July 26th, 2010
Carlsberg’s Comedy Carnival at the Iveagh Gardens drew to a close last night after four days of sunshine and laughter and we (myself and Eoin (Pluincee)) put together an A to Z of the festival as a reminder for those who were there and a taste of what you missed to encourage you to go [...]
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July 9th, 2010
Heard anything about a vampire and a teenage girl lately? If your first thought was for Buffy Summers and not Bella Swan then you’re ever so slightly out of the loop. There’s a new couple in town (that town being Forks, Washington) and they’re on to their third movie, out this weekend, so read on [...]
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June 16th, 2010
If you haven’t heard about 1 Day for Rehab that may be because we haven’t told you about it yet (not that we’d like to think of ourselves as the only news source in the world or anything). Luckily, you still have plenty of time to pick out an event (or events) to attend because [...]
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June 9th, 2010
**Competition Closed – Winners will be contacted** Summertime and the living is easy…local towns and villages are coming up trumps with the usual round of summer festivals and this year there’s a brand spanking new one to add to the calendar. Hold onto your hats, I’m about to sing the praises of one of them [...]
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May 25th, 2010
**Competition Closed. Winners will be contacted** He’s a trickster, a fast talker and an entertainer (whether you can bring yourself to believe in his talents or not) and Keith Barry is bringing his new show, The Asylum, to the Olympia Theatre next month. It kicks off for a 20-night run on June 30th and [...]
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May 19th, 2010
Have you been watching Storyland? Do you know what it is, come to that? For the uninitiated, Storyland is an RTÉ project where filmmakers produce web-based shows and the public get to vote in the online poll for their favourite. Each round, the show with the least number of votes has to wrap up production [...]
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May 12th, 2010
After the success of Culch.ie’s first big event, our screening of Groundhog Day in February, we’re back with another excuse for a party. Our little island may not excel at much. We’ve never been to the moon or won the World Cup but scholars and singers we are and if there’s one thing they can’t [...]
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May 6th, 2010
***Competition Closed. Winners will be contacted *** Ripped newspaper, smashed CDs, insistent energy and 80s beats don’t begin to sum up the frantic joyride that is THEATREclub Stole Your CLOCK RADIO what the F**K you gonna do about it? which is currently running at The Project in Temple Bar.
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April 24th, 2010
The radio told me so it must be true…YouTube is five years old this year. The source of the answer to ‘what way did that one go again?’ and the balm for all nostalgic urges to watch retro tv and old ads from when we were young as well as the provider of many a [...]
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April 8th, 2010
**Competition Closed** Congrats Lottie and Davin. Irish Grub In A Mug, a gift book hot off the presses at Gill & MacMillan in the last few weeks, made it’s way into Team Culch’s hands recently. It’s a dinky wee thing that doubles as a fridge magnet with ten recipes for Irish dishes that can be [...]
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April 1st, 2010
Here’s the confession… Not much of a confession since you’ve presumably read the title of the post already. Ladies and Gentlemen – I love Garth Brooks. I own his CDs, I sing them very loudly in my car. I give dirty looks to people who went to his Irish concerts in the 90s when I [...]
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March 29th, 2010
I missed Culch.ie being honoured by the Irish blogging community as Best Pop Culture Blog at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night because I was upstairs fixing my hair (true story). I’m sorry I missed it because I figure it’s a damn good feeling to be validated by the other people who share your [...]
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March 25th, 2010
Do you like chocolate? Do you like receiving chocolate as a gift from others? Do you like adding ‘tw’ to the start of a word to make it twitter-fabulous? Well, Tweaster Sunday may be the event for you.
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March 24th, 2010
“I’m not being friends with you anymore if you don’t like it,” I said to the +1 while we were sitting on the bench outside Axis having our dinner*. I’m doing a line in shallow threats at the moment. Little Gem is the sort of play you could watch again and again. I say that [...]
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March 22nd, 2010
Ever had a tipsy conversation about who was right – Collins or de Valera? (No, just me?) Ever thought to yourself ‘that Adi Roche, she’s the greatest woman in Ireland’? Well RTÉ are looking for Ireland’s Greatest (living or dead) and via face-to-face interview with 1,000 people (conducted by MRBI, they didn’t send Patrick McDonnell [...]
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