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# Where to go and what to read
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-44/
- Published: 2026-09-18T05:39:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T08:42:38.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-36-2026

Rather cleverly Music Matters is charging performers 300 bucks at their [open mic night](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdBlfC5v8yH/?ref=examiner.media) on **Friday**, presumably to dole out compensation to the audience after. Leave it to the professionals instead, with a Slipping Chairs [performance](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTYEGhsG8d/?stkn=bGNxZ2tpNnN6dnBk&ref=examiner.media) at Playtrix, washed down with free cocktails for the gals. Kiku opens a boozy [boardgame night](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcnIQ1qq8Tu/?ref=examiner.media) and if you open your *Examiner* emails in time, you just might make it to a [talk](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdDd0oIlSqc/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) on digital archives in the age of AI. 

Lakmahal gets kinky — [role playing games](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc5aWCVDb1N/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media) for the DnD fans among you this **Saturday**. There’s a flea [market](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdBHrIfOZHv/?ref=examiner.media) for the shopaholics and a [coffee rave](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJHXoDDDxP/?ref=examiner.media) for the young at heart; a walk to [remember](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTUGXxo-G4/?ref=examiner.media), and one to (not) [forget](https://web.facebook.com/share/1LJJhQNVnS/?ref=examiner.media). Considering the absolute crime that is City of Dreams, it’s appropriate that they're hosting a murder [mystery game](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dca1RM7Mm5e/?ref=examiner.media). As is Coca Arts Cult, followed by [Clue](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc-spTUToEB/?ref=examiner.media), the movie. 

On **Sunday**, [Just a Phase](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdTUGXxo-G4/?ref=examiner.media) — the moon not mooning. Mahler and co. give us [Beethoven’s](https://www.instagram.com/p/DbDD8I7NAjH/?ref=examiner.media) Eighth. 

Fellow journos [launch](https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1778648450932159&set=a.456284979835186) a book on land misuse in Ambuluwewa later on in the week. Misuse your brain by filling it with random fun facts at a [quiz night](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdQl4VSHVtb/?ref=examiner.media). There’s also movie screenings of the dark variety: [Jekyll and Mr. Hyde](https://www.britishcouncil.lk/library/events/movie-screening-strange-case-dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-colombo?ref=examiner.media) and [Lipstick under my Burkha](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcyUGCGGGap/?img%5Findex=1&ref=examiner.media). Defo don’t miss [Amila Sandaruwan](https://www.instagram.com/p/DdY-AYmzJ6O/?ref=examiner.media), at Music Matters for some folk-punk-rock.

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*What to read*

Everystory wants women to orgasm more. Read about it [here](https://www.everystorysl.org/yfn/women-and-pleasure?ref=examiner.media), then go buy yourself a vibrator [here](https://midnightdivas.com/collections/intimate-massagers?srsltid=AU7gw4XwOa88bhdR0taICfo-PRU3E8S9UD4Y3fAGkLzqzhwc7tmoOoZJ&ref=examiner.media). Decidedly drier technology, Sanjiva Weerawarana, [writes](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U5UFVFUpOvnf-Exw26URYMfZomIap-bb/view?ref=examiner.media) on AI and education. 

BALPP [reaches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prSZuGYGTuQ&ref=examiner.media) for unity and [nVentures](https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/sri-lankan-vc-second-fund-494241?ref=examiner.media) for $10 million. Like deja vu, civil society has been fighting the NGO bill with different regimes. Now they [submit](https://neelan.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Civil-Society-Shadow-Report-submission-to-FATF-Mutual-Evaluation-of-Sri-Lanka-August-2026.pdf?ref=examiner.media) to the big boss. Dilrukshi Handunnetti [reviews](https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinion/2026/Sep/06/the-new-order-faces-a-familiar-test-of-power?ref=examiner.media) two years of AKD.

Trax isn’t coming back. Pineapplepress [writes](https://pineapplepress.news/in-a-sri-lankan-surf-town-reshaped-by-tourism-a-garden-club-is-missed-for-what-it-never-tried-to-be/?ref=examiner.media) a sweet ode, leaving out the grisly details of its demise. Victims of the Ne-Yo tour scam [want](https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/10/ne-yo-responds-to-canceled-sri-lanka-concert-lawsuit/?ref=examiner.media) their ticket money back, and victims of [Ditwah](https://www.ft.lk/columns/Let-s-not-forget-the-Ditwah-displaced/4-797236?ref=examiner.media) their homes. 

And finally, [Sunil Perera](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wOnPlI9q7Tmz7V7Drm3%5FLpaLUbEcO13Q/view?usp=drive%5Flink&ref=examiner.media) haunts politics, midgets, and bathroom brawls, in a cult-classic interview.