Daily Archives: March 7, 2012

Culch Lent: We Can’t Give Up… Cooking Shows

  By willok | March 7, 2012 - 3:00 pm | Featured Post, Food, Movies & TV, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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The worrying thing with admitting to something I am unable to give up is the imbalance it reflects in my psyche. Well there is no greater imbalance in my life than my compulsion to watch cookery shows – and not just cookery shows, but repeats of them. This has spiralled to such an extent that I know the dialogue of some episodes of Nigella Bites and The Naked Chef – these shows have been given the re-run treatment ad nauseum over the years and I have been there to witness it. I cannot begin to think of the shocking quantity of hours spent watching people look for carmelisation on meat, thicken chicken stock and effortlessly feed 40 people without showing them needing to load the dishwasher afterwards. I become engrossed, TV on - it’s immediately to the cookery channels, wincing with disappointment when the +1 option is not working for … There’s more →

Game Review: SSX

  By Lisa McInerney | March 7, 2012 - 12:00 pm | Games, The Culch
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The goal of SSX – EA Canada’s reimagining of the much-adored snowboarding sugar-trip – is simple: get to the bottom of the mountain either faster than your competitors, or with more trick points than your competitors. It’s unapologetically direct. The gamer is let loose on an open world from the beginning, with no grander objective than going bigger, better, faster than on their previous run. There’s a ton of tricks, pick-ups and routes to discover, and it’s gratifying to know that for every successful run, there are five unexplored alternatives that will produce a different successful result. Its controls are a triumph, responsive enough to quickly become instinctive, so it’s a game that lends itself beautifully to the “one more go” compulsion. The competitive aspect makes up the meat of SSX, and it’s designed to be maddeningly compulsive. The game keeps track of your friends’ times and achievements, and baits … There’s more →

Exhibition: AMAZON

  By Anto | March 7, 2012 - 10:30 am | Events, Photography, The Culch
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We don’t normally feature photographic exhibitions on culch but this one is particularly notable. Sky, WWF and the Gallery of Photography have opened ‘AMAZON‘, an exhibition in aid of Sky Rainforest Rescue, featuring the work of two award-winning photographers - Sebastião Salgado and Per-Anders Pettersson. The exhibition taking place throughout March, brings together two remarkable, distinct bodies of photography, highlighting the plight of the Amazonian rainforest and the people living within it and showcasing the efforts of Sky’s Rainforest Rescue initiative, a three year partnership between Sky and WWF, that began in 2009 and aims to help save one billion trees in the state of Acre, North-West Brazil. Brazilian photographer, Sebastião Salgado presents work from his ongoing photographic essay ‘Genesis’ that began in 2004 and is due to reach completion this year. The images portray landscapes in their most pristine state, and the communities still living in them, according to … There’s more →

Trailer: Marvel’s Avengers Assemble

  By Culch.ie | March 7, 2012 - 9:00 am | The Culch
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You know what would really help you over humpday? A dash of Disney… Bitta Avenger’s anyone? Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel Avengers Assemble” is based on the Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963. It’s not here until April 26th but here’s a wee tease…