Bananas, cream, and Nina Amazing

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

THE SECRET Is In The Banana Cream Cheese Icing is the wonderfully titled new exhibition from the Galway artist with the equally wonderful name of Nina Amazing.

New Year poetry workshops

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

IF YOU have been itching to put pen to paper and compose some verse, but are unsure about how to go about it, then check out the new classes at the Galway Arts Centre.

Cinema Review

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

HOW WAS 2010 for you? Filmwise? What were the films that excelled, the films that were just a waste of time, and those which failed to live up to all the trailer hype?

To be fair I actually struggled to find flops while looking back on some of 2010’s big movies, in general it was a very good year. In January cinema lovers were treated to a great performance by Robert Downey Jnr in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes.

The first Spaghetti Western live from New York to Galway

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

LA FANCIULLA Del West, Puccini’s 1910 opera set in the American Wild West, will be staged by The New York Metropolitan Opera and broadcast live to Galway this week.

New season of world cinema for Indreabhán

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

CLUB SCANNÁN Sailearna will host a new season of world cinema in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán.

Have a laugh in 2011 at The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

“LAUGHTER IS by definition healthy,” said the author Doris Lessing, while Lord Byron advised: “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

Ex-Oasis drummer Tony McCarroll on life inside Britpop

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

IN THE early 1990s boy band and girl band acts dominated the British and Irish charts. Take That, The Spice Girls, East 17, and Boyzone sold millions of singles and were constantly on television.

Women with dark glasses and boyos with big ideas

Thu, Jan 06, 2011

DESPITE IT’S rich tradition, which stretches from Frank O’Connor to Claire Keegan, the short story is currently Ireland’s most neglected literary genre.

Nothing to lose

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

IT WAS a quiet midday morning in Bohermore when Galway writer Ken Bruen received the call that would change his life forever. However, he was somewhat unprepared for the moment.

Cinderella at The Black Box

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

A REAL seasonal treat is in store for all the family when the boys and girls of the Performing Arts School Galway take to the stage of the Black Box Theatre, from January 1 to 8 with their panto version of Cinderella.

Panto fun with Renmore’s Sleeping Beauty

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

THE MUCH loved fairytale Sleeping Beauty will be brought to the Galway stage by the Renmore pantomime, starting tonight and running until Sunday January 16.

Coming to the Town Hall in 2011

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

PIANIST BARRY Douglas, illusionist Keith Barry, comedian Des Bishop, singer Johnny McEvoy, and classic plays by Tennessee Williams, Brian Friel, and Shakespeare all feature in the Town Hall’s programme over the coming months.

The Scots are coming

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

SCOTLAND HAS been producing some of the greatest and most influential indie/alternative bands there has ever been.

Think about it - The Vaselines, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Josef K, Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, Arab Strap, Frightened Rabbit, Cocteau Twins, Franz Ferdinand, and The Pastels.

The Nitty Gritty New Year’s party set to rock Salthill

Thu, Dec 30, 2010

THE NITTY Gritty Galway’s only club night to cater for Rockabilly, Soul, 60s Ska, Swing, 50s Rock n’ Roll and the rest, is back.

Ring in 2011 with Ireland’s most exciting new bands

Thu, Dec 23, 2010

“THE ONLY way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”

Rubberbandits add second Róisín Dubh date

Thu, Dec 23, 2010

THE SCOURGE of Liveline listeners, the urban poets of Limerick, the wild men of Irish comedy, The Rubberbandits are all this and more.

The plastic bag wearing comedy duo, whose hilarious routines and satires on Irish history, Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea, Limerick city, and boy racers, are on the verge of becoming the country’s next comedy phenomenon.