Roadmap: The Rare Bird
A sprightly 95, Iris Apfel stands adrift as that rarest of creatures - a true style maven.
Competition: Win a Family Pass to Titanic Belfast!
We’ve got one Family Pass (2 adults & 2 children) to visit the Titanic experience up for grabs!
March Bitesize: BoCo | Cake Café | Jameson | Prawn Fest | + More!
New York style pizzas and cool industrial design, Mr Steve McCarthy's Jameson bottle, Ray O'Neill takes over at the helm of The Cake Cafe and Slice, Dublin Bay Pawn Fest…
Conaill The Sartorial: Masculinity and Gay Identity
We catch up with Conaill O'Dwyer, a young Irish designer whose abstract take on traditional male threads is looking to realign the structure of menswear in Ireland.
March Games: Cosmic Eons | Bucket Detective | Dark Link
Don’t expect the universe to stop expanding any time soon.
Cinema Review: The Secret Scripture
Based on the 2008 novel by Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture marks director Jim Sheridan’s return to his Irish roots
Cinema Review: Free Fire
This is the all-action, gun-slinging, balls-to-the-wall IRA gun-deal-gone-wrong movie you’ve been waiting for.
Book Review: Amiable with Big Teeth – Claude McKay
It's natural to be sceptical when a lost, unknown text is published posthumously, not least when it is the subject of lofty praise and flattering comparisons straight away.
Review: Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto – Jessa Crispin
It is worth stating clearly that Jessa Crispin certainly does consider herself a feminist. It is other people who are not: her book tells the story of a scourge of…
Book Review: Difficult Women – Roxanne Gay
Creating compelling female characters that don’t resort to the ‘strong female character’ trope is an imperative task, and one that Gay performs admirably.
Book Review: 4 3 2 1 – Paul Auster
A sustained reflection on Auster’s own relationship with the written word and allows him, in typical Auster fashion, to insert stories within the story.
Book Review: Harvesting – Lisa Harding
Rage-inducing and relentless in its depiction of the cruel realities of life for forced sex workers, the novel draws its power from Harding’s talent for voice and characterisation.
Sparkle Motion – Cheerleaders
From across the floor, there’s a shimmer of almost two hundred or so girls and three boys as they await their moment to spring and shine.
Thundercat Is Go!
If Drake and Bonobo were the hot tickets last month, this Vicar Street show steals the crown in March.
Austra – Future Politics
Katie Stelmanis’s third album Future Politics could be described as her comeback one.
Cinema Review: Personal Shopper
Kristen Stewart never puts a foot wrong. She anchors even the most outlandish plot elements firmly in reality, and the film simply wouldn’t work without her.
Cinema Review: The Eyes of My Mother
Owing much to the writings of Shirley Jackson Nicolas Pesce’s directorial debut is a disturbing, atmospheric but only partially successful horror movie.