Film & TV News
The 44th annual Toronto Film Festival ran from the 5th to the 15th of September, with Taika Waititi’s ‘Jojo Rabbit’ taking home the People’s Choice Award. The film received understandably…
Artist Interview: Keywest
Keywest are one of Ireland’s leading bands, with some 200,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and over 164,000 followers across social media channels. In fact, they are officially Ireland’s biggest independent…
Politics on the Dancefloor: Octo Octa and Resonant Body
I don’t know about you, but I like to start each day with a quick scroll of Twitter to check what new crisis I need to update myself on. It’s…
Upcoming Gigs
Alice Phoebe Lou October 11th @ 8pm Whelan’s, Wexford Street South African artist Alice Phoebe Lou has been busking in Berlin for years and lives to play live for people-…
Why Me? Why Not. – Liam Gallagher
★ ★ ★ ‘You only get to do it once’ is the bridge to the best song on Liam Gallagher’s second solo album, and it’s the perfect representation of Gallagher…
Norman Fucking Rockwell! – Lana Del Rey
★ ★ ★ Lana Del Rey’s sixth studio album sees the return of her signature dreamy sound while the lyrics cut closer to the bone than ever before. Over 14…
All My Heroes Are Cornballs – JPEGMAFIA
★ ★ ★ ★ JPEGMAFIA’s third studio album, All My Heroes Are Cornballs is a mixture of punk rap, experimental hip hop, lo-fi and trap beats which, in theory, feels…
Facial Recognition & The Self: The Philosophy of Recognition
I found myself in the Dublin Airport arrivals terminal recently being funneled into the bright wall of facial recognition machines, eagerly waiting to scan your mug against their database of…
6 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Waste
Plastic is both amazing and destructive! It is an extremely versatile material which is used in everything from airplanes to smartphones. The problem is that most plastic items are designed…
Brewed Awakening: The Science of Espresso
Espresso is the pinnacle of all coffee drinks and is the basis for almost every recipe. In all third-wave coffee shops (shops which use only the highest quality beans), espresso…
How to Exploit the Sick: Price-Hikes in Medicine
In 2015, Martin Shkreli (AKA ‘pharma bro’) garnered widespread criticism for his role in the price hike of an anti-parasitic medication called Daraprim. With the patent for Daraprim expiring in…
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spiders… Man: Clearing the Name of the World’s Creepiest Crawly
Of all the animals on Earth, the spider probably has the worst reputation, with about 5% of the global population suffering from arachnophobia. Those who are particularly affected, or the…