Hipsters just ain’t hip

NICOSIA cafés are in the throes of a bum epidemic. Sitting at a corner table with a friend at an excruciatingly non-hip (but pretending to be) joint in one of the café avenues a few weeks ago, I glanced up to see a fleshy forest of crevices and multiple folds of skin and G-strings that three women in their late 30s were displaying to the world.

Show your face

IF EVER there is a time of year when we are prone to overdo it, this is it: Christmas! It is, after all, the season to be merry and to eat and drink in excess and party ’til we drop!
Family reunions, office parties and friends are sure to demand your company.

Take 7: Christmas stockings

Forget about Santa. If you are looking for a pair of stockings to jazz up your Christmas outfits we have picked seven of the best

Sock Shop

It’s my life: Chris Neophytou

OUR airbrushed world has become increasingly obsessed with achieving the perfect body shape, with us judging, and being judged by what we wear and how we look.

Once in Royal David’s city?

They’re on every street corner and for sale everywhere you can buy a Christmas tree from, but what are the origins of nativity tableaux?

Out and about

On the beaten track

Take a day or two to tour round some of the villages above Limassol

HYPERLINKS – Abolishing the boundaries in art

AS A reference in one document that opens up one text after another, the hyperlink generates a continuous transfer of information through discontinuous texts. In the hyperlink, information is both stored and displaced, obtained and deferred.

Food from the Village

In the middle of the gift-buying season, we thought we’d indulge ourselves in something local, for those who might be looking to take away a taste of the place in their luggage across the seas or who frankly need a rest from recreating foreign flavours in their kitchens.