Designing Yummy Mummy Mecca

The story of a man who sees the world as a crepe and not a profiterole.

Perfectionism, harmony, and discord with New York’s new-wave torchbearer.

This Irish designer’s bold screen prints have appeared in Rihanna’s music video “We Found Love,” on the pages the Sunday Times Style section and as a part of Caggie Dunlop’s clothing line ISWAI. This would all seem fairly normal for a fabulous new designer, except that Cavaliere is only 16 years old.

It’s only five years since Kitsuné and Ed Banger ran the world. Fuelled by a hybrid nostalgia for rave fashion eccentricity and that exact moment disco morphed into house, French electro and its sister scenes saw a short-lived Renaissance – Justice was its Da Vinci. We’re well into the Age of Enlightment now, however, and […]

Rory Nolan embodies everything that is right about the acting profession. His passion and dedication to his craft shines through with every word that he speaks, and though he has achieved great success as an actor, he is not in it for the money. Since graduating from the Gaiety School of Acting in 2003, he […]

JDIFF 2011 The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is nearly upon us, running from the 17th to the 27th of this month and boasting a wide range of films from around the world, public interviews with art-industry luminaries and providing the Irish public with a rare opportunity to view some films which may never get […]

Our Favourite Visual Wizard On Wild Things, Jackasses and Tom and Jerry Director, writer, producer, photographer, editor, actor, artist, dancer, this man has so many roles he can’t even pin himself down. Spike Jonze is one of the most prolific people in the visual art business today. He’s 41 years old but has a trendy […]

When 18 year old Delia wins a new car in a competition, her parents are thrilled, planning to sell the car in order to open up a family business. However, things take a turn when Delia informs them that she wants to keep the car.

Looking every bit like a Jewish ‘Brokeback Mountain’, Eyes Wide Open tells the story of butcher Aaron who, after his father dies, hires a young student to help run the business with him. However, a love affair soon begins which threatens to rip their community apart.

We took a vote, and the results confirmed suspicions: the new Caribou album is the best thing ever. Infectious, viscous dance music with an unprecedented emotional depth, Swim is impressive in its self-contained otherworldliness – the minor flaws in certain songs do not deny the album’s status as a work of genius whose influence is bound […]

As if her freckled features hadn’t graced our screens enough of late, Julianne Moore is back. This time we get more of the Moore in a stony-faced ‘psychological’ thriller, emphasis on the ‘psychological’. Playing a shrink-cum-personal investigator (the kind of vague, post-Clarice Starling qualification which allows her to meddle far too often in other’s business) […]

Two years after the success of Splendor, RAW theatre company and its artistic director Rachel West are back in town with OFF PLAN, a modern adaptation of The Oresteia by Simon Doyle. Specifically referring to the Ireland we live in today, it preserves the main characters and dilemmas, while exploring the eternal themes of power […]

Marcel Dettmann is a busy man. On top of maintaining a residency at Berlin’s infamous Berghain nightclub for over a decade, he holds down a regular job at seminal vinyl emporium Hardwax. Although he has been Djing for over fifteen years, his first release made an appearance in 2006, a move that saw his career […]

In 1996 Shawn Corey Carter emerged as a rapper and a promising lyricist. Now, 13 years on, Jay-Z is a platinum selling artist with more numbers ones than Elvis. But not only that – he is record company mogul with his own Roc-A-Fella label, and Universal subsidiary Def Jam, he is behind an expanding clothing […]

Stupid Peter Hook. What did he ever do for New Order? Sure, he had a COUPLE of sweet basslines. And yeah, maybe he gave an otherwise clean-cut and sappy band a little bit of comedic grizzle and growl. And sure, he wasn’t the one that sympathized with the Nazis. But we all know Bernard Sumner’s […]

An experimental theatre company known for presenting its productions in a unique and alternative way, the Performance Corporation’s latest interactive experience Power Point to be debuted at the Dublin Fringe Festival appears to be no exception. Lisa Lambe stars as business executive Jill, the hostess of a business seminar that goes disastrously wrong. You’ve worked […]

It’s the journalistic requisite to list off the Talmud-length CV of Nico Muhly when introducing him to friends, readers, and innocent bystanders. Take your pick: his eclectic, venerable albums Speaks Volumes and Mothertongue, the shiver-inducing soundtrack to The Reader, arrangements for Bjork, Antony and the Johnsons and Grizzly Bear, a blog dedication as impressive as […]