Pilcrow + Le Cool present Spiel #2
Legends of The Phoenix / On the Turkish Uprising

Spiel is back for a second helping of brain food this Tuesday, with muckraking as the order of the day. We’ll be asking Paddy Prendeville and Paul Farrell of The Phoenix – 30 years old this year – how best to keep a close eye on public figures, remain relevant, thorny and deliver proper investigative journalism while keeping visits to the Four Courts to a minimum. 

Interviewing them will be broadcaster Colm Ó Mongáin, and they’ll be joined on stage by ferociously independent publishers Rabble. Fresh from a Fund:It campaign success that’s covered their print bill for the next year, they celebrated by delivering an impressive series of dispatches from Istanbul.

Tuesday 18th April 7.30pm 
South Studios, 27/28 New Row South, Dublin 8 (map)
€5, BYOB
Buy advance tickets via Paypal: It’s been and gone!

The Lonely Beast ABC version 2.0 is available on the App Store right now! It’s a universal app, which means you can now take the Lonely Beast out for a walk on any of your iOS devices (and it’s fully optimised for iPhone 5 and retina iPads too). We hope you like it; as always, get in touch if you have anything you’d particularly like to see in future updates.

In case you hadn’t noticed, The Lonely Beast ABC just got a shiny Retina overhaul for the latest 1.3 iPad update. All of Chris’ illustrations look extra-crisp, colours are more vivid and – perhaps best of all – the jelly wobbliness has been increased by a massive 37%. 

We always love to hear what you think of the latest version – hit the button to leave us a quick review on the App Store and you’ll win our undying gratitude.

Pilcrow + Le Cool present Spiel #1
The Bottom Half of the Internet/The Unreal Engine

Racism; typos; filth; spam; ignorance; rage – that’s all the bottom half of the internet is good for, right? Rob Manuel (co-founder B3ta) wants you to question the internet dictum, most beloved of high-profile newspaper columnists, that you should ignore all of the comments all of the time. The ‘war on comments’, he reckons, might just be an echo of a fourth estate that’s having trouble adjusting to the idea of an unwashed public disagreeing with their sacred opinions. Sous les pavés, la plage.

Bitcoin (currently trading at $236.52 $0.09 $120.1) is big enough to feature in The Economist & The Metro alike - but what of the other economies and currencies birthed by the internet? Ed Melvin (Publicis) explores digital money and how it leaks into the real world, whatever that is.

Tuesday 23rd April 7.30pm 
South Studios, 27/28 New Row South, Dublin 8 (map)
€5, BYOB
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Together!

Check out Apple’s new iPad TV ad - Together. See any apps you recognise? That L is for Light app looks strangely familiar…

Alphabeast has a brand new name! Our award-winning alphabet adventure is now called The Lonely Beast ABC, and it’s got a sparkly new icon on the App Store too. You can read all about it over here.