Blogs »
- Why can’t I comment on John Waters’s article about how horrible comments are?Hugh Linehan | Mechanical Turk »Technology can be deeply irritating. On the day before John Waters writes a stinging critique of...
- Eco-friendly plugsJim Carroll | On The Record »As The Ticket turns green for the week, Roland "2012" Emmerich explains why he directs films which...
- Baldwin & Martin’s Laugh-In (And weekly notes)Donald Clarke | Screenwriter »So, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin are to host the Oscars. Well, that's almost interesting....
- Offset your weekend, and your carbon footprint will followFiona | Pursued by a Bear »So, Offset has already kicked off and I'm only getting to post about it now. What can I tell you?...
Music »
In pursuit of JazzinessMUSIC: He’s the best-selling UK jazz artist of all time but the purists won’t be buying his new album. Not that this seems to bother the indefatigable Jamie Cullum, writes BRIAN BOYD
Accessible,accumulated avant-garde‘A GIG of this nature is not a chore. It may be an obligation. It is, most certainly, a great entertainment,” says Daniel Figgis of Snakes and Ladders, a mini-festival of music, visual art and soundwork art.
Books »
Roman's soldierINTERVIEW: On tour for his novel set during the Roman empire, former political journalist and best-selling author Robert Harris talks frankly about Tony Blair, almost draws a complete blank on Brian Cowen and defends his old friend Roman Polanski, writes ROSITA BOLAND
Perfect stranger trapped in the extraordinaryPOETRY: Life Is a Dream: 40 Years Reading Poems 1967-2007 By Paul Durcan Harvill Secker, 586pp. £16.99
Art & Design »
Sky's the limitARCHITECTURE: The Pigeon House stacks, a recognisable feature of Dublin’s skyline, might soon come tumbling down. What else have we got to look up at in the wake of the boom? asks JONATHAN DEBURCA BUTLER
Moving from darkness into lightVISUAL ART: KATHY PRENDERGAST occupies a special place in contemporary Irish art. Even at the time of her graduation show, in 1980, it was clear she was an artist with a distinctive imaginative vision and a wide range of abilities. She later remarked she was grateful to the tutors in the NCAD for having left her alone. Her work emerged from spells of meditative reflection, with little in the way of tangible results for a long time: not a process, in other words, that would be encouraged in today’s highly structured art education system.
Comment & Media »
- Time to rediscover the lost art of the television debate
PRESENT TENSE: FEW INTELLECTUALS inspire such devotion as Noam Chomsky. Watching the esteemed MIT linguistics professor deliver a wide-ranging talk at the RDS last Monday, it was easy to understand why.
- Seven Days
A glance at the week that was
Film »
Woodstock in a rose-tinted lensTHE ICONIC, ground-breaking gig which, if you believe every man in the pub, seems to have been attended by half the world’s population, is a constant of pop mythology. Only a few dozen people saw the Sex Pistols at St Martin’s College in 1975, but several thousand now claim to have been among the pogo-ing throng, writes DONALD CLARKE
- Apocalypse wow
COVER STORY: No one has destroyed the world quite as often as Roland Emmerich. The German director's over-egged depictions of global disaster may be short on science, but his depictions of an annihilated planet still have the power to make viewers go green with environmental angst. With the imminent release of the über-destructive 2012, DONALD CLARKE asks Emmerich why he feels the need to keep destroying a perfectly good planet
Stage »
- 'I opened the door to see Brian Lenihan standing there'
‘OF COURSE,” the old man goes, loud enough for the entire Horseshoe Bor to hear, “what you’ve been reading over the last few days is only half the story, writes ROSS O’CARROLL-KELLY
Forcing the truth to emergeTheatre involves an ‘industrial process’ and is ‘ossified’. Yet acclaimed documentary maker and director Alan Gilsenan also loves its primitive, ritualistic, sacred nature, and is back directing drama, writes KATE HOLMQUIST
Treibh »
- Míorúiltí
CROBHINGNE: CNOC, CNOC? Cé tá ann? Duine ar bith, de réir cosúlachta.
Cló Iar-Chonnachta le caibidil nua a scríobhCUIRFIDH AN teach foilsitheoireachta, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, ceann ar chaibidil nua i litríocht na Gaeilge Dé Luain. Is ansin a sheolfaidh bunaitheoir agus stiúrthóir Chló Iar-Chonnachta, Mícheál Ó Conghaile, úinéireacht a chomhlachta ar iarchatalóg na bhfoilsitheoirí, Sáirséal Ó Marcaigh, go hoifigiúil.
