Daily Archives: May 14, 2010

Game Review: Alan Wake

  By Anto | May 14, 2010 - 10:20 pm | Featured Post, Games, The Culch
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Alan Wake has been coming a long time. First announced five years ago, I thought it had fallen into oblivion but got word last month that it was imminent on Xbox 360. So has it been worth the wait? By and large, yes. Alan Wake is the titular character, a writer getting away to the Pacific north-west of the US with his wife. He’s been suffering writer’s block and believes the break will do them well. Bright Falls is the destination, a sleepy town set amongst the mountains and inhabited by folks who generally haven’t left the place. After picking up the keys to their cabin, things take a turn for the worse when Alan’s wife, Alice, goes missing in the dark. Darkness is everywhere in this game as Alan struggles to figure out what’s going on, all the while being attacked by zombie-esque dark infested residents (the Taken). Alan … There’s more →

Bollywood is coming to Dublin

  By Niall | May 14, 2010 - 3:43 pm | Movies & TV, The Arts, The Culch
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Bollywood is coming to Dublin with the capital set to host the first Indian Film Festival. The festival is scheduled to run from June 25th to 28th and will open with a gala screening of renowned Indian director Prakash Jha’s latest film Raajneeti, at Swan Cinemas in Rathmines. The opening festivities will feature a charity gala dinner, at which the Indian Ambassador to Ireland, P.S. Raghavan and Bollywood star Gul Panag will be in attendance. The festival will also feature seminars from writer and expert of Indian cinema Atul Tiawari. The subject of these seminars will include Indian film history and a special on Slumdog Millionaire. The festival hopes to foster and encourage local Irish film-makers to work with Indian film-makers, for the advancement of both film cultures. Tickets for the festival can be purchased from the box office of Swan Cinemas. For more on the festival check out the … There’s more →

Kylie goes up to Eleven

  By Will | May 14, 2010 - 1:45 pm | Music
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Kylie Minogue releases her eleventh studio album, her fifth for the Parlophone label, called “Aphrodite” around July 5th. I say around because of the way the charts are calculated in Ireland, releases tend to be on the Friday. The first single, “All The Lovers” is due for release around June 13th. Parlophone put “All The Lovers” (audio only) on YouTube today. A few bits have leaked out about the album…

Queens and Ladyboys in Town Tonight

  By Darren Byrne | May 14, 2010 - 9:00 am | Comedy, Music, The Culch
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Here’s two very different nights to choose from. And I want to go to both. Remember we talked at length about Shane Langan’s brilliant Not Also But Only comedy show? Well, here’s a darker twist on that. It’s the Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus show and it runs in the Exchange Dublin tonight from 7pm. You are cordially invited to the first ever Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus night. An evening of dark and mysterious comedy from a variety of Ireland’s most talented writers, comedians and storytellers. Our first event features comedian’s Shane Langan, and Ronan Grace; Milk and Cookie Stories star storyteller Tom Rowley; journalist and humourist Cian Hallinan; writer and publisher Andrew Booth; and animation from artist Sarah Devereux, as well as several surprise guests. The event will be presented and curated by writer and comedian Gareth Stack, who’ll be performing material featured in Piranha!, Ladyboy Jesus online magazine, and the upcoming … There’s more →

Propaganda: Battle of the Radio Stations

  By Darren Byrne | May 14, 2010 - 8:31 am | Music, The Culch
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Here’s a fun event for your Saturday night, where you can see TodayFM’s Pamela Halton and Ed Smith and Phantom’s Michelle Doherty and Derek Ryan have a battle of the DJs in The Academy, Dublin. Over 10,000 people attend Propaganda club nights across the UK and Ireland every week and Propaganda plan to bring its very special audio-visual indie extravaganza to Dublin with some of the world’s biggest guest DJs. We can expect to hear all the best new and classic indie music from the likes of MGMT, The Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend, Bloc Party, La Roux, The Kaiser Chiefs and more. Propaganda has already hosted guest DJ sets from all the biggest names in indie including… Lily Allen, Zane Lowe, Vampire Weekend, Franz Ferdinand, The Fratellis and The Kaiser Chiefs, so they seem to know what they’re doing. Tomorrow night, Saturday 15th May, they play host to: “the biggest … There’s more →