May Bitesize – Poachers, Foraging, House of Peroni + More
May Bitesize: Poachers Premium Tonic Water, Bealtaine with Taking a Leaf, Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, Boojum and The House of Peroni visits Dublin
Slow Wave: An Interview with Max Richter
“Sleep is a project about a pause in the information blizzard”. In his latest project, composer Max Richter explores the various stages of the sleep cycle in an eight-hour long…
Cinema Review: Everybody Wants Some!!
With the sexy campus comedy Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater – who only last year told the twelve year-spanning story of a boy reaching adulthood in real time – has…
The Unfinished World and Other Stories – Amber Sparks
The spaces that Sparks creates in The Unfinished World are worth falling into. Her stories are like bugs trapped in Amber; moments of life for us to explore outside of…
Book Review: Thus Bad Begins – Javier Marías
As we witness the murky betrayals the book’s characters try to disavow, we are granted a disturbing view of what is traded in the exchange of truth for new beginnings.
May the Fourth Be… Kaleidoscope at Bello Bar
May the Fourth Be …. The penultimate show of Kaleidoscope’s first inspirational season at the Bello Bar.
Restaurant Review – Pickle
The familiar is also present at Pickle, but it’s just better than you’ve had it before.
Barfly: The Ivy
The Ivy styles itself as “luxurious continental style bar” suited to “watching the world go by whilst regaling old times”. While its oldness is contrived, it’s also strangely convincing.
Along the Ganges: Life, Death And Rebirth
Even on the briefest of voyages down its course, it immediately becomes apparent that both life and death are omnipresent, inescapable and celebrated along the Ganges.
Cinema Review: Atlantic
Narrated by Brendan Gleeson, Risteard Ó Dómhnaill’s documentary takes as its subject three North Atlantic communities – Newfoundland, sub-Arctic Norway and the west of Ireland – facing huge challenges as…
The O’Briens Spring Wine Fair Is Back!
The O’Briens Spring Wine Fair is back in The Printworks Dublin Castle on May 13th & 14th for a fantastic weekend of wine tasting. Proceeds are in aid of Cancer…
Book Review: The Drowned Detective – Neil Jordan
Jordan manages to pull something off in book form that is standard in his film scripts: a sense of genuine surprise. The reader is constantly left guessing in this puzzling…
Design: George Boyle
“People are beginning to realise more that design is an intrinsic value as opposed to something you layer on.” We speak with George Boyle, founder of the Fumbally Exchange the…
Audio Review: Parquet Courts – Human Performance
It takes a truly remarkable band to produce anything this dually intellectually satisfying and bloody good fun.
Audio Review: Anohni – Hopelessness
Hopelessness is a record that goes in heavy on big statements on big themes.
Cinema Review: Captain America: Civil War
Ignore the title: Captain America: Civil War is really a direct sequel to last year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and a far more successful effort at that.
Cinema Review: Bastille Day
The audience gets exactly what they’d expect from Bastille Day: a solid B-grade action movie.
Cinema Review: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
The film charts Mapplethorpe’s life from his emergence as an artist while living in the Chelsea Hotel with Patti Smith to his peak as a chronicler of New York’s underground…