch' in Hackney's Broadway Market. The event in question was a preview for press and bloggers of 'Towards a Fluid State", which is a forthcoming festival to be held on the 5th December at a warehouse in Dalston. I had no idea what to expect really, apart from knowing that alcohol would feature heavily. The event being run by the founders...

East London Lines

Transpontine (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

When the East London Line extension finally does open next year it will make a big difference not just to how people move around London but perhaps to how they perceive the city. By directly linking Croydon and Hackney (or at least Dalston) via Brockley and New Cross it could generate a sense of East London that crosses the river. Today when people talk about East London they generally mean the Eastern...

No More Bendy Buses On Number 38 From Saturday

Londonist (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Image of a maligned bendy by steve_w from the Londonist Flickr pool The un-bendification of London's buses will face its biggest hurdle next week, as the 38 bus reverts to double-decker vehicles, barely four years after first going bendy. The switchover will happen this Saturday, reports London Reconnections , but the Monday morning commuter rush will be the first real test. The 38 is one of the city's...

London Fields: prices up 18 per cent

Times Online (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

Prospective buyers eyeing Dalston in East London may think of E8 as “the next big thing” — central, cheap and, with the East London line extension due next year, a good long-term investment. But, as our East London special last week showed, sprawling Hackney is an unpredictable borough, with huge price rises in some parts, while areas near by lag behind. E8 — Dalston and London...

Hackney Booze Ban Proposed

Londonist (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009

Photo by futureshape In the wake of the Lambeth Controlled Drinking Zone introduced this summer, Hackney Council are considering a borough-wide alcohol ban . In a positive frenzy of acronyms, London Borough of Hackney (LBH) want to use the Designated Public Places Order (DPPO) which appears to be slightly different from the CPZ to combat Anti-Social Street Drinkers (ASSDs). Heavy-handed enforcement...

East London: hot or not?

Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009

East London is the king of cool, the site of fabulous wealth-creation and home of the Olympic dream. It is also deprived, dangerous and racially segregated. The area, which stretches from Hackney to Bexley, will eventually benefit from the current vast investment in transport infrastructure, including Crossrail and extensions to the DLR and the East London Line. Yet, at the moment, apart from a couple...

'The Lowlife' by Alexander Baron

New Lexicons (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009

I was first alerted to the work of Alexander Baron through reading the many works of Iain Sinclair, specifically ‘Hackney, That Rose Red Empire’, and then found out a great deal more about the man reading ‘Dockers & Detectives’ by Ken Worpole, an excellent collection of essays charting British working-class writers who have been somehow neglected in recent times. Baron was...

boycott Hackney Council

Baroque in Hackney (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009

I wish I bloody could, don’t you? I haven’t even written about all the stuff that’s going on in Dalston, I can’t get my head around it and I’m not down there that often these days. It’s hard to keep up, I just know it’s a civic death. I’ve been shocked, shocked, shocked. And not [...]

Reverse gentrification

3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

After Keep Hackney Crap, there’s now Bad Dalston Short Stories. Background context here and here (if you can bear it), but ‘Ballad of the Media-Worker’ and ‘Trapped inside Iain Sinclair’s memory-hole’ are particular stand-outs. Because we all know someone who works at that cuttings agency.

The Dalston Mill

core77.com (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009

Guest post by Virginia Gardiner. In Dalston, a westerly section of East London's Hackney, 2000 square feet of wheat recently appeared alongside a d.i.y. vertical axis windmill. The rakish structure looks downright poetic under English summer clouds. For geniuses who never pondered the original meaning of "windmill": wind power mills grain into fine flour and mealy bits. At the base are two...

The Beginning of the Bendy End (WARNING: May contain opinion)

London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009

Just a quick note for those who have not seen this elsewhere - today officially saw the first nine Bendy-buses on the 507 route replaced by their less flexible brethren. The Destination of this Bus Has Changed By John Bull, aged 28 3/4 from Hackney Ahead! Sweet bus! into the long dark night! Victim of a pointless electorial fight. While Johnson lied and Ken excessively dreamed, You took us to Dalston,...

A British man has been arrested for assisting suicide after accompanying his homosexual partner to controversial Swiss suicide facility Dignitas

eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009

The Christian Institute Man arrested for assisting suicide A British man has been arrested after accompanying his homosexual partner to controversial Swiss suicide facility, Dignitas. Alan Rees, 57, from Dalston in Hackney, east London, was arrested on suspicion of assisting in the suicide of 58-year-old Raymond Cutkelvin who was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. The arrest follows weeks [...]...

• Man arrested for assisting suicide - The Christian Institute

Dalston Mill

diamind geezer (Free subscription) | 22/07/2009

For three weeks only, a windmill is operating in Dalston . It's art, obviously. But it's also a proper mill with blades and turny things and grindy bits and flour. And, because it's essential to maintain sustainable credentials and ensure low food-miles, there's even a cornfield alongside. Dalston Mill is an outreach project of the Barbican Art Gallery , extending its green shoots east to an unlikely...

A Wheatfield Grows in the East End of London

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009

Image from Hackney Citizen In 1982 Agnes Denes created one of the first examples of ecological art --she planted a wheatfield on an abandoned piece of land in downtown New York. Now, 27 years later, her work is being reinterpreted and updated, only this time in the east end of London. A derelict site has been planted with wheat uprooted from Lancashire and driven to Dalston for replanting. In addition,...