A guide to what's hot and what's not.
What's hot
Singalong MessiahFishamble Street, Dublin 2, next Saturday at 1pm, with Our Lady's Choral Society and the National Sinfonia.
REM at the OlympiaIt might be 10 years since the Stipe and co were exciting, but still, five nights at the Olympia!
Restriction-free downloadsApple and EMI's decision to sell songs without playback controls means we can finally do what we like with the downloads we buy.
Skulduggery PleasantThe new children's book by Derek Landy, who comes from a family of Co Dublin vegetable farmers, looks like the next Harry Potter.
Ian McEwanBack on form with On Chesil Beach - even if he's in trouble for taking pebbles from the Dorset beach.
What's cold
April showersAnd expensive blow-dries. Bad combo.
PlayStation 3€650 for a games machine? It seems you need adult-sized pockets to be a kid these days.
Uri Geller's 'magic'Bloggers claim he's asked YouTube to take down videos that show how he bends spoons. Getting people to believe his abilities were "magical" would be a good trick.
Giving up giving upDon't overdo it just because Lent is over.
No BBC3 or 4 on SkyInfuriating.
It's just not cricketBaseball bats but no cricket bats available outside Dublin.