Author: Cyndi Himmelstiere
Shoreditch Warehouse Party Now Requires a Risk Assessment and a Spreadsheet
Underground culture gets a compliance department Shoreditch Warehouse Party Now Requires a Risk Assessment and a Spreadsheet The last genuinely spontaneous warehouse party in Shoreditch…
Shoreditch Diary: Flat Whites, Warehouse Parties, and Four Headlines Nobody Predicted
Cyndi Himmelstiere on Shoreditch life, local gossip, and a week where four unrelated stories dominated brunch conversation entirely Brunch in Shoreditch this week came with…
The Old Truman Brewery Complex Has Become Shoreditch’s Most Honest Building
It keeps changing what it is, and somehow that inconsistency has become the whole point The former Truman Brewery complex along Brick Lane, a genuine…
Shoreditch’s Independent Coffee Shops Are Fighting a War Nobody Declared Against Them
Chains keep opening on the same handful of streets, and the neighbourhood’s original cafés are quietly recalculating A stretch of road that once hosted almost…
Shoreditch Nightlife Is Fighting the Same Licensing Battle Every Trendy Neighbourhood Eventually Loses
Warehouses converted into flats keep landing residents next door to venues that were there decades first A long-running venue that has operated from the same…
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…
