Berlin has always attracted people who want to live differently. Cheap rent, loose social rules, a political culture that tolerates almost anything. For the past decade, polyamorous communes have been ...

It was a very Sam Battle answer. Funny, slightly awkward, and delivered by a man far more comfortable discussing oscillators, unreliable sequencers and flame-throwing organs than feelings. Six years ...

Most foreigners walk into their first hammam with one of two problems: they strip completely naked and horrify everyone, or they cling to their bra like it’s a life vest. Both are wrong. The Turkish ...

Kenny Dope and Louie Vega have not shared an Irish stage in over twenty years. They have never played Cork together. When Masters At Work take the floor at Cork Opera House this October, that is not a ...

Restaurant criticism used to be a fairly simple racket. A small number of people ate dinner on expenses, filed 1,200 words by Thursday and told the rest of us whether the risotto was worth crossing ...

Most people never find out how Google Maps offline actually works. They find out at a bus stop in Lisbon, or on a trail above the treeline, when the app says routing is unavailable. Five offline map ...

If you need one reason to book a weekend at BEC Arena in November, Satyricon’s Sunday headline set is it. The Norwegian black metal band are playing Damnation 2026 as a UK exclusive, meaning this is ...

The 2018 law change generated headlines suggesting cannabis had been legalised. It had not, and the confusion has persisted ever since because the actual change was narrow, technical and easy to ...

Something has shifted, and the numbers are hard to ignore. Rates of erectile dysfunction and low sexual desire in men under 40 have been climbing steadily for the better part of two decades. Studies ...

Every couple eventually reaches the point where the familiar stops being quite enough. Some redecorate their living room. Some book a weekend in Paris. Some resign themselves to a life of guilt ...

Greece has had enough. After years of watching Santorini’s narrow caldera paths turn into human gridlock and Oia’s sunset viewpoints become queueing exercises, the country has rolled out its most ...

Horror films can be a bloody minefield (or is that war films…). It’s not that jump scares don’t work, they do, but when every film uses the same trick it becomes tedious. A face suddenly filling the ...