Cinema review: Gone Girl

Films Reviews Mon, Oct 06, 2014

GILLIAN FLYNN’S 2012 best-seller Gone Girl was just waiting to be made into a movie. It is so well constructed with twists and revelations coming fast and frequent you could smell the popcorn popping with each chapter. The concern for book readers was, who is going to make a story of two unsympathetic, spoiled, and frankly unlikable, millennials into a mainstream Hollywood movie without losing its dark originality?

Everyone can be a Trickster

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

THE BLACK Box Theatre will boom with all kinds of dark and surprising sounds that will make for an awe-inspiring musical experience when Trickster is performed there next weekend.

Ciarán Walsh - going Beyond Other Voices

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GALWAY ARTS Centre will hold the first major Irish exhibition of the work of Ciarán Walsh, Beyond Other Voices, an exploration into personal and collective memory, the uncanny, and allegorical science-fiction.

ROCKtoberfest - the new Galway music festival

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GERMANY’S OKTOBERFEST celebrates beer, but Galway’s latest addition to the festival calendar - ROCKtoberfest - will celebrate music.

The Gombeens - reliving stories of ‘Little Brazil’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FOR A number of years Gort in south Galway, was known as ‘Little Brazil’ due to the numbers of Brazilians who were living there - and their stories are set to be retold in Stories Of A Yellow Town.

Films From The Southern Mediterranean

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FROM ISRAEL to Morocco, Galway audiences will get a chance to experience life through the lens of Southern Mediterranean film-makers this weekend.

Exploring the life of Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

THE LIFE and music of folk titans Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger will be explored at an event taking place in Clarinbridge this weekend.

DVD Review - Introducing Morrissey

Music Reviews Thu, Oct 02, 2014

MORRISSEY’S SOLO career could be characterised as a three act play, with a dramatic opening, a sagging middle section, and a triumphant - and still ongoing - third act.

New season of world cinema for Indreabhán

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

SWEDISH FILM We Are The Best kickstarts Club Scannán Sailearna’s world cinema screenings in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.

Auditions for Anything Goes

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GALWAY MUSICAL Society celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015 and will mark this milestone with a production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Hilary Woods’ first Galway solo gig

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

A LONG time ago, in an Ireland far, far away - the Celtic Tiger noughties to be exact - Hilary Woods was the bassist in JJ72.

Exploring the energies of nature

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

ENERGIES OF light and darkness, of good and evil, and the energies that animate nature, or at least seem to, are explored in a new series of paintings by Denise Hogan.

Sarah Clancy - Galway’s wandering minstrel

Literature Reviews Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FOR THOSE who have seen Sarah Clancy recite her poetry, the title of her latest collection, The Truth & Other Stories, published by Salmon, will come as no surprise.

Baboró ambassador - Aoibheann McNamara

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

This year’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children celebrates its18th birthday and runs from October 11 – 19. For the next few weeks we will hear from Baboró enthusiasts about why they are proud to be Baboró ambassadors. This week, Aoibheann McNamara…

The Eskies to bring Musical Mayhem to Monroe’s

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FROM SEA-soaked waltzes to Italian tarantella to brassy funeral march laments to Klezmer knees-up The Eskies do it all, and they bring theri eclectic approach to folk music to Musical Mayhem at Monroe’s Live this Friday October 3 at 9pm.

Augé and Ramsell’s ‘difficult second albums’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

IN THE way he presents his work at readings, Billy Ramsell has much in common with other poets who have emerged from the spoken end of the poetry spectrum during the past decade.

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in concert

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

ONE OF the greatest contemporary cellists, Daniel Müller-Schott, will join The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Alan Burivayev, for a concert in Leisureland, Salthill, on Thursday October 9 at 8pm.

Dott - catch them while you can

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

THE BRILLIANT Galway indie-pop/garage rock quartet Dott are about to head to New York to play the CMJ Festival, but not before a hometown gig.

Cyril Hahn to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

CYRIL HAHN, the DJ who made his name with his reworking of Destiny’s Child’s ‘Say My Name’ which hit No 1 on Hype Machine, is in Galway.

Free concerts from ConTempo

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

THE CONTEMPO Quartet will perform two free lunchtime concerts next week, one in Portumna and the other in Galway city.

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