Month: September 2026
Shoreditch’s Street Art Scene Got Famous. Now Nobody Can Agree on Who It Actually Belongs To
Tour groups photograph murals that started as genuine acts of neighbourhood rebellion, and the artists have complicated feelings about it A mural on Brick Lane…
Silicon Roundabout Never Quite Became Silicon Valley, and Shoreditch Has Made Its Peace With That
The startup hype has cooled considerably. What’s actually left behind is more interesting than the branding ever was The nickname Silicon Roundabout, coined during a…
Shoreditch, Comedy Clubs, and a King Who Just Won’t Quit: My Henry Is Back Review
Cyndi Himmelstiere reviews a comedy novel from the heart of East London I read most of Henry Is Back in the kind of small East…
Shoreditch Design Week Is Back With Over A Hundred Venues, And It’s Finally Growing Into The Ambition It’s Always Had
The evolution from the old Design Triangle into a proper citywide festival says something genuinely encouraging about the neighbourhood’s creative economy From A Triangle To…
East Tokyo Has Landed On Willow Street, And Shoreditch’s Nightlife Scene Just Got A Genuinely Interesting New Anchor
Mitsu brings vinyl-led DJ sets and industrial design straight from Tokyo’s underground scene into a corner of Shoreditch that knows exactly what to do with…
Boxpark Shoreditch Has Been Saved, Closed, And Saved Again So Many Times I’ve Genuinely Lost Count, And That Says Something About This Neighbourhood
London’s original pop-up mall keeps getting reprieved on short-term leases, and its entire on-again-off-again saga has become its own strange Shoreditch institution A Venue That…
Twenty Years Of Staring Up At Those Graffitied Tube Carriages, And I Can Finally Go Inside One With A Drink In Hand
Village Underground’s famously gawped-at rooftop trains have opened to the public at last, and the wait was somehow worth it The Most Photographed Thing In…
Duck Pin Bowling Has Arrived On Old Street, Because Of Course It Has
Roxy Ball Room’s second London site brings a genuinely unusual sport to Shoreditch’s already crowded competitive socialising scene, and it has to actually earn its…
