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March 17, 2012We have a St. Patrick's Day special report for you today, and we hope it's early enough in the day that half our readers aren't soused already.
This week, yet another story about how badly Scientology is faring in Ireland reached us as the Irish Examiner reported that the mission in Dublin is exist ... More >>
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December 21, 2011Voice Choices
December 21, 2011The hit indie film Once moves Off-Broadway
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December 6, 2011Once was that nicely received 2007 romantic flick about an Irish musician's longing interaction with a Czech woman in Dublin.
It's the little movie you heard about here and there and then suddenly it won the Oscar for Best Song for "Falling Slowly." Sort of Abie's Czech Rose, but with way more sou ... More >>
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November 22, 2011Are you somewhere with no windows right now? Like an office, or maybe solitary confinement in Rikers? Do you have to go outside soon, and are unsure of what shoes or outerwear to throw on? We can help you.
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June 15, 2011James Joyce's epic novel Ulysses is set on Thursday, June 16th in Dublin, Ireland, and every year since 1954, literary nerds around the world have gathered together to celebrate Bloomsday. The holiday is named for the novel's protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Typical celebrations of Bloomsday have ... More >>
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March 23, 2011Blogs
March 13, 2011​Will Smith refused to board an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Manchester the other day because there were no first- or business-class seats. Instead, he chartered a plane for 10,000 pounds, or about $17,000 -- for a flight that takes less than an hour. Will! How precious of you.
The Mirror qu ... More >>
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February 23, 2011The impossible feats of Circa
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October 21, 2010The motto for those good Google guys out in Mountain View, CA. is "Don't be evil," but Bloomberg News today details how that pledge stops somewhere short of their tax returns. Bloomberg's Jesse Drucker explains how the world's most successful Internet search engine manages to cut its tax rate ... More >>
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June 15, 2010Santiago FelipeWhen 300 pounds of perspiring flesh take the stage to recite the lyrics of a band the New York Times refuses to pronounce, reverse psychology occurs. To alleviate our fear of what is, by any standard, a very large man, we flip the classic stage fright device-- "picture your aud ... More >>
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May 29, 2010From about the year 1200 to 1855, the neighborhood of Donnybrook, Dublin, held an annual fair that was so rowdy and beer-soaked that the word "donnybrook" has come to mean a public quarrel. A new Irish pub of the same name has opened on the Lower East Side, serving hearty stuff like Irish bre ... More >>
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April 27, 2010Blogs
April 8, 2010Spirit Airlines just announced a fee for carry-on bags put in the overhead, but now the Dublin-based Ryanair is going several nervy miles above that.
They're considering charging people every time they use the bathroom on short flights!
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March 24, 2010Blogs
March 20, 2010Shoegazer shoes
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March 17
Habana, Austin, Texas
When you go see a band because they're labeled "shoegaze," you get a smile on your face when you see them set up 19 different foot pedals on the stage. You don't need to double-check your SXSW schedule. You know you're in the right ... More >>
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March 17, 2010John Keogh with smiling colleagues, Jen and Nikki.
Amity Hall, the latest addition to a group of bars owned by two brothers from Dublin, Mark and Martin Whelan, quietly opened its doors just a few steps from its sister establishment, The Half Pint, late last year. Bartender John Keogh, who al ... More >>
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February 23, 2010Film
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September 1, 2009Sebastian Barry’s The Pride of Parnell Street
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February 11, 2009Frank McGuinness's Gates of Gold
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July 2, 2008Ralph Fiennes, and Liam Neeson, and Barry McGovern interprettake on Beckett
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July 2, 20083epkano provides the soundtrack to a silent-film classic
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May 20, 2008At Oedipus’s house, mixed grill and incest are on the menu
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November 27, 2007The Pearl polishes up a Restoration gem; Germans at BAM stifle a masterpiece
Music
November 20, 2007Searching for the cutting edge in DIY discourse, Todd P turns to . . . a print 'zine
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January 16, 2007Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune
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December 20, 20052005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.
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December 30, 2003Film
October 14, 2003Schumacher and Grisham both found guilty as charged in crime-drama-cliché festivals
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October 14, 2003Theater
February 25, 2003From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays
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September 3, 2002Young Directors Take Charge
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May 28, 2002Theater
January 22, 2002Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene
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