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I am given a very gentle warning just moments before I walk into my interview with screen legend Jessica Lange. Having only arrived from the US the day before, she had been teaching acting masterclasses for the Galway Film Fleadh all day, and she was very, very, tired.

JEFFREY LEWIS is something of a Renaissance man - albeit in a very US indie kind of way. Raised in New York City he is a maker of comic books, tragi-comic folk narratives, and lysergic garage rock.

When we think of New York City the images that come to mind are of skyscrapers, Central Park coffee houses, Wall Street, cocktails and manolo blahnik shoes. The images of 10 gallon hats, honky tonks and tumbleweeds seem at odds with the Big Apple images but in recent years New York-native Jack Grace has changed all that. The Village Voice declared: “NYC someday will brag about its great legends of country music and among those names will be the engaging, hardworking, witty, and schmoozing and boozing Grace.” The Martini Cowboy brings his Jack Grace Band to Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Tuesday August 26.

Kilkenny’s Unity Singers are heading off on an exciting trip this St Patrick’s Day to Carnegie Hall in New York City where they will take part in a an event entitled A Great Night for the Irish.

THE REMAKE of The Women, first filmed by George Cukor in 1939 and based on the play by Clare Luce Booth, has handily been released only months after Sex in the City.

Athlone Little Theatre opens its new season in style as it presents a trio of one act comedies by Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. 

The Front Door Pub will host its annual charity FunQuiz in aid of Enable Ireland Galway on Monday night next October 20.

The Kilkenny City Mini Marathon has been launched in aid of the Carer’s Association by the Mayor of Kilkenny Pat Crotty.

JESS KLEIN and Meg Hutchinson are two American singer-songwriters who have been winning the praises of music critics these last few years and both of them play The Crane Bar, Sea Road on Thursday October 23 at 9pm.

The great summer GAA championship extravaganza is about to get underway. It starts next Sunday and will continue for 20 weeks as the football and hurling campaigns endeavour to enthrall the sporting public. From provincial to qualifier to the All-Ireland series, it promises to be a feast of exciting action all over the country as teams battle it out for the ultimate prize of winning the Sam Maguire in September. Mayo has the distinction of kicking off this year’s campaign when they play New York in the first round of the championship. Whether they will be involved at the business end of the competition is anyone’s guess at this stage? Having witnessed last Saturday’s result in Croke Park, where the complete outsiders Leinster turned in an incredible performance to beat their much fancied rivals Munster, who’s to say that a Mayo team couldn’t do something similar in this years championship? As you know the five Connacht counties play New York on a rota basis.