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You Must Be Kidding? How We're All Turning Back Into Children

Christopher Beanland | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Comedy
Read More: Bars, Humour, UK Media, London, New York, Journalism, Social Media, Dalston, Kids, Satire, Restaurants, Playgrounds, Food, Comedy, UK Comedy News
Christopher Beanland

We're reading books for children, eating food for children and wishing we still were children. To understand why, look at this list. Kids love lists.

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Top Five Emerging Icons Live: 25 Feb - 3 Mar 2013

Kat Jackman | Posted 20.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: London 2012, Dalston, Live Music Venues, UK Music, Olympics, German Music, Germany, Hastings, UK Music News, Music Industry, Music, Live Music, Kings Cross, London, Video, UK Entertainment News
Kat Jackman

Greetings, Super Fans- and welcome to the start of another fantastic week of new music. How about another bunch to get you started as we see what's coming up towards March?

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Top Five Emerging Icons Live: 12-18 November 2012

Kat Jackman | Posted 09.01.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Gigs, Dalston, Bands, UK Music, Shoreditch, Live Music, Music, Music News, London, UK Entertainment News
Kat Jackman

You want some gigs? Well, we've got 'em!

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The Music Industry is Dead But I Still Want a Record Deal

Matthew Phillips | Posted 02.12.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Vinyl, John Peel, Music, Record Label, The Beatles, Breaking Into the Music Industry, Records, UK Music, Record Labels, Dalston, East London, Vinyl Records, Indie Music, EMI Records, Music Industry, The Beatles Music, Indie Rock, UK Entertainment News
Matthew Phillips

So, why is it that, unlike my fellow comrades assembled around me in this café, I still desire, nay, demand, a record contract? After all, I can still create my music and release it on a plethora of digitally-based platforms. I don't need the permission of one of the music industry's behemoth labels to be a musician, do I?

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The Myopia of Regulating Pay-Day-Loans

Alan Moore | Posted 10.07.2012 | UK
Read More: Design Thinking, European Commission, Poverty, Loan Sharking, Money, Design, Fair Finance, Innovation, Dalston, Government, Loan Shark, Grameen Bank, No Straight Lines, wonga.com, Designing for Humanity, Pay Day Legislation, Finance, Pay Day Loans, World Bank, Maria Nowak, Banks, Entrepreneurship, Adie, UK News
Alan Moore

Recently the government made a big fuss via the mainstream media that it was 'taking decisive action' in regulating pay-day-loans, loan sharking and c...

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Hackney - Acquired for Development

Kit Caless | Posted 26.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Clapton, Publishing, Dalston, Hackney, Hackney Wick, Shoreditch, Fiction, Stoke Newington, Corporatism, Poetry, Gentrification, Ukbooks, Home News
Kit Caless

In a borough as diverse as Hackney, you will never capture the area in its entirety, and this was never our intention. What the books is, is our version of our neighbourhood. What made it so special to create, was that we found we weren't the only people striving to mark what is going on here, and we certainly aren't the only ones interested in it.

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Hipster 'Reality' Show Still Confusing People Who Don't Know If It's Fake

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 12.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Television, Reality TV, UK Entertainment, UK News, Vice.com, Dalston, Shoreditch, Dalston Superstars, Online Video, Vice, UK Entertainment News

Most so-called 'reality shows' are actually positioned somewhere between fiction and non-fiction. Even, it turned out this week, those featuring actua...

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To Dalston. Thank you. From Dalston

Ellie Slee | Posted 26.10.2011 | UK Style
Read More: Riots, Turkish Community, Dalston, London, London Riots, Kurdish Community, UK Style News
Ellie Slee

On Monday in Dalston, shoppers at Sainsburys were evacuated in the middle of the afternoon as the Kingsland Shopping Centre shut its early doors; by dusk, a bank's windows had been unashamedly smashed, and as darkness fell, a bus was set alight on Shacklewell Lane.

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