Daily Archives: March 4, 2010

Calling All Musicians

  By Rob Cumiskey | March 4, 2010 - 8:15 pm | Events, Music, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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Just wanted to point the good folk at Culch towards a very interesting press release that went out today. I’m involved with the Science Gallery on their new flagship project, Biorhythm and there’s an open call for artists of all disciplines to submit a proposal for consideration. So, if you’re an experimental musician, musical neuroscientist, sound artist, cyborg performer, dance-floor divs and harmonic engineers or just somebody with great ideas or a passion for music and science, I’d suggest you have a think about this or even just spread the word to someone that you think would be interested.

Leap Year: the positive spin

  By bngr | March 4, 2010 - 6:01 pm | The Culch
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Okay, okay, practically everything Allan said here is true (Allan’s post comes with spoiler alert ). But all films need to be seen in context, and in context, this film isn’t half bad. Here are some reasons to go see it: If you’re a girl and you like rom coms you’ll enjoy it. It’s not of Pretty Woman standard but its a good middle of the road in the rom com genre. If you’ve seen PS I Love You, think of Leap Year as Bertie while PS I Love You is Haughey & Lowry combined. Taken in the context of PS I Love You’s atrocious accents, Oirish twee and underwehealming story; the lapses in geography and accent and the level of cheese in Leap Year are a trifle. Matthew Goode does a fairly good accent overall, way better than the likes of Pierce Brosnan. It’s got Amy Adams in it. … There’s more →

Your Focus Needs More Focus

  By Darren Byrne | March 4, 2010 - 3:32 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Oh for crying out loud, why would they make this movie. Here’s the new trailer for The Karate Kid remake: The official blurb says: In Columbia Pictures’ The Karate Kid, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has taken them to China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying, but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, and kung fu prodigy, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts “the karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and skill, but maturity … There’s more →

Broken Spine #22 - Unbroken Spine

  By Ronan | March 4, 2010 - 2:13 pm | Books, Featured Post
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Something different for this instalment of Broken Spine. As you may have read, today is World Book Day, a celebration of reading. A lot of us are avid readers, and make our way through many books each month. However, with so many books out there, it’s hard to find the right ones. Previous editions of Broken Spine have tried to point you in the direction, but for Broken Spine #22, I asked the twitter masses for their opinions on books to avoid, so called #crapbooks. Twitter had plenty of suggestions, but I’ll start off with my own, which set the ball rolling. The worst book I’ve read recently, and one to definitely avoid is Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea. It sold more than 800,000 copies in the UK, and was a big seller in America too; something which did nothing to help cancel out those stereotypes O’Connor tries to … There’s more →

Dublin’s first Literary Death Match

  By Anto | March 4, 2010 - 9:30 am | Books, Events, The Culch
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Fancy an evening listening to the sharpened words of some of Dublin’s writers? The Literary Death Match is coming to the Sugar Club tomorrow night (5th). Literary entities (magazines, publishers, etc.) are invited to send their most electric writer to represent them on the evening. Dublin’s first Death match will feature award-winning fiction writer and poet Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Stinging Fly‘s hand-picked reader-representative Colm Liddy, scribe Brian O’Connell (author of Wasted: A Sober Journey Through Drunken Ireland) and spoken-word brillianteur Marty Mulligan. There’s a seven minute time limit per reader, three all-star judges reeling off jovial critique and a goofball finale to decide the winner.Where & When: The Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street Doors: 7:30, show at 9:15 (sharp), afterparty: 11 p.m on. Cost: €6 preorder; €9 at the door; €6 with a valid student ID.