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The Artisan Food Entrepreneur
Recently I was blessed by being able to review the book; The Artisan Food Entrepreneur (Where Woman Create Business) . It is a great book tha…
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Singapore Flyer
Singapore Flyer 30 Raffles Avenue http://www.singaporeflyer.com/ Opening Hours: Daily 8.30am - 10.15pm Admission Fees (In SGD $): Free Adu…
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El Camino (Review)
Back in January, Riley and I set out our dining resolutions and came up with a list of our top 10 spots for 2013. We still have a few restaurants l…
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The Village Café - Casual Elegant Dining in Westboro (Review)
September is a great month for many reasons. Fall means the arrival of colourful leaves, pumpkin spice lattés, boots and scarves, hearty meals and of…
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Fraser Café (Review)
The Christmas holidays were busy with shopping, baking, spending time with friends and family and watching way too many holiday movies. We haven'…
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The Rowan (Review)
This past long weekend, Lola and I ventured to the Rowan for a fabulous Sunday brunch after perusing the stands at the Lansdowne Farmer’s Market. O…
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The Weir - tales of the unexpected build empathy across shared solitude (Lyric until 30 Sep)
It’s hard to believe that Decadent Theatre first brought their production of The Pillowman to Belfast two and a half years ago, back in March 2015.…
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I Shall Wear Purple – painting a comedic scene of care home art therapy and the politics of art (C21 Theatre at Grand Opera House + NI Tour)
After a heart scare, Olivia has sold up her house on the verge of her 80th birthday and moved into residential care. Realistically, her lack of filte…
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GoFlex portable hard drives from Seagate
Western society consumes a lot of digital media. While there’s a niche market for retro technology, VHS video tapes, 35mm film and even CDs are out. …
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Stones In His Pockets – breathless production reminds us how far we’ve come (Grand Opera House until Sat 20 April)
On the twentieth anniversary of its West End Run – which I used to regularly walk past while working in London and heading back towards Leicester Squ…
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The Colleen Bawn – Oirish melodrama given the full Bruiser treatment (Bruiser + Lyric Theatre until 28 April)
A fair maiden – Eily O’Connor, nicknamed the Colleen Bawn – lives on the other side of the lake. The man, Hardress, to whom she is secretly married p…
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The Threepenny Opera - fresh, audible and entertaining - signs of a great reboot of NI Opera (Lyric until 10 Feb)
Underneath Polly Peachum's clean cut image lies a young woman with a risk-taking streak. She plants her affections on the cheek of bad lad Mack t…
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Sink or Swim – an ambitious and innovating first production from new company Headrush, Ireland
It seems like a young actor from Ireland will stop at nothing to be famous. What starts out as a confessional piece, soon morphs into a murder myster…
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Ubu The King – let battle commence in this absurd disrupted food court (Tinderbox at The MAC)
The normal rules of theatre suggest keeping the audience in rows, keeping the action on the stage, and avoiding mess. But the first rule of Tinderbox…
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Shirley Valentine – a pithy, physical and very poignant production of a much-loved classic (Lyric Theatre until 5 October)
The Lyric Theatre’s new production of Shirley Valentine creates quite an impression. Willy Russell’s script asks us to believe that the titular char…
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Kafka’s Monkey: absurd and bewildering, though the acting and direction are very satisfying (Lyric Theatre until 26 August)
Franz Kafka wrote the story Ein Bericht für eine Akademie ( A Report to an Academy ) in 1917. It tells the story of an ape called Red Peter who lear…
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