Genuinely funny Gervais vehicle is surprisingly heartwarming

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

GHOST TOWN initially looks like an awkward proposition. Ricky Gervais stars alongside Greg Kinnear in what looks suspiciously like a romantic comedy.

A sugary sweet farewell to our favourite high schoolers

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

FOR THOSE who have been living in a massive bubble and have not heard of the High School Musical films, a little explanation is necessary before stepping into the theatre.

What Liam Neeson and Susan Sarandon think of home

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

HOME, A thought-provoking documentary, exploring the meaning of ‘home’ for someone living abroad, will be screened in the Station House Cinema in Clifden on Friday November 7 at 8pm.

Win Tommy Tiernan’s Bovinity DVD

Thu, Oct 30, 2008

BOVINITY, THE new DVD from Tommy Tiernan captures the comic on his outrageous recent tour of Ireland of the same name and we have six copies to give away.

The DVD features one of the three shows performed in the Marquee in Cork and highlights from shows in Castlebar, Dublin, etc. It also features subtitles in Irish and Polish.

The Spirit Of Voice and the music of Clannad’s Moya Brennan

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FROM FIRESIDE family music sessions in a little tavern in Gweedore, Co Donegal, in the 1960s and 1970s to major international success with ‘Theme From Harry’s Game’, ‘Robin (The Hooded Man)’ and ‘In A Lifetime’ in the 1980s, Clannad came a long way.

From The Chalets to Talulah Does The Hula

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

PAULA CULLEN and Caoimhe Derwin rose to prominence as the glamorous, brunette pair of ‘saucy pieces’ who fronted The Chalets. The Chalets are no more - having closed their shutters earlier this year - but the girls have not gone away. They’re back, as Talulah Does The Hula.

A ska night from Jerry Dammers @ Stress!!

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

JERRY DAMMERS, the man behind The Specials, 2-Tone, and the explosion of British ska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, will play a DJ set at Stress!!, De Burgos, on Bank Holiday Sunday at 8pm.

Galway Theatre Festival gets under way

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE FIRST Galway Theatre Festival got underway last night with Zelig Theatre Co’s premiere of Cathal Cleary’s Birds Birds Birds and continues until Sunday with a lively programme showcasing the best of local theatrical talent.

Swan Lake at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

BALLET IRELAND will celebrate its 10th anniversary by staging Swan Lake in the Town Hall Theatre from Sunday October 26 to Tuesday 28 at 8pm.

So why do men cheat?

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IN ANCIENT Rome, Julius Caesar was well known as a ‘ladies man’. Such was the great general’s inability to stay away from other men’s wives that he earned the nickname ‘the bald adulterer’.

It goes to show that infidelity among politicians, celebrities, and men (and Caesar was all three) is nothing new. Yet adultery seems to be something men are more likely to do than women. Why is this?

Josh Wink to play GPO

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Josh Wink is a DJ but he’s not interested in spinning other people’s music - he prefers creating his own, as Galway will hear when he plays the GPO, Eglinton Street, on Saturday October 25.

Erin McKeown and Steve Cooney @ Campbell’s

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FROM THE quirky, clever, songs of Erin McKeown, to the rousing, imaginative Irish trad of Steve Cooney, Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, will be bursting with great music this Halloween.

The nautical but nice sounds of Port O’Brien

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

VAN PIERSZALOWSKI was born in California, but spent his summers on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where his father works as a commercial salmon fisherman.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The house to myself, the couch to myself, a great book, a glass of wine and chocolate.

Enjoy the magic of the viola

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A BRITISH viola player, a Latvian cellist, and an Israeli pianist will join forces for Music For Galway’s Viola Magic concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday November 6 at 8pm.

Tulca returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

TULCA, GALWAY city’s festival celebrating the visual arts returns in November and to whet appetites, the programme of events for this year’s festival will be launched tonight.

Augustinian Church Choir release new album

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

“TO SING is to pray twice,” said St Augustine and whether it is through Gregorian chant or music by classical composers, God and music itself has been richly served by Christian song.

Irish Times critic to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE IRISH Times critic John Kenny will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 30 at 6.30pm.