Book Review: Fresh Complaint – Jeffrey Eugenides
These are strange times for fiction written about terrible men.
Barfly: The Sidecar – Westbury Hotel
It’s for special. Wear some adult shoes and run a comb through your hair.
Bitesize: Vegan Dublin
We’ve come a long way from the days when beans on toast at the Alpha were as good as dining out got for vegans in Dublin.
Roadmap: The Rivers of Dublin
The late Clair Sweeney wrote the definitive and fascinating book on Dublin’s rivers, streams and tributaries back in 1991.
Dublin Dining Guide: Paul Dignam – The Revolution
Paul Dignam literally owns The Revolution. He tells us more about his artisan pizza & craft beer restaurant in Rathgar.
Cinema Review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Ultimately, the film’s strength emerges not from its laser-focused sense of purpose, but from a deeper, stranger ambivalence.
Roadmap: Equivalent Exchange
Kormac returns to the fray with a special St Patrick’s Festival commission.
Roadmap: Props To The Hero
Annie Atkins has just inked a book deal to write about her graphic design for film, complete with behind-the-scenes pictures of movies, props and set pieces.
Gastro: Supermarket Sweep
Rather than squatting amidst the debris of your ineluctably broken resolutions you might consider pulling yourself together and availing of some soul-bolstering cheap eats in an Asian supermarket.
Soundbite: Tara-Lee Byrne – Wicked Wholefoods
Wicked Wholefoods founder Tara-Lee Byrne talks to us about her mission to educate and empower people to make conscious, informed and sustainable food choices
Book Review: My Cat Yugoslavia – Pajtim Stavoci
The titular cat first appears in a gay nightclub where the strobe lights wrench it in and out of existence so that it looms half-real, a Cheshire cat to lead…
Garb: Aisling Walsh – TAER
“I knew that this wasn’t an opportunity that I could pass up, so I packed up my job, sold my car and headed for Dublin.”
Bitesize: Sip and Slurp
Recent changes at Charlemont Street’s Sip and Slurp have resulted in Saturday opening and the introduction of a much-anticipated brunch menu.
Garb: Betsy Nina – Sandia Dublin
The brand’s narrative, along with the inspiration for Medina’s designs, can be traced back to Venezuela, where the designer got her first taste for a creative life.
Roadmap: VINYL(ALLY)
Enter Dublin Vinyl – a brand new, state-of-the-art record pressing plant in Glasnevin conceived by Hugh Scully and Donagh Molloy.
Bitesize: Plant Based Chocolate from Nobó
Two years in development, the plant-based alternative is handmade in Cork
Become A Bartender For A Night!
The perfect mix of entertainment and education, where each guest is greeted with a welcome cocktail upon arrival before sinking into the art behind mixology.