Restaurant Review: The Pig’s Ear
There is some solid cooking happening here, but not quite enough consistency to justify the enthusiasm of the pricing.
Bitesize: Xavier’s Bar
The recent opening of a new Georgian-style bar at F.X. Buckley’s in Pembroke Street adds another chapter to a family story with genuine generational roots in the city.
Hemlines: Accio, Fashion
An ingenious feed which cloaks Hogwarts’ best and worst in finery from the French fashion house.
Book Review: Notes from the Fog – Ben Marcus
The worlds in Marcus’ stories are weird reflections of our own, where science soars and people forget to touch one another.
5 of the Best Things Happening This Bank Holiday Weekend
It's been a long time coming, but it's finally time to kick through the leaves and enjoy one of our favourite long weekends of the year.
Audio Review: Low – Double Negative
Low’s 12th album is their most extreme sounding, yet one which immediately makes sense.
Magnified: The Tangerine Magazine – Tara McEvoy
"We’re Belfast-based, and one of our initial aims for the magazine was to offer a platform for the range of extraordinary work being produced in the North"
Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
Tokarczuk’s narrative unfolds around the disappearance of her two dogs – ‘her girls’ – and the mysterious deaths of members of a local hunting club.
Artsdesk: Markiewicz and the Modernist
Two unabashed, boundary-breaking women finally take centre stage.
Hemlines: Lace Gloves and Life Jackets
If frocks could talk, the fibrous residents of a certain Dublin 11 warehouse would find themselves in a continuous chatter.
Bitesize: Gingerbread Gin
The ever-versatile spirit has just been given a cheery seasonal makeover
The Buskerteers
Grafton Street attracts buskers from everywhere vying for attention and hoping to earn a living. We spoke to some of our favourites and heard their story.
In The Frame: Covered – Róisín White
This project uses found photographs and archival material to weave a narrative between the past and present, as a mode to connect the artist’s practice with that of the historical…
Transit Lounge Else
Transit Lounge Else is an international project of the Else Lasker-Schüler-Society (Wuppertal) in cooperation with the “Centre for Persecuted Arts” (Solingen), designed by the artist duo Astronautenkost.