Pogo Cafe-Hackney


All change!!
February 6, 2010, 3:02 pm
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We’ve changed the exhibition round at Pogo.

The new stuff we have up is a bunch of prints from Billy. You can check out more of Billy’s work at http://www.sumocloud.com/



This weeks film for free….
January 31, 2010, 11:43 pm
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This weeks we’ll be showing Turtles can Fly.

Here’s something that someone else wrote about it cause I haven’t seen it yet:

“Turtles can Fly is the first movie to be filmed on location in Iraq, following the fall of Saddam. It concerns itself with events immediately before American and British forces invaded, largely from the perspective of Kurdish refugees scratching out a living on the Iraq-Turkish border. Its particular subject is children, orphans who have been forced to grow up too quickly as a consequence of the regime’s suppression of the Kurds. At an age where kids in the UK would still be at school, these children make their money from collecting deactivated mines, which they can then sell and thereby survive. If this sounds like dangerous work, the number of young workers missing limbs only confirms this to be the case.” – Mike Baker, DVD Times

It starts at 7.30pm.

Don’t be late.

Bring tissues.



And another one….

So, this week we are showing the film ‘In Prison My Whole Life’.

William Francome follows the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal who remains on death-row, finding new evidence  to spread doubt on his sentence, and interviewing many famous names whilst discussing America’s complex socio-political climate regarding race and the penal system. Phew. Sounds like a heavy one, but well worth seeing. You’ll get to see the social critique of Angela Davies, Mos Def, Noam Chomsky and Snoop Dogg.

What else were you going to do with your Monday evening huh?

ps. its at 7.30pm.



Free film showing tonight…
January 18, 2010, 2:07 pm
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Tonight we’re showing the documentary ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’. If you missed the controversy the first time round, then come to the cafe this evening and have a look-see.



Oh god! Another week without burgers??!!!!
January 13, 2010, 8:21 pm
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Yes, that’s right folks, we still can’t do burgers. Heartbreaking for die-hard burger fans, wonderful fun for me, because I get to cook lots of other stuff and make up my own whole menu!! Wow!

K, so tomorrow we’ll have:

Sweetcorn and potato fritters, with cucumber relish and salads.

Dublin Coddle (yep!) served with brown soda bread and cabbage. (Coddle is a stew made with sausage, potatoes and bacon. Comfort food!)

Pizza! Not sure what to put on it yet. Served with wedges and salad

Sausage sandwiches! A definite contender for those who REALLY WANTED A BURGER!! Sauces, both brown and red, shall be available for adorning said sandwiches.

Spiced beetroot and black bean stew, served with rice and salad.

Red pepper and cashew soup (rather smoky and fancy tasting I reckon)

Nachos are back, albeit probably without guacamole, due to all the avocadoes in the vicinity being hard as rocks. It’s not exactly the season for them. So they will have bean dip, salsa, cheezly and sour ‘cream’ on top.

Faboo…see you tomorrow loveys!



We’re back!! Well…almost….
January 6, 2010, 8:08 pm
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We’ve been painting and fixing things like busy little bees, but now we can get back to what we’re best at. Grub!!

We’re opening tomorrow but due to a delivery related catastrophe we won’t be able to serve the usual burger menu, because we haven’t got anything to make them with! Quelle horreur!! Apologies to those who were eagerly awaiting their first punk burger of the year. We’ll have lots of lovely specials though, to make up for it, and tasty cake, tea and Zapatista coffee as usual.

Whoopee! Glad to be back.



Today is a snow day…
December 16, 2009, 2:08 pm
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And we have winter fare to warm you up, pizza, curry, marinated tofu, lovely lentil soup, and we have a special warm toasty drink, hot spiced apple juice! It’s amazing.



Wednesday Wednesday Winter Wednesday
December 2, 2009, 10:11 am
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Well there I was, waiting for winter to kick in and being very confused about the warmth, until a few days ago. Gah! Well, it’s time for comfort food, clearly.

Hence…shepherds pie on the menu today!! With brussel sprouts and parsnip chips.

Also, sweetcorn and potato fritters served with homemade cucumber relish, excitingly cooked cabbage (I haven’t worked out how yet, but it WILL be exciting), and salads.

And, pizza. With aubergines and peppers and mushrooms and and and…



Tomorrow’s menu
October 27, 2009, 10:55 pm
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Bonjour mes petits amis!

Tomorrow I will ‘ave for you…

Nothing particularly French, sorry if that was misleading.

Pizza! I’m not sure what I’ll put on it yet, but all pizza is awesome, so…

An autumnal plate with buckwheat grain, mushrooms, squash, tofu and hopefully some greens if we get some nice ones in.

Dahl Makhani, creamy tasty Indian goodness.

 

Cakes aplenty as usual!

 

Come round and see us!

 



Last Spooky Monday this October…
October 25, 2009, 3:02 pm
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All right. My reign of terror has nearly ended. Tomorrow is the last Spooky Monday and next week we go back to the same ol’.

This week its going to be British Classics. In the seventies Britain was winning at horror films, and I’m not even including Hammer in this. British cinema is one of the only reasons that exists for me to be patriotic, so this Monday we’re gonna show two of the bestists…

First up is The Comeback (1978 Pete Walker). It hard enough breaking the music business as it is right, without the ghost of your dead wife trying to interfere. This film’s got a real-life pop star in it too, Jack Jones, but I’m too young to remember him anyway.

Then we’re gonna show Theatre of Blood (1973 Douglas Hickox). Vincent Price gets pretty annoyed when his last performance is slated by critics, and returns from the dead to punish them in awesome Shakespearian manner. Well, Vincent Price’s character anyway. Although, he should bear this in mind. It would be awesome if Vincent Price came back from the dead.

Like last time there will be free popcorn. I’ll make sure we don’t run out this time. BYOB.

The Comeback

theatre of blood