Gleaming the Cube: 3d
2013 has been pretty weird. Ok, really weird. For a couple of weeks there not too long ago it seemed all that we as skatenerds took for granted was being
The Big One-Oh: Electric Picnic 2013
Questions regarding the future of Stradbally’s big weekend out have been as rife as Wayne Rooney transfer rumours over the past year. Electric Picnic’s return for a tenth run out,
Interview: Helen Steele
Designers in Ireland are very lucky, in a way, to work outside the chokeholds of fashion cities like New York and London. Being at arm’s length of the metropolis allows…
Interview: Slutever
Karley Sciortino may only be 27 years old, but she’s had more life experience than all your most eccentric friends combined: university dropout, former London squat resident, sex blogger, visual…
All’s Welles That Ends Welles: A Primer in Orson
When radio is done right, it can create images that are just as lucid and evocative in your mind as any to have ever appeared on the big screen. Studio…
Derbhle Crotty – Best Man
Anyone who has ever seen her perform knows that there is a special communion between Derbhle Crotty and her audience. As soon as she leaves the stage there is a
Interview: Peter Delaney
Prior to the unfortunate appropriation of the ukelele by doe-eyed saps like Zooey Deschanel and Eddie Vedder, Peter Delaney was mining his own weird vein of folk, played almost entirely
Critical Beatdown: Demos of the Week #2
It’s time to roll up the sleeve and dip into the bag of things in my inbox tagged ‘Demos’ once again. There are questions aplenty raised this week, from “why
Madison
Downstairs off Wicklow Street is Madison, open on Friday and Saturday nights only. It promises both 'the sexiest crowd around' and 'the sexiest beats anywhere' on its website. Sounds pretty…
GAZE 2013: Film Festival Highlights
The air of the city is still vibrant with Gay Pride festivities, and yet another wave of LGBT creativity is about to take over: this August bank holiday weekend marks…
Interview: Paradise trilogy director Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl's films are difficult, antagonistic affairs. From 1996′s Animal Love (“Never have I looked so directly into hell” – Werner Herzog) to 2007's Palme d'Or nominated Import/Export, his is…
Deep In The Game: The 100 Worst People On Twitter
Who is the worst person on Twitter? Is it Noel Fielding? Or Richard Dawkins? Or is it, as some people have claimed, Callum Hamilton and Dom Passantino, writers of the…
7 Inches: TWIN
TWIN started as an outlet for Irish DJs, both established and bedroom bound, to play together. One year on and the string of talent uncovered during its Twisted Pepper residency…
Off The Cuff: Dublin Comedy Improv 21st Birthday
Dublin Improv celebrates its 21st birthday this month and in honour of one Dublin’s longest running comedy clubs I had a chat with members Ian Coppinger, Tara Flynn, Danny Kehoe,…
Critical Beatdown: Demos of the Week #1
Karl McDonald accepts demo submissions and then listens to them and writes about them. Send 'em in to karl@totallydublin.ie
The Most Sexist Website On The Internet?
Last week, I was asked to write a piece about sexism on the internet. I didn’t think it would be a particularly difficult task – after all, how often do