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An upcoming play in English features stripping, silk undies, and stacks of suggestion. But, asks Alix Norman, will we get to see any sex? A few years ago, a scientific ...

A comic and thought-provoking tale, caught in between two worlds, is coming to Limassol next month. Following its staging at the Athens Epidaurus Festival in 2021 in the framework of the 1821 ...

Where do you live? In Larnaca; the creative heart of Cyprus What did you have for breakfast? Frappé, black, no sugar, iced. Describe your perfect day Sunshine, friends laughing telling ...

Picture this: you spend the majority of your childhood jumping from hotel to hotel, living in luxurious suites all around the world, with no homework to worry about. Sounds like ...

Cravings are difficult to explain. They hit you suddenly and you have no choice but to either resist or give in to them and find a way to placate your ...

In a woman who burrows into strangers’ subconscious, THEO PANAYIDES finds a practitioner who likes calm, a positive mindset coach who has also been through some pretty bad times herself ...

By Michelle de Souza British comedy Romantic Getaway recently dropped on streaming service Binge and sees Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan as Alison and Deacon, a couple desperate for a ...

The island’s favourite sport and its troubled past are inextricably linked finds ALIX NORMAN, speaking to the co-curator of an exhibition that showcases football in Cyprus It’s a ...

With all the negativity in the world these days, feel-good series are the rise CONTANTINOS PSILLIDES has some suggestions to lift the mood Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+) Schmigadoon! tells the story ...

As part of NiMAC’s ongoing exhibition ‘we can only begin to notice’, which presents non-fiction films by female creators from Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora, comes a film screening ...

Over the last 70 years, Cyprus’ birth rate has plummeted. Alix Norman asks those who grew up in the 1950s what it was like to be surrounded by crowds of children ...

Where do you live? I live in Nicosia. What did you have for breakfast? I ate some fruit, yoghurt, and honey Describe your perfect day The perfect day starts with ...

The Korean show Tomorrow was an emotional roller-coaster ride, dealing with suicide and a team of grim reapers, called the Risk Management Team, that act as guardians trying to convince ...

In the cool of the mountain air, one village offers a glimpse of the island’s mediaeval past says PAUL LAMBIS It may be one of Cyprus’ 20 highest villages and ...

As we stepped inside the dimly-lit, wood-laden interior of the renovated, stone-built, erstwhile traditional Cypriot house that is the Cicchetteria, I thought of how fitting it was to be inside ...

It’s a long way to New Zealand from Cyprus but one diaspora group there keeps cultural ties strong finds PAUL LAMBIS Since its inception in 1938, the Cyprus Community of ...

In beatboxer Beardyman, THEO PANAYIDES finds a neurodivergent, restless and impulsive musician using technology to augment his human reality Greenland, notoriously, is not very green – and it must be said, ...

Lovers of classical music are in for a treat this month as the Larnaca Municipality organises another edition of the annual Classical Musical Festival. All month long, musical ensembles, orchestras ...

New facility to create the hospitality workers of the future is a game-changer for the industry in Cyprus finds PAUL LAMBIS Great things are expected from the Swiss traditional quality ...

Netflix’s Wellmania takes a humorous dive into the heady world of wellness says EDITH JENNIFER HILL What does it mean to be well? Wellmania, inspired by Brigid Delaney’s ...

One Cypriot mathematician is using her knowledge of the lives and deaths of ground breaking mathematicians to invite new interest in the subject that many detest. Alix Norman finds out ...

Where do you live? I have lived in Brussels since 2016 with two good friends and a cute cat What did you have for breakfast? I had my usual cappuccino and ...

The Hobbit, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter – all were originally written for children. And yet all have massive appeal to adults – especially when seen on screen. The Mysterious Benedict Society ...

It was one of those lazy days with nothing much really to do. Feeling like we didn’t want to waste any more time we got up and headed out, ...