Entertainment

Sooner or later, the streets of your youth – so lively and lush and cool – sit still on a gallery wall. Former haunts seem dozy and distant in their polite frames, ...

In true summer fashion, this weekend is dedicated to the island’s festivals. A handful of them are on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, bringing festive, cheerful times to every ...

Inspiring stories are coming to Kalopanayiotis village as the second edition of Pop Up Talks, Stories That Inspire is set to take place in the first week of August. Following ...

The K-Cineplex cinema at the Mall of Cyprus closed for good on Sunday. The cinema had been open for 17 years. Announcing the closure, the Mall of Cyprus expressed its “gratitude” ...

Just as August arrives another traditional festival is added to the summer agenda. Celebrating arts, culture and local life, the village of Ayios Theodoros in Larnaca hosts a three-day festival ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nicosia’s food scene is growing. Slowly and perhaps rather unilaterally – most new restaurants, in fact, still pander to ...

Festival season remains strong this summer. In between the big concerts featuring local artists and musicians from abroad are local festivals that celebrate the produce and traditions of Cyprus. Coming ...

A new group exhibition in Paphos brings the island’s contemporary art scene together to honour the transformation and legacy of a hotel. Curated by Andros Efstathiou, the Metamorphosis exhibition ...

At the very end of Rufi Thorpe’s fourth novel, her narrator and eponymous protagonist declares, ‘…that’s all art is, in the end. One person trying to get another ...

This summer is not short of live music performances and just before July ends, new melodious proposals arrive to fill the evenings. Trio Rondine will perform at the Technopolis 20 garden ...

Just when we thought Fork Food market had packed its bags for the summer, it returns for one more occasion in a brand-new location. The street food team will head ...

Deadpool & Wolverine opens this week and is projected to not only be the biggest commercial success of the summer (expected to make over $165 million on opening weekend, which will ...

Get ready for a film night out of this world. The Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation and Cyprus Comic Con organise the Stardust International Space & Science Film Festival – an evening ...

For those staying on the island this July and August, fear not, there is plenty to enjoy. After all, we are a summer destination. Among the busy cultural agenda of ...

As July’s bright and captivating full moon makes its grand appearance in the night sky a local NGO organises a poetry night in Nicosia with eight exceptional young poets. ...

The summer period is not usually a busy time for exhibitions, new ones at least, yet the island’s art scene is very much alive and just before July ends, ...

Cyprus is definitely having its music moment this year as more and more international stars add it to their touring schedule. No complaints from music fans and as the summer ...

One squirrel has the caloric equivalent of two pizza slices. Fish-head soup is better with lingonberries. The semi-digested contents of a rabbit’s entrails are nutritious and delicious. Fun facts ...

Bob Newhart, who fled the tedium of an accounting job to become a master of stammering, deadpan humor as a standup comedian and later as a U.S. television sitcom ...

Beer lovers rejoice! The 6th edition of MedFest – Limassol Beer Festival is about to begin. And it is not just beer enthusiasts that the festival will gather through its five ...

Live music sounds can be found all around the island these months as festivals and concerts make up a big part of the cultural agenda. Local musicians and invited stars ...

2024 marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion, and throughout the year several events and cultural performances remember that harrowing summer of 1974 that changed the course of history for the island and ...

Music, dancing and theatre is what this weekend has in store! Culture lovers and fiesta-goers in every corner of the island will have something to enjoy this Friday, Saturday and ...

Cyprus’ villages have been known to welcome music festivals for years yet the forests, not so much. So the arrival of a music festival at the Forest Theatre in Kato ...