http://www.irishtimes.com Articles from The Irish Times - Magazine en-ie Copyright 2009, irishtimes.com. The Irish Times 2009-11-21T00:00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/ http://www.irishtimes.com/feeds/rss/rss_logo.gif Search for articles on irishtimes.com keywords http://www.irishtimes.com/search/index.html?rm=listresults http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259192285.html PROSPECTS:Opportunities are no longer knocking for our best and brightest. So how are they coping with current economic woes in addition to the completely normal uncertainties of being twentysomething? Text Magazine TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259192285 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259192247.html INTERVIEW:IT'S HARD NOT to approach an interview with John Irving with some trepidation having read his latest novel, Last Night in Twisted River. The book's protagonist, Danny Angel, is a writer, like Irving, born in the early 1940s, like Irving, who studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, like Irving did, and who hates journalists, believing "most of them lacked the imagination to believe that anything credible in a novel had been wholly imagined". Text Magazine TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259192247 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259072122.html COMMUNITY:IT’S A FEW HOURS before the semi-final of Tallaght’s Got Talent and singer Aisling Connolly is getting nervous. “I think I’m getting the flu,” she says. “I’m not even practising today. This is the only talking I’m going to do all day!” Connolly is one of 12 performers, from singers to modern dancers, who will be taking to the stage that night in Captain Americas restaurant in Tallaght to participate in the weekly talent show that has been attracting southwest Dubliners of all ages since it launched more than a month ago. Text Magazine TopStories 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259072122 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259072288.html I’M READING Jonathan Safran Foer and he’s saying that eating a dog is the equivalent of eating a pig. I look at Lola. She narrows her eyes. Text Magazine Column 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259072288 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224258965613.html INTERVIEW:IF YOU’RE GOING to be stuck with the same face for 350 years then it might as well be the one attached to Peter Facinelli. The American actor, now an unblemished 35, has worked hard over the past decade and a half. He was in the action series Fastlane. He had decent roles in the movie Scorpion Kingand the much-loved Six Feet Under. But, right now, he is indelibly, irrevocably associated with the jaw-droppingly successful Twilightfranchise. A year ago, the first film adaption of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire saga emerged and, to the surprise of perplexed adults unaware of the books’ enormous cult following, chewed the world’s box-offices into bloody pulp. Text Magazine Magazine Features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224258965613 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259072143.html EOIN BUTLERspeaks to Sarah Newman Entrepreneur and star of RTÉ's Dragon's Den
Text Magazine Magazine Features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259072143 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259073179.html SMART THINKING:Here’s one architect who refuses to be defeated by the recession: Elaine McCabe has designed purpose-built, recyclable houses for kids – just in time for Christmas, writes GEMMA TIPTON Text Magazine Magazine Features 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259073179 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259192377.html A miscellany of stories from The Irish Times Text Magazine Right Here Right Now 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259192377 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224258967013.html FOOD:OVER THE YEARS, I’ve been lucky enough to go skiing once or twice, despite being pretty rubbish at it. With age, comes wisdom. The sort that dictates that towards the end of a few days holiday, when the legs get wobbly and weak, and the hangover shakes become the most consistent part of any snow-plough, I convince myself I’ll end up breaking a leg if I persist, and find any excuse to ski less and wander around the village more, blaming my reluctance to take part on old knee injuries.


Text Magazine Taste 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224258967013 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259072052.html When Antonio Carluccio, the 72-year-old restaurateur, writer, TV presenter and self-proclaimed godfather of Italian gastronomy, says: “I have decided that 90 per cent of people would benefit”, he’s not talking about a spoonful of olive oil a day; he’s referring to psychiatric care, specifically his experiences as a patient at the Priory Clinic. Text Magazine Taste 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259072052 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259040298.html MONITOR:Everything is changing at Bill Kelly’s hotel in Rosslare – except the enduring good value, writes HUGO ARNOLD Text Magazine Taste 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259040298 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224258975181.html WINE:HAVING A PARTY this Christmas? The natural temptation is to cut a few corners and buy the cheapest possible wine. However, do spare a thought for your guests who have to drink the stuff! I have no problem with inexpensive wine, but I would strongly recommend that you buy a bottle and try it out beforehand. If you don’t like it, it is unlikely that your friends will either. Text Magazine Wine 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224258975181 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259040281.html I SOMETIMES WONDER if there might be a simple rule of thumb for reading menus and, from doing so, getting a handle on what kind of place you’re in. Perhaps with a view to getting out before it’s too late. Text Magazine Restaurants 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259040281 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259072000.html FASHION:Fashion has never shone so much and cost so little, as evidenced by Penneys’ latest razzle-dazzle, rock’n’roll collection Text Magazine Fashion & Beauty 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259072000 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224258967788.html DEIRDRE McQUILLANrounds up this week's fashion news in brief Text Magazine Fashion & Beauty 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224258967788 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224258966726.html PHYL CLARKErounds up this week's beauty news in brief Text Magazine Fashion & Beauty 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224258966726 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259074202.html XIANG LI AND Gary Coleman were married at two ceremonies last August, first in Ireland and then in China. They were married in the Registrar’s Office in Lower Grand Canal Street, Dublin, by Ms Anne Bradley, and then invited their very international group of guests to a reception in Clontarf Castle. In China, they wore both traditional and modern dress as part of their wedding celebrations in the northern city of Harbin. Text Magazine Vows 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259074202 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/magazine/2009/1121/1224259074188.html TRACEY BRAMBLE AND Eamonn Flood were married in St Mary’s Church in Kilmuckridge, Co Wexford on September 25th by Fr Seamus Larkin. Text Magazine Vows 2009-11-21T00:00:00 1224259074188