Exercise in the water has advantages for the young and the old
WATER aerobics is often marketed as a prime time activity; gym code for the osteoporosis-busting over fifties. After watching a clutch of petal-headed swimming matrons hard at it in the Poseidonio Health Club swimming pool, I realised this was a bit unfair as it is actually jolly hard work.
Cyprus State Orchestra one day, international film soundtrack the next. It can be hectic playing the bassoon
“THE obvious question,” as I said to Miriam Butler, “is how does a bassoon player with the Cyprus State Orchestra end up getting involved with Abel Ferrara’s new movie?”
With 27 musicians from six countries, surely the Pomos jazz festival has something for everyone
Socio-politics meet art for one local resident currently representing his country at the Vennice Biennale
When someone invites you to take part in something as big as the 110th anniversary of the Venice Biennale, you know you are doing something right. Panayiotis Michael is one of two Cypriot artists taking part in the expo, which runs until November.
Dara Milovanovic
IF YOU have a craving for edgy, postmodern art that challenges your ideas of dance, art, gender, and age then Lia Haraki’s latest presentation could satisfy you. Two solos, one performed by a woman and another by a man, are performed in the same night to provoke two different sensations, moods, and intellectual provocations.
Wise up for the new term
Kids’ health can be mere childsplay if you take the right action now
MOST of us know that prevention is better than cure and while you can’t realistically prevent your child catching chickenpox it is possible to minimise the duration of many childhood ailments.
Boys toys?
Why can the female mind not get to grips with gizmos, let alone the instruction manuals?
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens or Sabal serulata) is a member of the Palmaceae family that is native to North America and can be found growing along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts. It reaches a height of about 6 metres and sports ivory flowers in spring, which develop into black-olive type berries and is similar in appearance to the fan-palms of Cyprus, favouring sandy soil.
Some knowledge of Latin goes a long way if you are a gardener, allowing you to read plant names and describe the various attributes of unusual plants. However you need more than a smidgeon of Latin to read the reverse side of a bag of potting compost. How’s your German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Croatian or Flemish? And how good is your Greek?
DIRECTED BY Michael Bay
STARRING Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Bean
US 2005 136 mins.
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.
