On a freezing cold weeknight we leapt at the chance to warm our faces in front of some hot Capoeira in Dalston. What we weren’t expecting was an adaptation of a greek tragedy, transported to Brazil and brought alive through the undeniably sexy and fascinating …
The catchphrase from Vic Reeves’ Big Night Out greets the news that Janet Deevers, the Dalston market trader whose metric monomania led to a court case in which she was given a conditional discharge only two weeks ago, just will not let it lie: she’s …
A three-day festival in Dalston begins tomorrow, bringing together filmmakers, writers, theorists, architects and urban planners to kick about ideas and knowledge on cities “from the ground up”. Refreshingly starchitect-free, This Is Not A Gateway welcomes theorists and practitioners from across Europe for over forty …
Janet Devers, who runs a fruit and veg stall in Dalston’s Ridley Road market, is one tough courgette. She is carrying the fight to sell her wares in imperial units all the way to crown court. The pensioner appeared at Thames Magistrates Court last week, …
When you’re picking up your freesheet on the way home tonight don’t just leave it on the train for some other, poor, reading material starved sucker. Turn it into public art! No, we don’t mean have an art attack on the platform and start making …
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