Entertainment

8΄20” is the distance in light minutes between the earth and the sun. It is also the title of a new exhibition that opens in Nicosia this month showcasing the works ...

Revisiting a restaurant is always tricky. If your previous experience was positive, it raises expectations and thus widens the scope for disappointment. On the other hand, if things weren’t ...

The Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Film Festival (AEI Cyprus Film Festival) this year celebrates five years with a rich and diverse programme that includes screenings of 60 Cypriot and ...

A rural music project that started in 2005 made its comeback this year, bringing live music nights to various villages around Cyprus. Music in the Mountains takes local established musicians to ...

Netflix upended the global entertainment industry about a dozen years ago with a streaming video service that rendered network television programming schedules and movie screening times all but irrelevant. Now, ...

An alternative cycling tour will take place in Nicosia this Saturday, weather permitting, and it seeks to lead participants around the capital, exploring ways to make Nicosia more sustainable. Organised ...

Arts and craft markets and pop-up bazaars are back! As we enter the autumn and winter months, the anticipated season of markets begins and before all of the annual Christmas ...

Two evenings of thrilling classical music are coming up in Nicosia and Limassol as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra prepares for new concerts. The next performance series celebrate 60 years of diplomatic ...

A new virtual museum is setting itself up as a safe space where memories, photos and other material of Varosha and its surrounds can be shared. MELISSA HEKKERS finds out ...

Cypriot artist Dimitrios Ikonomou is currently presenting his fourth solo exhibition, at Alpha CK Art Gallery, until the end of the month. Titled Look How Far You Have Flown with ...

According to Ovid’s version of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, Pygmalion is a Cypriot sculptor who, horrified at the sexual licentiousness of his female compatriots, becomes celibate and ...

The Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus organise another edition of the Weeks of the German Language this autumn. Aiming at promoting multilingualism in Cyprus and contributing ...

‘Tis the spookiest month of them all, and Halloween is lurking just around the corner. Though it is a fairly recent trend to celebrate Halloween on the island, more and ...

Preparations are in full swing for the Limassol Art Walks 2022 which will launch a series of simultaneous art happenings on October 21, 22 and 23. Within the framework of the project, a series ...

After the success of Rings of Power, CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES looks at what the future could hold for Tolkien fans Rings of Power, Amazon Studios’ ambitious series both in scope and ...

Big or short, the art of films is mesmerising and a day after the world celebrates International Animation Day, a series of short film screenings will take place around the ...

The first annual Limassol Art Walks will take place in the heart of the old city next weekend, inviting the public to engage with the town’s art spaces and ...

There must be something in the autumnal air that calls out to art exhibitions as dozens are opening around the island this season. Limassol art space The Edit Gallery is ...

The AG Leventis Gallery is piloting an innovative programme on art psychotherapy for the elderly. Running until mid-November, the programme will be carried out encouraging the older generation to come ...

October’s third weekend is looking to be a rainy one as autumn begins to make its appearance. Fear not though culture lovers, lots of events are still being planned ...

Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish-born actor who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has died at the age of 72, his agent said on Friday. Coltrane’s more than four-decade-long ...

Do we need more events happening in public, open spaces? Always. A new initiative brings the first edition of a festival that aims to fill the streets with creativity and ...

There’s no business like showbusiness, right? TV series Hollywood knows all about that as it follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers in a post-World War II Hollywood ...

“Being Parisian is not being born in Paris, it’s being reborn there,” French film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre Sacha Guitry once said, and his ...