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Culture Nights for Belfast and Derry

After a successful first year, Culture Night returns to Belfast - and Derry will be next. Watch a video from Culture Night Belfast 2009 below

Midnight shows with Animal Disco

Clubnight goes weekly, with bands live at midnight

Obituary: Ian Hill

The noted arts critic passes away aged 73

Mumford & Sons headline Open House

London's nu-folk stars fire up Open House festival. Watch 'Little Lion Man' acoustic below

Serial Killers on the Big Screen

Queen's Film Theatre profiles the silver screen's finest Natural Born Killers

Two Door Cinema Club confirm further festivals

Watch backstage clip of 'I Can Talk' below

Voices Film Premieres on YouTube

Film backing Derry/Londonderry's City of Culture bid released

Belsonic adds Florence, Kasabian and Paolo Nutini

Overwhelming demand expands city festival of world-class acts

Arts Opportunities for Older People

New £700,000 fund launched by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to engage older people in the arts

Leslie Montgomery

The Downpatrick bank manager was the first Irish writer appointed to the Censorship Board in 1936 and a major influence on early 20th Century Ulster theatre

The White Guard

Conleth Hill catches the eye in London, writes Peter Geoghegan

Come to Where I'm From

Joe Nawaz undertakes some gratuitous religious profiling

Entroducing... the Mulholland Organ

Hip-hop pioneer to play Ulster Hall pipe organ

The Chess Piece

One game that doesn't end in a stalemate, according to Paul McElwee

LaFaro Releases iPhone App

Smalltown America band connects with fans through app

INTERVIEW: Ken Bruen

The internationally renowned crime writer shoots the breeze with Gerard Brennan

Bandwidth Presents: The Lowly Knights

Coffee and live session recordings

Run-DMC Legend Coming To Belfast

Planet Love festival lineup announced

Ash Turn Up The Volume

Downpatrick's most famous sons to play all-ages benefit gig

Belfast Music iPhone App Teaser

App teaser video

The Rising

It starts with a body, a missing boy and a vigilante group. After that, Brian McGilloway's new novel really starts to pick up

The Japanese Popstars 'Destroy'

New video and EP release with Jon Spencer

Making It In: Screenwriting

Graham Kinniburgh gave up a career in banking to fulfil an ambition to work in film. Here he talks to people in the know about how to break into screenwriting

The Unsinkable Replica Ship

Titanic, or part of it, is back in Belfast. This time it's staying put

2D Comics Festival Interviews

Watch video interviews with 2000AD founder Pat Mills, author of zombie horror novel Flu, Wayne Simmons, and the guys behind Berserker Comics

Aaron Abernethy visits Derry for 'the most relaxed' comic con festival around. Click on the link below for video interviews with FLU author Wayne Simmons, 2000AD founder Pat Mills and the guys behind Berserker Comics

My Cultural Life: Colin Murphy

‘Hell is other people’ for this acerbic comedian

Alice and the White Rabbit

Paul McIlwee follows Indigo Moon Theatre down the rabbit hole

Dr TP Flanagan

The iconic landscape painter honoured by the University of Ulster before opening new exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery

Dr James Nesbitt

Coleraine actor honoured at the University of Ulster

SHORT STORY: To The Limit

Story by Margaret Irish, shortlisted for the Michael McLaverty Short Story Competition in 2008

Our View

Rita Duffy unveils new exhibition in Derry

St Columba's Treasure Hunt

LegenDerry Quest for Walled City Treasure

VERBAL MAGAZINE: Michael Faulkner

Book blogging for fame and fortune. This one-time lawyer overcame the technological disadvantages of life on an otherwise uninhabited island to be shortlisted for the inaugural Author Blog Awards. He talks here about his forays into the virtual world…

Under Milk Wood

One-man production of Dylan Thomas’s masterpiece brilliantly discombobulates, writes Joanne Savage

Ulysses Grant

The former American President received a rapturous reception in Ireland as part of a world tour. Cathal Coyle explores his routes and visits an ancestral home

Foyle Days Festival

A host of events sheduled to celebrate the river and its surroundings

The Chess Piece

Echo Echo dance company launch an assault on the Guildhall in Derry

Bandwidth Presents: Paul Shevlin

Video session with the pianist in Oh Yeah, with Bandwidth Films capturing all

RISING STAR: Mary-Francis Doherty

Diversification is key in theatre, says writer, director and star of Home Sweet Home

The Shawshank Redemption

The second adaptation of Stephen King's novella sees hope and violence tread the boards

Hay-on-Belfast 2010

Get a taste of the famous literary festival at The Black Box

Not Stopping Traffic – We Are Traffic

Critical Mass cyclists take to the streets of Belfast in fancy dress

Stewart Love

East Belfast playwright Stewart Love has written with verve about mouthy mothers-in-law, the shipyards and living life at fever pitch. He tells Joanne Savage about his inspirations and kitchen sink conflicts

Morecambe

A madcap, one-man romp through the life of one of Britain's greatest comedians, touring the UK in a white van

Olive Broderick

County Down based poet wins Hennessey XO Literary Award for Emerging Poetry

#Derry2013

Anne Robinson shows her support whilst the online campaign picks up pace

INTERVIEW: Carol Coffey

The Butterfly State author speaks to Lyra McKee on writing about ordinary people facing extraordinary difficulties

Ripple Effect

Echo Echo extend the hand of friendship - but the Henry Girls steal the show

Bandwidth Presents: The Frigates

Belfast/Dublin combo perform at Oh Yeah's Record Fair, a fishing tackle shop and a Cathedral Quarter pet store

The Life and Times of the Living Dead

Zombie pick 'n' mix at QFT, but Andrew Johnston asks if there is any unlife left in the genre

SHORT STORY: Congo

A disturbing look at things that can never be put right by gothic author Jaki McCarrick

Morecambe

A stage version of the great comic's life set for Newtownabbey and Lisburn

I Am Fighter

The writers behind the YouTube comedy phenomenon on long term goals and short term perks

Tommy Ramone

Andrew Johnston meets Uncle Monk, going acoustic with his bluegrass band

The Battle of Tory Island

Read an extract from Battles Fought on Irish Soil (Londubh Books, 2010) by Sean McMahon

How Was It For You?

Oh Yeah centre is seeking your musical stories for an exhibition

Duke Special

Brecht, silent cinema and Huckleberry Finn: Joanne Savage catches up with Duke Special as he prepares for a new literary-minded tour

FLU

Read an extract from Wayne Simmons' novel

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