Category: Review
With the news of a news ringing through our ears, there was no better way to celebrate on Labour Weekend then to get your dancing shoes on and check on the plethora of live music on offer. First stop Anika Moa! On Friday 20 October Anika Moa’s In Swings The Tide 10th Anniversary Tour stopped […]
The musical Pleasuredome is running to huge success. It’s an Andrew Lloyd Webber type extravaganza that every gay boy and girl should see. Although it is set in early 80’s New York, the relevance to today’s US political scene is obvious. The setting, in a giant warehouse in Avondale is sooo over the top! You […]
An emotionally charged novel that strikes the emotions from the outset, Tin Man by Sarah Winman is an exquisitely crafted tale of loss, loneliness and gay love. The first half is narrated by 46 year old factory worker Ellis. He tells the story of how he lost his mother, wife and his best friend Michael. […]
Everyone who’s got their ear to the pavement in the beauty world must have heard about the new face product that has been unofficially dubbed the new ‘Super Serum’, or more officially known as Snowberry’s new Intensive Renewal Face Serum. What makes this serum so special you ask? Well lucky for you, I actually have […]
Ireland’s finest contemporary writer, John Boyne, has captured our hearts again in his new novel The Heart’s Invisible Furies. The touching tale takes you on an emotional journey through Ireland over a 70-year period, taking us back to a time when being gay was not only illegal but it was also considered a mortal sin. […]
Handsome Devil director John Butler, brings us the tale of a music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school who forms an unlikely friendship in this Irish coming-of-age tale. What was the inspiration behind the film? I went to a fee-paying, rugby playing all-boys school and found it… tricky. I was gay, and I loved […]
Rice is all about the struggle. Heavy, belaboured movements that are punctuated with audible breaths and stomps play a large role in the 70-minute dance about the life cycle of rice. In a sense, the dance is a tribute to the farmers who do the backbreaking work to produce the staple of a Chinese diet, […]
In Nina George’s Little Paris Bookshop, a French bookseller believes “ a book is both medic and medicine at once, diagnosing as well as offering therapy.” On that metaphor, listening to the 20+ writers featured in the 2017 samesame but different queer writing festival was definitely a diagnosing – and therapeutic—experience. In his welcome to […]