Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This evening a Music Matters power duet: open mic and Chiththa. But they don’t silence the flowers at the Curado. Lahiru Sandaruwan paints his experience of being hacked, at the Gallery Café. Andrea Novellis Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This evening Vimukthi Jayasundere’s Forsaken Land and the vivacious Fabienne Francotte’s forever exhibition at Saskia’s. There’s a Jaffna Food Festival, but you’re almost certainly better off at the outstanding Olai. Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Whether you’re in awe over the Met Gala costumes or in a rage over Jeff Bezos’ money, Take a Chill Pill at Radicle to get the edge off. If that’s not enough, Love, Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Mayday, mayday! May is here, but barely yet the monsoon. Too much to do, and too much heat to do it in. Poison returns for the weekend. Though sold out twice before, Polymarket isn’t Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Whisper words of wisdom this evening, at Lakmahal’s non-fic book club, on Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me. AI is laying-off Colombo’s techies. ’Fully automated luxury communism’ presumably isn’t the Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Artemis II has flown off to space – the Examiner, too, is flying off on vacation. Diary covers the whole fortnight to sustain our readers while we’re beached. Feeling adventurous? Fly the coop and escape Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner Welcome the Avurudhu sale: Aluwihare heritage centre’s for our supporters, BMICH’s for our subscribers. Tumble into the trance this weekend. Psychethaalam at candiroom and at the Lotus Tower, desperately trying to redeem itself, Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner This evening, Saskia’s gallery promises not to give a damn. But their group exhibition, Little do I care, doesn’t live up to its name — with “measured resistance to histories of control”. The rebellious Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner The fuel queues have returned and you may be tempted to just stay at home. Over our dead bodies. We’ll try to be constructive too - curating this week’s happenings by location as Read more →
Where to go and what to read Words by The Examiner “No one cares” about opera and ballet anymore, pronounced Chalamet, that adonis of our time. In Colombo at least, the cosmos strikes back: writers, catch the Gratien Trust’s Creativity in Writing lecture this evening, Read more →