Home From Home: Mónika on Vienna
Each month in Home From Home we ask someone to compare Dublin with another city in which they have lived. Sometimes they are Irish, sometimes they are expatriates in Dublin.…
Soundbite: Improper Butter
Elaine Lavery and Hannah O’Reilly are the friends behind, Improper Butter, taking Elaine's germ of an idea home from the French Alps and into a real going concern – via…
Entry Level: Meditation
There are many forms of meditation from many different traditions, but two golden rules are common to them all: (1) start, and (2) continue.
Restaurant Review: Overends Café at Airfield House
I love seeing great gardening in the city. It encourages me to make the most out of my little cement-floored backyard, which currently houses some herbs, a potted strawberry plant
Restaurant Review: Paulie’s Pizza
Relatively young, but already a staple of city, Paulie's Pizza was one of the first and best spots for high-end casual dining in the city.
Nice Gaff: Abbeville
Karl Whitney, author of Hidden City, explores the fascinating Abbeville, the physical incarnation of Charles Haughey's North Dublin power base.
Barfly: MVP
Belabouring the point of one’s own straightforwardness tends to be a self-defeating exercise, and it’s hard not to feel that way in MVP. Better not to say you do a…
Barfly: The Three Tun Tavern
The opening of The Three Tun Tavern marks the entry of British mega pub chain JD Wetherspoon’s into the fold on our humble island home.
Tiger Fringe Dublin | Review: The Rest Is Action
The Rest is Action is a thoughtful work that tries to get inside the idea of following the rules of a system, even while deploring that same system.
Tiger Fringe Dublin | Review: Songs from a Car Park
All told, Songs From A Car Park is a sweet little ditty that might benefit from being a verse or two shorter.
Totally Dublin Weekender | September 4 – 7
Weekender |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Cinema Review: Moebius
A quick read of the film’s synopsis and Moebius might sound similar to several other recent releases aimed at an art cinema audience hooked on high-concept sexual violence.
Book Review: Adam Nayman – Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck
Half critical reappraisal, half fan tribute, Showgirls: It Doesn’t Suck takes on the heroic task of rehabilitating Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls.
Old School: A Dozen Dublin Classics
This list reviews the enduring appeal of a selection of Dublin classics - dishes that have stood the test of time on the menus of the city’s more seasoned eating…
Shhhh! Inside The Library Project
In amongst the diddly-eye pubs on Temple Bar's main drag is The Library Project, a vital resource to those both within and outside the city's creative community.
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Kris Nelson, Artistic Director
We speak with new director of Tiger Dublin Fringe, Kris Nelson, to get the skinny of what to expect on the 2014 edition of the festival.
Cinema Review: We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, like all good neo-noir features a sense of infallible, sprawling corruption, a cosmic despair that pervades its psychic arrangement.
Cinema Review: The Expendables 3
The Expendables 3 is about two things: latent homoerotics sublimated as macho violence, and the mass-killing of an ethnic underclass sublimated as a righteous revenge narrative.