Daily Archives: August 16, 2011

Events: The Importance of Being Earnest

  By Culch.ie | August 16, 2011 - 11:48 am | Events, The Arts, Theatre
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Happening at site-specific locations North and South of the Liffey, you’re in for a treat no matter where you live as Core Youth Theatre are bringing their production of The Importance of Being Earnest to both Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park and Marlay House in Marlay Park. Kicking off this Saturday (20th) in Farmleigh at 2.30pm, tickets are Free of charge but are limited and must be booked in advance from www.farmleigh.ie. Following on from this, on Monday August 22nd, the production moves to Marlay House where tickets are €15 and can be purchased through the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School on (01) 2805921 with a limited amount available at the door. Wilde is always worth seeing and especially with the opportunity to catch a production in period surrounds. Recommended!

New Comedy: Lisa Joyce “Back to School”

  By Amanda | August 16, 2011 - 10:29 am | Comedy, Events, Gigs
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Lisa Joyce is an up-and-coming Irish comedian trying to make it on the comedy scene and with her comedy CV to date it seems she isn’t doing too badly at all! With comments like “A rising star” and “brilliant” under your belt along with a couple of prestigious awards you know you’re doing a good job. Lisa bounces, quite literally, onto a stage near you soon (if you live in Dublin or Galway!) with her new show “Back to School” in which she promises to bring you back to the classroom except this time you’re allowed to eat sweets supplied by Happy Pills! Go along to the gigs! Laughs guaranteed! Details oare as follows: Galway Town Hall Theatre (Studio), Courthouse Square, Galway 830pm (doors open 8.00) August 19th tickets: www.tht.ie Dublin The Twisted Pepper, Abbey Street, Dublin 1 8.30pm Show (doors open 8.00) 3rd September tickets: www.thetwistedpepper.com Tickets for both … There’s more →

Linky Li: TheBurningHouse.com

  By Sinead Keogh | August 16, 2011 - 9:01 am | Fashion, Random Whimsy, The Culch, The Internet
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While we don’t want to become known as a slaggregator (Aggregator is too good a term for what is essentially putting it about) sometimes we see things on the internet that we want to pass on. We’ve decided to preface such posts with the title ‘Linky Li’ - a vague pop culture reference, to dull the blow of the fact that we haven’t actually created any content. Cheeky bastards, us. Linky Li of the moment is TheBurningHouse.com where interneters send pictures of the items they’d save in the event of a fire. It fills us with nostalgia for Desked and makes us wonder why these people think they have a hope in hell of rounding up a dozen items without succumbing to smoke inhalation and dying on the floor surrounded by their favourite shoes, a worn out teddy and a packet of Rolos bestowed on them by their first love … There’s more →

Comedy Review: Mish Mash @ The International Bar

  By Amanda | August 16, 2011 - 9:00 am | Comedy
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The International bar is home to comedy 7 nights a week. Tuesday nights are dedicated to Mish Mash. According to the website you can expect “Comedy laissez faire with a laid-back evening of standup, sketches, songs, messing & free biccies” and I have to say it didn’t disappoint. For those of you who don’t know the International it is quite a … ahem … intimate venue. With pictures of many famous comedians adorning the walls, it does kinda feel like you dropped in for a chat and a drink to their house and they happen to be telling some jokes! This always makes for a good comedy show. Mish Mash is the baby of Andrew Stanley who has been hosting the night for 4 years. Andrew is normally joined on stage by Fred Cooke who he described as the guy from the Spar ads! Fred was missing last night as … There’s more →