Barfly – The Hill
One hopes with the benefit of time or a few tweaks the Hill will eventually make its mark. For the moment at least, it boasts promise of much else ahead.
September Bitesize: Veginity, Bia Bó Finne, Saba And More
From Veginity to Bofin, Saba Ten, Trash Bash at Airfield and the Dublin Pizza Company, it's all in September's Bitesize.
Artsdesk: Voices of Memory
The Gardens look like the tended ruins of an empire. The mist and the wind, the roses and the water lilies, the wilting flowers and the overgrown borders, the quietness…
Jailbird’s Song: An Interview with Colin and Darren Thornton
“We all know what it feels like to be at a point and feel like we should be a lot further on than we actually are.” We sat down with…
Cinema Review: The Young Offenders
The Young Offenders eschews the sadly mainstream, authoritarian Irish tendency to represent the Gardaí as a uniform force for good in society.
Restaurant Review: Charlotte Quay
Charlotte Quay has everything it needs to succeed: a great view, a talented chef, experienced leaders leading the charge and an already loyal fanbase. All they need is for Dubliners…
Snow Day – Rejjie Snow
With just a small body of work to his name, Drumcondra’s Rejjie Snow has already laid his palm prints on the highest peaks of international rap stardom. Now, after spending…
What if Dublin… became ad-free?
Is visual pollution a small price to pay when ads help to fund city infrastructure? What if Dublin toughened its rules for advertising?
September Games: Quadrilateral Cowboy, Grow Up & Human Revolution
Not exactly glamorous as such, but it beats ogling Jennifer Lawrence.
Garb: In the Reflective Age – Hannah Choy O’Byrne
We sat down with Hannah Choy O’Byrne afterhours in Thirty Four, the café below which her studio is located, to discuss her latest collection, a meditation on unlocking the spirit…
Get Up (I Feel Like Being) A Machine – Simon Cullen & Neil O’Connor
Steve Reich's classic work Music for 18 Musicians is being given a new interpretation by two of the city's synth wizards, as Simon Cullen (Lasertom, Ships), and Neil O’Connor (also…
Barfly: Arthur’s
The slightly tepid vibe downstairs aside, I can’t help but fall for this place and feel that it’s their excellence as a venue that Arthur’s should be trumpeting when it’s…
Book Review: At the Existentialist Café – Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell is a skilful storyteller, effortlessly placing examinations of existentialist books and lectures within their personal and historical contexts.
September Audio: Euge Groove, Morgan Delt, Katie Dey + More
There’s not much of summer left and this month's new discs from Euge Groove, Morgan Delt, The Smoke Clears, Haley Bonar, Ryley Walker, Cass McCombs, Katie Dey and All Tvvins…
BeKreativ: A Saint in The City – Will St Leger
“I think if we’re not interrupted in our day-to-day life by things other than advertising, if we’re not interrupted socially or politically, then we just turn into mindless robots.”
Book Review: A Modern Journey – Derek Turner
While it is Turner’s inspired construction of Ambrose that is the most memorable and successful element of the novel, the protagonist’s sheer lunacy makes this otherwise promising novel difficult to…
Book Review: Labor of Love – Moira Wegel
Wegel shows how rituals of dating, sex and childbirth have always converged with gendered social and economic expectations, and how women and non-heterosexual men still generally perform the majority of…
Tiger Dublin Fringe: Brokentalkers – This Beach
Migration is something that has happened since the dawn of man. That’s how we survived as a species.