Album Review: Depression Cherry – Beach House
This is Beach House at their most wilful and self-confident, and the album is a mesmerising journey. Just don't take it if you're in a hurry.
September Audio Roundup: Destroyer|Cruising|The Jimmy Cake
Our roundup of September's Album Reviews including Destroyer, the Jimmy Cake, Cruising, Deradoorian, Yo La Tengo and more
September Bitesize: Newmarket Kitchen, Cracked Nut, Sett Food
September's Bitesize features Raw Food plant based workshops, Cracked Nut Nutrition Balls, Newmarket Kitchen, Sett Food & the Dublin Coffee & Tea Festival
Orchestral Moods in the Dark: Interview with Ruban Nielson
Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson talks to us about the perils of public plain speaking and his ongoing struggle to find balance between what’s best for the artist and what’s…
Friday’s Cocktail Competition
Totally Dublin was on hand to report on the European Bartender Championships on September 16th & 17th at TGI Friday’s on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. The competition pitted the…
Win a pair of tickets to Holly Herndon!
Win a pair of tickets to Holly Herndon in the Spiegeltent on Thursday 17th September.
Totally Dublin Weekender | 9 – 13 September
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
Restaurant Review: Wowburger
Wowburger, in the beer garden of Workman’s Club on Wellington Quay, appears committed to the quintessentially American diner-style burger; a sweet bun enveloping a juicy patty, thinner than what we’ve…
Interview: Tissue – Gráinne Finn & Hannah Mullan
Tissue, founded by the talented illustrator Gráinne Finn and pattern-cutting wizard Hannah Mullan, bounded on to the Dublin fashion scene this year with their thoroughly modern take on fashion design.
Interview: Capulet and Montague – Lisa McCormack
Blocky, bold and sleek, Capulet and Montague’s artful jewellery has been gaining momentum since its inception in 2012 with recent accolades including the coveted Irish Fashion and Innovation Award for…
Interview: Paul Murray
I was really disappointed by the lack of response to Occupy in Dublin. . . We often forget, this is a really right wing country. That's what I was trying…
Barfly: The Square Ball
It’s interior design is more in the mould of a subtly sophisticated Henry cardigan than an attention-seeking, bulge-hugging Redknapp three-piece number.
Win tickets to Scotch and Soda at Tiger Dublin Fringe
Win tickets to Company 2's circus jazz spectacular Scotch & Soda in the Spiegeltent as part of Tiger Dublin Fringe
Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue – Wednesday Martin
A memoir dressed as an anthropological study, Primates of Park Avenue details the lives of New York’s female elite. If you thought The Wolf of Wall Street was bad, wait…
Book Review: The Key – Máirtín Ó Cadhain
If Myles na Gopaleen was the court jester of the era, Máirtín Ó Cadhain might be seen as the more serious vivisector of Irish society.
Book Review: New American Stories – Ben Marcus (Ed)
With New American Stories Marcus aimed to bring together 32 stories by ‘the most gifted technicians’ in building a ‘chemical pathway to . . . language-induced feelings’.
Book Review: Speak – Louisa Hall
Speak may be an uneven novel, but its shortcomings are easy to forgive.
Review: War of the Encyclopaedists – C Robinson & G Kovite
War of the Encyclopaedists is a collaborative effort, and so Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite have risked doubly complicating their book for the sake of an original take on form.