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Dublin (Ireland)

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    Why Irish (Ex-Scientologist) Eyes are Smiling

    We 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 >>

  • Film

    December 21, 2011

    Albert Nobbs

    We 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 21, 2011

    LUCK OF THE IRISH

    The hit indie film Once moves Off-Broadway

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Once Gets A Second Go-'Round

    Once 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Is It Raining? Handy Website Will Tell You!

    Are 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.

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Celebrate Bloomsday in NYC, Get Drunk For Free

    ​James 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    'LCD Soundsystem Preparty Presents Shit Robot+the Juan Maclean'

    ​James 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2011

    Will Smith Quite Persnickety When It Comes to Planes

    ​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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2011

    DO THE TWIST

    The impossible feats of Circa

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Google Alert: Google's Devilish Tax Deals Detailed in Bloomberg News Scoop

    ​The 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 >>

  • Theater

    August 25, 2010

    With Teresa Deevy's Wife to James Whelan, A Deaf Playwright Gets a Fair Hearing

    ​The 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 >>

  • Film

    July 13, 2010

    No Happily Ever After for Kids of Kisses

    ​The 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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Sanitation Department Proposes Removal of Memorial Ghost Bikes

    via BrownstonerGhost bike memorial for Liz Padilla on 5th Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn​The painted white ghost bikes stationed on street corners around the city in memory of riders who've lost their lives are an eerie reminder of our mortality, but the idea of someone removing these s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Fucked Up's Pink Eyes Naked: Infinitely More Rewarding than Lindsay Lohan Nude Pix

    Santiago Felipe​When 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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2010

    Donnybrook's Irish Fish Pie and Smoked Salmon

    ​From 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2010

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    ​From 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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Airline Might Charge For Bathroom Visits!

    ​Spirit 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!

  • Art

    March 24, 2010

    Spring Guide: Grúpat's Irish Oddballs Swoop Into the Chelsea Art Museum

    ​Spirit 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!

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2010

    I Saw Butterfly Explosion at SXSW and They Are Not a Band of Hippies

    Shoegazer shoes Butterfly Explosion 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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    John Keogh of Amity Hall Talks Beer, Jager Bombs & Being Irish on St. Paddy's Day

    John 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 23, 2010

    St. Patrick’s Weekend Irish New York Walking Tour

    John 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 >>

  • Film

    January 5, 2010

    Leap Year, Perfect for that Mother-Daughter Matinee

    John 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    John 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2009

    STREET SMARTS

    Sebastian Barry’s The Pride of Parnell Street

  • Voice Choices

    February 11, 2009

    THE LONG REHEARSAL

    Frank McGuinness's Gates of Gold

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    MISERY LOVES COMPANY

    Ralph Fiennes, and Liam Neeson, and Barry McGovern interprettake on Beckett

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    SILENCE IS GOLDEN

    3epkano provides the soundtrack to a silent-film classic

  • Voice Choices

    May 20, 2008

    STRANGE LOVE

    At Oedipus’s house, mixed grill and incest are on the menu

  • Theater

    November 27, 2007

    Male Deliveries

    The Pearl polishes up a Restoration gem; Germans at BAM stifle a masterpiece

  • Music

    November 20, 2007

    Start the Presses

    Searching for the cutting edge in DIY discourse, Todd P turns to . . . a print 'zine

  • Film

    January 16, 2007

    The Music Men

    Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

  • NYC Life

    December 20, 2005

    So Over

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • NYC Life

    May 3, 2005

    Yin-Yang on the Bowery; Good Drinks and Yummy Eats Too

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • Art

    January 18, 2005

    Art

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • Books

    August 24, 2004

    Ousted From the Family Mansion? Get Your Lid Hand Ready!

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • News

    May 25, 2004

    Say What?

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • Film

    March 9, 2004

    Grime and Punishment: Irish Thriller Takes a Bathroom Break

    2005 is a blur; Tha Pumpsta, Goldfrapp, Gang of Four recap it.

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Bookstores

    Tomes, Sweet Tomes

  • Film

    October 14, 2003

    The Martyr They Come

    Schumacher and Grisham both found guilty as charged in crime-drama-cliché festivals

  • NYC Life

    October 14, 2003

    A Bit o' New York

    Schumacher and Grisham both found guilty as charged in crime-drama-cliché festivals

  • Theater

    February 25, 2003

    Irish Lives and Livers

    From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays

  • Theater

    November 5, 2002

    Forward in Reverse

    From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays

  • NYC Life

    October 29, 2002

    Listings

    From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays

  • Theater

    October 15, 2002

    To Eire Is Human

    From Opposite Sides of a Small Island, Two Small Sad Plays

  • NYC Life

    September 3, 2002

    Rallying the Troupes

    Young Directors Take Charge

  • Theater

    May 28, 2002

    Theater

    Young Directors Take Charge

  • Theater

    January 22, 2002

    Tom Murphy’s Eire Force

    Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene

  • Theater

    November 9, 1999

    Momentary Musicals

    Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene

  • Theater

    April 6, 1999

    Talking Points

    Drinking and Thinking Through the Dublin Theater Scene

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