Finding the right fitness
Their interest in strength training and conditioning stem from their days of playing rugby for their schools. For Shuaib Jabbar, the level of training and the carefully designed routines at Royal College gave him a taste of the subject. Similarly Darren Hakel wanted to learn more about health and fitness after playing for the rugby [...]
Let’s do the salsa and cha-cha!
Star Latino’s Dance Academy held a launch event to mark their tie-up with the Movenpick Hotel in Colombo as a venue for their dance courses. Aiming to become the country’s premier Salsa and Latin American dance institute, the Academy with lead dance instructor Kasun Dias is looking to create a larger dancing community and promote [...]
A chef on a mission to serve you the best of Thai
Chef Dao came to Sri Lanka from Thailand in 2002 and started Dao’s Kitchen as a way of “bringing Bangkok to Sri Lanka”. Having been catering and doing home deliveries since 2004, going on to open her first outlet back in 2016 on Galle Road, she has recently relocated and expanded Dao’s Kitchen at its [...]
Walking the talk on mental health
Pedestrians across Colombo were recently treated to a rare sight of over a hundred people walking and talking, bearing signs and banners encouraging more people to TALK and Walk. Walking all the way from Galle Face to Independence Square, the walk met up with a host of riders as they reached the square, tired, spent, [...]
Mirror
First look at the RX 6000 series graphics cards
With the imminent launch of Nvidia’s RTX 30 series “Ampere” graphics cards, fans of team Red (no pun intended) are eagerly awaiting a word from AMD about their upcoming graphics cards as well. Following in the footsteps of AMD’s RDNA architecture, the RDNA 2 architecture cards, codenamed “Big Navi” have been confirmed for launch on [...]
TV Times
Falan: The star is born
Falan Andrea was crowned winner at the grand finale of Derana Dream Star Season 9 held last week. The ninth season of Derana Dream Star came to a conclusion at the National Youth Services Council in Maharagama, amidst grandiose festivities last night. Three contestants, Gihan Bandara, Nuwandhika Senaratne, and Falan Andrea, contested for the grand [...]
ABBA reunion delayed until 2021
The Swedish pop greats ABBA have been promising a reunion for four years now. First there was talk of a hologram tour, despite all four of the ABBAs being alive, and then in 2018 there was talk of new music. Nothing has materialised. Earlier this year, the group’s Benny Andersson gave an update that new music was to be [...]
Lankan arts to commemorate Russian War
The annual exhibition of paintings by students of the Art School of the Russian Cultural Centre in Colombo, this year held under the motto ‘Victory and Peace’ and dedicated to the main anniversary date of the year – the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition was solemnly opened by Chief [...]
Gehan’s Hollywood movie wins the Best Comedy award
Sri Lankan filmmaker, Gehan Cooray’s Hollywood film, ‘The Billionaire’ has won the Best Comedy Feature Film at the Burbank International Film Festival recently. This is a historic win for the young Sri Lankan-American filmmaker for his debut feature length movie. ‘The Billionaire’ is Gehan’s very own screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, ‘The Millionairess’. [...]
Sandun’s Sci-Fi to premiere at Screamfest Film Festival
The Screamfest Horror Film Festival, one the world’s biggest genre film festivals, recently announced its selection of ‘Vikaari’, a Sri Lankan movie by Sandun Seneviratne and British Filmmaker Charlie Bray to be screened in its competition later this year. This makes it the first Sri Lankan film to be selected by Screamfest, placing it [...]
Rookada Penchi in theatres now
Award winning filmmaking brothers Kalapana and Vindana Ariyawansa’s newest film ‘Rookada Penchi’ or ‘Little Miss Puppet’, a much awaited family entertainment was released on last Thursday, September 24. An EAP release, the film is now being screened at Regal Colombo, Savoy cinemas and other theatres around the country. Elevan-year-old Rangi is the only daughter in [...]
In memory of Gamini
Gamini Fonseka, who is known as a the Crown king of Sri Lanka’s silver screen died on September 30, 2004 Born on March 21, 1936 Gamini joined cinema as an assistant to Willie Blake who was doing “Rekhawa” (Silver Line) with Dr. Lester James Peries. Over the years he has played over 100 films and [...]
Theatre goes to Negombo
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, theatre is getting back to normal and plays are now being organised in the outstation as well. As one of the first outstation locations to open theatres, a two-day theatre festival will be held in Negombo on October 3 and 4. Prof. Ediriweera Sarathchandra’s “Pematho Jayathi Soko”, a play prescribed text [...]