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In Entertainment, Sports, The Premiership on February 9, 2009 at 10:50 pm
In the first of our sporting features Yellow Roman Candles contributor Darragh O’Donoghue looks at the week that was in the Premiership.
After another telling weekend of Premiership action, I think we can begin to draw some conclusions.
Chelsea can now join Arsenal and the resurgent Aston Villa in the race for 3rd place (and the final automatic Champions League spot, under the new rules), and if Manchester United can beat Liverpool on March 14th, the race for the title will be as good as over.
Pool Problems
The match of the weekend was undoubtedly Liverpool’s crucial 3-2 win over Portsmouth at Fratton Park, and while some may view it as vindication for Benitez’ sometimes contrary selection policy, the reality may be slightly more sobering for ‘Pool fans. Rafa’s justifications have been overlooked by many in the clamour to condemn the poor Spaniard, but his admission that Torres, Kuyt and Alonso were all ‘very tired’ has been backed up by statements by the players themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
Art, Berlin, Culture, film, gallery, Music, Paris, squat
In Culture, Dublin, Entertainment, Music on February 5, 2009 at 3:25 pm
In my very first post on this blog – a ramble on how urban planning could be made a lot more interesting – I said that my next post would look at how we can encourage the development of interesting cultural venues in our towns and cities. So apologies that I’m only getting ’round to it now.
By ‘interesting’ cultural venues, I essentially mean ‘grassroots’ venues – spaces run by artists devoted to the public display of music, fine art, theatre, photography or whatever-you’re-having. These spaces are probably small and run on a non-commercial basis. Some might be considered ‘underground’ venues, and they often rely more on word-of-mouth for promotion than direct advertising. However they operate, they certainly making urban spaces a heck of a lot more interesting. Dublin has a few that sort of bit the bill: Red Space, The Joinery, Hideaway House, ThisIsNotAShop, The Shed.
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Chris Jericho, Mickey Rourke, professional wrestling, The Wrestler, WWE
In America, Culture, Entertainment on January 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm
On the SAG awards red carpet Mickey Rourke made the terrifying mistake of “offending Chris Jericho” by telling him he would be “coming” for him at the upcoming Wrestlemania event. Offending this particular WWE wrestler is apparently the “last thing you want to do”.
The professional wrestler, on top of his very ‘real’ game in the WWE at present was hilariously humourless on Larry King when he got a chance to confront Rourke. Rourke, thankfully, manages to maintain his composure in front of the stone-faced Jericho.
Those crazy wrestlers…
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