Eddie Vedder

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Tim Findlen and Joel Eckhaus with Tony Boland (R), director of Sunday’s Ukelele Hooley in Dun Laoghaire. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Ukulele: The ‘child’s toy’ that conquered the musical world

The rise and fall and rise again of the ukulele tells us as much about the times we live in as it does about the humble instrument itself. Once deri(...)

Cartoonist Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow. Photograph: J.P. Trostle
Satirising Donald Trump: ‘It’s a struggle just to keep up’

Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, is tired of drawing Donald Trump. Perkins has drawn him as an angry baby, as a deranged superhero/villain, as the sensi(...)

Seattle’s famous skyline featuring the Boeing tower
Seattle: Wide awake on the coffee and grunge trail

The last time I was in Seattle, it was by accident. A missed flight meant a detour on the way to San Francisco, and I cut a bleary-eyed figure trudgin(...)

Eddie Vedder: letter man. (Photo: Getty Images)
Musicians and the Middle East: there’s no middle ground

Eddie Vedder, Rihanna, Neil Young and Roger Waters have all have had something to say of late about the living hell that is the Israel/Hamas conflict.(...)

Out of the Furnace 2:30
Out of the Furnace

Responsible Russell Baze (Christian Bale) visits with local rogue Petty (Willem Dafoe), in order to settle a debt owed by Russell’s feckless younger b(...)

Jake Clemons: No Springs attached

Jake Clemons is coming back to town. Over the summer, you may have seen him onstage playing saxophone with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band d(...)

The To-Do List
The To-Do List

The To-Do List is set in 1993. And just in case you miss the relevant inter-title, the film is fit to burst with the flotsam and jetsam of the age: Ed(...)

West of Memphis

In 1993, the bodies of three young children were discovered in a drainage canal in the less than salubrious borough(...)