The Irish Times Index

A guide to what's hot and what's not 

What's hot

The Winding Stair Yes, we love the restaurant, but we love the bookshop, too.

Sébastien Tellier Dustin has competition, France's coolest singer is their Eurovision entrant.

Electric Picnic My Bloody Valentine come to Stradbally and a nation rejoices - nothing beats looking forward to the Picnic.

Born Standing Up Steve Martin's fantastic memoir of life as a wild and crazy guy.

Mad Men HBO's successor to The Sopranos is set in the heyday of Madison Avenue advertising, and can be seen on BBC2.

Bespoke wedding ceremonies So much more meaningful than the usual call-and-response.

What's cold

Feroche Instead of saying ferocious - this is one of the worst abbreviations so far, or "abbrevs", to give them their correct name.

Barack Obama = Matt Santos Pointing out parallels between Obama and the guy from The West Wing doesn't make you a keen political analyst.

Men's toiletries No, I will not attempt to emulate David Beckham - not now, not ever.

WWW Do we still have to say "double you double you double you", or can it be assumed yet?

Sterling conversions The large UK retail stores show no signs of passing on the benefits of the weak sterling to Irish customers. At press time, £1 is worth €1.28.

Chocolate overdose Enough bad eggs.

© 2008 The Irish Times

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