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Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, theater, comedy, museums, family events, and more.

He’s a proud Dublin northsider, raised beside the Royal Canal, a lifelong Bohemians FC enthusiast. Yet Greg Murray has become a valuable contributor to life in Bray where he appreciates the worth of a vibrant community. Through his work as an artist and a teacher, he has made his mark on the town over the past decade and more, a character familiar to hundreds of schoolchildren and a respected presence at the Signal Arts Centre in Albert Avenue.

The residencies that find artists taking the same stage every month, or even every week, are the heartbeat of the local music scene. Here are just some of the great ones music fans should check out.

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What is it, exactly, that makes a classic TV advert? Looking at all the best ones on Fadó Fadó (TG4), it appears a simple storyline, however clumsy, always helps. These things don’t need to make sense. Take, for instance, the iconic 1994 Kerrygold ad in which a quiet horse breeder (Irish actor Enda Oates) sells his finest specimen to a seductive French woman. Yes, we are indeed talking about the clip where Oates “cooks like a Frenchman” and where his fake son asks him who’s taking the horse to France.