Dowager Designs
With Downton Abbey’s influence taking hold on our wardrobes this winter, Erin Dunleavy takes a look back on 1920’s fashion Yes, winter is finally before us. I know many of…
Flowering Fashions: Cath Kidston
Fashion has always held a certain fascination with the timeless, the classic, the elegant, and never more so than in recent years with the increasing popularity of vintage fashions. Such…
Brewing up a Storm: Bob Dylan’s Tempest
Ciaran Breslin looks at the implications of Tempest on Dylan’s catalogue, as well as his influence on popular music Thirty-five studio albums in and Bob Dylan’s latest offering provides the…
You Wouldn’t Download a Car…
Kathryn Toolan looks at ever-topical debate of illegal music downloading, the arguments for and against, and the effects it has on the music industry This month saw a crackdown on…
Des Bishop Likes To Bang
Dealing with everything from drums to drunks, cialis Aifric Ni Ruairc reviews Bishop’s latest comedy offering When Róisín Shorthall resigned as Minister for State of Primary Care last week because…
French Fancies for the Uninformed
I’ve never really been much of a foreign film person. If I’m going to see a movie, treatment I don’t want to have to read it, and I definitely don’t…
More Art with Less Matter
Aifric Ni Ruairc gets reacquainted with Hamlet and tries to keep up with the Wooster Group’s inventive interpretation Everybody knows Hamlet; maybe you read it for the Junior Cert, hospital…
Killing Them Softly
Andrew Dominik’s latest effort is a snazzy array of self-importance manifested in a blistering hypnotic movie that features a menacing performance from Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer by the…
New Releases
Joseph Gallagher takes a look at the latest releases to hit the silver screen The Perks of Being a Wallflower Director: Stephen Chbosky Stars: Logan Lerman, treat Emma Watson, online…
“The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared”
Not even the rain can keep Lisa Gorry down after finding Jonas Jonasson’s 2009 debut It’s not unreasonable to say that for most people, Swedish writing is earmarked by the…
Social Satire: Casual Vacancy
Disguised as a ‘storm in a tea cup’ novel about small-town politics, J. K. Rowling’s first offering since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows surprises with unflinching descriptions of the…
‘The only honest art form is laughter’
Conor Fox finds out that ‘There’s no show like a Joe show’ at Dublin Theatre Festival Featuring music from the man himself, The Night Joe Dolan’s Car Broke Down originated…