Frank Turner has made a name for himself by playing small venues around the clock and around the globe. His solo tour lands him at Dublin’s Whelan’s, but this time he’s come with more baggage than before. He’s now played at the Olympic opening ceremony in London, headlined the Wembley […]

Since its reboot in 2005, Doctor Who’s become a global phenomenon that led to multiple spin-offs, such as Torchwood or Sarah Jane’s Adventures, and it might deserve some credit for the rising popularity of all things British in the hard-to-crack America. Thanks to the inspired new rendering of the favoured […]

When we talk about the Second World War and the Holocaust, we sometimes go into hypothesis. What if the Allies and the rest of the world were aware of the scale of the atrocities carried out by the Nazi regime? Would they have invaded sooner? Would they have been able […]

In its wider weaning, elements of naïve art may be traced all the way back to prehistoric cave paintings. Elements of a style that is defined by painters who never went through formal academic education and display childlike “innocence” in their work can be found in a five-year-old’s drawing on […]

You might have heard of Gatz, the somewhat infamous eight-hour play that’s had a month long run in the West End as part of the London International Festival of Theatre this summer at the Noel Coward Theatre. The fact of it lasting eight hours usually makes an impression and sometimes generates curiosity. […]

  A day cannot be bad when you’re woken up with Franz Ferdinand’s Ulysses in full swing at half nine in the morning. This accidental alarm clock makes the few days camping in Zagreb’s scorching heat all worthwhile. It is the seventh year of the INmusic Festival held at lake Jarun on the […]

One evening a friend and I were having after work drinks at a bar and when my friend excused herself to go to the ladies’ room, I tried to occupy myself, doing my best not to look a little lonely. This unease at perceived solitary public drinking probably originates from […]