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Before you read any further, close your eyes and try to picture the day that Sri Lanka gained independence. Did you imagine a whole nation celebrating – with people sharing kiribath and wade, proudly hanging flags in their houses and waving them as they walked the streets dressed in their national costume? What if you [...]
Tea and dessert: Flavourful pairing at Park Street Mews
At the Park Street Mews kitchen, pastry chef P.D. Chaminda shows us how to plate this month’s special – Bailey’s pannacotta with strawberry granita and passion fruit sauce. First, he slices the pannacotta in half along with a few strawberries and places them neatly on a plate. Next he spoons the strawberry granita into a [...]
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Abstract and fluid creations
Bold, eye catching, sophisticated –adjectives which capture the essence of Sumali Piyatissa’s portraits for her upcoming exhibition “KOLORFLO”. This artist is as vibrant as the intensity of colour you see on her canvases, her artistry is painted with carefully maneuvered brush strokes making a clear white canvas a piece of art that anyone would be [...]
The healing power of travel
For Yaseen Khan, the founder of ‘Long Weekend Sri Lanka’ (LWSL), a lifestyle brand that is slowly gaining hype in the travel industry, believes ‘travel’ attests to a healthy lifestyle. Soon after graduation in 2009, Yaseen together with a few partners, started his own business -an inbound travel company. “When I was small, our family [...]
Button – up shirt outfits!
Work it! The most well-known purpose of the shirt is its perfect fit in the ‘work’ environment. It’s professional, stylish & sleek. So naturally blends well with the work wardrobe outfits. You can wear it with a neutral shade pant like Olivia Palmero did (see picture). You could even wear abright colored shirt for some [...]
BET AWARDS 2017 : Best Of Beauty
It was a big night for entertainment, as this year’s BET Awards took place Sunday night in Los Angeles. Hosted by the hilarious Leslie Jones, the annual awards show celebrated the top musical talent — and a memorable red carpet. Kendrick Lamar swept with Best Male Hip-Hop Artist, while Chance the Rapper was honored with BET’s humanitarian [...]
Ed Sheeran grants wish to terminally ill Australian fan
Ed Sheeran has granted a second wish to a terminally ill Australian fan. Sophia Gall a teenage fan from the State of Victoria had posted a social media message hoping to meet with Sheeran. Gall had met Sheeran one and half years ago in Australia. She is currently on a tour of Europe as her [...]
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Katy got third Number 1
Katy Perry claimed her third straight Number One album as her new LP Witness debuted atop the Billboard 200. Witness sold 180,000 total copies in its first week out, a significant dip from the 286,000 copies Prism sold when it was released in October 2013. Still, Witness – Perry’s third Number One after 2010’s Teenage Dream and Prism – had the best-selling week by a female artist [...]
‘Never Stop Moving’
‘Never Stop Moving’, the latest music video, depicting the wonders of Sri Lanka, featuring American pop and classical vocalist Casey Breves, had its grand Sri Lankan launch last week. Subsequently ‘Never Stop Moving’ was released in Los Angeles, USA and will be released worldwide. Aptly titled ‘Never stop moving’ the video produced and directed by [...]
Jude Ratnam reveals an unknown truth about the war
Sri Lanka’s first and only documentary film to go to prestigious Cannes Film Festival this year, Jude Ratnam’s ‘Demons in Paradise’, a mostly biographical cinematic venture, unearths the grisly bitter truth about Sri Lanka’s war from the point of view of an ‘insider’. Actual facts and real life incidents with classic cinematography–a montage of the [...]
‘Sinhaabahu’ in two cities
Prof. Sarachchandra’s ever-popular stylized drama, “Sinhabahu” will go on the boards today, July 2 at Negombo and on July 14 in Colombo. ‘Sinhabahu’ is a prescribed text for G. C. E O/L Sinhala syllabus. It will be staged at 3.30 p.m. and 6.45 p.m. today at Rukmani Devi Memorial Theatre in Negombo and at the [...]
Revisiting ‘Welikathara’
Digitally upgraded D. B. Nihalsinghe’s epic cinema direction ‘Welikathara’ is now being screened in several cinemas in Colombo and the outstation. Considered as DB’s best cinematic creation, ‘Welikathara’ also was one of the popular films with a box-office record in the 1970s. It is also marked as the first film shot in Cinemascope in Sri [...]
‘The Big Cat Man’:
World-renowned wildlife photographers and authors, Jonathon and Angela Scott; The Big Cat People, will be featured at the launch of highly anticipated autobiography ‘The Big Cat Man’ at the Cinnamon Grand next week. The exclusive event has been organized by Cinnamon Life together with HSBC to bring together keen wildlife enthusiasts from across the country, [...]