Four of Arrows, the sophomore album by Seattle indie pop band Great Grandpa, features the titular tarot card on its cover—a lone soldier surrounded, but not maimed, by four arrows pointed up out of the ground. In tarot, this can symbolise…

The Back-to-the-Land movement emerged from the post-Woodstock era of the late-1960s and early-1970s, supported by a mostly idealistic group of people who wanted to live life more simply. Although the movement celebrated the concepts of…

Adapting is a risky business. It can go incredibly well where the adaptation supersedes the source material as with The Godfather. It can also go unbelievably badly such as the 1996 adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau. In The Tall Grass…

Are you considering giving vegetarian eating a go? If so, there's no better time than the present. October is Vegetarian Awareness Month, and the celebration can include everyone — carnivores, too. Even if you're not ready to adopt a vegan…

Char March grew up in Scotland’s run-down industrial belt in the 1960s, and now divides her time between the Yorkshire Pennines and Lochaber. She is a multi-award-winning author, with five poetry collections, six BBC Radio 4 dramas, eight…

Alone I Walk are two brothers from Winnipeg, Canada, delivering a mix of pop-punk and indie rock. Do they have chemistry? Of course, they're brothers. This record is a tale of two songs—not really a shock, with only four tracks. I've said…

In partnership with the Cork Film Festival, the European Parliament is providing free screenings of three movies competing for the Lux Prize. This is an award given out by the latter body to help significant European films find an audience…

This week on Up To 90 the girls are LIVE from the Spailpín Fánach as part of Cork Podcast Festival, and are joined by 'local girl' Laura O'Mahony. The girls explain to their millennial audience what exactly California Dreams was and then go…