New Year’s resolutions?
Well almost, but let’s keep it simple
FULL of joie de vivre? Do you have overwhelming feelings of goodwill to all? Is there a spring in your step and do you have the determination to stick to resolutions for the New Year?
What’s that?
Full of what?
Trousers a little tight? Did you eat more than you should have? ELENI ANTONIOU muses on the feasting involved over the holidays
Looking for an unusual pet? Although they look cool, reptiles need a lot of looking after
ALEXANDER ***
DIRECTED BY Oliver Stone
STARRING Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto
US 2004 175 mins.
OCEAN’S TWELVE **
DIRECTED BY Steven Soderbergh
STARRING George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta Jones, Julia Roberts
US 2004 120 mins.
IT HAS been a long time since I have watched a documentary on wine. The new docu-film Mondovino looks at the perceived threat globalisation poses to terroir (the taste of the land). This particular subject was briefly touched at a recent tasting in Limassol, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Oenological department.
Marijuana is a member of the Cannabaceae family. An annual with a hairy stem and palmately divided long stalked leaves with serrate edges which may grow to 4metres and contains male and female flowers, it is native to the Caucasus region, China, Iran and Northern India, but is now cultivated world wide. Only the female plant produces seed.
Poetry in motion
A Chicago born rapper has moved to the island and now swaggers his stuff in Greek and English
WHEN the first explosive sounds of rap rattled through the air waves they caused parents to shudder, with their commentaries on the hardships of ghetto life, drugs and vivid tales of teenage sex and lust.
Worth a shot
Sfinakia is one of the few nightclubs in Nicosia with lasting appeal
I WAS late as usual. Running out of the house with one shoe in my hand, trying to gather car keys, house keys, lipstick, mobile while attempting to hop on one foot. Fifteen minutes late and my girlfriend is screaming at me.
Novelist Evia Karr is in Cyprus writing her third novel. Her second has just been published
WHEN reading a novel of any kind, the reader is often left wondering how the author came up with such an idea and what kind of imagination must they have to complete it.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
