For F’s Sake: The Dublin Feminist Film Festival
'We need to keep pushing and creating spaces where women are celebrated'. The Dublin Feminist Film Festival is back for the third year running!
Ralph Rolle: The Soul Snacks Cookie Company
Best known as a drummer with musicians such as Nile Rodgers of Chic, Ralph Rolle is also the founder of the Soul Snacks Cookie Company in New York. We caught…
Book Review: Intimations Alexandra Kleeman
As the collection builds, stories get told in wildly varied settings (and even genres), and Kleeman’s talents radiate.
Cinema Review: The Light Between Oceans
A handsome, austere, long-winded sort of picture.
Close to the Edge – DJ Turned Jeweller Jenny Huston
“People recognise that it’s been successful elsewhere and are therefore a bit more open to it”. Former DJ Jenny Huston talks to us about her jewellery line Edge Only.
You’re the Worst! An interview with BadBadNotGood
BadBadNotGood are living the dream. Plucked from obscurity thanks to their own entrepreneurial spirit, the group formed in the wake of posting a video of their own instrumental arrangement of
Book Review: Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
The gulf between past and present becomes paper-thin in Madeleine Thien’s Man Booker shortlisted novel
Book Review: Ninety-Nine Stories of God – Joy Williams
Williams’ off-beat pieces feature a God who appears in everyday settings, from demolition derbies to the pharmacy, to mingle with humans in a world of random chaos and coincidence.
Book Review: Here I Am – Jonathan Safran Foer
Readers anticipating more of the literary fireworks and postmodern magical realism that defined JSF’s first two books will be disappointed. Here I Am is a sharp departure in style.
Be Kreativ: This Greedy Pig
This Greedy Pig has grown into a multi-faceted entity comprised of a digital publication, print shop, record label and radio show. Their latest project, Fantasy 12, explores the intersection between…
Artsdesk: Industrial Revolution – Exploring the Ellis King Gallery
A new gallery space, Ellis King, opened in the unlikeliest of locations: an industrial estate off Donore Avenue in Dublin 8. Although the gallery’s location might be intensely local, its…
Barfly: Offie Tempo – Probus Wines
If you were expecting high-end sandwiches and the potential to have an afternoon tipple at the expense of the rest of your working day, I suspect that Probus Wines would…
Cinema Review: I, Daniel Blake
I, Daniel Blake is a simple film about kindness and solidarity, and the cruelty of a society in which they can nonetheless persist.
Cinema Review – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Never Go Back is one for the noughties kids, even if its concerns incorrectly seem somewhat anachronistic.
Aquí es tu papa – The Day of the Dead in Mazateca, Oaxaca
The days turn to ghosts before Day of the Dead. Wet fog low over the city, seeping into the pores of the bones. So you wrap yourself in smoke: the…
Cinema Review: Further Beyond
Further Beyond is a testament to storytelling, and a vindication of its unorthodox form.
Nice Gaff: National Gallery of Ireland, Millennium Wing
With its façade built of Portland stone, an ode to the city’s grandest buildings, it is completely different from anything around - Orla O'Kane