Too good to eat!
Multi-coloured mermaid tails, with gold detailing and cookies influenced by just anything and everything – TV shows, movies and books. Lotsa Dough’s custom cookies have something for everyone, although you might feel eating them is a shame since they look so beautiful. Simply not just cookies, Lotsa Dough creates edible art. Lotsa Dough started seven [...]
Weaving her own little web of handmade craft
Yashi Silva always had a penchant for handcraft ever since she was young. Now as an adult, wanting to do something with her passion, she started an online store, ‘Cobwebs Craft’ on Instagram a mere six months ago. The online platform allows her to sell her handmade products which include but are not limited to [...]
Cheers to Hamlet at Elsie’s Bar
We can’t get away from Shakespeare. His plays, sonnets, ideas and words are omnipresent in our culture and to resist is futile. But, who is this man really? And where do his ideas comes from? Feroze Kamardeen (Pusswedilla, Freddy) takes a stab at answering this with ‘Hamlet at Elsie’s’ Bar’. An original musical comedy that [...]
Mirror
Bearing it all: An out of the ordinary performance
After having fought hard in a competitive finale, it was Trinity College that claimed the coveted winning title in the Boys’ category at the recently concluded Shakespeare Drama Competition organised by Colombo YMCA and Rotary Club of Colombo North. The school put on a rendition of the famous ‘Romeo and Juliet’ that stood out, due [...]
English Literary Association of Loyola College, Daluwakotuwa hosts inter-school debating competition
The English Literary Association of Loyola College, Daluwakotuwa recently hosted an inter-school debating competition, by the title “PARABO”, ‘ready for anything’. The competition was held for the first time in both the Loyolian and the Negombo zonal history. According to a release from the school the inter-school debating competition saw the participation of 10 guest [...]
RIP iTunes: Apple kills music-subscription service replaces it with three separate apps
It has been months in the making, but Apple has finally killed off iTunes. The tech giant released the latest software for Macs, omitting the music-subscription service and replaced it with three new apps. Called macOS Catalina, the update includes Apple TV, Apple Music and Podcasts, allowing users to organize their media into separate places [...]
Turning heads with her talent
In a world full of budding musicians, Ashanya Premadasa is turning heads with her display of talent at a very young age. Ashanya, who is turning 16 this year, is a student at Ashanthi’s School Of Music. “I’ve been singing since the age of 5” Ashanya shared with us. “Singing has always been something I [...]
Trying out the SLBC Radio App
When it comes to music streaming, Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer are our go-to apps. But what about radio? Online radio apps are a dime-a-dozen on the Google Play Store. But one specific radio app caught our attention. This was the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) Radio App. The SLBC is by far the oldest [...]
Music News
Wham singer Andrew Ridgeley to release book – ‘Wham! George & Me’ Andrew Ridgeley who was one half of the band Wham with late George Michael has written a book ‘Wham! George & Me’. In a BBC Radio 2 interview on 1st October he said he hoping it would be adapted as a biopic for [...]
TV Times
CMSC commemoration of Easter Sunday victims
The Chamber Music Society of Colombo conducted by Gregory Rose perform Fauré’s Requiem on 19th of October at 7.30 pm at All Saints Church, Borella. Six months after the tragic events of Easter Sunday, 2019, the Chamber Music Society of Colombo (CMSC) and conductor Gregory Rose will seek to bring peace and solace to the [...]
‘Muthu Ahurak’ short drama festival by MAF
Moratuwa Arts Forum (MAF) will be presenting a short drama festival on Saturday 19th October at 6.30 pm at the Buddhist Hall Auditorium, Moratuwa as their first project of the 25th Anniversary year. Five numbers of short stage dramas titled ‘Wendesiya’, ‘Sekku Gedera’, ‘Apooru Madhusamaya’, ‘Yuga Bheeshana’ directed by MAF President Lucky Deva, Rohan Priyadharshana, [...]
‘Gemini Man’ is here
Hollywood sci-fi thriller movie ‘Gemini Man’ directed by Ang Lee is now being screened at the leading theatres in Colombo and the suburbs. Starring Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, and Benedict Wong in the lead, the film follows a hitman who is targeted by a younger clone of himself. A 20-year dragged film [...]
Summer of cinema from Europe
The cinema enthusiasts, European film lovers and students in cinema will have yet another opportunity to experience some of the latest films made in the European region with the 11th European Film Festival here in Colombo. Organised by the delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka, the festival will be held from October 18 [...]
Science Film festival at Goethe hall
In celebration of science communication in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, the Goethe Institute Colombo presents Science Film festival starting from this week. The official opening of the Festival and screening of first film ‘Checker Tobi and Our Planet’s Secret’ will take place at 10:30 am on October 17 [...]
‘Joker’ climbs on October Box-office ladder
On a box-office record journey, ‘Joker’ which earned an astonishing US dollars 260 million in its global debut, is now being screened successfully in Sri Lanka. ‘Joker’ which set box office records for an October release, grossed over US dollars 100 million in North America while in other 73 markets internationally it earned US dollars [...]
‘Chopstick Travel’: Jaffna: A Culinary Adventure
Under the Sri Lanka Tourism’s Travel Blogger and Influencer Programme, Luke Martin and Sabrina Davidson of ‘Chopstick Travel’ – the popular Food Travel based YouTube channel visited Sri Lanka recently to explore Sri Lanka’s culinary diversity filled with rich flavours. ‘Chopstick Travel’ is one of the growing international culinary travel channels on YouTube boasts over [...]
IHS begins its new semester
The new intake for the current 2019/2020 batch has begun their culinary experience at the International Hotel School of Mount Lavinia Hotel. The International Hotel School of Mount Lavinia Hotel is the oldest private school in Sri Lanka and has a history of 28 years. It is the only Hotel school which is linked to [...]