Arts & Music
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Halloween MakeUp Madness
We all know that girls love doing their make up on a daily basis, but the Halloween season allows us to get a bit more creative with the makeup brushes to create the perfect look. Makeup artists around the country have…
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’71 Review
’71 is a war film about a British soldier in Belfast during the troubles left behind on a routine mission gone awry. He’s stranded and is trying, for the entire film, to get back to his barracks. ’71 adds a fresh perspective on…
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Rathmines gallery highlights Japanese problems
The Mart Gallery in Rathmines is currently hosting an exhibition by German based film-makers Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani. The show features two short visual pieces, both set a million miles from Dublin in Japan, but in the words of the organisers, “The…
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One4All Launch Gift Card Competition
One4All, the multi outlet gift card company, has launched its annual Design a Card Competition for the third year in a row. The competition is open to all budding artists and designers, in which they are required to design a cover for the new One4All…
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Will the real comic please stand-up?
We Irish are usually typecast as a rowdy, drunken bunch with good anecdotes and generally fun to be around. Not the worst stereotype out there, not by a long shot! Would you rather be identified as loud-mouthed, fat and stupid or unhygienic with…
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Top 5 Quentin Tarantino Movies
5. Inglourious Basterds (2009) Classic Tarantino, this ultraviolent World War 2 romp about an elite squad of Jewish-American soldiers hunting Nazis was met with mixed reviews upon release. However, the film remains one of Tarantino’s most popular pictures. Why is it in the…
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Keeping warm in Dublins Winter
With the cold spell set to stay for another while yet, the city took to the streets of Dublin to find out how you are keeping warm this winter. Credits: Photography: Stephanie Quilligan & Niamh Casey Voice recordings: Stephanie Quilligan Production: Graham Barry
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The 5 worst Christmas songs in the history of forever. Ever.
Christmas songs are like marmalade; you either love them or hate them. Many Christmas songs are undeniably very good songs ( ‘Let it Snow’ The Rat Pack, ‘Little Drummer Boy’ famously performed by David Bowie and Bing Crosby in 1977 and ‘Driving Home…
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Colin Farrell: TV Crime Boss?
Rumours have been rife in the Irish media for a long time that RTÉ’s top crime drama “Love/Hate” is set to be remade by the US market. Last week, the Irish Daily Star reported that if the series were to go ahead, Colin…
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An artist’s conception: Francis Bacon’s studio
Last week, Francis Bacon’s triptych of painter and peer Lucian Freud sold at Christie’s auction house in New York for an astounding $142.4m dollars (€105.8m), breaking the previously held record for most paid for a painting at an auction, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,”…
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