Bitesize: Year of The Dog
The Year of The Dog is almost upon us and with it comes Dublin’s Chinese New Year festival
Restaurant Review: The Trocadero
As you might expect, the service is warm and the welcome genuine. I’m tempted to comment that this may be the most hospitable restaurant in the city.
Bitesize: Two Quinoa Recipes From Chef Andy McFadden
Two colourful quinoa recipes from Chef Andy McFadden
Roadmap: Gentlemen of the World
The allure of travel is such that 13,000 people entered The New York Times competition to travel to each of their 52 Places to Go selection.
Restaurant Review: Storyboard Café
Still a work in progress, Storyboard lives in Islandbridge on the bottom floor of a new-ish apartment building just across the road from one of the entrances to the War…
Roadmap: Drop Everything
Now that Primavera's drool inducing line-up is out, we can expect a spate of announcements to what looks set to be a fantastically cluttered festival season.
Audio Review: Little Movies – The Little Movies Long Play
The duo conjure a universe of warbling, lo-fi electronics reminiscent of early electronic experimentations and b-movie film scores
In The Frame: Dragana Jurisic – My Own Unknown
"The work is shrouded in politics of place and painful memories of exile and it speaks of my family history focusing on the life of my aunt."
Grace Dyas: We Don’t Know What’s Buried Here
"The citizens assembly and the #8committee has taught us that listening works. I hope we can take that into the campaign with us."
Bitesize: Carnaval at Wigwam
Those energetic folk at Wigwam bring a taste of South American magic to the city this month.
Book Review: Heather, The Totality – Matthew Weiner
If it was already hinted at in Mad Men, it’s crystal-clear in Heather, the Totality: Matthew Weiner's writerly influences are wholly American.
Artsdesk: Kapton Fantastic – Sam Keogh at The Kerlin Gallery
Celebrating 30 years in existence, the Kerlin Gallery starts 2018 with Sam Keogh’s sculptural installation Kapton Cadaverine, which is set in a dilapidated starship.
Roadmap: Coffee|Culture
What better way to face the day than a caffeine jolt teaspooned by talks?
Cinema Review: Glory
A fascinating glimpse into a side of Bulgarian life we may know little about.
Barfly: Lucky’s
With the opening of Lucky’s we (you know who you are) now have an unassailable triumvirate of fuck-off places in which to wet our whistles.
Roadmap: A Map of The Kingdom of Ireland
Five years later and Heresy Records are releasing the sequel to On The Nature of Electricity & Acoustics, their 2013 anthology of Irish electronic music.
Book Review: The Broken Spiral – Ed. R.M. Clarke
A worthy collection of 20 short stories by Irish writers, in aid of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
Cinema Review: Loveless
If this is the real face of divorce, Loveless is a harrowing spectacle that completely diminishes all divorce dramas that have come before