Although Sun Ra has long since returned to his home planet, his exhilarating band Arkestra continues to play under the able leadership of saxophonist Marshall Allen. All the world’s music – Arabic, electronic, modern classical, blues and choral to name but a few styles – gets the ‘big band from outer space’ treatment. With a [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 29, 2008
Un Pont entre Deux Rives
Gérard Depardieu’s first stab at directing (bolstered by Frédéric Auburtin) is a flimsy ‘ménage à trois’ tale. The first bars of the theme music rip off Gainsbourg’s ‘L’Eau à la bouche’, and the film follows on with other allusions to works of far greater worth (‘Jules et Jim’, ‘Madame Bovary’) that only underline its lack [...]
October 22, 2008
‘Kooks’
Local comedian/playwright John Katz helps launch a new weekend series of comedy and drama at the Lyric Stage, performing his ‘Kooks’ one-man show. In it, Katz takes on the roles of various oddball characters, weaving their antics into a series of sketches that could stand on their own but that also work well together.
October 19, 2008
Belgo
Already a successful chain in London, Belgo now comes to Dublin. This Belgian-influenced restaurant is located in a quiet side-street in Temple Bar and, more times than not, is oddly empty. In addition to the food, which includes a variety of sausages (wild boar for one), Belgo houses the widest selection of bottled beers in [...]
October 9, 2008
The Capulets and the Montagues
This all-new operatic production of Vincenzo Bellini’s ‘The Capulets and the Montagues’, based on Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, features mezzo sensation Susanne Mentzer as the male lead and soprano Laura Claycomb as Giuletta. Sweeping melodies and romantic songs accompany the star-crossed love story.
October 7, 2008
Sting
Nicknamed after the black and yellow sweater he used to wear when performing with The Police back in the 1970s, Sting has continued to give us great music right into the 1990s, with solo albums that have gone platinum and won him several Grammys. His new album, ‘Brand New Day’, has love and relationships as [...]
October 3, 2008
Toyota Cup: Manchester United v Palmeiras
There must be two teams called Manchester United – on the one hand there’s a team that’s withdrawn from the English FA Cup due to being overstretched, while this lot, the current European champions, seem happy to jet halfway round the world in the middle of the season to play against the South American champions [...]
