Totally Dublin Weekender | September 18 – 21
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Culture Night Special
Culture Night never fails to deliver on a smörgåsbord of exciting once off events, performances, tours and workshops.
Back to the Future: Dublin Food Provenance
Food provenance is now very much in vogue with diners the world-over increasingly keen to establish the precise origin of the food they put in their mouths. Such global trends…
Fringe Review: National Therapy Project
Eleanor Tiernan’s National Therapy Project sees its host work through a series of personal issues in a tone that is half detached stand-up comedy, half self-help monologue.
Fringe Review: Sick
Crude Mechanics' Sick is a play that weaves in and out of degenerative mental illness, scuffing the narratives we expect from it.
Fringe Review: DEEP Aerobics
The whole premise of DEEP Aerobics is about collectivity; about feeling anonymous in a sea of people, and the freedom that this feeling induces. But it’s also about conformity, following…
Fringe Review: Tardigrade
A cacophony of associations; worlds within worlds; costumes, choirs, dancing and nudity: Tardigrade is an exciting and heady mixture of media and meaning.
Allweeker | Fringe Special
We take a look at some of the best gigs at the Fringe to take yourself along to.
Totally Dublin Weekender | September 11 – 14
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Home From Home: Mónika on Vienna
Each month in Home From Home we ask someone to compare Dublin with another city in which they have lived. Sometimes they are Irish, sometimes they are expatriates in Dublin.…
Soundbite: Improper Butter
Elaine Lavery and Hannah O’Reilly are the friends behind, Improper Butter, taking Elaine's germ of an idea home from the French Alps and into a real going concern – via…
Entry Level: Meditation
There are many forms of meditation from many different traditions, but two golden rules are common to them all: (1) start, and (2) continue.
Restaurant Review: Overends Café at Airfield House
I love seeing great gardening in the city. It encourages me to make the most out of my little cement-floored backyard, which currently houses some herbs, a potted strawberry plant
Restaurant Review: Paulie’s Pizza
Relatively young, but already a staple of city, Paulie's Pizza was one of the first and best spots for high-end casual dining in the city.
Nice Gaff: Abbeville
Karl Whitney, author of Hidden City, explores the fascinating Abbeville, the physical incarnation of Charles Haughey's North Dublin power base.
Barfly: MVP
Belabouring the point of one’s own straightforwardness tends to be a self-defeating exercise, and it’s hard not to feel that way in MVP. Better not to say you do a…
Barfly: The Three Tun Tavern
The opening of The Three Tun Tavern marks the entry of British mega pub chain JD Wetherspoon’s into the fold on our humble island home.
Tiger Fringe Dublin | Review: The Rest Is Action
The Rest is Action is a thoughtful work that tries to get inside the idea of following the rules of a system, even while deploring that same system.