Restaurant Review: Locks 1 Windsor Terrace
Locks may have gone through a lot but it’s still a beautiful room over-looking the canal, with really lovely food and service.
Restaurant Review: Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud
There is no doubt in my mind that my lunch at Guilbaud’s will prove to be one of the most memorable, for the experience if not the food. For a…
What if Dublin… Built High (Quality)?
The call for higher density and economical competitiveness is opposed by voices that fear the unique intimate character of the city centre could be destroyed. Dublin’s low rise charm is…
Book Review: Did You Ever Have a Family – Bill Clegg
When I say this is the kind of book literary magazines would call ‘quietly powerful’, I do not mean it in a kind way.
Book Review: City on Fire – Garth Risk Hallberg
Set in mid-1970s New York City, City on Fire is a maximalist account of the lives of characters – interconnected to varying degrees – against the backdrop of a New…
Book Review: Irish Bitches Be Crazy – Emma Comerford
Irish Bitches reads half as a heartfelt training manual for future Irish mammies, and half as an extended off-colour Christmas dad joke.
Book Review: Public Library And Other Stories – Ali Smith
For the most part, the stories show Smith at her best: a healthy fascination with double-entendres, misunderstandings, döppelgangers and distant lives meets smart, sophisticated and kind narration.
Review: The Best Small Fictions 2015 – Ed. Butler & Masih
The Best Small Fictions 2015 is a collection of the best fiction – not stories – under 1,000 words. Pieces range from a couple of lines to those wrestling with…
Cinema Review: Sunset Song
Sunset Song plays out as a series of woeful cruelties and misfortunes, firstly within the family unit, lastly inflicted by the barbarism of capital’s Great War, but perpetually visited upon…
Cinema Review: The Good Dinosaur
Pixar's latest film pulls a reverse Flintstones on the audience: the dinosaurs act like humans, while humans act like dogs.
Cinema Review: Black Mass
Watching Cumberbach affect a Kennedy-style Bostonian drawl is a skin-crawling experience from which it is difficult to recover.
Cinema Review: The Perfect Guy
The Perfect Guy is nothing you haven't seen on TV3 a million times and there's no reason to pay for the privilege of seeing such a weak film on a…
Cinema Review: Love
All told, Love is by no means a masterpiece, but it represents a brave and difficult emotional undertaking on the part of its director, that belies its ostensible, more erotic…
Cinema Review: The Lady in the Van
The Lady in the Van is the true story of a homeless woman who spent 15 years living out of a van in Alan Bennett’s Camden driveway.
Win A Ferrari 360 F1 Motorway Driving Experience!
Competition: Win an incredible driving experience! Golden Moments Gift Experiences are giving away a 20 Minute Max-Power Ferrari 360 F1 Motorway Driving Experience in Dublin, Cork or Galway worth €239.
Garb: Emma Manley
Dublin-based fashion label Manley is known for its bright, confident and utterly practical collections which contain a striking level of skill and craftsmanship in every piece. Totally Dublin get the…
Competition: Win Tickets To Kaleidoscope Night at Bello Bar!
Finnish virtuoso violinist Marja Tuhkanen-Gaynor guest curates Kaleidoscope Night’s final 2015 chapter. In doing so she has drawn together a spell-bindingly imaginative programme and we have two pairs of tickets…