Cinema Review: Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller’s 4th Mad Max film after a hiatus of 30 years. Joyless, committee-engineered & mandated proletarian screen entertainment at its most cynical.
Arts Desk: Karla Black
In her first solo show on Irish soil, Karla Black brings her nimble style of on-site installation work to the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Soundbite: Rachel Flynn Bia Beatha
Bia Beatha is a unique monthly Irish supper club devoted to the rich mythology and culture surrounding Irish food. Each month guests are treated to a delicious three-course meal with…
Music Interview: Young Wonder
After receiving rave reviews for their EP, Show Your Teeth, and topping the Hype Machine charts with single To You, Cork duo Young Wonder are set to release their debut…
Bitesize: The Unicorn by Fiorentina
The iconic Unicorn Restaurant has been seducing Dublin’s taste buds for more years than we care to remember, and judging by its lip-smacking new menu that love affair looks set…
Recipe: Roast Cod with Soft Boiled Egg & Salsa Glas
I love this recipe because it's so versatile - serve it with toasted sourdough for brunch, with mash or colcannon potato cake for a hearty winter dinner or with a…
Cinema Review: Man Up
The narrative advances with the slow and predictable purpose of damp on drywall, or the creeping, aesthetically bankrupt gentrification that is the setting of this very English, very passable romance’.
Book Review: God Help the Child – Toni Morrison
In her first novel, 1970’s The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison explores the maelstrom of societal forces that converge in a father’s rape of his own child. She returns to the…
Cinema Review: Tomorrowland
At its best, the film preaches, Al Gore-like, a wishy-washy, pragmatic, entrepreneurial, sleeves-rolled-up reformism as a solution to the world’s problems, cloaking its conservatism in the language of dreams and…
Beer Review: Eight Degrees Sunburnt Irish Red Ale 5% ABV
These days the majority of craft beers are all about the hops & although hops certainly deserve to be celebrated, Sunburnt Irish Red Ale is testament to what can be…
Album Review: Girlpool – Before The World Was Big
Born of the once fertile LA weirdo scene surrounding DIY space The Smell, Girlpool have always traded in a singular, minimal sound comprising of guitar, bass and dual vocal harmony…
Album Review: Hot Chip – Why Make Sense?
To borrow classic rock terminology, where LCD Soundsystem went for a spectacular burn out, Hot Chip are going for a long fade away. Which is to say, Why Make Sense?…
Paddy Hanna: Anxiety & Ambiguity
Anxiety & ambiguity pervade the music of Paddy Hanna & also Paddy Hanna himself. Throughout the course of our chat, he studiously avoids eye contact & makes several references to…
Totally Dublin’s Craft Beer and Artisan Cider Night
Join us for a night of craft beer and artisan cider at the Black Market in the Market Bar on Monday 25th May from 7pm.
I Got You, Babe: Petra Collins Interview
Offering an intimate and unmediated in-road into teenage life, many of Petra’s most celebrated shots depict young women as well as their bedrooms, their intense friendships, their fantastical attitude to…
Totally Dublin Weekender | May 21 – 24
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
Music Interview: Peter Gordon
Peter Gordon was a friend and collaborator with Russell, and has, since the mid ’70s led Love Of Life Orchestra mixing dance rhythms with arty abrasiveness.
Nice Gaff: Mary Immaculate of Sinners Church Rathmines
In Dublin folklore, facts need not interfere with stories. A particularly good story concerns the dome roof of the magnificent Mary Immaculate of Sinners church, on Rathmines Road.