Bar review: Reckless Bar, Nicosia
By Gina Agapiou Even if you have never been to Reckless bar, you must have seen people wearing one of their famous T-shirts with its...
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It’s ashure thing
Traditionally, ashure – a dessert porridge also known as ‘Noah’s Pudding’ – is served in Muslim countries during or after the 10th of Muharram, the...
Celebrating carobs
The carob, an iconic product of Cyprus, is often described as ‘black gold’, not just in our local tradition generally but also, more specifically, in...
Spiritual workshop connects healing with colour
What spiritual healing and colour have in common may not be that clear to all, yet young psychic medium Giorgos Papageorgiou sees a deep connection...
Café Balkan returns to the stage
Five years after their last appearance at Axiothea Mansion, Café Balkan returns to Cyprus with new music, accompanied by Pavlina Konstantopoulou on vocals, Apostolos Sideris...
Alfred de Musset’s masterpiece in Cyprus
One of today’s leading Greek directors, Yiannis Iordanidis, arrives in Cyprus to present one of Alfred de Musset’s most famous works Lorenzaccio at the Kypria...
The sounds of Cyprus
Opening the World Music Festival in Paphos is a journey through the sounds of traditional Greek and Cypriot instruments. On Friday Georgia Kombou and Antigoni...
Film through the decades: 1959
Here’s the last instalment of ‘Through the Decades’, our summer feature going back through film history a decade at a time. 1959 FACTS AND FIGURES:...
Upcoming festival focuses on local music and art
Flying Away. It’s what we all wish we were doing at this time of year, isn’t it: jumping on a plane for a marvellous month...
Final concert of the Big Choir project
Featuring the sounds of Manos Hadjidakis and Mikis Theodorakis, as well other classical composers, the Big Choir Project completes its summer tours on Friday in...
Musical encounter between Andria Antoniou and Roman Gomez
Having released their new album Encuentro, Andria Antoniou and Roman Gomez are on a roll to introduce the Cypriot public to their new body of...
A late-summer organ recital
The church organ in Ayia Kyriaki (St Paul’s Pillar) in Paphos is the Ahlborn 111 Classical Organ, and “no other musical instrument is so firmly...
Film review: Escape Plan: The Extractors *
By Preston Wilder There’s no escape in Escape Plan: The Extractors (the third in the franchise, after last year’s enjoyably ludicrous Escape Plan 2: Hades)...
Fighting and suffering: exhibition honours Poles in the war
By Irena Lichnerowicz-Augustyn The tragic tenacity with which Poland fought the Nazi invasion on September 1, 1939 is the theme of a poignant photographic exhibition...
Danish band take in Limassol as part of 109-day tour
One hundred and nine days of touring Europe and beyond, performing at different venues, some in established stages and others in DIY shows will see...
The last of Constantia Summer Cinema
As with many years in the past, the Constantia Open-Air Cinema in Nicosia has been offering outdoor screenings of local and foreign cinema since the...
Protopsalti, Hadjigiannis and other Greek stars in concert
Okay, they won’t all perform in the same concert but numerous live gigs by some well-known and respected Greek music stars are to take place...
Shall we dance?
Hundreds of spectators will have the opportunity to watch a recorded screening the 15th edition of André Rieu’s spectacular open-air concert in his hometown...
The start of the theatre season
As September rolls in, the theatre season starts to pick up and slowly, more and more plays will be added to the agenda. Among the...
First of three performances of Macbeth staged at Paphos castle
The first of three performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Macbeth was staged Friday night at the square of the Medieval Castle in Paphos as part...