Garth Cartwright, music author extraordinaire, writes, “When thinking of what I could contribute to The Siren, I realised that Beenie Pete, the tuba player and…
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Category: Arts & Culture
Brutal Late Capitalism or Are We Living in a Squid Game?
For those of you who haven’t got a TV, or possibly are living off-grid in a cave somewhere, Squid Game is the latest global TV…
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Araya – A Forgotten Cinematic Masterpiece
Sands Films in Rotherhithe frequently puts on neglected films that are superb pieces of cinema. The 1950s Award Winner is no exception. A grim but…
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Duke Leto’s Choice
Scene: an audience chamber on Planet Caladan, home of House Atreides. There is a lineup of beautiful women in Austro-Hungarian out-of-seraglio slinky daywear. Duke Leto…
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39th Irish Biennial – A Proper Craic
The 2021 programme of the 39th Irish Biennial is now online, featuring renowned Irish and international artists and collaborating curators across venues in Limerick as…
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Mando v. The Grisha or Blasters Against Hokey Religion
Big budget SF and fantasy TV roam Netflix like the dinosaurs of old, roaring their supremacy. Disney’s The Mandalorian struts its space gunfighter stuff after…
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Best Strategy Games of All Time
Civ It’s got to be Civilization. You start off as a hunter-gatherer tribe, settle down to your first village, grow into a massive empire, splatting…
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David Prichard’s Portraits of Australian First Nation Stock Women win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021
David Prichard has won first prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 for Tribute to Indigenous Stock Women, his series of portraits…
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