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The Great Gatsby

td-sub — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:43:14 +0000

How are we to take a death seriously when it looks like something out of a cabaret?

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Interview with A Hijacking’s Tobias Lindholm

td-sub — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:32 +0000

Waiting for Tobias Lindholm to appear for our interview in The Merrion Hotel, one can’t help but overhear his handlers furiously planning the day’s schedule. He’s in town for a screening of his solo-directorial debut, A Hijacking, being shown that night at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, and judging read more...

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Entry Level: Ludwig Wittgenstein

td-sub — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:30:25 +0000

Ludwig Wittgenstein had a mad, mad life. Behind his austere face and penetrating glare, one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable minds endured a harrowing life of upheaval and dissatisfaction, all while over-turning the philosophical world not once but twice. Born into Viennese high-society in the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s pomp, read more...

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A Hand-Drawn Dublin Diary: Week 1

td-editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:50:34 +0000

We’ve got a very talented French illustrator spending the summer with us. Rather than have her scribbling portraits of Wavves for an article you’re not even going to read, we’ve set her to documenting her time in Dublin in a series of illustrations. Dublin: this is what we look like read more...

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Interview: Evan Roth

td-editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:50:51 +0000

Draw a triangle with the co-ordinates hacktivism, interactive art and gif mashups, and the zone created is where Evan Roth calls home. Having recently coloured Dublin's streets with the Science Gallery's Propulsion Paintings workshop, Roth returns for a collaborative show with found material artist Constant Dullaart for GLITCH.

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Deep In The Game: Not The RTE Guide

td-editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:20:01 +0000

@yourRTEGuide is a world leader in making pithy remarks about real or imaginary Irish TV as if it were the actual RTE Guide. We talk to founder Alan Maguire

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Review – Making Lemonade @The New Theatre

td-editor — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:47:50 +0000

The newly formed Twisted Peasant Productions are hoping to firmly establish their reputation with Making Lemonade, a one-woman show set to highlight the prominence of gun culture within the city. The brainchild of Sylvia Beatley, Making Lemonade is an hour-long, one-woman show. Though sometimes making for uncomfortable viewing (tip: don’t read more...

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Hack the Oceans

td-editor — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:21:46 +0000

The work produced within the narrow confines of the Hacklab, which teeters on the corner of Fenian St and Westland Row, lies somewhere in the hazy ether between art and science. It’s a space where despite (or perhaps because of) the technical anarchy that hacking meets DIY, as designers tinker with read more...

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7 Inches: Subject

td-editor — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:27:39 +0000

Twisted Pepper’s native deep house, disco and techno night Subject hits its big sixth birthday this month. With a history of impeccable bookings (including the Belleville Three, Shed and Levon Vincent), the monthly club shows no signs of greying hairs just yet. Here are honcho Ro Hayes’ seven deepest cuts read more...

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Interview: Critic Brian Dillon

td-editor — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:13:38 +0000

Cabinet editor, essayist and fiction writer on art and charlatanry.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

td-sub — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:44:21 +0000

There are a few breaks for plot, wobbly-eyed bonding and nerd-centric chortling, but not many.

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The Place Beyond the Pines

td-sub — Fri, 10 May 2013 23:38:42 +0000

Through some foliage dreamily.

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Freshly Squeezed

td-sub — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:42:03 +0000

The Freshly Squeezed Film Festival, now in its second year, showcases short films by students from around the world. This year’s event is being held on Sunday, May 12th at the Sugar Club, from 11am till 9:30pm. Entry is free. Guest speakers include Neasa Hardiman, who has worked as a read more...

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Gleaming The Cube: Ave & Dill leave Alien Workshop

td-sub — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:21:42 +0000

If AVE and Dill ARE Alien Workshop, and AVE and Dill LEAVE Alien Workshop, where does that leave Alien Workshop? And what about AVE and Dill?

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The Best Sandwiches In Dublin

td-editor — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:18 +0000

We are a nation of sandwich eaters, as deli counters everywhere from Grafton Street to Dingle will attest. Every cafe, counter and hatch does its own variation, with ingredients ranging from withered ham to slow-roasted pork and from slathered mayo to lemon basil aioli. But which is the best? Is that too personal a question, or is there an answer?

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Gleaming The Cube: Dork tricks are back

td-sub — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:46:33 +0000

Faced with the unstoppable force of Californian skatepark babies with unbeatable technical skills, pros are turning to the dorky tricks of the past to stay ahead.

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Street Style: Camden Street

td-editor — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:02:59 +0000

We talk to the veterans and rookies, the fruit-sellers and Mac-fixers, the who's who of Camden Street to get to the bottom of one of Dublin's favourite districts.

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Dripping Wax: The Knife, Majical Cloudz, Phoenix and Pharmakon

td-editor — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:48:58 +0000

Our new music review considers life post-gender and post-JLS.

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Gleaming The Cube: Gravette, the internet and how to be a pro

td-sub — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:00:36 +0000

According to David Gravette, "in skateboarding, you’re hurting yourself by choosing not to spend more time stuck behind a computer." How depressed should we be?

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Deep In The Game: Clive Martin from Vice

td-editor — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:19:27 +0000

Vice UK's Clive Martin on subcultures, bitter commenters from Yorkshire and the insight A Question of Sport gives into the British psyche.

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