Rather cleverly Music Matters is charging performers 300 bucks at their open mic night on Friday, presumably to dole out compensation to the audience after. Leave it to the professionals instead, with a Slipping Chairs performance at Playtrix, washed down with free cocktails for the gals. Kiku opens a boozy boardgame night and if you open your Examiner emails in time, you just might make it to a talk on digital archives in the age of AI.
Lakmahal gets kinky — role playing games for the DnD fans among you this Saturday. There’s a flea market for the shopaholics and a coffee rave for the young at heart; a walk to remember, and one to (not) forget. Considering the absolute crime that is City of Dreams, it’s appropriate that they're hosting a murder mystery game. As is Coca Arts Cult, followed by Clue, the movie.
On Sunday, Just a Phase — the moon not mooning. Mahler and co. give us Beethoven’s Eighth.
Fellow journos launch 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. There’s also movie screenings of the dark variety: Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lipstick under my Burkha. Defo don’t miss Amila Sandaruwan, at Music Matters for some folk-punk-rock.
What to read
Everystory wants women to orgasm more. Read about it here, then go buy yourself a vibrator here. Decidedly drier technology, Sanjiva Weerawarana, writes on AI and education.
BALPP reaches for unity and nVentures for $10 million. Like deja vu, civil society has been fighting the NGO bill with different regimes. Now they submit to the big boss. Dilrukshi Handunnetti reviews two years of AKD.
Trax isn’t coming back. Pineapplepress writes a sweet ode, leaving out the grisly details of its demise. Victims of the Ne-Yo tour scam want their ticket money back, and victims of Ditwah their homes.
And finally, Sunil Perera haunts politics, midgets, and bathroom brawls, in a cult-classic interview.
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