Bitesize: Peploe’s Makeover
The recently re-opened Peploe’s on Stephen’s Green has been showing off its refreshing new look following a major summer refurb.
Book Review: What We Lose – Zinzi Clemmons
An interesting rumination on the experience of grief, and an impressive achievement from a young debut author.
Audio Review: Omer – Bye
Berlin imprint Love on the Rocks returns with an excellent three tracker from Cocktail d’Amore affiliate Omer.
Roadmap: BNQT
It might feel that the era of the ‘supergroup’ is somewhat of a fad of yesteryear... Not quite yet.
Book Review: Levitation – Sean O’Reilly
Erotically charged and uncompromising, both stories and novella lay bare the potential for transgression in all of us
Audio Review: The War On Drugs: A Deeper Understanding
A balm for the hurt senses of this fractured age
MAGNIFIED: Sofa So Good
Ricarda Messner likes “publishing dreams”. Her latest project, Sofa, launched in Berlin last summer.
Artsdesk: National Memory Making
Building a national art collection is an act of national memory making. IMMA have made their selection for 2017 with the support of Hennessy.
Roadmap: Not At Home
While we continue to await the referendum on abortion Not At Home is a waiting room and archive of the testimony of women who have made the journey.
What Dublin Taught Me
A cross-section of people who have sought and succeeded in London, thanks to the foundations Dublin has forged.
Audio Review: Broken Social Scene – Hug of Thunder
Hug of Thunder marks a momentous moment in Broken Social Scene’s trajectory.
Roadmap: Cave In
More creative potholing interventions with “a psycho-acoustic sound event” within Smuggler’s Cave by visual artist Alan James Burns.
Barfly: Dicey’s Garden at The Russell Court Hotel
This is the beer-garden as envisaged by Hieronymus Bosch.
What If Dubliners… Could Wander into Leinster House?
Even the aristocratic Dukes of Leinster permitted the public to freely roam around the empty space that’s known today as Leinster Lawn.
Soundbite: Stephen Kavanagh: Marine Health Foods & Temple Bar Food Market
"I started as an artisan producer processing oysters and then we evolved into extracts and other activities."
Audio Review: The Jimmy Cake – Tough Love
The Jimmy Cake continue to offer much more than mere confection.