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What you may need to know:

1. It’s your annual Woody Allen movie.

2. It’s been a given that 77-year old Woody’s output is rather hit and miss these days. We estimate an average of one-in-every-three or so is worth a gander.

3. That said, Midnight In Paris (2011) won an Oscar and was his biggest box-office hit EVER.

4. Woody doesn’t shoot in his beloved Manhattan much these days – this one’s set in San Francisco.

5. The cast includes Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis CK, Boardwalk Empire bad-ass Bobby Canavale and ’80s comic Andrew Dice Clay.

6. Anybody for a Ford Farlaine (1990) sequel?

Release date: Autumn

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The Derrynane Robot Club take to the streets of Cork to discover things like when the history of the city was created and what people’s favourite Summer about Winter is.

By the end, you won’t know less about Cork than you didn’t unaware of, subsequently.

Previously: Get A Room

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You may recall director William Armstrong’s fake Jaguar ad.

This is William’s rain-free EP-commissioned video to mark 10 years of the Electric Picnic at Stradbally, Co Laois.

Featuring doe-eyed hot people (above) and music from Orbital.

It’s like a gap year in three days.

In Stradbally.

Thanks Ciaran Le Cool

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In a combined promo for GoPro cameras and a new album by charming popsters Radiation City, sweeping pans, POVs and unexpected angles are used to capture a performance at the Cathedral Of Junk in Austin Texas in the company of ‘junk king’ Vince Hanneman.

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(Broadsheet bon viveur/code god Karl (top) and the new android app)

Finally, more than two and a half years after my iOS version was released I’ve built an Android app for Broadsheet.ie and it’s available now on the Google Play store (and in the process missed our all too brief summer).

The app doesn’t quite have feature parity with the iOS version but is close enough that it warrants release I will be actively developing it over the summer in step with some updates to the iOS app.

The Android fragmentation issue means I’ve not been able to test it on all platforms, but I’ve made an effort to ensure it works on the top 10 devices that access the website. Hopefully the app won’t look too bad outside of these.

Think you can do better?

As with the iOS version of the app, the code is available on GitHub under the MIT license. I do this not in the hope that someone will come along and fix bugs or improve it but in case someone else finds it useful and wants to use it.

I would, of course, be delighted if someone actually did create a pull request…

And now over to you

The Android-using section of our readership have been very vocal about wanting an app. When presented with evidence of lower engagement on the site from Android the lack of an app has been blamed (an opinion which I don’t subscribe too – it seems more like Android users don’t really use their devices compared to iOS).

The only way developers are going to take Android seriously is if people actually use their phones and download apps. So grab the app today and make this developer a happy man.

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Comedian Tara Flynn and her African American husband were visiting her hometown  Kinsale, Co. Cork recently, during which her husband suffered racial abuse.

Ms Flynn has made a new sketch The Racist B&B because of the incident.

She explains:

“On a recent trip home, I got a reminder that Ireland Of The Welcomes can be conditional. By now very familiar with Kinsale, my (African-American) husband offered to take the dog out for his last walk of the night. I sat chatting with my mum. 20 minutes later, my husband returned. He looked angry. “Well,” he said, “I haven’t been called those names in a while.” A group of young people standing outside a bar in the centre of town had shouted racist epithets at him. Some of those epithets have made it into my clip but we’ve decided to cover them with sound effects. They’re just too vile. They are shocking in the abstract and absolutely horrifying when applied to someone I love. In my hometown. In 2013.

“My husband is a tolerant person. He just stared the namecallers down and they – like most cowards – shut up when faced with this silent challenge. He tried to laugh it off in the re-telling, saying it wasn’t his first time and that he’d heard worse. But that’s not the point.  I was mortified. Stunned. Fuming.”

This is the sketch, in which Tara plays a racist B&B owner Máire Uí Bean an Tí.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80q7Q3UIEM

Choice quote:

“We try and turn people away before they get here, if possible. We don’t want to disappoint anyone. So we ask them a few questions on the phone, like ‘Do you take the sun well?’ or ‘Could you clap along to this Michael Jackson track?’ And if they have fantastic rhythm or if they sound a bit tanned, we tell them that there’s a festival on. That we’re full.”

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Pic: IMDb

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