Oh, Honey Honey
This November 2nd sees the return of the Dublin Honey Show, celebrating bees, their keepers, and honey, the viscous gold they work so hard to make by hand.
Absolut Originality: Danielle Romeril
Taking place from the 31st of October until the 2nd of November, the Absolut Originality Exhibition combines the artistic efforts of fashion designer Danielle Romeril, visual artist Brian Kenny, illustrator
Boojum: A Taste Of Mexico
The third annual Taste of Mexico festival rolls back into Dublin in November, making now a good time to check out the wealth of Mexican food in the city. Plus…
Happy Campers: Interview with No Joy
"It’s a rock show not stand up comedy. I hate when bands banter and it's unfunny, and we definitely wouldn't be funny, so why bother."
Elliott Smith: Ten Years Gone
Elliott Smith died ten years ago and as much as I loved his music, given the details of his life I now find it impossible to relate to it in…
Absolut Originality: Aisling Farinella & Brian Kenny
To celebrate the launch of Absolut Originality, Absolut will host an interactive exhibition in Mabos Art Space from the 30th October to the 2nd November, showcasing a host of Ireland’s…
Album Reviews: October
This month's album reviews featuring Cass McCombs, Arctic Monkeys, Bill Callahan, Drake, Haim and more.
Zine Scene: Seomra Spraoí’s Forgotten Zine Archive
Ahead of the Seomra Zine Collective's launch this Sunday 20th October, we take a look at the history of the zine archive that has developed at Seomra Spraoí.
Telling Pork Pies: Interview with Ghostpoet
Ahead of his October tour, we caught up with Ghostpoet, to talk new albums, collaborations, and to get to the bottom of why he’s the only artist (to our knowledge)…
Interview with Colin Horgan
Designer and Kerry native Colin Horgan has gained widespread acclaim this year for his first full collection FC13 WOMAN while still having a year of study left to complete at…
Your Biggest Mistake
We’ve all made stupid mistakes before. The only comfort is the knowledge that everybody else fucks up too, so we’ve rounded up some of our favourite writers and editors to
Cinema Review: Nobody’s Daughter Haewon
Nobody's Daughter Haewon curiously adopts the form of a sort of diary-through-film which nonetheless offers little in the way of recognisable psychological realism, meaning that its principal character remains as…
Cinema Review: Le Week-end
This bittersweet Parisian comedy about a relationship in crisis, from the director of Notting Hill, contains more misery than its breezy form can sustain.
Cinema Review: Filth
Adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh, Filth follows the exploits of a whisky-soaked, drug snorting, philandering Scottish cop, played by James McAvoy. On top of that he’s also sexist,…
Cinema Review: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is director Sophie Fiennes’ second stab at communicating the thoughts and writings of renowned Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, on the way in which…
Cinema Review: Thanks for Sharing
Ostensibly a human drama about sex addiction, Stuart Blumberg’s directorial debut concerns itself with an ensemble of New Yorkers twelve-stepping their way towards recovery.
Cinema Review: Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners plays out like an airport paperback written under a macabre pen-name...
Cinema Review: Austenland
You mightn’t have thought it unreasonable to expect a film that ― even superficially ― pretends to be interested in the work of Jane Austen to be well written, but…