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The art of re-imagining a city for the future
IMAGINE THE sort of questions that might be asked of a mayor if
his first priority on taking office was to cover some of the city's
oldest, most stately and serious civic buildings with copious
quantities of paint. Not just conventional shades of cream and
grey, but bright, brilliant buckets of red, yellow and blue. Edi
Rama, first citizen of the Albanian capital, Tirana, and former
artist, did just that with several hundred buildings, using them as
fresh canvas for a "riot" of primary colours, writes
Lorna Siggins p
Resurgence at the Riverbank
IT IS NOT every day that Newbridge, hosts a theatrical premiere. But next Wednesday, as part of an innovative new scheme by that town's Riverbank Arts Centre, three new plays will be put before the good people of Co Kildare. The oddly named By . . . For . . . With . . . season is the culmination of a two-year process to develop original work by the area's budding writers, writes Donald Clarke p
REVIEW
Velvet revolver is reviewed by The Irish Times. p
Biting into food that bites back
ASK LIZA GEDDES what she can't eat, and she takes a deep breath: "Dairy, yeast, wheat, sugar, anything artificial - which includes colourings, E-numbers and artificial flavourings - aspirin and penicillin." It may not seem like such a long list to some, but when you realise that bread, pasta, cheese, chocolate, wine, beer and most of life's culinary pleasures are therefore out of bounds, it's hard to imagine how she continues to exist, writes Fiona McCann p
Can the fury of a marmalade cat scratch my feminine side?
DISPLACED IN MULLINGAR: I HAD a dream about a cat. It was a big marmalade cat, locked in an upstairs bedroom. A cat as big as a sheep dog. I opened the door. It looked at me with furious eyes, and white fangs bared back to the gums, as if I was its breakfast, writes Michael Harding p
