Cut, Craft, Create is organizing a pre-Christmas sale at K-Zone at Katubedda, Moratuwa on the 1st of December. There will a be a variety of crafted and stitched gift items and a selection of season greeting cards/general greeting cards at an affordable price.
Sri Lanka’s got a pretty burgeoning metal/rock scene with some bands even making a name for themselves in Malaysia & the Maldives, which is a solid for our little island & something to be proud of. Most of these bands are kids that teach themselves instruments, write their own songs & have the added hurdle of combating parents with sensitive aural frequencies and too wide a generation gap. ...
Sri Lanka’s original rock scene has long been creative, loud, and proud. This weekend, the Colombo Music Festival is featuring some of Sri Lanka’s most established and upcoming young rockers at the British School Auditorium, on Baseline Road near the Kanatte Roundabout. Stigmata www.facebook.com/stigmatasrilanka R.A.G.E www.facebook.com/rage.officialpage CryWolf www.facebook.com/crywolf.sl N.A.M.B Rocky Road www.facebook.com/RockyRoadMusic Magician’s ToolBox www.facebook.com/pages/Magician
‘Widows’, a play by Ariel Dorfman, directed by Feroze Kamardeen is being performed at the Lionel Wendt between the 23rd and 25th of November as a part of the Noir Theatre Fest 2012. We haven’t managed to find a copy of the 2012 schedule online yet, but the Noir Theatre Fest has been running for a while now and they ...
The Colombo Music Festival is hosting an evening of classical music at the Waters Edge Grand Ballroom, Friday the 24th (today) from 6-7:30 PM. The show features: Ramya De Livera Perera Soundarie David Ananda Dabare Tanya Ekanayake Surekha Amerasinghe These are classically trained artists on piano, violin, flute, etc. Tickets are available at Rs. 1,000, 2,000 and 3,000.
We’ve been looking forward to the opening of the refurbished Racecourse Grounds in Cinnamon Gardens. The old Dutch Hospital in Fort was renovated by the same authorities recently and they pretty much got it spot on, turning it into a lovely courtyard encircled by good restaurants and shops (see Ministry of Crab, Heladiv Tea Club, The Brewery by O!). Since ...
Down South (ie. Hikkaduwa, Galle, Unwatuna, Mirissa) is pretty popular for weekends, long weekends and general seasonal festivities. But with Hikkaduwa becoming slightly passe, the crowd’s edged a little further down the coast to settle alongside Unawatuna’s turquoise waters. Here you get a cluster of beachside restaurants and bars unfurled across the bay’s curving shore, each conforming to typical beachside ...
They’ve started laying sandbags for the second Colombo Night Race on December 14th and 15th, turning the streets of downtown Colombo into a racetrack for everything from McClarens to motorcycles. Last year’s Night Races were quite the event, though be advised that the events start late and that ticketing is somewhat opaque. CSN is sponsoring the event but all of ...
The oldest of Colombo’s Bombay sweet houses remains the best place in the city to grab some Indian Sweets. This Colpetty institution however isn’t just a great place to sample laddoo, muscat, barfi, and jalebi, it’s also basically the best café space in the city. While modern Starbucks imitators have tried to create a Colombo café culture with 300 rupee ...
Dominic Kellar is hosting a pub crawl across five venues in a double decker bus on Saturday, November 24th. People meetup at 6:30, pay Rs. 2,500 and are transported between Manchester (new to us, apparently near the Royal Sports Complex, near Independence Square), CR&FC, The Keg (Excel World), the Union Bar And Grill (JAIC Hilton), and the Echelon Pub (Hilton). ...
This is a very underrated bit of Colombo beach-front. While Mt Lavinia has been a beach destination for over a 100 years and the Beach Wadiya has been drawing Colombars down to Wellawatte’s little cove for decades Dehiwala’s own Golden mile (well 400 meters) has long been overlooked. By the standards of Colombo beaches though this is a fine sweep ...
Cafe Japan has been around for ages – since around 2000, I think. It used to be located on Ward Place and then Duplication Road, but now it’s in a house off Marine Drive. You can dine in (best if you make a reservation) but it seems to function primarily as a delivery/take away service. It probably stands without much ...
We recently discovered a new restaurant – just opposite The Cricket Club – called The Boulevard. Has anyone been here? We wandered in to have a quick look but didn’t order anything. The place is surprisingly large. You can see a few chairs and tables from outside, but once you go in there are several other sections and a ...
The view from the Harbour Room, GOH. Click to see it large. This is the view from the tiny terrace of the Grand Oriental Hotel’s Harbour Room. It’s quite possibly the best view in Colombo. We can’t think of anything better. Galle Face Green at sunset is excellent… and that’s about it. Nothing captures the urbanity, history and seaside character ...
The Colombo City Hostel doesn’t open until December 1st. A hostel might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world but anyone whose made a visit to Thailand’s Khao San road can vouch for the fact that communal accommodation can really liven up a neighborhood. More importantly hostels also help foster a more vibrant and diverse travel scene; ...
Here’s a place we really wanted to like. A range of East Asian food that extends far beyond the usual Sri Lankan-Chinese staples, made by people who seem know to what they are doing, delivered quickly to your door. The offerings include char kway teow, mee siam, sea food laksa – really a few steps beyond the standard sweet and ...
Asia’s biggest music festival & winner of 2011 WOW awards will be in Colombo on 6 October 2012. With a long line up of DJ’s, including Nikhil Chinappa (who you may remember from MTV india) & DJ Afrojack, this festival should be drawing in a pretty eclectic crowd. Birthed in Goa, the vibes will probably be beachy-rave, so go comfy & buy some ...
Someone said these guys did a good milk shake so while taking a little walk around Cinnamon Gardens we dropped in for some thick and callorific, barley liquid refreshment. They’ve got a pretty distinctive shop front and its great to have another place you can just drop into in Colombo 7, which due to the large distances between shops and ...
Run For Their Lives is a 5k charity run around Independence Square to fight cancer. It’s organized by the Colombo Uptown Rotaract club and we’ve participated before, it’s good fun and for a good cause. It’s also one race you can perhaps feel like you’re winning, because there’s sure to be a few good-hearted people in worse shape than you. ...
YAMU in the October issue of the LT An article by YAMU’s Indi Samarajiva (AKA me) was in last month’s LT magazine. We just got a look at it. We’re featuring the text from the article below. Colombo doesn’t come with a user manual. One way streets, moon-based holidays, nothing is self-evident. You have to know, or you have ...
