Category: 5. Entertainment

Compiled by Conor Pope, Deirdre McQuillan, Corina Gaffey, Jessica Doyle, Marie Kelly, Nadine O’Regan, Ciara Kenny, Genevieve Carbery, Laura Slattery, Úna McCaffrey, Rebecca Daly and Cathal O’Gara

FOOD AND DRINK

A canceled Lithuanian martial arts champion finds refuge in a Taiwanese family’s restaurant as he tries to piece his life back together in China Sea, a hard-hitting drama about the weight of guilt and second chances from director Jurgis…

The open of Sagittarius Season features two omens from Mercury — both auspicious trines, first to Saturn and then Jupiter. It’s like a note dropped in the suggestion box, a request for the manager, a prayer wafted to the winds — this one…

TV

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The Death of Bunny Munro

Now & Sky

Summed up in a sentence A bleakly tender adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel about a hugely troubling father-and-son road trip, featuring a brilliant turn from Matt Smith.
What our…

Kate Middleton’s hair had sparked quite a buzz when she had resumed to…

As celebrities go, few can top the anticipation that awaits a small, stout, furry individual with a button nose, wearing a blue duffel coat and a battered red hat. Paddington is the undoubted star of this festive season in London — the little…

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“I have a pet peeve about Chinese festivals,” says Amy Poon, gathering coriander and spinach into bunches in her…

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The last time I went to The Dover in Mayfair, I wasn’t celebrating a birthday, but four other people were, judging by…

Mayfair’s Shepherd Market was Maqbool Fida Husain’s favourite London haunt. India’s most fabled — and most expensive — artist often walked there from his studio on nearby Curzon Street. By the early 2000s, Husain, then in his eighties,…