Shoreditch
Skepta Is an Inspiration and a Motivation to Achieving All Your Dreams
Last night he realized a five-year plan and held a party in a car park. And it wasn't shut down by police!
Plastic People Remembered by the People Who Shaped It
Instead of a dour obituary, we asked a few people involved with the club to share their memories.
Who Is Actually Eating Cereal at London's Cereal Café?
Yesterday, a cafe selling only cereal and cereal-based cakes opened in East London. This went down well with some people, but mostly very badly with everyone else.
Talking with Artist Sue Webster About Her Cookbook Written Using a Nazi Typewriter
The artist known for giant dildo sculptures recently created "The Folly Acres Cookbook," which includes your average carrot cake recipe but also meals that incorporate roadkill.
Drag Queen Jonny Woo Talks About East London, Gentrification, and His New Show
"Oh God, no area stays cool for more than a couple of years."
On The Grind With Kaz James: How To Be A DJ, Producer and Cafe Mogul
The serious business of beats and beans.
I Walked Around London, Knocked on Strangers' Doors, and Asked if I Could Stay the Night
Has the recent influx of stranger-meeting services like Airbnb and Tinder normalized the idea of housing people we barely know, or do we just do it more now because it usually ends in either sex or an exchange of money?
London's New Cereal Cafe Is a Slap Bracelet to the Face
Next month in Shoreditch, a cafe that serves nothing but 90s cereal will open its doors to throngs of nostalgia-hungry customers who will LOL and LOL about how they thought their Beanie Babies were worth loads but now they totally aren’t.
Twelve Years of Excess in London's East End
Dougie Wallace has been taking pictures of the people in Shoreditch—ruining themselves and everything around them—for nearly 12 years.
How Bureaucracy Is Killing London's Nightlife
I closed my bar on Brick Lane because legislators and the authorities have become obsessed with clamping down on "antisocial behavior."
One of London's Most Anarchic LGBT Venues Is Closing
The Joiners' Arms, is to close on January 15, 2015. It is, predictably, going to be swallowed by luxury flats. But East London is losing its beating heart of countercultural nightlife.