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DELICATE BOSSA Nova, flamboyant flamenco, fiery rhythms, and electronic beats will be the order of the day when Polish-Spanish singer Magda Navarrete plays Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Sunday November 6 at 8pm.

Colombia’s 40-year internal armed conflict has resulted in widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Trocaire has revealed that Westmeath people place gifts for the developing world at the top of their Christmas shopping lists, spending €36,421 on Trocaire’s Christmas gifts last year.

If there was ever a time when business was business and the arts were — well, just messing around, enjoying oneself, it’s not now, and it’s certainly not in Galway.

At the age of 18 American comedian Doug Stanhope left his suburban home outside Boston behind and travelled to Los Angeles to become rich and famous. He appeared in a number of TV movies and uncredited extra roles and eventually he left acting behind to pursue a lucrative career in telemarketing. After breaking up with his then girlfriend Doug decided that the only road open to him was the world of stand-up comedy and in 1995 he won the San Francisco comedy competition. Throughout his career Stanhope has been somewhat controversial and in recent years has toured with a bunch of comics under the banner of The Unbookables. He has upset the sensibilities of the booking agents at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Edinburgh Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. Stanhope makes his way to Galway on Wednesday September 3 to play The Laughter Lounge at Roisin Dubh.

CÚIRT 2009 is now in full swing and one of the highlights still to look forward to is the reading, this Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 1pm, by Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.

Exposed bra straps may be a sartorial no-no for the rest of the year, but seem to become a prerequisite for sunny days.

The bra strap is this season’s must-have fashion accessory and for the month of October, for every promotional pink bra strap purchased online at www.brastraps.ie, 20 per cent will be donated to the Marie Keating Foundation. There is a choice of two pink bra straps, a pink beaded Fair Trade pair priced €49.95 and a pink diamante pair priced at €24.95, both of which come in a pretty organza bag embossed with a pink ribbon.