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Events: Christmas Fairs in Dublin Town

  By Culch.ie | December 7, 2011 - 12:00 pm | Fashion, Featured Post, Performance Art, The Arts, Tourism, Vintage, wantsies
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We’ve received a few press releases about upcoming Christmas fairs in the capital so here’s the rundown, if you like that sort of thing: Powerscourt Gallery Christmas Market is happening this Saturday 10th in The Powerscourt Centre on South William Street. From 12pm - 5pm they’ll have Irish arts and crafts such as handmade jewellery, Christmas stationary, handcrafted knitwear and handbags and plenty more. Christchurch Cathedral are holding their Christmas market in the 12th century crypt, with gourmet food stalls outside in the cathedral grounds. Trading is from 11am - 4pm and stalls include arts, crafts and jewellery from up-and-coming Irish designers. With free entry, the market runs Saturday 10th and 17th and all proceeds will be going toward the restoration of the belfry. Bella’s Christmas vintage and craft market takes place in The Workman’s Club this Saturday 10th, featuring JoJo Cupcakes, Some Like It Frock vintage ladies clothes, Natalie … There’s more →

Shameless Pimping: Deadly Christmas Jumpers

  By Aaron McAllorum | December 1, 2011 - 9:02 am | Fashion, Random Whimsy, The Culch, wantsies
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Today at Culch.ie we are finally allowed to use the word ‘Christmas’ without fear, punishment or forfeit and we reckon that those of you who plan to blow your November pay cheque over the next few weeks should look no further than the latest pop-up to surface in Dublin, the Deadly Christmas Jumpers store on South Anne Street. Deadly Christmas Jumpers was set up after a conversation between 2 like-minded people, Dave and Vinny. The duo have come up with traditional non-traditional Christmas garments. Gone are the days of having to fork out €50 on an ill-fitting, itchy-back-causing wooly jumper - replaced now with breezy butter-soft cotton t-shirts and hoodies. All the designs and concepts were created by a talented young scamp of a graphic designer (to help protect his identity I will use the every reliable method of spelling his name backwards, “Nioe”) All of Nioe’s prints are original … There’s more →

Events: SCOOP Up Some Money-Can’t-Buy Presents at the Better Than Socks Christmas Auction

  By Sinead Keogh | November 18, 2011 - 11:50 am | Events, Fashion, Kids, Random Whimsy, Vintage, wantsies
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On Friday December 2nd, Powerscourt Townhouse Centre will be venue for the first SCOOP Foundation auction. SCOOP helps kids living in poverty and the auction will act as a fundraiser for their activities. It’ll also give you the chance to get your hands on some unlikely and inventive Christmas presents like a walk on part in Fair City, a chance to ring the bells in Christchurch Cathedral, swing lessons in your sitting room and plenty more. The €10 entry fee for the evening will get you a bidding paddle, a glass of wine, a cloakroom ticket, a lot brochure and entry to a raffle. If you’re lucky enough to make a successful bid, then the new owner of each great lot will be given a beautifully designed ‘SCOOPon’, which they can give to the lucky recipient of their Better Than Socks gift, explaining how the present came about and where the … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: The Ultimate Girls Day Out

  By Sinead Keogh | August 8, 2011 - 9:34 am | Competitions, Events, Fashion, Featured Post, Photography, wantsies
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***COMPETITION CLOSED. WINNERS HAVE BEEN CONTACTED*** Attention lady Culch readers (and gentleman Culch readers, we won’t judge). The fine people behind The Ultimate Girls Day Out have given us some tickets to disperse amongst our masses. What’s the Ultimate Girls Day Out says you? It’s only this thing here… “The Ultimate Girls Day Out is back! The RDS will be the setting for another exciting three day pampering, fashion, beauty and lifestyle event from the 26th August to 28th August. This year there will be more amazing catwalk shows offering the latest looks as well as your favourite beauty and fashion brands and the Smart Girls Zone where you can get practical advice, career guidance as well as beauty and fashion tips. All your favourite exhibitors will be there, with the country’s best boutiques selling at special exhibition prices, and adornments galore at the Accessories Village.Come and check out the … There’s more →

Festival News: 5-course Dinner at Body & Soul

  By Sinead Keogh | May 31, 2011 - 10:12 am | Events, Festivals, Food, Music, Vintage, wantsies
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We’re just a few weeks out from the Body & Soul Festival which we all but lost the run of ourselves praising here but they’ve come up with more to impress and excite. Just announced, a five-course banquet in the woods called ‘The Queens Go Wildside’ will cater for 200 people in 4 sittings across the weekend. Costing €55, the banquet will celebrate wild Irish foods and have proper silverware, linen, bubbly and everything. How very grand. Between that and the masquerade ball we’re going to have to bring the ballgown and the full length mirror. And possibly a bigger tent. “Expect sinful decadence, heavenly indulgence, a gourmet feast of guilty pleasures delivered to perfection in an otherworldly location” they tell us. Nyom! Tables at the Queens Go Wildside banquet can be booked on Body & Soul’s website, where you can also get festival tickets for €99 for the weekend. … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Win a Nokia N8 Smartphone

  By Sinead Keogh | May 17, 2011 - 10:29 am | Competitions, wantsies
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  ***Competition Closed. Congrats to Nessa O’Mahony*** ***Edited to add: Guys, please note that as per Culch.ie’s T&Cs competitions are only open to ROI residents. A number of entries on this one have ISP addresses from outside Ireland. Unfortunately, while we’re delighted with your interest, we cannot validate these entries. If the winner provides a postal address outside of ROI we will have to declare the entry invalid and choose another winner. *** Nokia and Culch.ie are delighted to offer one of our readers a chance to get their hands on the N8. Perfect for you lot (easy access to social networks as well as on-demand Web TV programmes and Ovi store apps!) it also has a very impressive camera (geek breakdown: 12 megapixels, Carl Zeiss lens, Xenon flash and a sensor to rival a point-and-shoot) and it’s described as ‘made for making’ with an in-built editing suite for making … There’s more →

Event of the Week: 16th - 22nd May

  By Sinead Keogh | May 16, 2011 - 10:11 am | Events, Gadgets, Sports, The Culch, Tourism, wantsies
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Got a taste for adventure? This week’s Culch.ie highlight is The Adventure Weekend at the RDS from Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd. Showcasing the best of Irish outdoorsy pursuits, the event will offering attendees the opportunity to try things like zip lining, zorbing, rage buggies and water walkers. Haven’t got a breeze what any of that is? Yep, neither had we. Read on. Zip lining involves being harnessed to a zip wire and zipping through the air at speed, rage buggies are off-road racers a few steps up from what Alfalfa from The Little Rascals used to punt around in (and a good bit cooler, if we’re honest), water walkers are plastic balls that allow you to run around on water (inflatable Jesusballs, as we like to know ‘em) and zorbing? Zorbing is this….

Competition CLOSED: Win A Year’s Supply of Broderick’s Bars

  By Sinead Keogh | May 10, 2011 - 11:37 am | Competitions, Food, wantsies
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***Competition Closed. Winner has been contacted*** So your celebratory Easter chocolate has probably long since run out and you could do with something sweet at the start of the week, are we right? Just as well the gang at Broderick’s Brothers want to give you a year’s supply of Broderick’s Brothers Handmade Cakes and Bars then. You might remember the Broderick’s Brothers from last year’s Apprentice, but long before they were selling their yummy wares into Spar (and on their own website, here) their mammy, Ina, set up the family business from her own kitchen and the boys got their love of homemade sweet and delicous things from there. If you’re not familiar with Rocky Road, Chocolate Brownies, Caramel Slices, Winter Slices, Belgian Chocolate Caramel Nut Bars, Tiffin Slices and Granola Slices then we reckon it’s about time you got intimately acquainted. We recommended the Winter Slice ourselves, but don’t … There’s more →

Event of the Week (27/03/11 - 03/04/11)

  By Sinead Keogh | March 27, 2011 - 9:53 am | Events, Fashion, Random Whimsy, The Culch, Vintage, wantsies
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We’re big fans of the Sugar Club at Culch.ie. They have comfy seats and there’s always something a little bit different on. Not to disappoint, on Saturday April 2nd Leeson Street’s low-lit, speakeasyesque venue will be taking on a touch of Hollywood glamour as the bi-monthly Film Fatale event features a screening Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in their tribute to Hollywood star Jane Russell. The Howard Hawks comedy sees Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe play showgirls Dorothy and Lorelai. ‘Flirtatious platinum blonde Lorelei is committed to marrying a millionaire so that love won’t be tainted by money worries, while the sharp-tongued, raven-haired Dorothy follows her heart towardsall the wrong kinds of men. With fantastically racy music numbers, this stunning Technicolor extravaganza is one of the most charmingand entertaining musicals of the 1950s.’ The screening will be followed by a themed after party with Jane and Marilyn lookalikes performing tunes from the 50s, accompanied … There’s more →

Beaut.ie Name Ireland’s 50 Fine Things

  By Sinead Keogh | March 24, 2011 - 1:24 pm | Celebs, The Culch, wantsies
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We know they’re cooler than us, with their buke and their ultracool internet status symbol of being Best Blog 2010 at the IBAs last year, but we like to think of the lovely ladies over at Beaut.ie as our blogging sister ship (right, fine, we’re a dinghy, we know). We’re also big fans of their annual search for Ireland’s Fifty Fine Things, the results of which was released on Paddy’s Day. Being the dedicated Irish revellers / IBA attenders / sofa dwellers that we are we’ve only got around to ogling the 50 gentlemen who made the cut today, but we’re mighty glad we made the time. Included on the list are Ray D’Arcy, Gordon D’Arcy (no relation), Domhnaill Gleeson, Ryan Tubridy (it’s not just me!) and Paul Galvin along with more obvious names like Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy. If you want to take a look at … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Between the Canals at the IFI

  By Sinead Keogh | March 15, 2011 - 10:35 am | Competitions, Events, Movies & TV, wantsies
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***Competition Closed: Winners Will Be Contacted*** Dublin movie Between the Canals has its exclusive opening at the Irish Film Institute this week (March 18th) and to celebrate, they’re offering 2 Culch.ie readers a pair of tickets each to any screening of the film from March 19th to 24th. Between the Canals is Mark O’Connor’s debut feature film and follows three small-time criminals from Dublin’s north inner city as they each aspire to be somebody in a fast-changing society. It’s been described as ‘A heart-breaking and occasionally hilarious story of loyalty, duty and masculinity…’ To win, answer the following question: The film, Between the Canals, is set between which 2 canals in Dublin? Click here for a hint. Email your answer to [email protected] by Thursday March 17th at 5pm. Best of luck! If you don’t win and you still want to check it out, tickets are available from the IFI Box Office 01 679 3477 … There’s more →

Leccy Piccy ’11: The Line-up

  By Neil | March 11, 2011 - 10:48 am | Events, Festivals, Gigs, Music, wantsies
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Continuing the round of festival-related news in these parts, the leccy piccy line-up announcement at POD yesterday. Here’s the festival booking manager talking about the music weekend that put Stradbally on the map: Electric Picnic’s patronising tone of recent years - charging exorborant ticket prices and consistently repelling arguments about lack of musical quality by repeating the now-formulaic ‘it’s all about the atmosphere’ and listing out the festival awards won that year - has come to an end. There can be no complaints this year. Headliners Arcade Fire, Interpol, PJ Harvey, Chemical Brothers and the massive coup that is Pulp, are worthy of a ticket prices alone.Garnish these off with sheer quality mid-afternoon “dragging your friend out of a ditch” background music of Midlake, Beriut and The Walkmen. In an unprecdeneted turn for this festival, which in recent years has had no problems in dredging world music for some truly … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Double Weekend Pass for the Killruddery Film Festival

  By Sinead Keogh | March 9, 2011 - 10:30 am | Competitions, Events, The Arts, wantsies
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***Competition Closed - Congrats to Susan***   Culch.ie is teaming up with Killruddery to offer one of you lucky readers the chance to attend the 2011 Killruddery Film Festival, which takes place from Thursday 10th March until Sunday 13th March, 2011 (that’s tomorrow onward folks). The winner will receive two full weekend passes to the festival. Set in the majestic Killruddery House and Gardens in Co. Wicklow, the 2011 festival remains committed to the goal of bringing lost, overlooked and forgotten cinema to Irish audiences. Now in its third year, music will once again be a strong feature of this year’s Killruddery line-up, along with an expanded focus on Irish material, including a close look at the New York based Kalem Film Company, producers of the first fiction films in Ireland.

Body & Soul 2011 Line-Up: Summer’s Comin’, Wahooo!

  By Sinead Keogh | March 5, 2011 - 11:24 am | Events, Featured Post, Festivals, Gigs, Music, Performance Art, wantsies
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Teamsters, I’m old. Not actually old, at a sprightly 23 and still with all my own teeth I’ll have you know, but brain-old. I like tea and cardigans and older men, none of them in an ironic or hipster sense. I’m no longer very good at coping with the filth factor of going to Oxegen (literal filth, I’m not particularly bothered by hawt action two tents over or anything like that). I like my Electric Picnic it’s gotta be said, I’ll be havin’ a bit of that. But I want my cheap, laid-back, festival-with-a-difference and damn if those guys over at Body&Soul aren’t going to give it to us (me - whoever, it’s not always about syntax). Sit up and pay attention, there will be an Indie quiz (pop quiz, indie quiz - see what I did there?). Body&Soul is back for a second year after it’s inaugural 2010 festival … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Gnomeo and Juliet

  By Sinead Keogh | February 15, 2011 - 9:24 am | Comedy, Competitions, Gadgets, Random Whimsy, wantsies
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***COMPETITION CLOSED - Congratulations to Peter, Kerrie, Barbara, Cian, Karen, Val, Leann, ilovelife, Gerry Brett, Edward Curtin, Josephine M and Danny*** “Two households, both alike in gnomery, in fair veranda where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break new pottery…” [I just made that up, but I really HOPE that's how this thing plays out]. I’ll be honest, I haven’t seen it yet, but it seems all kinds of charming. Garden gnomes taking on the tale of Romeo and Juliet, ‘ol Shakey’s finest, what’s not to love? Well, I am a tad worried that it will all end in gnomey bloodshed and garden ornaments topping themselves with the garden shears if it’s a reboot in the true sense of the word, but the lovely Red Lemonade’s review, if you haven’t read it yet, suggests that Gnomeo and Juliet is a fine and fun way to pass an hour or … There’s more →