> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.examiner.media/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Where to go and what to read - URL: https://www.examiner.media/where-to-go-and-what-to-read-54/ - Published: 2026-10-30T06:44:17.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-30T06:44:17.000Z - Author: The Examiner - Tags: Diary, maintag-Diary, Week-42-2026 The spectre of an American holiday is haunting Colombo. **This evening**, The Cauldron bubbles into an[ open mic](https://www.instagram.com/p/DewCPP%5FhFGm/?ref=examiner.media), Fairway promises a [buffet spookier](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeOBe5giUQq/?ref=examiner.media) than its real estate portfolio, and Water's Edge [burns](https://www.instagram.com/p/DetFx6xKMEm/?ref=examiner.media) you at the steak. Underground, the Sinhala music scene [comes alive](https://www.instagram.com/p/De3pJFNsq4A/?ref=examiner.media). Kiku wants to hear you [scream](https://www.instagram.com/p/De9KniUiHdm/?ref=examiner.media). Vault[ locks you in](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeCBEnHNOMK/?ref=examiner.media). Our favourite period film, [Carrie](https://www.instagram.com/p/De9iitxAzPb/?ref=examiner.media), is for the fearless and if you really like to shoot things, [Image Expo](https://web.facebook.com/share/1DMTGNMkuj/?ref=examiner.media) is open through the weekend. If the [Anti-Corruption Law](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd%5F9raVmjMk/?ref=examiner.media) doesn’t scare you, five stand-up comedians promise you[ the problem has multiplied](https://www.instagram.com/p/DehCUrVI0pe/?ref=examiner.media). Lakmahal stays real. Their non-fiction book club[ takes up](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeRPlZFtHDx/?ref=examiner.media) Ajay Kamalakaran's Colombo Port of Call. [Yet to Be](https://www.instagram.com/p/Demb%5FILSGP7/?ref=examiner.media), the group exhibition at Radicle, closes today. **Saturday** starts earnestly. Commons Coffinhouse wants you to talk about [death and dying](https://www.instagram.com/p/Deq0MnokxaU/?ref=examiner.media). As this [El Niño](https://www.instagram.com/p/De8pH9MRXP0/?ref=examiner.media) talk will surely remind us, that day could come sooner than you think. Head over to [Comic con](https://web.facebook.com/share/1FGjTxpRbZ/?ref=examiner.media) for more costumes, as though this weekend doesn’t have enough. Memory archive promises [sensory ](https://www.instagram.com/p/DetUfdQBMfq/?ref=examiner.media)play for the big ghouls, Trust Bawa with [candy](https://www.instagram.com/p/DevjZBTCEuT/?ref=examiner.media) for the babas. In the spectre of capitalism, the[ Halloween market](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeuopvUx9dt/?ref=examiner.media). You can have your [DJ Cake](https://www.instagram.com/p/De1fNQspoSV/?ref=examiner.media) and[ DJ Snake](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeTJZhHiLip/?ref=examiner.media) too. [Meet the vampire](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeT1cTbtJ%5F%5F/?ref=examiner.media) at Lakmahal’s book club or [solve](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dert3keBJNw/?ref=examiner.media) a murder mystery. [Legacies](https://www.instagram.com/p/DeJvBoUgUUj/?ref=examiner.media) wrap up for H. A. Karunaratne and the British Council hosts Gratien winner[ Savin Edirisinghe](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dedgm6CI3FX/?ref=examiner.media) On **Sunday**, KAI[ salutes the sunset](https://www.instagram.com/p/De%5FQCmpATqD/?ref=examiner.media). Check out [Nelun Harasgama](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dey43XeiD13/?ref=examiner.media)’s work before it goes back to the stockroom. **Next week**, the Chamber[ explains](https://www.instagram.com/p/De8rUEXsym5/?ref=examiner.media) the National Green Reporting System to businesses. Talk about [Noguchi](https://www.instagram.com/p/De03VqkFbtj/?ref=examiner.media) or blockprint [Sushi with Moju](https://www.instagram.com/p/Dey3lpSSZm0/?ref=examiner.media) on Wednesday. How to [write sculpture](https://www.instagram.com/p/De03VqkFbtj/?ref=examiner.media)? The Bawa trust asks. Radicle opens Chamila Gamage's[ And Then, Somewhere](https://www.instagram.com/p/De%5FOe9ZPRQ8/?ref=examiner.media). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/56/2b/562b4f8e-9dd1-43bb-a213-bc1615650661/content/images/2026/10/data-src-image-cfc21723-2d12-47ee-90d6-bd46edeecab9.png) *What to read* October may end. But the horrors persist. Human Rights Watch [thinks](https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/29/sri-lanka-organized-crime-bill-violates-rights-standards?ref=examiner.media) that the Organized Crime Bill could encourage police torture. While the Human Rights Commission [finds](https://www.hrcsl.lk/hrcsl-issues-report-and-recommendations-on-violent-incidents-at-negombo-prison/?ref=examiner.media) between 2020 and March 2025, 79 people died in police custody. Yet they haven’t prosecuted any of the 1,000 detained foreign fraud suspects this year, [finds](https://www.occrp.org/en/news/sri-lanka-records-zero-prosecutions-amid-online-scam-surge?ref=examiner.media) The Sunday Times. The skeletons in our closet: International Truth and Justice Project’s [report](https://itjpsl.com/assets/ITJP-Aanthapuram-report-Final.pdf?ref=examiner.media) on international law violations during the final battle of the decades long war. They also[ count those missing](https://www.himalmag.com/disappearances-office-on-missing-persons-sri-lanka/?ref=examiner.media) from the Office on Missing Persons' own records. Amalini De Sayrah[ writes](https://polity.lk/a-funeral-in-rathugala-amalini-de-sayrah/?ref=examiner.media) about the late Rathugala adivasi chief and how modernity changed their lives. Prasanna Perera on[ why the East Container Terminal still isn't working](https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Why-Colombos-East-Container-Terminal-Still-Isnt-Working/131-353514?ref=examiner.media), more than a decade in. Nihal Jayawickrama[ explains](https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-gnasara-thera-pardon/?ref=examiner.media) why Maithripala Sirisena is wrong: Gnanasara Thera's pardon wasn’t a "technical error".