Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
The Shoreditch Independent: Why Small Shops Are Surviving Here When They’re Closing Everywhere Else
Cyndi investigates the East London independent retail resilience that bucks the national trend Satire from Bohiney.com and prat.uk. By Cyndi Himmelstiere | The London Prat…
Shoreditch Has Gentrified So Far It Has Come Out the Other Side
Cyndi Himmelstiere on the neighbourhood that ate itself and is now artisanal about the eating Satire from Bohiney.com and prat.uk. By Cyndi Himmelstiere | The…
Summer in the Ditch Returns for Third Year; Shoreditch Town Hall Artists Take Over June
Artist Residency Programme Fills Venue With Performers Whose Names Cyndi Writes Down and Then Googles By Cyndi Himmelstiere | Ditch Pitch UK Summer in the…
Nightjar Shoreditch: Jazz Still Happening Below Ground; Cyndi Attends on a Thursday
Underground Cocktail Bar Continues to Provide World-Class Live Music to People Who Found It by Accident By Cyndi Himmelstiere | Ditch Pitch UK Nightjar is…
SXSW London Takes Over Shoreditch Town Hall; Cyndi Notes The Ditch Has Become a Conference Centre
Music and Tech Festival’s Second London Edition Fills Old Street Area With Lanyards and Ambition By Cyndi Himmelstiere | Ditch Pitch UK SXSW London returned…
Boxpark Shoreditch Screens World Cup; Cyndi Attends England vs Croatia and Survives
Container Mall Becomes Multinational Football Festival as Tournament Takes Over East London By Cyndi Himmelstiere | Ditch Pitch UK I went to Boxpark Shoreditch to…
Shoreditch Tech Company Moves to Canary Wharf; Cyndi Notes the Direction of Travel
Another East London Startup Graduates to Glass Tower as Ditch Gentrification Continues its Arc By Cyndi Himmelstiere | Ditch Pitch UK A tech company that…
Silicon Roundabout and the Startup Dream That Ate the East End
On tech bros, ping-pong tables, and what happens when disruption meets a real neighbourhood There is a roundabout near me that someone, at some point,…
The Eternal Death and Rebirth of Shoreditch Cool
On nightlife, the cycle of cool, and the neighbourhood that is always being declared over I have lost count of the number of times someone…
The Economy of Cool: Markets, Vintage, and the Price of Authenticity
On Old Spitalfields, second-hand everything, and what it costs to look effortless There is a particular alchemy in Shoreditch by which old, cheap things become…
