Culture
Masterful Kinevane’s ghoulish tale glitters
Pat Kinevane in "Underneath" at the Irish Arts Center. By Orla O’Sullivan The opening of Pat Kinevane’s latest solo show, “Underneath,” is thrillin...
October 26, 2015
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
CD is heady stuff with a lot going on
By Daniel Neely From Ireland, Buille is one of the most creative groups in Irish music today. Consisting of Niall Vallely (concertina), Caoimhín Va...
October 23, 2015
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Eirecana craze has some new recruits
Armagh’s Agnews, AKA Cup O’ Joe By Colleen Taylor I’ve written before of my proclivity for a new sub-genre gaining momentum in Ireland’s music scen...
October 21, 2015
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
SRO Saturdays at Lillie’s
Dan Neely, on the banjo, said of this photo: “Jimmy O’Kelly took it a while back. It was a particularly good day when a lot of great musicians happ...
October 20, 2015
by Peter McDermott
Culture
Skirball reaches elusive targets
For Michael Harrington, social media represents opportunity as the "arts are so visual." By Orla O’Sullivan It’s the biggest theatre you’ve never h...
October 20, 2015
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
Global themes grounded in Cobh
Pat Kinevane in "Underneath." By Orla O’Sullivan Pat Kinevane, who pioneered the “show in a bag” idea, lives his life from a bag. “Thank God I live...
October 19, 2015
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
'Echoes of Erin’ hits East Coast
The cover of New York fiddler Dana Lyn and guitarist Kyle Sanna’s fabulous new album “The Great Arc.” By Daniel Neely Gailfean is an excellent new ...
October 16, 2015
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Cool Irish acts get showcased in NYC
HamsandwicH. By Colleen Taylor Ireland’s sounding pretty cool these days. Two of the island’s freshest-sounding groups have released even newer hit...
October 15, 2015
by Colleen Taylor
Culture
Director picked ‘regal,’ ‘scary,’ ‘bad-ass’ Mara
PHOTO: WARNER BROTHERS By Karen Butler British filmmaker Joe Wright has been taking a lot of heat for casting Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in his Pete...
October 14, 2015
by Karen Butler
Culture
Hemingway, JFK links explored
Tina Santi Flaherty is the author "What Jackie Taught Us." By Orla O’Sullivan There was an affinity between Ernest Hemingway and President Kennedy ...
October 13, 2015
by Orla O'Sullivan
Culture
CD focuses on women’s history
Ellen O'Byrne DeWitt established Columbia Records' Irish catalog. By Daniel Neely Women in the early days of recorded Irish music is the focus of “...
October 11, 2015
by Daniel Neely
Culture
Still there, after all these years
The author goes down memory lane at Weldon House. By Pat Fenton For 33 years, my father Andrew Fenton worked for Con Ed down on Hudson Avenue in th...
October 09, 2015
by Pat Fenton