QUENTIN FOTRELL and ARTHUR CUSH on what's going up and what's going down this week.
GOING UP
College yearsThese are the best days of your life. Stay on the cobblestones, it's the ideal place to weather a downturn.
Stay-at-home mumsYo, mamas. You can be too modest. Four kids = four full-time jobs.
TrilbysThey gave Justin Timberlake gravitas and your grandpa old-fashioned class.
Library BarThis hideaway in Dublin's Central Hotel has armchairs, an open hearth and, importantly, unlimited free Wifi.
The Death of Harry LeonConall Quinn's new play about belonging and a growing anti-Semitism in the Dublin of the 1930s and 1940s. At Smock Alley until Feb 14th. Go see . . .
GOING DOWN
RegretsWhat's with all these statements that say they accept the chief's "retirement" "with regret"? Regrets are for dinner parties.
I could do that!Out-write Cecelia Ahern, out-paint Graham Knuttel or out-talk Pat Kenny? Mr It Should Be You, there are reasons why some folk go undiscovered.
Supermarket sweepsWe have loyalty cards, so no need to send us vouchers in the post for products we don't want.
Wactors and WactressesWe don't want Hamlet's soliloquy, Ophelia's death scene or flyers for your new play, but we would like a jug of water and the menu, please.
New AgersSo many post-boom born-again know-all Buddhists and passive-aggressive pop philosophers who want to charge us for their life lessons. We ain't buying!
Wezz pricesIt's an underage disco, not a nightclub, so what's with the €15 entry? Too much these days. (AC)