On August 17th the Colombo Philharmonic Choir will perform ‘Lux Aeterna’, an evening of choral music at the beautiful St. Andrew’s Scots Kirk Church. We were luck enough to catch them practicing and can’t recommend the evening highly enough. St. Andrew’s is a beautiful, historic and peaceful inter-denominational church and should be a lovely acoustic and aesthetic setting for an evening ...
The Big Ears music nights are back, a soulful, innovative and improvisational show hosted at Music Matters from 8 PM onwards, this Friday. This time the featured artists include Darren Moore, a Singapore/Australia based musician and drummer who is also conducting a workshop on Carnatic Rhythms the next day. The artists for this night also Isuru Kumarasinghe, Eshanta Peiris, Sumudi ...
Darren Moore, a musician from Singapore/Australia, is holding a workshop at Music Matters on Carnatic rhythm concepts. The free workshop will be held from 12-2 PM this Saturday the 11th.
The YAMU canines were being walked in Battaramulla when we came across a rather interesting bus stop. Alongside Parliament road, on the new Diyawanna walkway, a large translucent leaf arches over the pavement, giving shade to bus commuters and pedestrians desiring reprieve from the vicious midday sun. Colombo’s bus shelters – where present – are rarely more than random ...
The Colombo Pub Quiz has hopped bars and finally settled at the Barefoot Garden Cafe. Every Wednesday at 8:30 (PM) people gather into teams to answer questions about news, sports, movies, music and whatever random questions the quizmaster Jehan Mendis comes up with. This is a funny, interactive and adult quiz, FYI. There’s a prize, usually a Barefoot voucher, sometimes ...
Il Gelato, which we like, has introduced a new dog ice cream. We like dogs, so we thought we’d try it out. First off, the price is grievously offensive. Rs. 280 for an 80gm tub. As a comparison, 1,000 grams of Elephant House ice cream costs Rs. 220. Seriously, this ice cream costs 15 times more than the human ...
It’s nice when a new dining or drinking place comes up in the Havelock Town area and Qbaa is both. Owned by cricketer-turned-politician Sanath Jayasuriya, it has opened its doors within the past few weeks on De Fonseka Road. Like a fair number of Colombo hostelries, Qbaa has something of the feel of a residential house – perhaps the building ...
We like it. Colombo needs more adult bars where you can have decent drinks, be treated civilly, hear each others conversation and listen to music. 41 Sugar has all of the above in a beautiful and open location. Cheers.
So, we were in that deadzone – round three o’clock – where nobody delivers. Except for the pizza joints – Pizza Hut, Domino’s and our local competitor Harpo’s. Harpo’s is a usual favorite so we decided to try Pizza Hut. Why? Because they have an app. The team at MicroImage has developed an Android smartphone app that lets you order ...
I’d never been to a Ruwanthi de Chickera production until yesterday, when I decided to check out Kalumaali, which is on the boards now at the Lionel Wendt (check out the event page for details). Kalumaali is what it says on the flyer- a fairy tale for grown ups. More specifically, it’s a tribute to women (especially mothers) and a ...
Hungry like the wolf? Well head to Chatham Street and the Pagoda Tea Rooms. If you don’t get the reference it’s to one of those classic 80′s tunes by that archetype 80’s band Duran Duran. From somewhere in England with floppy blonde hair, ripped jeans and a sound between rock and pop with some synthesizers thrown in they were THE ...
A fundraising event for TEDxYouth@Colombo who aims to showcase ideas that can ultimately make an impact in the local community. Enjoy a night of live music, fun and much, much more! Set in a colonial warehouse opposite Elphinstone Theatre, one of the oldest theatres in Sri Lanka, in the middle of line houses, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connections.
The Big Ears music series takes place at Musicmatters every other Friday. The students at Musicmatters are talented and skilled. The setting is cosy – it’s a small room but you can bring your own drinks, sit on the floor and chill to good sounds. Everyone’s pretty friendly and it’s always nice to try something a bit different. This Friday ...
Ah, Fab. It’s been around longer than we can remember – since 1979 to be precise – and has consistently been keeping Colombo happy with short eats, cakes and sweets. We like Fab. Their stuff is generally good – well-filled pastries, generously iced cakes and a fairly decent lamprais (even if not authentic). Most bites will come to under Rs. ...
Hansa Cafe during a poetry reading Dropped by our favorite local coffee house the other day, mainly to sate a craving for their excellent brownies. The good news is that they seem to have listened to our advice and actually installed a new air conditioner- this makes a huge difference. The bad news is that the brownie (Rs 125) was ...
PIX is a quarterly photography magazine published in India that functions on open submissions, which are then selected & published. What’s cool about them is that they focus predominately on South Asia & the ability of photography in our countries ‘to reveal, censor, alter and re-orient‘. They’ve chosen the greats & the evolving young photographers of Sri Lanka to feature in their new issue under the ...
Dinemore’s never struck me as an exceptional place. I’ve always enjoyed the food and found it tasty, but it’s not the kind of place I’d actively choose to go to – it was more of an oh it’s just round the corner or grab a quick bite sort of place. It’s been around since 1998, and I’ve still only ever ...
Is any one else really excited about this? The exhibit will apparently showcase 700 inventions within 22 technical fields and Tokyo Cement & United Motors will support (guess this means fund) a suitable invention. Sri Lankans rarely get the green light to think outside the box (or just think) but when they do it can be quite amazing, just look at the agricultural inventions of the ancient kings to ...
Biryani. It’s a word and a celebration. Eid, Diwali, weddings, birthdays, funerals… If it’s an occasion, in this part of the world, you’ve just got to have those golden grains of stock cooked rice, that savoury boiled egg, tender pieces of spiced meat and the condiments- a bit of pickle and green coconut sambol to add that sweetness and ...
