What’s hot this week: Electric Picnic, Sally Rooney and ‘Crazy Rich Asians’

What’s Hot

• Normal People on TV Sally Rooney and Lenny Abrahamson are teaming up to turn her second novel into a BBC series
• Crazy Rich Asians The best performing box office for a comedy since Girls Trip
• Electric Picnic The end of summer festival blowout this weekend
• Berlin, the bar A buzzing laneway neighbourhood joint in Dublin 2
• From Crook To Cook Snoop Dogg's upcoming cookbook
• Solid Gold A new lager from Founders
• Autumn tweed Time to get the long coats back on

What’s Not

• Dublin demolition Old buildings being knocked left right and centre
• Coconut oil A Harvard professor has called in "one of the worst things you can eat"
• Festival FOMO Can you cope with more festival photos in your feed?
• "Grammable" bars and restaurants Instagram-focussed design and zero vibe or community
• Bad wine at big prices Restaurants who charge mysteriously high prices for poor quality plonk, we see you
• Disposable plastic cutlery Plenty of places still using non-compostable plastics
• Alexa Amazon's market share of smart speakers fell over 30 per cent from Q2 2017 to Q2 2018