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9 Microlog entries tagged with ‘dublin’
The Ex and Brass Unbound live in Dublin
Brilliant video of their gig I missed last year. Sound & Screen ·
What novels best capture the spirit of Dublin?
Filing this for future reference. Arts & Culture ·
Junior Programmer Season at the Screen Cinema
The Screen is really becoming the kind of sassy rep house that Dublin badly needs (the IFI is great, but come on, it’s quite fuddy) and this scheme is a fantastic idea. I’d contribute myself but I’m completely paralysed by choice. Sound & Screen ·
WeatherSpark weather trends for Dublin
Fantastic site for visualising weather data over time. Also available as an app for Chrome. Interesting ·
UpStart: an alternative election poster campaign
“UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. We plan to do this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City.” Best thing to come out of this whole ridiculous situation. The poems are my favourites; better than any bullshit election manifesto. (By the way, if anyone starts a Flickr gallery of these posters, please do let me know.) Arts & Culture | 0 Comments ·
100 exciting things you didn’t know about Dublin
Some of these are a bit silly, others quite surprising. It’s part of a project tasked with reinvigorating the city centre (I hope they’ve noted the obvious points: blight in many parts creates a bad impression; and shopping/socialising options in the suburbs have improved, keeping people closer to home). Interesting ·
A history of Blunt Records
Dublin-based ’90s indie label once part-owned by the dude from Therapy?; never heard any of this stuff at the time. Sound & Screen ·
Dublin Bus Network Review
Staff and passengers alike critique the Network Direct scheme, which has done more harm than good to the city’s bus services; the timetables are really just a joke at our expense now (it’s a long thread; I’ve linked to the latest page). Interesting ·
Panic on the streets of Dublin
Good analysis from Slugger as always. I have to say, the whole thing took me by surprise. Loyalist march? In Dublin? Huh? But whatever my philosophical objections to the march, what happened in town on Saturday was a disgrace. It wasn’t a protest; it was just out-and-out criminality. I agree with the one commenter on a related post who observed of the rioting that “a few people … throw a few stones then every junkie and scumbag within a radius of ten miles arrives lookin [sic] for a mill.” That’s certainly what it looked like to me (from the comfort of my own home, admittedly). Arts & Culture ·
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