Sweet moments with cake pops, cakesicles
Cake pops and cakesicles are the latest innovation from Colombo’s sweet-toothed creative home-bakers. Cake pops are small treats made out of cake batter and icing rolled into small balls; cakesicles are made in popsicle moulds and have a chocolate shell surrounding a blend of cake and icing. Both are becoming increasingly popular as party favourites [...]
Colombo Girl Guides come together virtually for Women’s Day
Due to the prevailing pandemic situation schools in the Western Province, especially, have seen their academic and extra-curricular calendars curtailed. Schools were closed on and off, extra-curricular activities were put on hold and academic activities were held online since last March, through platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams. However, undeterred by the restrictions, the [...]
Mirror
A time for Art
The local production of Yasmina Reza’s play, ART,puts friendship and art, and all the accompanying trappings of pretense and tolerance under the microscope… Colombo’s entertainment scene has been a haunted space for nearly a year now, with no onstage drama activity(although there’s been plenty off-stage). But with the Lionel Wendt announcing its re-opening, thespians are [...]
TV Times
‘Living on the Edge’: Redefine teenage and sportsmanship
Multi-faceted young singing sensation Mario Ananda Abeykoon, the son of late Gratien Ananda, will launch his newest ‘Mario Ananda YouTube Channel’ on April 6, 2021 along with his new sports related song The song ‘Living on the Edge’ (English) / ‘Randee Nosali’ (Sinhala). Mario Ananda Abeykoon came up with a new concept to uplift the [...]
The Embazzy Introduces celebrates fourth anniversary
The Embazzy Restaurant completes four years of operation, since opening in 2017 bringing the finest of international flavours across the globe and served in Lanka by four extensively travelling founders who indulge in multiple food escapades. Since its opening, the restaurant has catered to multiple modern cuisines by its travel curious owner, who has worked [...]
The reality behind Colombo
‘Colombo’ introducing a group of newcomers to Sri Lankan cinema, is now being screened in EAP circuit cinemas around the country. The film marks the screenplay and direction debut for budding filmmaker Asama Randhil Liyanage. It is a co-production of Anusha Sanjeewa, Ranjith Liyanage, Nimalika Perera, Harinda Achalanka Kulasuriya. For all of them it is [...]
Celebrating Francophonie Day with Cinema
Celebrating the International Francophonie Day on March 20, a series of events including annual Bonjour Cinema, French Film Festival have been organised by the diplomatic missions of Canada, France and Switzerland, together with the Alliance Française de Kotte and the French Teachers’ Association of Sri Lanka. In addition to film screenings nine other cultural and [...]
Goethe Institute shows film on triple talaq
Indian documentary ‘Holy Rights’ directed by award winning filmmaker Farha Khatun will go online at 6.30 pm on March 24 as part of film screenings of Goethe Institute, Colombo 7. The Kolkata-based filmmaker’s documentary on triple talaq won rave reviews at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival. Safia, a deeply religious Muslim woman from Bhopal [...]
‘Let Him Go’ Grandparents’ battle to save their grandson
‘Let Him Go’ Hollywood neo-Western film made by Thomas Bezucha, is a story about a retired sheriff and his wife who are grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson. Based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Larry Watson, the movie is produced, written and directed [...]