Café Society (12A) ★★ Directed by: Woody Allen Starring: Jesse Eisenberg & Steve Carell What’s the story? YOUNG, energetic and romantic, Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) is tired of his home in Manhattan, and has no interest whatsoever of pursuing a career in his father’s jewellery business. What Bobby wants is sunshine, glamour and success […]
Archive | September, 2016
The bald monk is set for an Irish return
IT was high in the sky above the house gliding on the thermals like a kite. Birds of prey are often seen over Belfast homes – especially if you live in proximity to our hills. But this was unusual. It didn’t have the straight eagle-like wings of a buzzard, but it was about the […]
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A lifetime of union struggle
Patrick McKeown was born on March 16, 1854 and, as was the custom in those days of high infant mortality, he was baptised the following day, St Patrick’s Day, in St Michael’s Catholic church near Dromara, Co Down. In all probability you will never have heard of Patrick McKeown. That comes as no surprise, […]
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The great British window bake-off
HERE’S a picture of a cake shop in Old Swan, Liverpool, that Squinter took during his recent visit to the city. Squinter’s seen a few eyecatching cakes in his time, not least the marching season doozy on Facebook of an East Belfast kid’s birthday cake in the shape of a bonfire complete with tyres […]
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Falls cyclist is one in a pillion
MID-afternoon Monday and the Falls Road is sweltering in the kind of weather we only seem to get when the schools start back. Squinter’s dandering countrywards past St Dominic’s, grateful he brought his sunglasses but sorry he left his hat in the house. A heat haze rises from the tarmac, throwing the heavy traffic […]
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Autumn comes and the legs go
TO Drumglass Park off the Lisburn Road on Friday afternoon for a bit of a dander after a big lunch. It was very quiet, which seemed strange at the start of the final weekend before the schools went back. Squinter was strolling en famille along the winding path when the Big Guy challenged him […]
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