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Slimmer for Christmas
Leesa Harker updates Pride and Prejudice for the 80s generation -
Lines of Vision
Writers respond to paintings in the National Gallery and reveal true value of the arts -
Exploring Spaces
Group show at the Roe Valley Arts Centre inspires new perspectives -
Messiah
Ulster Orchestra and Belfast Philharmonic Choir perform together for what could be the last time -
Reflecting Light
Cappella Caeciliana record contemporary pieces and festive classics -
Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Blain discovers that for all our technological advances nothing much changes in Pantoland -
A New Chapter
Former female prisoners open their hearts with hand bound book exhibition at the Linen Hall Library -
Xmas Movies
Ralph McLean reviews his top ten festive favourites to make the season of goodwill go a little bit faster -
Black Sea
Michael Smiley joins an ensemble crew searching for Nazi gold in Kevin MacDonald's tense thriller -
Mickey Finn's Air
Gerald Dawe's new collection takes the reader on flights of nostalgic fancy -
St. Vincent
Bill Murray is an unlikely babysitter in Theodore Melfi's quirky comedy also starring Chris O'Dowd -
Tinseltown
Paul Boyd pits belief against world-weary cynicism in what is sure to be a smash hit musical -
Civil Rights
Void's timely and pertinent exhibition shows that racial equality is yet but a dream in modern America -
Ode to Sting
Lisaire String Quartet interpret classic Police and Sting tracks – watch a live performance -
MAC International
Joanne Savage appreciates flashes of brilliance at The MAC but hopes for greater thrills in future -
The Drop
James Gandolfini's final film is a gripping ensemble adaptation of the gritty Dennis Lehane novel -
Poetry Ireland Review
Latest issue sees a range of contemporary poets writing about their favourite Seamus Heaney poems -
The Imitation Game
Benedict Cumberbatch is extraordinary in Morten Tyldum's flawed biopic of Enigma breaker Alan Turing -
An Evening with CS Lewis
David Payne's play is heavy on anecdote but light on the good stuff – the books -
The Lost Brothers
Mark McCausland and Oisin Leech channel the finest songwriters in Derry -
Unhome
Jim McAleavey's house of horrors bulges with invention and endless witty subversions at The MAC -
Lit Up Inside
Van Morrison launches a book of his lyrics in London joined by Michael Longley, Edna O'Brien and Ian Rankin -
World Press Photo
Famine, war, family and more – Belfast hosts the international photojournalist exhibit for the first time -
I Am Ali
Claire Lewins uses exclusive audio journals to tell at least part of the legendary boxer's life story -
The Fall
With episode two of series two set to air tonight, we look back at the slow-burning opener -
Jacques Brel is Alive...
Blunt Fringe reanimate the husky Belgian songwriter and 'matador of emotion' -
Damage
A suppressed emotion will do anything to survive in Patrick J O'Reilly's gay conversion therapy drama -
NI Music Prize
Robyn G Shiels scoops album of the year, while alt-metal icons Therapy? perform Troublegum -
Belfast Days
Excerpts from Eimear O'Callaghan's teenage diary written at the height of the Troubles in 1972 -
Third Person
Liam Neeson is an author struggling with a failing narrative in Paul Haggis' similarly unsuccessful ensemble piece -
From Bolshoi to Belfast
The evolving aesthetics of Russian theatre revealed at Crumlin Road Gaol -
The Stairwell
Michael Longley considers mortality in his new collection shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize -
SOAK
Derry's finest returns home after a year in the spotlight -
Royal Ulster Academy
After 133 years, the annual exhibit of art by members and non-members continues to astonish -
Ulster Orchestra
Philip Hammond enjoys the youthful energy of principal conductor Rafael Payare -
Ludo Lusi Lusum
Animals metamorphose and interact in Echo Echo's delightful new piece for children -
Lost Domain
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler produces a cathartic solo album following his father's battle with dementia -
The Gloaming
Trad supergroup play out the 2014 Belfast Festival at Queen's with support from Hannah McPhillimy -
Remembering Gerry
A host of musicians indebted to the late Radio Ulster presenter Gerry Anderson perform in Belfast -
Neither Either
Two of Ireland's finest companies are inspired by the work of poet Seamus Heaney