Sunday Soul & Cookies At The Cake Café
An afternoon of baking demos, chats and lunch with Ralph Rolle, renowned drummer with Nile Rodgers and Chic and owner of The Soul Snacks Cookie Company
Audio Review: First Aid Kit – Ruins
Ruins finds First Aid Kit still indebted to the folksy heritage of heartland Americana
Cinema Review: The Shape of Water
Essentially a silent performance, as alluringly out-of-time as the film’s amphibious hero
Trad School
The resurgent trad scene is being spearheaded by a new generation of musicians who are embracing and redefining its sounds and boundaries.
Four of The Best Trad Music Bars in Dublin’s North Inner City
Treat yourself to a trad music session in some of the city’s finest hideaways.
Bitesize: Palentine’s Night at SLICE
Your palzos/mates/loveens/buddies/amigos are deadly. So what better time to show each other the love than on Palentine's night?
Roadmap: Masc Life
Masc.Life is “an exploration of the lives of men who are not straight” according to its creator Stephen Molony, a former contributor to TD.
Audio Review: Various Artists – Quare Groove Vol. 1
The first archival release from Dublin’s All City Records, the compilation offers a glimpse into independent Irish club music from the 70s and 80s.
Cinema Review: Lady Bird
They say cinema is a director’s medium, but it’s writer-director Greta Gerwig’s pitch perfect script that shines from the very beginning of her latest film Lady Bird.
Barfly: 9 Below
Nine Below is an actual thing and it takes them two days to accept my booking.
Review: Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia – Laurent de Sutter
A short work of theory by philosopher and professor of Legal Theory Laurent de Sutter, weaving together a history of drugs (both prescribed and self-prescribed), mental illness and crowd control.
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.