YOU could be forgiven for wondering why a new café has opened so close to one of the busiest gyms in West Belfast. After all, who wants a feed after healthy work-out? However, Kaff is a café with a difference. Located beneath GymCo in the grounds of the thriving Devenish Complex, Kaff offers a food […]
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Can the shrew be tamed at the Lyric?
THERE was no need to ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’ at the Lyric Theatre’s dazzling and sharp adaptation of Kiss Me, Kate. Set both on and off stage during the production of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, this production revolves around the tempestuous love lives of actor-manager Fred Graham/Petruchio and his […]
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Everyday sacrifices behind the music
THURSDAY afternoon at a kitchen table and West Belfast actress Antoinette Morelli is poring over old photographs of her showband legend father Tony. She’s also got stacks of postcards he sent home from wherever he was performing in the world. It’s that legendary Showband era that forms the basis of Keep Telling Me Lies, a […]
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The craic’s ninety but where’s the snow?
“WHEN you travel to a new place, you try to make the best of it and that is what I have done,” says Penina Kaumbuthu with a bookish strong smile. 25-year-old Penina was a bit emotional when she boarded that eight-hour long flight last year. “I did my research about where to study. I wanted […]
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Get ready for changes
THE stunning victory scored by Sinn Féin in the weekend election has sent a shockwave through the southern political establishment – so much so that a sense of disbelief has descended on the mainstream Dublin media and the former two big parties to the extent that little of any note has been said or done […]
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There’s no fuel like an old fuel
SUPPOSE it had to happen some time given Squinter’s, ah, interesting history of comical misdemeanours. Sunday afternoon and Squinter’s heading up the lough with the dog for a walk, but as he exits the street the orange petrol symbol on the dashboard lights up and he notices that the needle is lower than a Rangers […]
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