What’s hot and what’s not this week?

Embrace communal cooking but be wary of vaguely labelled food and tattoos in Japanese


What’s Hot

Penny Lane

A new bar from Panti and co on Great Strand Street, Dublin 1

Quarter Block Party
This weekend in Cork

Sarah Bowie
Brilliant illustrator and cartoonist, @sarahbowieillustration on Instagram

77 Million Paintings
Take some quiet time at the Brian Eno exhibition at the RHA, Dublin 2

Minor Monuments
The upcoming collection of essays from Ian Maleney 

Communal cooking
Pre-empt the pot-luck dinners by cooking with pals

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Low impact six packs
Carlsberg has started using glue instead of plastic to keep cans together

What’s Not

Drew 
Justin Bieber's new clothing label mostly features ill-fitting corduroy. No thanks

The Pool
More sad news for online journalists as the site has gone into administration

Tattoos in Japanese
Let Ariana Grande's failure be a warning

Phoney Facebook ads
The practice of using famous faces as clickbait to sell beauty products should be stopped

Bragging interiors
From the cleanfluencers to the Kondo-ites and shelfies, stop making us feel bad about our gaffs

Vaguely labelled food
Denny chicken labelled 'Made in Wicklow' but hails from Brazil

Early 00s nostalgia
Too soon