Book Review: Doctorow Collected Stories – E. L. Doctorow
Some of Doctorow’s most notable short fiction has been re-released in this new edition. Unfortunately, his qualities as a novelist do not translate into satisfying stories.
Book Review: The Fire This Time – Jesmyn Ward (Ed.)
Multiple authors agonise over how to tell their children that people will see them as less human because of their skin colour.
Cinema Review: It’s Only the End of the World
Wringing high drama from the banal, this is classic Dolan
Cinema Review: Certain Women
Based on the short stories of Maile Meloy, Certain Women consists of three distinct narratives linked by a central theme — strong women operating in a male-dominated world — and…
Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2017
This year a host of more than 60 Irish and International guests are set to visit the Audi Dublin International Film Festival. Festival Director Grainne Humphreys gives us the lowdown…
Off The Laoise: Laoise Ní Nualláin
Laoise Ní Nualláin is a Galway musician on the verge of breaking big. We met her ahead of the launch of her upcoming debut EP Halfway, due out this spring.
Artsdesk: Having a Kiki
"Connecting with other queer voices can create a space of self reflection and affirmation”. Visual artist and educator Emma Haugh talks to us about Having a Kiki: Queer Desire and…
Cinema Review: The Great Wall
A film undone by a severely underwritten script, wonky CGI, and a talented cast delivering career-worst performances.
Garb: Kiki Na Art
With artistic origins, six years in Vietnam and the solo establishment of an independent business under her belt, when it comes to Dublin’s creative scene, Kiki Na Art has arrived.
Nice Gaff – Busáras
The first major work of architecture in modern Ireland, Busáras was symbolic of a forward facing Ireland that was brimful of passion and ideas.
Feb Bitesize: The Fat Fox | Valentine Dining | Lily’s Café
Feb Bitesize: Deli takeaway Fat Fox, Valentine dining at the Dylan, Dine in Dublin food fest and pre-demo sustenance at Lily's Café.
Barfly – Corrigan’s
Roddy Doyle Facebook posts unfurling in real time. If it’s a quiet one you’re after, you could do much, much worse.
Cinema Review: Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Darker trades the excitement of bondage for the everyday bindings of domesticity.
48 Hours in London
In the 90s London was deemed the coolest city humanly possible to travel to, and obviously even cooler to live in. But how does the English capital really fare today?…
Cinema Review: Hidden Figures
Crammed into two hours and seven minutes, too much is bitten off to be reasonably chewed.
Cinema Review: John Wick: Chapter 2
Keanu Reeves returns as the eponymous contract killer in a sequel that improves on almost every aspect of the surprise hit from 2014.
Feb Games: Hidden My Game by Mom! | Avignon: A Clash of Popes
Is there such a thing as a "comedy" genre of video games?
New Model Army: Changing the face of the Irish model industry
Dean McDaid, of 9 crows and Not Another tells us how a few pints with Emma Fraser progressed into remodelling the Irish fashion industry.