Colombo’s Dutch Hospital (near the World Trade Center) is the coolest place to hang out right now. It gets a bit cooler with music from the trio of Suran, Hirantha and Gananath and Koei Tanaka (Harmonica) and Shigeru Sawamura (Keyboard).
Sugarland is a tiny little bakery in Havelock Town, located behind The Souq and Lil’ Orbits. Unlike some of the palatial bakeries you get here (BreadTalk, etc.), they have very little space – like two perches or so. Yet from this small space, they sell some very nice cupcakes. These don’t come in many flavours – mainly just vanilla and ...
If you’ve not got your fill of electronic dance music by now or feel this genre’s been under represented, RELAX, Rize bar’s got you covered with a night of nothing but 100% EDM. As their Facebook page says “It’s Simple.. This night is about Drinking.. Getting Tipsy and Going Home Wasted !! And not forgetting Dancing and Grooving like Crazy.” ...
The Closenberg Hotel in Galle sounds like a fun place to celebrate Halloween this year. On the 2nd of November the haunted mansion, sorry hotel, will be completely reserved for the Halloween party LunaSea (lunacy, luna-sea, get it?), with special rates on all rooms. Entrance is free and costumes are encouraged. You can look forward to some wicked brew from ...
A play directed by Ruwanthie de Chickera From the 13th to the 16th of September 7.15 p.m. at the Lionel Wendt Starring: Irangani Serasinghe Peter D’Almeida Kaushalya Fernando Lakmini Seneviratne Nadie Kammallaweera
Now I don’t shop for dresses too often but if I did this is where I’d go. Hidden down Visakha private road (the turn off before House of Fashion) the Melache boutique clothing store stocks the creations of half a dozen local designers. While ‘local designer’ long been a snigger inducing term, a few minutes of browsing in Melache you’ll ...
There’s not much information regarding this event but it will be featuring Dj’s Shiyam, Tim Claessan & Wendell Thiele – who are minor celebrities & have a raver following – so.. good?
Yaal vs Yarl (they both mean Jaffna) Another day another crab. Today I hit up Yaal Restaurant the cleaner, brighter better ventilated rival of my beloved Yarl Eat House for my fix. Now I don’t generally believe that scrupulous hygiene adds too much to food. Passable hygiene, solid customer demand and fresh food is usually enough for me. If you do like your tables gleaming, your waiters ...
The Big Ears music series takes place at Musicmatters every other Friday. Tonight, however, is a special concert featuring Quincy Saul on the clarinet from New York, as well as regulars Sarani Perera, Uvindu Perera and Sumudi Suraweera. This should be really good and you can look forward to some chilled jazz and Sri Lankan folk fusion. The students at ...
It’s Wednesday, which means it’s Ladies Night at certain clubs and bars across the city. Wednesdays are pretty popular ‘going out’ nights and some of our bars have surprisingly good deals (although some of them are on Thursday). We called a few places to find out where you can get yourself a few free drinks – the safe way. ...
An exhibition of enamel & metal painting & sculptures by Layla Gonaduwa. Inspired by current developments within Hambantota & the renewal of hope within its community that the artist feels has been long ignored, the sculptures resemble magnified pieces of jewellery, which is kinda cool. Personally, pieces 22 & 23 are especially pretty and her use of blown glass, 14k ...
Local Instagrammers ventured out to Slave Island, poked around the dodgy Castle Hotel, tramped around the vicinity, and got mobbed by a group of kids who stole all our icecream.
Hazari’s is a new Arabic food joint on the newly expanded Thimbirigasaya Road, near Fife. It’s gotten rave reviews from food blogger Kaemadasa, and we thought we’d check it out ourselves. The verdict? Meh. As an executive summary, let’s say that it’s cheap, fast, but not extraordinarily tasty food. The Taste The food is good, but not amazing. It’s not ...
ARTRA magazine is being launched this Saturday at the new Cotton Collection with a big festival of music, installation art and design. The Music Matters musicians are truly incredibly and worth catching any time possible. They’re performing along with many other bands, poets, installation artists and more. Well worth a visit, and one presumes the magazine is worth a read. ...
It gives YAMU great pleasure to report that one of the most distinctive and attractive eating/sleeping/drinking spaces in the city is back in business and in good form. Years ago the people behind Casa Colombo took an outrageous, opulent but utterly neglected mansion in an unlikely neighborhood and restored it. They then went someway beyond restoration to make what is arguably Colombo’s boldest design statement. It ...
I remember the initial hype around this place concerned the fact that they sold Starbucks coffee and used only Starbucks coffee beans in their brews. As I wasn’t entirely convinced that Colombo really needed another Starbucks imitator/clone (we already have Barista , Coffee Bean) I didn’t make any special attempt to reach Java Lounge. Even though their JawatteRoad location always ...
Colombo’s got a lot of great home bakers. There are the big names like Monique and Sita (both so good, reviews coming soon), but then there’s also the ones you stumble upon at a birthday when someone’s like wow who made that cake? I recently came across a box of lavender coloured French macarons at my aunt’s house. French macarons ...
Wroom’ve organised another bike to work day and since Friday’s no longer a holiday (thank you SLMPA) you can work off the sorrow with a little sweat…better than tears right? Experiencing the insane traffic belts between 6.30 & 8.30 is no joke for any Colombar and a definite salute is in order for those behind this, but it is so ...
Ballroom and Latin American dancers from twenty countries across Asia and Europe will be competing in the dance competition Dancesport 2012. It’s hosted by Footwork Events, and this is the seventeenth or nineteenth year in which it’s being held – it says seventeen on the poster and nineteen on the website. Perhaps they mean eighteen. We’ve never been to one ...
