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02 THOUGHT Doris Salcedo filled the space between two buildings in Istanbul with 1,550 chairs “evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy”

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Thomas Chippendale was a London cabinet maker, chair and furniture designer in Gothic, Rococo and Neoclassical styles. His book, The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director, was published in 1754 and became a bible for woodworkers and interior designers. Chippendale himself was commissioned by aristocratic clients to design entire furnishing for their stately homes. An ornate chest of drawers, the serpentine-shaped Harrison Commode dating from 1779, sold for £3.8 million at Sotheby’s in 2010, three times its high estimate. Even back in 1988 a Chippendale carved mahogany chair was sold at auction for more than $1 million. But the iconic Chippendale furniture legacy has now been overtaken by the “Chippendales”, a touring male dance troupe best known for exotic striptease. Members sport a distinctive bow tie, and white shirt cuffs worn on a bare torso. Since 1979 they have performed for mainly female audiences, and because of the high standard of choreography and

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Perhaps leaders of the male striptease group would have been better off doing so says CHARLES SAATCHI staging, the Chippendales eventually legitimised male stripping as popular entertainment, providing the fantasy of a naughty night with the hunky clean-cut boy next door. The Chippendale team are seen performing by two million worldwide each year, in cities in Central and South America, and more than 30 European capitals. According to the official Chippendale website, they each rehearse for four hours per day, and apparently maintain a healthy lifestyle and get a lot of sleep. The Chippendales are forbidden from accepting tips from the clientele but other male strippers leave the stage with wads of notes stuffed into

their thongs. Often, the female audience go wild at the sight of gyrating muscles slick with baby oil, and less fastidious groups try to raise the ante by wearing fireman, policeman, even gorilla costumes, or bizarrely employ bananas and whipped cream as props. Over the years, there have been many legal barriers for the Chippendales to overcome, though these are usually confl icts with “copycat” companies. More seriously, its founding partners have both become infamous murderers. Paul Snider killed his estranged wife, Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten, and then himself. Partner Somen Banerjee was charged with organising a hit-man to murder a business associate. Thoughtfully, he wanted to shield his wife from a wrongful death lawsuit and a $2 million fine, so he hanged himself in his cell before his trial was completed, also avoiding a probable life sentence. Perhaps they would have both been better off making decorative furniture.

The perils facing the social network generation By Rosamund Urwin I am often grateful that I never did anything of note as a teenager. The play I toyed with writing about adolescent excess - despite the strongest substance I had sampled being Vicks VapoRub - not only remained unpublished, I never made it past page two. By 17, my only achievements were some GCSEs and an A* in eyeliner application. Any public humiliations were destined to be adult humiliations. With the downfall this week of Britain’s first (and perhaps last) youth crime commissioner, 17-year-old Paris Brown, for racist and homophobic comments she made online, I was thankful for something else too: that I was part of the last generation to grow up in a Twitter and Facebook-free world. Even those who don’t emerge from adolescent obscurity to be exposed for making racist remarks on the front

page of a national newspaper may have more minor teenage transgressions re-emerge in adulthood. Digital footprints have indelibly marked exits from crime scenes people don’t even remember being at. Because of the internet, juvenile follies that would previously have left no mark have morphed into albatrosses hanging around the necks of the under-18s. We all must have said something as a teen that we’re lucky wasn’t on record. This week too, Unicef warned that Britain’s government was failing teenagers, with among the highest proportion in Europe not in education, training or work. Brown has also fuelled the stereotype of teenagers as boozed-up, foulmouthed Vicky Pollards, when in reality they have become less rebellious in recent years, drinking less and taking fewer drugs.

And there’s a wider worry: that now only those with an unblemished record in their teenage years can prosper in politics. The UK risks being left with virtuous but bland robots, or a country run by those who as teens did a remarkably good impression of middle age - a legion of William Hagues. Brown has said she wants other young people to learn from her mistakes, which is sensible when employers increasingly look at candidates’ online presence. I hope too that teachers and parents will instil in children that they are what they tweet. But I also think we will have to become more forgiving, to offer second chances in more plentiful supply. Either that, or someone should invent technology to expunge from the internet anything written in juvenile ignorance when someone turns 18. They’d make a fortune.

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David Cameron on his recent trip to Amritsar

Say sorry, there’s a good boy S By Richard Dickenson

o, Mr Netanyahu apologised to Turkey. Just a few weeks ago Mr Cameron, in Amritsar, expressed his regret for the unforgivable 1919 massacre there under command of Colonel [T/Brigadier] ‘Reggie’ Dyer CB, forebear, coincidentally, of the architect who built my villa in Paphos. That debacle happened when crowds of mainly Sikh citizens seeking the same kind of freedom enjoyed in UK rallied to hear some banned speakers. Thereupon the narrow exitways were pinpointed and in a ten-minute bloodbath almost two thousand rounds of small arms fi re was poured into the helpless crowd. Similar to the Nazi-SS massacre of recaptured POWs after the ‘Wooden Horse’ mass escape, trapped miscreants deliberately mown down. Some regarded it as ‘teaching the wogs a lesson’ or ‘saving

the empire.’ Rudyard Kipling was one such. Others saw it as a brutal slaying of perhaps a thousand aspiring colonials and the wounding of about three times as many. No-one is sure of the numbers, they were wogs, what did numbers matter? Anyway, have you too noticed this spate of apologising that’s going on all around? Never a day passes without someone apologising to someone or being expected to apologise or being criticised for not apologising, like crooked bankers, embezzling MPs, and so on. Blair apologised for the slave trade and for the Irish potato famine, though not for starting the Iraq war, I recall. I wait with bated breath to hear that the Duke of York has apologised for the behaviour of an erstwhile Duke of York for murdering the Princes in the Tower, if he did. What price the Argies, via their Pope perhaps, apologising

for invading the Falklands, or the Brits for cold-bloodedly sinking the Belgrano? What about France apologising for selling them Exocet missiles? Maybe Germany will apologise to millions killed in wars they started? After all, the Pope apologised to the Jews, mind you, I never before heard the Jews apologise for anything. Perhaps the next thing will be their apology to the Palestinians. Every day there are bleats and threats in the press about how badly the Jews are treating them. Yet seldom is heard a word about hundreds of missiles flying out of Gaza some days. You never hear anyone whine that just about every Arab on record agrees Middle East bloodshed will end only when the last Jew has been slaughtered. You never hear anyone criticise the alleged words of the prophets that destruction of the various tribes of we infidel is a major aim of so-called Islam, a word

derived from the Arabic salema, meaning peace, purity, submission and obedience; the word translates, roughly, as ‘the way of peace’ though this may not be immediately apparent. I reckon that if the Amritsar protests were threatening to happen today in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt or Syria we would be siding with the ‘rebels’ and, far from shooting at them, British troops would be sent in to assist their ‘political objectives.’ One public apology I took notice of was when HM Government apologised to Alan Turing in 2009, years after he had died at his own hand, and almost 60 years after he was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a man. Shades of Oscar Wilde must have smiled when Gordon Brown said that Turing - a genius mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist, who played as big a part in winning WW2

as any individual man - suffered ‘appalling’ treatment including chemical castration. Not a pretty thing to see, I promise you, and still done today. Turing was punished for offences against the then current law. But the point in apologising was to appease, some said throw a sop to, the growing number of voting members of the homosexual community. This then, is the reason behind all this apologising. It’s either flagrant vote trawling, self-protective or part of an export drive. Tories know it’s the economy that will cost them the next election not Same Sex Marriages. Furthermore, I remind readers of the reply attributed to the Earl of Arran in the Sixties, when asked to explain why the House of Lords had legalised homosexuality but refused to impose a ban on badger-baiting: ‘Not many badgers in the House of Lords, old chap.’

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people were arrested last weekend as hooliganism reared its ugly head on Saturday, before, during and after the Omonia – APOEL match in Nicosia and the Anorthosis – AEK match in Larnaca. Before the Omonia – APOEL game trouble started while APOEL fans were making their way into the GSP Stadium, with one fan and three police officers being injured. Police arrested one man to help their investigation into the incident. After the match three more were arrested. One had a sharp object in his possession and the other two caused damage to a police vehicle with a flare. after further trouble two more arrests were made. Ten minutes after the Anorthosis AEK match finished, some Anorthosis fans left the stadium, put hoods on and headed towards the stand where the AEK fans were, police said.Nine fans were later arrested.

Cyprus Airways employees protested outside the Presidential Palace on Wednesday at the same time that the cabinet was meeting to discuss the national carrier’s future. The employees asked for the government’s support to prevent the airline from closing and for them to take an immediate political decision. Employee representatives entered the Presidential Palace and met with head of the President’s office, Panayiotis Antoniou, and also spoke with Communications and Works Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos before he entered the cabinet meeting. “I have been working for Cyprus Airways for 21 years and it not only helped me feed my family but it is a large part of who I am,” one protester said. “We are not only losing our jobs but a large part of Cypriot history,” she added.

million euro could be raised as the island has agreed to sell excess gold to help finance its part of its bailout, according to an assessment of the island’s financing needs prepared by the European Commission, revealed on Wednesday. The draft assessment, referring to the gold sale, obtained by Reuters, also said that Cyprus would raise €10.6 billion from the winding down of Laiki Bank and the losses imposed on junior bondholders and the deposit-for-equity swap for uninsured deposits in the Bank of Cyprus. Nicosia would get a further €600 million over three years from raising the corporate income tax rate and the capital gains tax rate. The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said however that selling the island’s gold had not been on the table.

names of individuals and companies were handed to lawmakers on Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) featuring those who withdrew money from Cyprus up to 15 days before a controversial Eurogroup decision to force losses on depositors as a condition for a €10 billion bailout. However, the chairman of the House Ethics Committee, which was due to look into a list detailing transfers of more than €100,000 from the two major banks - Bank of Cyprus (BoC) and Laiki - said the list fell short of what he had requested. “It was with great disappointment and anger that, when we opened the envelope, we realised it contained data for only 15 days even though we had asked for a year,” MP Demetris Syllouris told reporters. “This kind of behaviour is unacceptable.”

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An affinity with numbers Bringing fun into maths has become a life’s work for one Limassol teacher. It is, after all, all around us she tells THEO PANAYIDES

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xhibit A: maths and marriage. An Oxford professor, James D Murray, has constructed mathematical models to predict whether a couple will divorce or not. A team from the University of Washington have gone even further, putting married couples in a room and observing them like guinea pigs. They studied the couples’ body

A sense of fun: Katerina Kaouri language while they argued about everyday matters, from money to mothers-in-law. They wired up the couples to record their pulse and heart-rate. They employed ideas like phase space, null clines and influence functions, which no-one but mathematicians even understands.

On stage: Katerina at the Tedx event

Armed with these data points (and the couples’ subsequent history), they created a model which claims to recognise unhappy marriages long before they actually go south. There’s even a book you can buy on Amazon, The Mathematics of Marriage. Cut to Katerina Kaouri, taking the stage in a bright red top at the recent TEDx event in Nicosia. Her manner is brisk and humorous. “Good morning,” she tells the audience. “As you have heard, I’m a mathematician. So I would like to ask you: who among you likes mathematics?” The response is mixed, to put it kindly – and that’s her point, that millions of people suffer from “mathematics phobia”. A 17-minute talk on how maths is actually quite fun isn’t necessarily a crowdpleaser, especially in the midst of sexier subjects like a restaurateur’s colourful past (Roddy Damalis, owner of Ta Piatakia) or the rigours of being a journalist (the Mail’s own Stefanos Evripidou) – but Katerina pulls it off, especially when she talks about love. “What if Romeo behaved like a typical man?” she ponders, and the audience responds with warm laughter. By the end, her talk is among the best-received of the whole event. The reference to Romeo is part of a mathematical model she cooks up to deconstruct the ultimate love sto-

ry, a series of differential equations illustrating the inevitable result when Romeo – like a typical male – responds to Juliet’s attention with growing indifference. Later in her talk, Katerina also presents a model (in the form of a multi-tiered equation) to measure men’s chances of getting a date with a beautiful girl. Mathematically speaking, this is basic stuff – but the underlying point is very dear to her. “You can translate everything into maths,” she tells me a few days later, sitting in Bono Bar & Restaurant near the beach road in Limassol with a dish of tempura prawns that remains largely untouched. “My life after my fi rst degree was to look into various problems from various disciplines, and see how maths can translate them”. Exhibit B: maths and cancer. Cancer modelling – one of the areas she worked in after her PhD – investigates “how you use magnets to heat up some little magnets inside a tumour”. Cells are loaded with magnetic nano-particles, then accumulated in the cancerous tumour; you then switch on a magnet outside the body and “convert magnetic energy into thermal energy”, essentially burning the tumour. Katerina didn’t think this up herself, obviously (she was part of a research team at the University of Nottingham), but it’s typical of the range of applications she’s studied. Her PhD in Applied

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Perfect shapes: the Mona Lisa

Mathematics from Oxford University – following a Mathematics degree from Cambridge and an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing – dealt with how to manage the sound from supersonic aeroplanes; a recent variation, the devastating sonic boom from the meteorite that landed in Russia last February, made its way into her TEDx talk.

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er current job, after returning to Cyprus in 2010, may be a bit of a comedown, teaching maths to university students with no special interest in maths. Her charges tend to be youngsters doing compulsory maths courses as part of a nonmaths degree (Hotel Management types roped into taking Statistics, that kind of thing) and it’s often a struggle to motivate them. “People are really afraid,” she reports. “I had a girl crying in a test”. Mathematics phobia is real, and it baffles her: “What makes mathematics so frightening for people? Is it bad teachers? Is it the parents? Is it our boring books, the way we teach it?” She herself loves teaching, and takes it seriously – a seriousness reflected in her demeanour, which sometimes obscures the real woman. Katerina is a warm, lively person who loves dancing and good food, but her default expression tends to be quite stern; it’s almost a surprise when she smiles and the face turns rascally, even naughty. She can come across as remote when she doesn’t know others well, she admits, maybe because she spent her formative years (she’s now in her 30s) being… well, the kind of teenage girl who goes on to study Maths at Cambridge. “I like meeting people,” she confi rms. “Actually I’m introverted – people laugh when I say that – but I really like connecting with people, and hearing stories. [Yet] I was very, very timid as a child. Up to 18 I was like this nerdy kid, not having many friends”. Family background may have something to do with it. Katerina’s the eldest of four, and the eldest child often tends to be serious and responsible. Both her parents were schoolteachers, which also tends to foster a studious character; her dad – “a strict father,” she recalls – taught Religious Studies (though he has a fi rst degree as an agriculturist), her mother taught

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French. Mathematics always came naturally to her, though maths lessons at school mostly consisted of solving endless equations – a thrill for a numbers junkie like herself, but probably not for her classmates. “It’s very few people,” she admits with dry understatement, “who like to solve an abstract equation”. Exhibit C: the golden ratio. If you take a stick and ask someone to split it in two, chances are they’ll choose a point about two-thirds of the way down (a ‘golden’ ratio of 1.618:1, if you want to be mathematical about it); “For some reason, the human eye sees that as the most pleasant section to cut this thing”. If you then create a shape where the ratio between the sides is the golden ratio, that shape is a ‘golden shape’. It can be a triangle, a pentagon, a decagon, anything – but here’s where it starts to get interesting, because a golden decagon also appears in the crosssection of a strand of human DNA. What’s more, plastic surgeons have synthesised golden shapes to create a ‘perfect’ face, which turns out to be a close match for movie-star faces

It’s yet another case of her basic thesis that maths is everywhere – but also a reminder that she herself has a strong artistic side He really is good looking: Brad Pitt

(Brad Pitt, Jessica Alba) commonly considered beautiful. The proportions of the Parthenon display the golden ratio. So do the proportions of supermodels and Playboy bunnies. So do the proportions of the human hand and forearm. So does some of our greatest art: “The Mona Lisa is all golden shapes”. Katerina spoke about the golden ratio at TEDx, and previously also at Famelab (the annual science competition, where she made the list of Cyprus fi nalists in 2011). It’s yet another case of her basic thesis that maths is everywhere – but also a reminder that she herself has a strong artistic side. Like many of her ilk, she’s very musical (music and maths tend to go together), having studied piano up to Grade 8 and become adept at Latin dancing (“I used to dance in the UK, and go to parties and stuff. In Cyprus I’m not so involved in the scene anymore”) – but she also painted

well as a child, and her greatest love is fi lmmaking which of course tends to synthesise all the other arts. She spent an exhilarating month at the New York Film Academy, and even thought of chucking it all in to make movies – but good sense prevailed, and she went back to numbers and equations. “OK, I will do mathematics,” she recalls telling herself, “and I’ll try to create within that sphere”. Does she still create? Well, she tries. It’s not just the teaching; she also does research, and remains very interested in unorthodox applications like “mathematical sociology” – “how you model interactions that make a phenomenon emerge” (like a riot, or a ‘viral’ YouTube video). Maths is increasingly creative, and proactive. It can predict behaviour, and increasingly does so; the algorithms are taking over. I mention the analyst who caused a stir last year by correctly predicting the election outcome in all 50 US states just by crunching numbers, outperforming pundits with years of political experience. Isn’t it dangerous to have that kind of knowledge? Or how about the ‘perfect face’ she mentioned – the plastic surgeon’s application of the golden ratio? If beauty can be created mathematically, won’t everyone want a variation on the perfect face? Wouldn’t we end up with a ‘perfect’ society where everyone looks the same? “I don’t know,” replies Katerina. “I think it’s a tool. It’s a very powerful tool”. She’s worked for three years as a strategy consultant in Athens, answering questions for corporate clients – but no-one knows the answer to how far mathematics can go, let alone when it stops being ethical. The one obvious fact is that maths is everywhere, not just in the classroom; it defi nes and colours everything we do – yet too many people continue to fear it, or don’t understand it, or even ignore it. The notion of popular science still carries a stigma (except perhaps in the States). Scientists are too often condescending, students uninterested. Teachers too often fail to make the subject interesting, falling back on simple equation-solving. It’s strange, I point out: religion is so much more outlandish than maths – so much harder to explain in real-life terms – yet everyone seems to understand ‘God’ and ‘miracles’. Why can’t they also understand phase space and differential equations? Exhibit D: Katerina Kaouri in her red top, winding up her speech at TEDx Nicosia. “There are 6,900 languages in the world, but only one language of mathematics. It unites people across countries and cultures. It can explain almost everything, from the sound of aeroplanes to how we make decisions to how we love, all the way to what we fi nd beautiful”. Her hands chop the air emphatically, her face settles into a frown – not a sign of annoyance but a sign of passion, the passion of a woman who’s always had a powerful affi nity with numbers, and only wants to share it with the world. “So I would like to urge you,” she appeals to her audience. “Rethink maths! Look at it with a fresh look. Forgive your bad teachers and forget the bad books. And to the fellow teachers out there: work on re-branding mathematics. Make it relevant, make it personal. Make it fun. Thank you”. The defence rests.

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Post axed The president cancelled the controversial appointment of Spyros Stavrinakis to the post of deputy Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) governor, the government spokesman said this week.

DEFA sacking

The cabinet has decided to fire the chairman of Cyprus’ natural gas company, DEFA, because of serious misconduct, although details of his offences have not been revealed.

Church to pay up The Church of Cyprus is ready to pay to restore the crumbling Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied Karpas peninsula, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said this week.

Shooting trial A man suspected of killing another and injuring four other people in two separate shooting incidents in Kofinou on March 23, has been referred for trial on May 21.

Challenge withdrawn More than half of the district court judges appealing mandatory pay cuts as part of austerity measures legislation passed in late 2011 have withdrawn their appeals lodged with the Supreme Court. About time too.

AG suspension Attorney-general Petros Clerides used his position to suspend prosecution for his son, Christodoulos Clerides, who was caught driving over the alcohol limit in a car that had not passed an MOT and for which he did not have up-to-date road tax. He says he has done nothing wrong.

CY protest Around 300 Cyprus Airways employees protested outside the Presidential Palace at the same time that the cabinet was meeting to discuss the national carrier’s future. The employees asked for the government’s support to prevent the airline from closing, which seems unlikely although they have received job security until the end of the summer.

Hooligan arrests Hooliganism reared its ugly head last Saturday, before, during and after the Omonia – APOEL match in Nicosia and the Anorthosis – AEK match in Larnaca as police arrested a total of 15 people.

Abuse probe The Education Ministry has started an investigation into a claim from the Parents Association of the Evaggelismos Special School in Nicosia that a teacher has been verbally and physically abusing disabled children.


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Trainers with attitude: Hogan Loves Katie Grand

Who pimped my trainers? Cara, Jourdan and co can’t stop wearing them and top brands are lining up to add them to their collections. EMMA MCCARTHY hails the transformation of the humble running shoe

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oco Chanel once said “fashion has two purposes: comfort and love”. While I’m sure she wasn’t thinking about trainers when she said so, it is these reasons the humble running shoe has made the transition from fitness to fashion. While a recent swathe of pimped-out trainers spotted on celebrities have been making headlines - see Beyoncé’s new ostrich, stingray and anaconda skin pair - it is, in fact, the fashion pack who have given the humble trainer its real style kudos this spring. It all started - as a lot of things in fashion do - with Phoebe Philo. When the British designer stepped onto the Céline catwalk all those seasons ago in a pair of vintage Nike Air Max 1s, the front row took notice for two reasons: one, because it was Phoebe Philo, and two, because at the end of four weeks of shows their heel-clad soles were screaming for some spongy cushioning. After Philo’s endorsement, it was only a matter of time before trainers were spurred up the dizzying heights of fashion. But this season, it seems to have reached a crescendo - proven at recent fashion weeks. From the gaggle of off-duty models including Cara Delevingne and Jourdan Dunn, who seem to own no other type of footwear, to the fashion editors making a laid-back style statement on the front row, trainers of every shape, style and description - but preferably as loud as possible - were as ubiquitous as a Céline Trapeze bag or Smythson notebook. The increasingly fashionable connections in the sportswear arena have a lot to do with this; the likes of Stella McCartney for Adidas and Liberty for Nike. And thanks to

From left: Hogan Loves Katie Grand, Nike Air Max 1, Isabel Marant wedge sneaker. Below: Nike Blazer

the help of models of the moment Delevingne, Georgia May Jagger and Edie Campbell, it has been at the forefront of the fashion radar. The movement isn’t going unnoticed on the high street. After the peak in interest, Kurt Geiger made the decision to ditch the heels and dedicate its recent window displays with an expanding selection of trainers throughout London Fashion Week. “The very fact that we launched the new Kurt Geiger spring-summer collection with trainers speaks hugely about the shift towards shoes we can wear to run around in,” says creative director Rebecca Farrar-Hockley. “The appetite for trainers keeps growing and evolving season on season,” agrees Selfridges women’s shoe buying manager Helen Attwood. “Despite repeat reorders and a huge increase in our buying it’s still hard for us to keep up. From high street and sports labels to high fashion, it really is the most fun and democratic shoe trend we’ve seen in ages.” But while the major brands are clamouring to get in on the trainer action, the fashion pack seems to be in collective agreement when it comes to Nike. Since Philo’s initial choice of Air Max 1s, her followers aka, everyone in the industry - have retained a longstanding loyalty to the classic style. In fact, such is the clout of Nike among fashion insiders that the brand has dispatched personal trainers to each major fashion capital during show season to make sure those trainers are put to good use. Of course, the very reason trainers have found their way into the hearts of the fashion industry is the fact that a cherished pair of Air Max

After the peak in interest, Kurt Geiger made the decision to ditch the heels and dedicate its recent window displays with an expanding selection of trainers

a y 1s are just as relevant now as they were 25 years ago.

The Trainer edit Hogan Loves Katie Grand Andrea Della Valle is one smartt cookie. By enlisting the help of fash-ion royalty, LOVE Magazine’s Katie Grand, the president of little-known Italian trainer brand Hogan transformed the label’s style credentials practically overnight. But Grand and her gang of model mates are not done yet - the second collection for A/W13 is scheduled to hit stores in July. With more zebra print - and even more models - than ever before, the range is unlikely to fall off the fashion pack’s radar any time soon. And thankfully, they look just as good with denim as they do with micro jersey shorts (Hogan.com).

Air Max 1 This year, Nike’s Air Max 1 celebrates its 25th anniversary and it’s little surprise that the festivities kicked off with a birthday party entitled #airwebreathe. So the Air Max is to trainer nuts what sequins are to Strictly Come Dancing. Having seen many reincarnations in

its quarter decade lifetime, including the snakeskin pair, above, in celebration of Chinese New Year, the ever-stylish trainers are the most likely to be spotted on the feet of front rowers - currently, teamed with leather trousers and a Crombie (Nike.com).

Blazer For the teenage continent, Nike Blazers picked up where Converse left off. The high top of choice nods back to an era of nostalgic cool namely, a basketball court in the Seventies where the trainer fi rst made its mark. Simple, sleek and with seemingly infi nite colour combinations, the Blazer has a place in every trainer lover’s collection. There’s one rule: the brighter the better (Nike.com).

Isabel Marant wedge g sneaker As the proud owner own of one of the shoe world’s lon longest waiting lists, Isabel Marant’s wedge w sneakers kickstarted the co concealed heel trainer trend. Worn by the Primrose Hill set with yoga leggings leg and by Miranda Kerr with skin ski tight denim and bouncy baby on h hip, the wedge is a trend that keeps on running Beyoncé’s custom-d custom-designed Perfectly Made Kicks have seen to ((matchesfashthat ion.c ion.com).

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Just my cup of tea After a torturous journey ALIX NORMAN visits Cyprus’ only herbal tea factory

Natural Life herbal teas are available at most supermarkets Lavender

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t’s a long drive and I get lost twice. The elements are out in force today: the spring sun burning down and mad winds racing across fields. Olive trees shake and shiver, and ahead the foothills shimmer in the haze. Once you’re well outside the city, nature reasserts itself, and it seems fitting that I’m on my way to the premises of a company known for the medicinal benefits of its natural teas. Medicine and the Greeks go hand-in-hand, and the fertile soil of Cyprus has always proved excellent for the growing of natural remedies: ancient medical practice commonly employed olive oil, resins and bitter herbs grown locally, while the famed Apollodoros of Kition advocated rose wreaths for headaches. With such an abundance of natural herbs available to us on the island, it was only a matter of time before someone started producing and promoting their benefits on a larger scale. And it is this that the company Natural Life has set out to do, with its range of herbal teas. On my eventual arrival I’m greeted with a cup of lavender tea, perfect for calming the nerves and putting any fraught writer into a more collected frame of mind. Soothed and comforted, I ask where the tea was produced. “Right here in Cyprus,” says sales manager George Erotokritou. “We have an agreement with farmers around the island who produce exclusively for Natural Life,” he continues, explaining that the company was created on the amalgamation of two similar businesses who both sold pulses and legumes. “The teas came later, when we realised there was a market for them. We were already selling loose herbs grown here on the island, and decided to package them as teabags.” Wanting to offer a wide variety of teas, the company imports a number of herbs and spices that can’t be grown in Cypriot soil, such as senna and hibiscus from Egypt, elderflower from Bulgaria and cinnamon and cloves from India and Sri Lanka. But the vast majority are locally grown, and even exported to other countries. We may think the island is famous only for its halloumi exports, but Natural Life is already selling to Greece, Britain and Dubai, and by the end of the year will be marketing as far abroad as America and Australia. “People are familiar with our teas now,” says

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Everything possible is being done to ensure none of the aroma or flavour is lost en route to the supermarket and the teas arrive on the shelf fresh, tasty and full of healing benefits marketing manager Yiannis Kountouris. “We’re the only company in Cyprus producing herbal teas, and the consumers recognise they’re something special.” Indeed, Natural Life was the fi rst of the island’s companies in its sector to attain HACCP and ISO certification, co-operating only with qualified suppliers and ensuring both production methods and safety – for workers and consumers alike - are of the highest standard. I’m shown the room where the loose tea is packaged, fi rst into bags, then sealed envelopes, and fi nally boxes wrapped in cellophane. Everything possible is being done to ensure none of the aroma or fl avour is lost en route to the supermarket and the teas arrive on the shelf fresh, tasty and full of healing benefits. Even the warehouse adheres to European standards, and as we pass through, my two guides reveal the modifications: “The windows are all shuttered to protect the herbs from direct sunlight,” George points out, “the roof is insulated, and we’ve installed a ventilation system. Even the lights have special plastic covers.” I wonder why this should be so important, until he asks if I’ve ever read reports about broken glass found in food: “That’s what happens when a light bulb breaks and there’s nothing to stop the shards from falling into the products.” I begin to realise there’s a lot more to food

Basil fields

production than I ever knew; even the factory workers are dressed in protective clothing, headgear and gloves. But even though I’m impressed by such a professional operation, it’s the smell of the warehouse that really has me entranced. As we walk down the aisles between sacks of herbs, I catch a whiff of wild rose, a trace of cloves, a hint of anise. It’s an olfactory journey, and I stop dead when one of the piles conjures up a sudden image. “This is spearmint,” says Yiannis, opening the bag and offering me a handful. “Rub it between your palms, and then smell it.” I do as he suggests, and the aroma is released into the air, transporting me to a summer evening of beach-side mojitos. The next aisle is marigold, golden flowers cascading from an open sack and then, as we turn the corner, I can smell Christmas in the warmth of cinnamon.

“And this is nettle,” says George, holding out a handful of dried leaves. It may not have the ability to enrapture the nose, but apparently it’s packed with benefits: “Nettle has an incredibly high iron content, much more so than spinach. A friend of mine had a son with anaemia, and nothing the doctor recommended seemed to help. Then he persuaded the boy to start drinking nettle tea. Three months later, when they returned to the hospital, the doctor couldn’t believe the difference.” The two men are obviously proud of their work, and rightly so. Not only are they working for a company which is actively promoting the island’s bounty, the products they sell are natural remedies. “It’s more like a family than a business,” says Yiannis, and George agrees: “We want everyone here to feel it’s a second home, and that their work is important. Otherwise, as a company, we couldn’t succeed.” As I depart, the pair hand me boxes of tea, explaining how each can help. There’s Calendula to improve circulation, Basil for mental clarity and Hibiscus for menstrual cramps. There’s even some Jasmine, known not only as a cure for sore throats, but also as an aphrodisiac! I’m given something to alleviate what seems like every known ailment, or boost every process in the body. And I make a special note of the Chamomile, when Yiannis suggests it might be especially helpful with hysteria and stress. Next time I know I’m likely to get lost on the way to an interview, I’ll know what to take on the journey!


08 TRAVEL

MOSCOW MOMENT LOUISE JURY tours the city’s architectural landmarks, museums and famous theatres

Soviet sight: the Kremlin. Left: a Faberge egg from the armoury

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legant silver birch trees have been part of the scenery in almost every production of plays by Anton Chekhov I have ever seen. So row upon row of them shining in the roadside darkness seemed convincing fi rst proof I had landed in Russia. Moscow, on the other hand, was not the modern city of my imagination. Austere Sovietera concrete apartment blocks are still to be found. But what proved an unexpected delight was the abundance of onion-domed Orthodox churches, elegant villas and neoclassical theatres and museums. The friendly hotel concierge said it was the worst mid-March weather the city had ever suffered, with 30cm of snow in 24 hours. But in more clement conditions, a visitor could spend hours strolling the streets seeking out notable architecture such as the honeycomb effect house of Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov in the Arbatskaya district. And while battling with the Cyrillic alphabet makes a visit more exhausting than many city breaks,

mastering a few basics - that H means N and P means R is useful for fi nding a restaurant - has its own satisfactions. Red Square, familiar from Soviet-era demonstrations of tank and soldier power, must be a starting

Komsomolskaya metro station. Above: the Gorky house museum

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The Bolshoi A private security guard stands outside the Four Points hotel in Ahmedabad

point for any visit. Lenin’s Mausoleum is currently closed for repairs. Instead, explore the former staterun shopping mall GUM opposite, whose airy glass-roofed arcades now host luxury brands that must have the former Soviet leader turning in his grave, then get utterly lost in the highly decorated, icon-packed maze of chapels that is St Basil’s Cathedral. Staying at the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, itself an historical monument of which more later, I was just three Metro stops from the square – named not for communism but after the cathedral as “red” also

The lavish excess makes the 1917 revolution quite understandable. Another insight into Russian life can be found at the Tretyakov Gallery. While the main building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts offers great Old Masters and its sister site topclass Impressionists, what the Tretyakov shows is Russian life. Whizz through the early galleries of largely less than thrilling dukes and counts of centuries past to fi nd scenes of native agricultural workers, carol singers and bustling urban Moscow. Other gems are totally free. The Gorky House museum charges 100 roubles only if you want to take pho-

Touring the Metro system is one of the cheapest must-dos of any trip, not just to survey Russian dress - full-length furs for the cold - but for the design and decoration means “beautiful”. I quickly got used to spotting it on the signs, even if more complicated journeys required a waving of a map and surprisingly effective exchange of gestures. But touring the Metro system is one of the cheapest must-dos of any trip, not just to survey Russian dress - full-length furs for the cold - but for the design and decoration. Unique and beautiful, Mayakovskaya has ceiling mosaics depicting Soviet scenes of aircraft and athletes - and is also a short walk from the Patriarch’s Pond, famous in the opening scenes of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita (required reading for this trip). Kropotkinskaya has a light, simple design and at Ploshchad Revolutsii there are lifesized bronze statues of heroic working class figures at every platform entrance. More pricey but essential viewing is the fortress of the Kremlin, seat of power for centuries and the heart of Moscow. The basic ticket, purchased at the small cabins at the foot of the walls, gives you access to the inner squares and the chance to stroll past buildings still used by government and tour the imposing churches and cathedrals. But it is worth buying the extra ticket to the Armoury, a treasury of jewel-encrusted crowns and bibles, Fabergé eggs, ornate religious vestments and gowns worn by empresses and tsars and the most preposterous over-the-top carriage ever created in the febrile imagination of a Disney animator.

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tographs - but do cough up. The socialist writer Maxim Gorky apparently disliked the Art Nouveau home the state assigned him but most visitors will admire the impressive curved staircase, decorated ceilings and stained glass. Even the door handles are worth a picture. And it seems modesty itself compared with the grandeur of my hotel. The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya was one of the ‘Seven Sisters’, the fi rst high-rise buildings in Moscow, founded in 1947 on the 800th anniversary of the Russian capital, opened in 1954 and immediately hailed as a landmark hotel. I had no time for the spa or swimming pool in the former basement nuclear shelter. But even for those staying elsewhere, lunch in the lobby bar would be worth the price for the chance to view the gilded ceiling, ornamental gates modelled on a pair in the Kremlin and lion sculptures seized by Russian wartime forces from Germany and all restored in recent years. Try a local favourite, herring, blow the budget on black caviar or grab a mozzarella and tomato salad with Parma ham on toast for 700 roubles (about €20). The Bolshoi Ballet is one of Moscow’s most famous exports but can be caught on home turf. Tickets go on sale three months in advance and are quickly snapped up. If you fail to get a seat, you can still see inside the refurbished gilded auditorium on a tour, some in English - and catch them dancing at the Royal Opera House from July.

Hotel companies find a short cut through India's red tape Starwood Hotels & Resorts got a 104-room hotel up and running in India in less than 12 months, bypassing years of red tape by rebranding an existing property instead of building a new one. Capitalising on distress in the Indian hospitality sector, international operators such as Starwood and France's Accor SA are teaming up with investors to acquire hotels from debt-laden domestic owners and reopen them under their own corporate banners. Such conversions can help global players expand more quickly in a country where hotel construction has slowed since the downturn in 2008 as developers shun capital-intensive projects often delayed by bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles. "This is the first time we are seeing a reasonable num-

ber of assets on the market at the same time," said Gaurav Bhushan, chief development and investment officer for Asia Pacific at Accor. "There have been hotel assets for sale in the past but they have been more sporadic," he said. Slowing economic growth, an increase in the supply of hotel rooms and growing competition from foreign operators is hurting local chains such as Hotel Leelaventure Ltd, Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd and Kamat Hotels Ltd, which are selling assets to ease debt. International operators hope to succeed where local players have stumbled because they have deeper pockets and economies of scale that allow them to wait longer for an economic recovery. India's growth likely slowed to a decade low in the fiscal year that ended in March.

Early this month, Starwood, in partnership with Samhi, a Delhi-based hotel investment firm backed by US real estate investor Sam Zell, launched its fi rst conversion property in India - a 104room hotel in the western city of Ahmedabad under its Four Points by Sheraton brand. Starwood and Accor are leading the hunt for conversion opportunities in a country where the hospitality sector is expected to grow to $36 billion by 2018 from $17 billion in 2008, according to research firm Technopak Advisors. "You haven't seen these conversions in India before because there wasn't enough existing supply. The more mature a market becomes and the greater the supply added to it, you will see more opportunities for a brand change," said Accor's Bhushan.

Virgin America best US airline, United worst: study Virgin America did the best job of flying customers last year while United Airlines was the worst, though passengers experienced overall better performance, a study showed. The performance of the 14 leading carriers in 2012 was about the same as the best year ever in 2011, according to the 23rd annual national Airline Quality Rating (AQR), which ranks airlines based on US Department of Transportation figures. The industry improved in two of four areas: on-time performance and baggage handling. Involuntary denied boardings and customer complaint rates were

higher, the study said. "Every time there are more planes in the sky and more people flying, airline performance suffers," said Dean Headley, associate professor of marketing at the W Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. Virgin America had the best baggage handling rate, 0.87 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers, and American Eagle had the worst, at 5.80 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers. Hawaiian Airlines, owned by Hawaiian Holdings Inc, was best at sticking to schedules, while Skywest Inc's ExpressJet and AMR Corp's American Airlines

were the worst, the study showed. Of Hawaiian's fl ights, 93.4 per cent were on time. The two worst performers were 76.9 per cent on time. Customer complaints per 100,000 passengers increased from 1.19 in 2011 to 1.43 in 2012, according to the study, a joint project funded as part of faculty research activities at Wichita State and Purdue universities. Only three of the 14 airlines improved their customer complaint rates for 2012. United Airlines, owned by United Continental Holdings Inc, had the highest complaint rate, and Southwest Airlines Co had the lowest.


10 FOOD & DRINK WINES with George Kassianos

Commandaria with friends

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rinking this wine is like waking up in paradise” - a very modern i nt e r p r e t a t i o n of Commandaria from a fellow sommelier who happens to be a world champion. “Layer after layer of flavour, close to sweet perfection,” he continued. So heard the Famagusta Association of Friends of Wine when I was asked to be a guest speaker at a packed room in Paralimni. More than 70 wine lovers had a chance to find out not only the history of Commandaria, but also the way it is produced and the best food matches. The wine has a rich history, said to date back to the time of the ancient Greeks. A dried grape wine from Cyprus was first known to be described in 800BC by the Greek poet Hesiod and was known as the Cypriot Manna. Legend has it that in the 13th century Philip Augustus of France held the first ever wine tasting competition. The event, branded The Battle of the Wines (La Bataille des Vins) was recorded in a notable French poem written by Henry d’ Andelin 1224. The competition which included wines from all over Europe and France was won by a wine from Cyprus widely believed to be Commandaria. Not forgetting another legend that has it that an Ottoman sultan invaded the island just to acquire Commandaria. Commandaria is made exclusively from two types of indigenous Cyprus grapes, Xynisteri and Mavro. Only grapes from vineyards that have been planted for at least four years are allowed - watering is prohibited. The grapes are left to overripen on the vine and when sugar content reaches acceptable levels they are harvested. More specifically, Xynisteri is picked when at around 12 baume and Mavro at 15-16 baume. The grapes are laid out in the sun to further increase the sugar density through evaporation. When the baume reaches 19-23 the juice is extracted through crushing and pressing.

Alasia LOEL Abv 15%

What Cyprus’ oldest wine has to offer Fermentation has to take place within the confines of the 14 designated villages that lie in the Commandaria region and the levels of alcohol achieved is up to 15%. Commandaria by law is aged for at least two years in oak barrels. Those present were shocked to find out that Commandaria is served cold and it has also a selection of varied food partners. In general, Commandaria is known for its longstanding contribution to the world of wine as both an aperitif and a dessert wine option. Many cheeses, nuts, cream-based desserts, chocolate desserts and fruit tortes have found a magnificent pairing partner in a fortified wine such as Commandaria. Fruit cake and chocolate ice cream with Commandaria are classed as matches made in heaven. Don’t forget the blue cheese too. There were three non-fortified Commandaria and four fortified. Non–fortified

Commandaria Anesperi, Coop Orinis Pitsilias, Abv 11% The fruit is Xinisteri white grape sourced from the villages of Kalo Chorio, Louvara and Ayios Pavlos. Amber colour with strong brown hues. Complex bouquet, which when stirred in the glass reveals aromas of dried fruit, nuts, coffee and cocoa. Very good structure, rich greasy taste, balances with strong ageing aroma and long-lasting aromatic aftertaste. €17 Bottle Size 50cl (Distributed by Oinotria) 2004 Kyperounda Winery Commandaria, Abv 13% Its taste reminds of vanilla and fresh-ground coffee, a honeyed bouquet layered with dry apricot and figs and golden raisins while the balance between the taste of honey and the

impressive acidity creates a remarkable long lasting finish. It can be laid down for 15-20 years and it should be served very chilled. It makes a luscious aperitif or can be served as a dessert wine accompanying perfectly fruit compotes, fruit tarts, chocolate deserts, and coffee. €13 Bottle size 50cl

2008 Commandaria Tsiakkas, Protected Designation of Origin, Av 13% This honey coloured dessert wine captures the essence of summer in a bottle. From the moment the bottled is opened intense fruit aromas of orange blossoms, sweet, ripe peaches, pineapple compote and dry apricots, figs, honey and touch of roast nut and cocoa touch the nose. These bright and fruit forward aromas are extended to the palate through luscious flavours of sweet fruit, preserves and honey. €25 Fortified

KEO Saint John, Abv 14% With its eye-catching Grand Marnier style bottle, a palate preening wine with saffron glints to its amber hue. A glorious nose shows spice, kid glove, walnuts and hazelnuts, savoury dates and maple syrup, which follow through on a brighter, plumper fruited mid-palate than is typical of Saint John. The finish is long and beautifully articulated by a fine nutty spine with a lovely balance. €12

Recession-era cooking with Jamie By Anthony Barnes TV chef Jamie Oliver is turning his attention to helping families cope with the fi nancial squeeze. His next project is a book and TV show later this year, designed to make meals which cost less and waste little. Campaigner and restaurant owner Oliver has had huge sales successes with his most recent books, regularly topping bestseller lists. In the UK, he has been at number one in the lucrative Christmas book chart for the past three years with Jamie's 30 Minute Meals, Jamie's Great Britain and Jamie's 15 Minute Meals.

His next book, Save With Jamie: Shop Smart, Cook Clever, Waste Less, is described by publisher Michael Joseph as "a bible for all those who want to affordably cook tasty, nutritious, inspiring meals". Jamie says: "This year I've got the message loud and clear that as everyone comes under bigger and bigger fi nancial pressure, they want help to cook tasty, nutritious food on a budget. So this book was born completely out of public demand. "Our biggest luxury is knowledge, whether times are hard or not. So get kitchen-smart and smash the recession."

An excellent amber colour with the desired green tint on the rim. It has a lifted, nutty aroma with obvious alcohol lift but not out of balance. More fruit on the nose, dry apricot, cacao, raisins and rancio as a tasting term is a bit hard to pin down. With exposure to air and maturing in small barrels a certain degree of maderisation or caramelised honey occurs. The palate is rich, partly from the retained sugar and partly from the concentration of flavours with evaporation. While this wine has had no yeast component there is a discernable nuttiness. The alcohol gives a clean lingering finish. €10

2002 Saint Barnabas, SODAP, Abv 15% Brownish gold in colour, as a great Commandaria should be, and made from Xinisteri grape. It has a fine aroma on the nose, where you can find predominant rich fruit, chocolate and coffee aromas, followed by fresh mint. The fruit follows in the mouth. A sweet wine with finesse, a subtle round taste that leaves an impression of earthiness in the centre of the mouth, and a luscious chocolate, heavier on the coffee, with a note of freshness flowing, that carries the taste through. €17

1984 Keo Saint John Abv 15% An outstanding, aged Commandaria from KEO, a blend of Xinisteri and Mavro. Pale, amber brown colour, light caramel with brown hues, this Commandaria has luscious and persistent aromas with notes of spices, marmalade, fresh hay and citrus and charred wood, a touch of aged balsamic vinegar and toasted coffee beans. This wine is suave; it has absorbed its sweetness and is velvety, soft and elegant on the palate. Ethereal, it belies its high sugar content with fresh fruit flavours and incisive acid structure. The wine is complex, savoury and earthy with subtle chary, nutty oak balanced by fresh citrus fruit, citrus peel and straw, with a touch of nettle on the finish. €70

British favourite: Jamie Oliver

The book is designed to help people make better choices by buying items more economically, as well as getting the most out of ingredients and saving time. Tom Weldon, Jamie's longtime publisher and CEO of Penguin UK, said: "We are always thrilled to announce a new cookbook from Jamie but we are particularly excited about Save With Jamie. It seems like just the right time for such a book from one of the nation's most trusted chefs." The book is due out on August 29 and will tie in with a series for Channel 4.

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11 RECIPES

with Maria Socratous

Dairy-free ideas Get into the spirit of the Greek Easter fast with these recipes Mixed Bean Salad with Mustard Dressing Serves 4 75g green beans, trimmed and halved 1 red onion, peeled and chopped 2 sticks celery, chopped 410g cooked cannellini beans 410g cooked borlotti beans (beans with reddish streaks) 6 cherry tomatoes, halved For the dressing 2tbsp wholegrain mustard 1tbsp runny honey Juice and finely grated zest 1 lemon 4tbsp olive oil Steam the beans for 3 minutes. Rinse in cold water and put into a large bowl. Rinse the chopped onion in a sieve, to remove the strong flavour. Add to the bowl. Gently mix in the celery, beans and tomatoes. To make the dressing, put the mustard, honey, lemon juice and zest into a small jar with the oil. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and shake to mix. Drizzle the dressing over the salad and stir lightly before serving.

Smoked Salmon Papardelle

a medium heat until softened. Remove from the heat. Put the capers, lemon zest, juice and rocket in a food processor and whizz until smooth. Spoon the mixture into the pan with the shallots. Drain the pasta, reserving a splash of the cooking water. Add the pasta and reserved water to the sauce, along with the smoked salmon strips. Season and toss together. Scatter with the remaining rocket and serve.

Soya Bean and Pea Soup Serves 4

Serves 4 300g pappardelle or any other pasta shape 3tbsp olive oil 5 shallots, finely chopped 3tbsp capers Zest and juice 2 lemons 75g rocket, plus a few extra leaves, to serve 200g smoked salmon, cut into strips Cook pasta according to packet instructions. Meanwhile, heat the oil in a pan, add the shallots and cook over

200g frozen soya beans 200g frozen peas 500ml hot vegetable stock 6 spring onions, trimmed and chopped 1 small bunch basil 50g rocket 300ml unsweetened soya milk

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Grilled Pineapple Serves 4 Zest and juice 2 limes 150g sugar 1 ripe pineapple Small bunch mint leaves, to serve Place the lime juice, half the zest and the sugar in a saucepan over a medium-high heat. Stir until dissolved.

Put the soya beans, peas, vegetable stock and spring onions in a pan. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the basil, rocket and soya milk.

Whyyoushouldeat Garlic Hold your breath: April 19 is Na onal Garlic Day! Yes, alright, that’s American Na onal Garlic Day, but Allium sa vum is such a wonder food why not celebrate it worldwide? Considered to be both a vegetable and a herb, garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years, since ancient Greek and Roman mes. It’s rumoured that the Pyramids were built on a diet of bread, water and garlic, and in medieval mes not only was garlic used to ward off evil spirits but also as an an dote to drunkenness and glu ony. A member of the onion family, which also includes leeks and shallots, over 300 varie es of garlic are grown around the world. Dubbed the ‘s nking rose’ because of its overpowering taste and smell, garlic

Divide the mixture into 2 bowls. Blend the mixture in one of the bowls until it’s smooth, and leave the other bowl of soup chunky. Combine both mixtures and warm through to serve.

Using a sharp knife, cut the pineapple in half lengthwise right through the crown of the leaves. Halve again lengthways, so you have 4 quarters with the crown still attached. Heat a griddle pan to a medium heat. Brush a little of the glaze on the flesh of each pineapple quarter and cook 2 quarters at a time for 3 minutes on each side until soft and slightly charred. Using a large serrated knife, make a cut at the base between the pineapple shell and the flesh. Carefully continue along the full width of the shell. Then leaving the flesh in its shell, cut into bite-size chunks. Drizzle with the remaining glaze and scatter with the remaining lime zest and the mint leaves to serve.

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works best when eaten raw; if you want the full benefits without the bad breath, neutralise the odour by following up your pungent meal with some parsley. Despite the smelly a er effects, adding garlic to your diet is an excellent way to maintain good health and fight disease; it’s a superfood that has been scien fically proven to help with a variety of medical problems and is an amazing healing agent. Garlic cloves are o en used as a remedy for infec ons, diges ve disorders and fungal infec ons such as thrush due to its bacteriosta c and bacteriocidal proper es garlic is excellent at helping stave off the common cold, bronchial coughs and asthma, it can also help decrease their length and severity. Employed as

an an sep c to prevent gangrene during World War I, clinical trials have shown that a mouthwash containing 2.5 per cent fresh garlic promotes good an microbial ac vity, while in 1924 it was proven that the high vitamin C content in garlic could help prevent scurvy. More recently, the BBC has reported that Allium sa vum may be able to prevent and fight the common cold. Used by the Cherokee as an expectorant, this asser on has the backing of long tradi on in herbal medicine, which has used garlic for hoarseness and coughs. Making garlic a regular part of your diet is great for your blood. Not only are insects repelled by the taste of garlic in your bloodstream, but you’ll also be decreas-

ing your risk of heart disease, lowering cholesterol levels, making blood vessels more flexible, and reducing blood pressure and the incidence of clot forma on. And whilee we’re on the subject, garlic is also alleged too aid in the regula on of blood sugar levels; regular and prolonged use of therapeu c amounts of aged garlic extract lower blood homocysteine levels and have been shown to prevent some complica ons of diabetes mellitus. Rich in protein, vitamins A, B-1 and C and

conta containing essen al m minerals such as c calcium, magnesium and iron, garlic contains 17 different amino acids. As w as breaking well down and preven ng gallstones bladder stones gallstones, st and kidney stones, garlic helps with diges on and stomach upsets – if you’re in need of a laxa ve, try a clove of garlic: regular intake will regulate your output! Though don’t overdo it: an excess of the herb can be detrimental to the diges ve tract! With garlic, as with most foods, modera on is the key.


12 FOOD & DRINK Photos Janine Scott

RESTAURANT REVIEW by Nan Mackenzie OTHER PLACES TO TRY NICOSIA DISTRICT Aperitivo Kennedy Ave, Tel: 22 100990 Caraffa Bastione Athinas Ave, Tel: 22 730025 Au Bon Plaisir Alasias Str 15i, Tel: 96755111 Occhio Alkaiou Str Engomi, Tel: 22 255111 Domus Lounge Korai Street, Tel: 22 433722 Estiades Prevezis Street, Tel: 22 676233 TGI Friday’s Diagorou Ave, Tel: 22 674411 59 Knives Rigaenis Avenue, Tel: 22 664006 Marco Polo Holiday Inn, Tel: 22 712712 Rancho Bar & Grill Archbishop Makarios Avenue, Tel: 22 454454

LIMASSOL DISTRICT La Maison Fleurie Christaki Kranou, Tel: 25 320680 Aliada Eirinis Street, Tel: 25 340758 House Corner of Agiou Andreou and Christodoulou Sozou, Tel: 25 364040 Beige Ayios Andreous, Tel: 25 818860 Columbia Steak House Agiou Andreou 223, Tel: 25 278000 Cyan Amathus Hotel, Tel: 25 832000 Terra E Mare Amathoundos Avenue, Tel: 25 635343 Baguette Brasserie Andrea Themistocleous Str, Tel: 25 107398

LARNACA DISTRICT A33 Egiptou Avenue, Tel: 70006933 Cambanella’s Steak House Larnaka Dhekelia Road, Tel: 24 647877 Campanario Steak House Nikodimou Mylona Street, Tel: 24 626110 Flavours Kosma Lysioti Street, Tel: 24 823995 La Veranda Samou Street (Dhekelia Road), Tel: 24 646777 Lord Kitchener psematismenos,Tel: 24333484

PAPHOS DISTRICT Brasserie Ifestos Intercontinental Hotel, Tel: 26 829000 Meat Academy Posidonos & Polidefki Street, Tel: 26 965285 Oliveto Tafoi Ton Vasileon Street, Tel: 26 220099 The Bay Coral Bay Street, Tel: 26 342300 Old Town Polis Chrysohous, Tel: 26 322758

A restaurant worthy of its reputation Almond Tree, Paphos

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ou know how it is. You sit down, the waiter hands over the menu, you read and think, ‘Okay, nice’ but deep down what you really desire even from a short menu are dishes that proffer some genuine level of stimuli for one’s often recalcitrant taste buds. Believe me (please) reading the Almond Tree menu is akin to browsing through a culinary equivalent of the Kama Sutra - here you are introduced to flavour combinations which are both unusual, even adventurous, yet all are deliciously tempting and do promise hidden pleasures far beyond the bog standard we are often served. Chef and owner Andreas Michaelides has worked hard to create this unique outpost of civilised dining where good food doesn’t take itself too seriously, where lurking just

below its outwardly proper demeanour there lurks more than touch of tightly laced corsets with an instinct for all the baser things we need from food - the man obviously has deep lascivious feelings for his ingredients. It’s also food that is not exactly simple, instead it’s all about thoughtful complexity. This is a young man who cooks with real enthusiasm and an intensity that comes from oceans of experience and technique that allows him to freely create such distinctive and original plates of food. You enter into a welcoming reception area, where diners enjoy an aperitif before moving into a classic, comfortable dining area and it’s here I have to raise my sole complaint, the stark wall lighting above some of the tables is not at all in keeping with the mood of the menu. I don’t want a lights out experience exactly, but surely some dimmers or up-lighters would create more ambience than the ‘current’ level used. Three friends and I decide to move to shadier climes and await the starters. A platter of bruschetta with buffalo mozzarella tomatoes, garlic and basil starts the tasting session followed swiftly by a soft, perfectly cooked pile of skewered chicken satay partnered with a sweet chilli remoulade; key west crab cakes have long held their popularity since the restaurant open many moons ago and one taste and you know why.

VITAL STATISTICS SPECIALTY International WHERE 5 Konstantias Street, Kato Paphos PRICE Starters at around 4-6 euro, mains from under 15 and up to 21 euro

Then, it was a large and delicious mix of salad and excellent home made samosas which racked up the old taste buds. For mains we opted to share and, this was when friendship sort of died on the vine with one so called friend feveroushly protecting his portion of panko crusted cod fi llet with a mango salsa, so all I can say is he seemed to enjoy every sliver. The rest of us shared grilled chicken breast stuffed with rocket, prosciutto, and a five spiced duck breast, with a deliciously Moorish burnt honey sauce. Diners can also opt for a sharing seafood or meze platter both excellent value for money at fewer than 18 euro a head. Not forgetting the best afters, in the form of Chef’s delicious and properly executed New York style baked cheesecake or his equally famous key lime pie. Both have to be major contenders in the pudding nirvana stakes. Our liquid honour guard came in the form of a couple of bottles of Kyperounda winery’s excellent Petritis made from the indigenous Cypriot Xynisteri grape - here it’s a wine list that solidly supports some of our home grown quality boutique wineries. Finally when folk say they think a meal like this would be expensive then I won’t trouble you with my usual speech about the difference between being cheap and offering value, those who understand the difference are already stalwarts of this particular gem of a restaurant. The best comment however came from a fellow diner who after clearing his plate of Red Thai coconut chicken curry turned to his girlfriend and said ‘I wanted to just keep eating it’. In my book you can ask nothing more of a well made dish.

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games Army of Two: Devil’s Cartel Last summer, one man revolutionised the current WWE landscape. In a legendary moment at the end of Monday Night Raw, WWE Superstar CM Punk - as the voice of the voiceless - changed everything the world knew about WWE. Through his words and actions, a new leader emerged to set a higher standard, convey a new brand of attitude and ultimately ignite a revolution among the WWE Universe. His mantra? Best in the world. It’s not the first time WWE has seen such rebellion. Nearly 15 years ago, the legendary ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin also revolutionised the WWE realm, sparking a new generation of supporters through his relentless, antihero behaviour in one of WWE’s most celebrated time periods: the Attitude Era. Why did it happen? In his words, ‘Cause Stone Cold said so’. Today, a new crusade is on the horizon, and it doesn’t start with an iconic WWE Superstar on

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television, online or at a live event. The WWE game franchise returns to provide the most authentic, seamless and passionate experience to date - all while turning up the attitude. WWE ‘13 will transform WWE gameplay through the introduction of WWE Live, completely changing the way players embrace the videogame’s audio and presentation elements. Predator Technology returns to further implement critical gameplay improvements while

fan favourites in WWE Universe Mode and the franchise’s renowned Creation Suite are poised to offer the utmost in player freedom. Furthermore, WWE ‘13 will introduce a groundbreaking, single-player campaign based on the highly influential Attitude Era. Complete with a robust roster - the largest to date in the franchise along with a host of additional features, WWE ‘13 is ready to live a revolution all its own. Console: PS3, Xbox 360

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Wakin on a Pretty Daze Philadelphia guitarist Kurt Vile crossed over from lo-fi beginnings to cult stardom with his last album, Smoke Ring for My Halo, in 2011. On the follow-up, his fifth, he has the confidence to spread out and get comfortable. This one has the same number of tracks as its 47-minute predecessor, 11, but is almost two hours long. It’s strange to say that it isn’t really noticeable. His stoned, drifting style suits the pretty meanderings of the 13-minute Was All Talk and the echoing acoustic picking of Too Hard. There is more focus here and there but mostly this is slow-motion musical quicksand in which it’s worth drowning. By David Smyth

Shaking the Habitual Better known for wearing birdbeak masks than their disjointed music, endearingly silly Stockholm siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have taken seven years to make their fourth album. With muffled production further muddying already murky waters, attention-seeking schoolboy lyrics (“A handful of elf pee/That’s my soul/spray it all over/Fill the bowl”) and a lack of interest in melody, Shaking the Habitual’s 13 tracks ramble for nearly 100 minutes and are not for the faint-hearted. Full of Fire takes some intriguing twists and turns and the 19-minute Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized hisses and belches its way to the end. Ultimately, Shaking the Habitual is an album which, for all its cluttered clatter, lacks heart as well as focus. By John Aizlewood

English Electric Like many other outfits from the Eighties, Orchestral Meanderings in the Dark have decided to grace us with another record. English Electric, for those of a tender age, was a company that made fridges and other kitchen stuff in the good old days for a population that had a sense of its place in the world, which has since changed. This is a record along the same, somewhat anachronistic, lines. An old song called Enola Gay was used at the Olympics ceremony last year but there is nothing here to match it. Lead singer Andy McCluskey gives his all on attempted crowd-pleasers such as Helen of Troy and Dresden, while jokey techno nonsense like Please Remain Seated and Atomic Ranch might raise a smile from those with a withered sense of humour. It’s the old OMD formula: big choruses, electronic drums, no sweat. Pass. By Pete Clark

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Revealed while the internet is still recovering from last week’s barrage of fake April Fool’s products, OrigAudio’s Beets headphones - a parody of Dre’s Beats headphones - are real and will set you back considerably less Will they sound as ‘good’ as an authentic and considerably more expensive pair of Beats? Probably not, even when you consider that a good chunk of the Beats price tag is paying for the brand name. But April 14, 2013• SUNDAY MAIL

A modular, fully customisable wine rack for every type of drinker Regardless of whether you’re a sommelierhopeful or simply a diligent lush, you’re going to need a wine rack to match your distinct, personal tastes. This is exactly what makes the completely customisable and op-

tionally mountable Nucleus wine w rack from Thijs Goossink so fantastic. Constructed C of high-grade, scratch-proof anodised aluminscr ium, ium the beautifully minimalist holders ho come in three different colours. colo Rivets along the side offer a sturdy grip g as you slide one module into another, allowing you to effortlessly stack up or down to create the wine display of your dreams.

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Photoshop Touch If you’re an avid Photoshopper then you’ll want this power to extend to your mobile device, and boy does it rise to the challenge, with almost every single feature available on the software at play here on the app. These include the ability to tone, colour and layer, adjust, filter and select, add text should you so wish, and also take advantage of some features that are specific to the app itself, such as the seriously unique Camera Fill feature, which will fill an entire area to layer. The possibilities are endless but perhaps the most impressive is the ability to begin on your tablet, and finish (via the genius that is the free membership) on Creative Cloud with 2GB of storage. www.itunes.apple.com

Google Keep Are you an avid note-taker who has never been able to make the leap to digitally stored diary entries? Or perhaps you’re already entrenched in Evernote - the main contender to the note taking throne. Whichever of these applies, you’ll be interested to know about Google Keep, an addition that might well help you keep those memories for posterity, and in the form you like them to be. All manner of templates are on offer in which to keep your notes, lists and photos. Voice notes transcribed automatically (take that, Dragon Dictation software!). Colour coded notes to help you store it all and find it easier. A handy swipe to archive function for the notes you no longer need; ahhh satisfying and cloud based storage at drive.google.com/keep, not to mention the facility to push to all devices so that utterly important note will never disappear into the ether again. Google Keep on Google Play

the world will beat a path to your door. And the same will probably hold true for the first coffee shop to adopt this clever spoonsecuring NOTA coffee mug designed by Lee Hae Seung Scott. The NOTA mug features a set of built-in supports preventing a spoon from sliding around. It’s as brilliant a solution as it is simple, and while not for sale, it thankfully doesn’t look like a design that’s too difficult to steal.

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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

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DIRECTED BY David O. Russell STARRING Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro US 2012 122mins

FILM REVIEW by Tracy Philips

Rom com with a silver lining A

nyone who has ever lived with someone with a mental illness will probably recognise the humour in this fi lm. In fact, I would think most people would fi nd it pretty funny; it is even laughout-loud hilarious at times (more so at the beginning than the end, it has to be said). There is nothing intrinsically amusing about two central characters recovering from a mental breakdown, but often the situations that arise out of misunderstandings and odd perceptions that those characters have, and the things they say, can be very funny. Listing competing medications over dinner for one. Given the high percentage of the population that will suffer from some sort of mental ill health during their lives (as high as one in four statistics tell us), it is a subject well worth tackling. It just doesn’t really happen in this movie. It is an interesting twist on the traditional romcom idea but that is all: an unusually offbeat romantic comedy, but a more enjoyable one than most. Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) plays an ex-teacher, Pat Solitano Jnr, who has just returned home to his parents after eight months in a psychiatric ward following the breakdown of his marriage. The reason his marriage broke down was that his wife, also a teacher, was having an affair with a colleague at school. Pat’s reaction on fi nding them having sex in their shower at home is not unreasonable but possibly excessively violent. This leads to a diagnosis

Although don’t expect Silver Linings Playbook to deliver much about mental health

of bipolar disorder and a restraining order from his wife. Still on medication and attempting to fi nd the silver lining in all this, Pat looks for ways to retrieve his marriage and his life. This ranges from reading every set text his wife is planning to teach to trying to bypass the restraining order to get a letter to her through a mutual friend. Having read Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Pat feels the need to apologise to his parents on behalf of the author for the ending at four in the morning. This is after throwing the text through the window. It is all very funny, as is the teenage neighbour who persists in turning up with a tape recorder to do an interview on mental illness for his “school project”. The fact that everyone in the Solitano household has some sort of mental ill health makes it all the more amusing. Pat Senior (Robert de Niro), has a gambling problem and OCD while his mother, Dolores (Jacki Weaver), constantly bakes to relieve the stress. Pat Senior just wants to bond with his son over his football team, the Philadelphia Eagles. This means sitting on the sofa together and willing his team to win.

Still on medication and attempting to find the silver lining in all this, Pat looks for ways to retrieve his marriage and his life

There is little other option, given that Pat Senior has been banned from attending the matches and usually has a load of money riding on it. Pat Junior has other ideas. He has made a new friend in Tiffany, whose social skills, or lack of, rival his own. Tiffany is played beautifully by Jennifer Lawrence. And I did enjoy her performance in the excellent Winter’s Bone. Tiffany is a young widow suffering from depression who has recently lost her job. Why? Because she had sex with everybody in the office. She says, with a completely straight face, it was because, “I was very depressed after Tommy died.” Tiffany and Pat are made for each other, it seems. Well it’s obvious to the audience, if not to the couple

themselves. Pat is just interested in using Tiffany to get a letter to his exwife and in return, Tiffany persuades Pat to enter a local dance competition with her. It is something that she has always wanted to do but Tommy would never agree. As the dance competition gets closer, it becomes obvious that Tiffany has her eye on more than winning the competition, even though Pat is still hoping to win over his ex-wife. Then there is a crucial last game of the season for the Eagles and Pat Senior ends up mixing his bets on the outcome of the dance competition and the football season. It’s edge of the seat stuff. Well, not really. This is where it all becomes pretty predictable rom-com stuff. However, the dance moves are great and there is a genuine chemistry between Cooper and Lawrence that is a pleasure to watch. But if you are expecting anything more serious on the issue of mental health in David O Russell’s adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel, think again. Although it did win a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay!

filmsummaries Beautiful Creatures Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) is a young man who longs to escape his small Southern town. Lena (Alice Englert) is the new girl in town, beautiful and mysterious. The two fall in love – but Lena is a witch (a ‘Caster’) faced with a cosmic choice: on her 16th birthday, her true nature will emerge. Will it be light or dark? Her uncle Macon (Jeremy Irons) and other members of her family are trying to shepherd her to the light, while her mother and cousin are advocating that she embrace the dark side. Also starring Emma Thompson, Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum. Directed by Richard LaGravenese. (Romantic fantasy, 124 mins.) Our rating:

Pitch Perfect Beca (Anna Kendrick), a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining ‘The Bellas’, the

school’s all-girl a capella group, led by the demanding and headstrong Aubrey (Anna Camp), competing against the all-boy a capella group The Treblemakers. But The Bellas are stuck in an old groove, despite Beca’s attempts to make them more energetic and relevant. Meanwhile, Beca’s budding relationship with Treblemaker member Jesse (Skylar Astin) is causing all sorts of problems. Also starring Rebel Wilson and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Directed by Jason Moore. (Romantic comedy, 112 mins.) Our rating: N/A

G.I. Joe: Retaliation After a deadly surprise attack on a team of G.I. Joes in the field near North Korea, the survivors swear revenge. The attack seems to emanate from the highest levels within the government itself. Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson), Lady Jaye (Adrienne Palicki) and Mouse (Joseph Maz-

zello) enlist the help of retired Col. Joe Colton (Bruce Willis) to track down the threat, facing off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence. Also starring D.J. Cotrona and Channing Tatum. Directed by Jon M. Chu. In 3D. (Sci-fi action, 110 mins.) Our rating:

The Sessions At the age of 38, San Francisco poet and journalist Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes), who has been confined to an iron lung since childhood polio, decides he wants to lose his virginity before he dies. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene (Helen Hunt), a professional ‘sex surrogate’ – but otherwise a typical mother with a teenager, a house and a husband. An unusual relationship evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey. Based on a true story. Also starring Wil-

liam H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood and Adam Arkin. Directed by Ben Lewin. (Drama, 95 mins.) Our rating:

Zarafa A grandfather tells his grandchildren the story of Maki, a young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe (the title character), crosses the desert, meets a pirate, and a few other things on a trip that takes him from Africa to Paris. Directed by Remi Bezancon and JeanChristophe Lie. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 78 mins.) Our rating: N/A

Jack the Giant Slayer Jack (Nicholas Hoult) is a hapless farm boy who finds a pouch of magic seeds and inadvertently grows a gargantuan beanstalk that pierces the clouds and extends all the way up to a sky

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ZERO DARK THIRTY DIRECTED BY Kathryn Bigelow STARRING Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton US 2012 157mins

Zero faults for CIA agent Maya I

n the past Kathryn Bigelow has made a point of stating that she is a fi lmmaker, rather than a female fi lmmaker. She didn’t mention the fact that she was the fi rst woman to get a Best Director Oscar when she received her Academy Award for Hurt Locker. Of course she has a point, on one level it can look a tad patronising to point out a woman’s gender when she does well. We would never do that if a man won a Best Director Award. Why would we? They always win. Or they always did until she won. No such luck with Zero Dark Thirty though. But you have to wonder how this fi lm is different, better even, than it might have been because it was directed by a woman. The fi lm received just one shared award for sound editing and Bigelow wasn’t even nominated for Best Director. Why? Because the fi lm has turned out to be rather controversial in the US, with many critics claiming it glorifies torture and is simply a vehicle for CIA propaganda. Even the Senate has been asking questions about what information the CIA passed to Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. If there was a sharing of information, it was used to produce a truly engaging fi lm in which one strong female lead makes many of her male colleagues look like a bunch of incompetents who don’t understand the enemy they are dealing with. It has been a box office success, and personally I think it is great. It takes you on a riveting journey through the detail of this massive manhunt to the gripping fi nal scenes with the Navy Seal team getting their man. And it is all mediated through the eyes of one remarkable woman. Jessica Chastain is excellent as the central character, CIA agent Maya,

Zero Dark Thirty is a gripping tale despite some of its geographical errors

who is obsessed with fi nding Osama Bin Laden, or UBL, as she insists on calling him. Apart from the fact that Maya doesn’t seem to have any sense of humour, I can’t really fault her. Anyone prepared to dedicate that much time to hunting down an enemy like Bin Laden, putting themselves in some pretty disturbing and dangerous situations probably has a few social issues anyway. She is not quite Carrie in the excellent TV series Homeland but not far off. Unlike Carrie, she doesn’t seem to have a sex life. In fact, she doesn’t have the slightest interest in men at all, it seems. Or that side of her character is just not relevant, which is an unusual departure for Hollywood. She is a woman on a mission, not least to be taken seriously by the men she works with. What a surprise, nobody listens until she starts talking like a man, as in “I’m the motherfucker who discovered the place.” That gets the attention of CIA Director Leon Panetta (we assume although he is not named), played by James Gandolfi ni (Tony Soprano). The fi lm starts with 9/11 and covers the next ten years in two and a half hours. This necessarily means that some of the facts are compromised. However, the fi lm does claim at the start to be “based on fi rst hand accounts of actual events.” Bigelow has talked about composite characters. This means Maya may not be based on

world populated by giants. When the beanstalk grows, Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), the heir to the realm of King Brahmwell (Ian McShane), is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She is caught in the vines and carried into the sky. Jack, along with Isabelle’s protectors Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and Crawe (Eddie Marsan) and her would-be groom Roderick (Stanley Tucci), head off in pursuit. Unfortunately, Roderick has an agenda that doesn’t involve rescuing Isabelle. In 3D. Directed by Bryan Singer. (Fantasy adventure, 114 mins.) Our rating:

The Last Stand Diabolical drug-cartel boss Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega) busts out of FBI custody and heads for the Mexican border. His plan is to cross over near the small town of Sommerton, and there’s only one man who can thwart him: the town’s pencil-pushing sheriff Ray Owens April 14, 2013 • SUNDAY MAIL

One thing we do know is that Hollywood is consistently sloppy when it comes to details about the rest of the world

(Arnold Schwarzenegger), armed with nothing more than years of experience as an LA narcotics cop and a team of inexperienced sidekicks. Also starring Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville and Peter Stormare. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. (Action thriller, 107 mins.) Our rating:

Oz the Great and Powerful Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a travelling circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot: fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he’s the great wizard everyone’s been expecting as per the prophecy. Nonetheless, he’s all they’ve got – and, as their new king, he’s expected to save them from evil. He is after all, the great and

any one real individual. Some people have speculated that she is based on a real female CIA agent called Jen. But it is disappointing to fi nd out that the journalist and author Peter Bergen, an authority on Bin Laden, says that the one CIA officer who spent eight years searching for Bin Laden and tracked him to the compound where he was killed was actually a man. So was it a deliberate choice to make it a female lead? And what does she add? A fascinating female character who never shows emotion even when others play on her femininity to try to undermine her. But you have to wonder if an organisation like the CIA would act on the say so of one woman against the better judgement of the men who did not believe they had Bin Laden. But then Hollywood does love an individual struggling against the odds, even when she is a woman. As for the actual details about what led to the eventual tracking down and killing of Bin Laden, the audience cannot really know all the facts and how accurately they are being presented. One thing we do know is that Hollywood is consistently sloppy when it comes to details about the rest of the world. This is an accusation Maya levels at some of her colleagues, their lack of understanding of the culture of the enemy. It is also an accusation that quite a few people in Pakistan have levelled at the fi lm on Facebook and Twitter. Showing the locals speaking Arabic for one, mispronouncing names like Abbottabad and Peshawar, giving inaccurate directions from Islamabad to Abbottabad and presenting the whole country as some kind of dusty war zone. You

powerful Oz. Also starring Zach Braff. Directed by Sam Raimi. In 3D. (Adventure fantasy, 130 mins.) Our rating:

Mama A man, having shot his ex-wife, kidnaps his two young daughters (aged one and three), and wanders with the kids through the woods till they come to a dilapidated cabin. Once inside, he prepares a double murder-suicide – but something emerges from the dark to snatch him away. Five years later, the girls, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nelisse), now eight and six, have been discovered living on their own in the cabin. Feral, and frightened of people, they’re eventually released into the custody of their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) and his goth rocker girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). But the girls don’t come on their own: they bring with them “Mama”, their

might think that American fi lmmakers are a bit geographically and culturally challenged. Anyone who has seen the episode of Homeland in which the CIA has a safe house in “Nicosia by the sea” might think the same. Personally, I can’t get that worked up about a few geographical errors, although I can see why some might fi nd it patronising. The point is, does it make good viewing? I have no qualms about saying that it does. The fi nal scenes involving the Navy Seal mission in the compound in Abbottabad are tense and riveting. And beautifully shot. For anyone who has ever played the game Black Ops on PS3, it’s like that but better. As for the accusations levelled at the fi lm that it is simply CIA propaganda that glorifies their former “enhanced interrogation” techniques, it absolutely does not. If that is what it is attempting to do, it fails miserably. The fi lm is not even morally ambiguous about torture; it is neutral, allowing the viewer to form his or her own opinion. It does not even suggest that torture gave the CIA useful information. In fact, it is clear that it didn’t. It simply depicts those techniques, and it is uncomfortable viewing. Equally uncomfortable are the voices from the Twin Towers at the start of the fi lm, as are the scenes at the London bombings. As for being a mouthpiece for the CIA, I wonder why the organisation would want to look that pompous and incompetent. Maya sums it up when she responds to a question about how sure she is that she has found Bin Laden. She says, “100% he’s there. OK, 95 ’cause I know certainty freaks you guys out.”

‘friend’ from the cabin. Directed by Andres Muschietti. (Horror, 100 mins.)

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Barbie in the Pink Shoes Barbie is Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams. When she tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend Hailey are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world where Kristyn discovers she must dance in her favourite ballets in order to defeat an evil Snow Queen. Directed by Owen Hurley. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 75 mins.) Our rating: N/A

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newreleases Oblivion 60 years have passed since Earth was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion. Jack Harper (Tom Cruise), a former Marine commander, is one of the last remaining men on the planet. He’s a drone mechanic, part of a huge operation to extract the planet’s remaining vital resources, and lives on a floating station thousands of metres above the ground. A couple of weeks before his mission is due to end, Jack rescues a young stranger named Julia (Olga Kurylenko) from a crashed spacecraft – and soon finds himself captured by an insurgency led by 102-year-old Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman), eventually making him question everything he knows about the society he lives in and the truth about the war with the alien race. Also starring Andrea Riseborough and Melissa Leo. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. (Sci-fi action, 126 mins.) Our rating:

Silver Linings Playbook Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything – his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his mother Dolores (Jacki Weaver) and father Pat Snr (Robert De Niro) after spending eight months in a mental health facility. All Pat’s parents want is for him to get back on his feet – but Pat is obsessed with reuniting with his estranged wife Nikki, even though she’s the reason he went off the rails in the first place. When he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with prob-

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lems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers to help Pat reconnect with Nikki, but only if he’ll do something very important for her in return. As their deal plays out, an unexpected bond begins to form between them, and silver linings appear in both their lives. Directed by David O. Russell. (Drama with comedy elements, 122 mins.) Our rating:

Zero Dark Thirty Maya (Jessica Chastain) is a CIA agent whose life is transformed after 9/11. She reluctantly participates in extreme duress (read: torture) applied to detainees, but believes that the truth can only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she’s single-minded – and increasingly obsessive – in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a US Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident that Bin Laden is where she says he is. Also starring Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke and Joel Edgerton. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. (Political action thriller, 157 mins.)

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Small Crime On a beautiful but ragged Greek island in the Aegean, Leonidas (Akis Servetalis) is a frustrated young policeman who’d much rather be in the big city than stuck on a sleepy island. He finds hope for action in the discovery of Zacharias’ body. Each person he talks to on the island has their own version of how Zacharias died – and, through his unorthodox investigation, Leonidas will get to know them all, fall in love, become part of the island and in the end solve the mystery of Zacharias’ death. Also starring Vicky Papadopoulou. Directed by Christos Georgiou. In Greek. (Comedy, 85 mins.)

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Padre Padrone

Zarafa (K)

Cine Studio, tonight at 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Jack the Giant Slayer (12)

LIMASSOL

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Oblivion (N/A)

The Last Stand (15)

Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 6 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Oz the Great and Powerful (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410

Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K)

Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 5 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Zero Dark Thirty (N/A)

Sammy’s Great Escape (K)

Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

K-Cineplex (Screen 5), weekends only at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Zarafa (K)

K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

them in his plans for a great escape – but, with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet octopus and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. Directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 92 mins.)

Our rating:

Pitch Perfect (12)

K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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Padre Padrone The true story of Gavino Ledda (Saverio Marconi), the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father (Omero Antonutti). Directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1977. In Italian, with Greek subtitles. (Drama, 113 mins.)

Rio 3 at 7.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12)

filmsummaries

Our rating: N/A

What’sonwhere NICOSIA

Unforgettable Unmissable Recommendable Watchable Regrettable Abominable

Padre Padrone

Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org

LARNACA

PAPHOS

Oblivion (N/A)

Oblivion (N/A)

K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 1 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)

Silver Linings Playbook (N/A)

Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000

K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zero Dark Thirty (N/A)

K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Beautiful Creatures (12)

Zero Dark Thirty (N/A) Rio 2 at 9.45pm, weekends also at 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Beautiful Creatures (12)

Rio 4 at 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000

K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Pitch Perfect (12)

Pitch Perfect (12)

Rio 7 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50pm. Tel: 7777-8383 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12)

K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Zarafa (K)

K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 6 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (12) The Sessions (15)

Rio 3, weekdays at 7.30pm, weekends at 6 and 7.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Jack the Giant Slayer (12)

Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Last Stand (15)

Jack the Giant Slayer (12)

Rio 3 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Oz the Great and Powerful (12)

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K)

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 7, weekends only at 3 and 5.15pm. Tel: 26-207000 Mama (15)

K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek), weekends only at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rio 2 at 7.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Small Crime

Sammy’s Great Escape (K)

Thursday at 8.30pm, presented by the Larnaca Cinema Society. Tel: 99658831, 99-462903. www.lfcinema.org

Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Sammy’s Great Escape (K)

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17 Talent Show rd

Limassol Theatre Arts School presents the 3 Annual Open Talent Competition for young singers, dancers, musicians and entertainers Juniors aged 4 to 8, Intermediates aged 9 to 13 and

Seniors aged 14 to 18. Deadline for registration is April 16. To enter or to book tickets, call 99 784927 or check the website www.limassolarts.com. All competitors will be called for a technical rehearsal in the week leading up to the competition.

Workshop by Judge from the West End Well known West End performer and Dance Captain Richard Roe will give workshops on Sunday April 21 for all promising young performers between the ages of eight and 18 where he will work on material

from his last West End production: The Wizard of Oz. The workshops will run for 1 hour and 30 minutes and to secure your child’s place, email limassol.arts@ gmail.com. €12 per child. 10 – 11.30am 8 – 12 years; 12 – 1.30pm 13 – 18 years

Stars in the making

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alent. According to Simon Cowell, you’ve either got it or you haven’t. From The X Factor to Britain’s Got Talent, the public has been gleefully tuning into the spate of talent shows that have graced our airwaves in recent years. Who could forget Paul Potts, the shy mobile phone salesman from Wales who brought Britain to its knees with his rendition of Nessun Dorma, or church chorister Susan Boyle, who rocked the world with her hauntingly beautiful version of I Dreamed A Dream? Where the world leads, Cyprus follows, and the schools on the island have been quick to jump on the bandwagon, with almost every educational establishment now hosting a competition for its students to showcase their abilities. From hammering out Chopsticks on the piano to drumming in the garage, kids everywhere are pursuing their dreams. But what if your child really does have a unique talent? What if he or she really can go the distance – how then, when we live on such a small island, do you get them noticed on a world-wide stage? The answer lies in The Limassol Theatre Arts School, whose Open Talent Show is being judged this year by a panel of professionals – from West End Musical Theatre and the UK music industry. The driving force behind the competition is Lucy-Jane Georghiou, Course Director at The Limassol Theatre Arts School. Herself a talented performer, she’s performed with the Cambridge Footlights, and has a whole host of theatrical

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Could your child be the next big thing? If you think so, sign them up for an upcoming Talent Show says ALIX NORMAN credits to her name. “The world of performance is so competitive now – much more so than when I was younger. There are so many good people out there – and you have to be of an amazing standard to make it,” she says. “We’re lucky at the school to have such professional teachers, all dedicated to bringing out the best in the students.” The Talent Show is a great jumping off point for kids to be recognised, whether they attend the School or not. “When it comes to the Talent Show, there’s absolutely no differentiation between the kids who attend the school and those who don’t,” says Lucy-Ann. “It’s very important that all the entrants have equal standing; the judges won’t even know their names, just their number and age to ensure anonymity. It’s a totally fair competition.” This year, the judging panel consists of three renowned performers from the world stage: Richard Roe, Jo Davies and Laura Meaton. All three are experts in their fields: Richard – who has choreographed a number of West End productions - is taking a break from working on the Olivier

Awards to fly out to the island to judge the show, and also present a musical theatre workshop the following day. Jo is a renowned musician and accompanist who travels the world working with stars such as Kanye West, Muse and Andrea Bocelli, and Laura is a talented young actress who has already performed in and choreographed many shows at the Royal Holloway University of London. In previous years, the Talent Show has boasted every sort of act from pop songs to rhythmic gymnastics, to comedy routines: “The bar is set very high,” says Lucy-Ann. “Although the judges will not be looking for professional acts, the kids do need to have a fi nished and polished piece. And anyone who needs help will be given lots of positive feedback at the technical rehearsal beforehand.” Previous contestants have gone on to record albums, secure scholarships and have been offered places at renowned Theatre Schools in London, and the prizes this year are similarly coveted: the main sponsor, Soundscape Studios, is offering all winners the chance to record their own fully-produced cover song and video, while the child who judges believe personifies musical theatre will be offered a full scholarship to attend the 2013 summer school at Pineapple Studios in Covent Garden. With limited places available, acts need to declare their entry by April 16 to try their chances at being the next big thing. Sure, everyone deserves their moment of fame, but some talents are destined for a lifetime of recognition. If you think you’ve got a star in the making, sign them up and let them shine!

What’sonlistings Exhibitions Nicosia district

Alessandra Desole Solo painting exhibition. Until May 5. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. MondaySaturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030

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Group Exhibition Group painting and sculpture exhibition. Opens April 15, 7.30pm until April 27. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Sutile Solo exhibition of appliqués by Susan Vargas. Opens April 16, 7.30pm until May 2. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Atrapos Solo art exhibition by Mikella Psara. Until April 17. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 22754009. www.argogallery.org Women in a Period of Crisis Third Cypriot women artist exhibition. Until April 19. Katoi, 43 Agioi Omologites. Open daily: 10.30am-6pm and Saturday: 10.30am-2pm. Tel: 22-774157 Design Society Against Crisis photography, poster, and animation charity exhibition by the students of the Design Society / Department of Design & Multimedia, University of Nicosia with the theme Against Crisis in aid of students in need. Until April 19. Scarabeo Bar, 4 Nikokreontos Street. Tel: 96-696669 One Night Solo painting exhibition by Silvia Zwahlen Ragheb. April 19. Hilton Hotel, Othello Room. 6pm-9pm. Tel: 96-578996

Norwegian Architecture Three exhibitions highlighting recent achievements in Norwegian architecture: Contemporary Norwegian Architecture #7, The Oslo Opera House by Snøhetta and Palimpsest – Norway by Claudio Santambrogio. Until April 26. The Department of Architecture, University of Nicosia, 31 Michael Giorgalla ,Str., Engomi Industrial Zone. Open daily: 9am-6pm.Tel: 22-842600/601 email: info.arc.@unic.ac.cy Costas Economou Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. EKATE building, 11 Paeonos. Opening hours: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-466426 Island of Saints, Artist of Light Solo painting exhibition by Vartan Tashdjian. Until April 27. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Wednesday- Sunday: 10am-8pm. 22-864300 Children’s Dialogues Group children’s art exhibition. Throughout the exhibition there will be workshops and events that have been carefully designed by the creative children educators of Aigaia team. Until April 30. Aigaia School of Art and Design, 81 Agion Omologiton Avenue. Monday - Friday: 4pm-8pm. Saturday & Sunday: 10am-1pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 22-445757 Space, Colour, City – The City as a Large Home The exhibition presents twenty selected art works by young people of 17 to 22 years of age within the context of the art competition Space, Shade, State. Opens April 12, 6pm until April 30. The Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, old Nicosia. Tel: 22-661475 A Fleur de Peau Group exhibition. Until May 4. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670

Foundations and Remains An exhibition by controversial British artist/ taxidermist Polly Morgan. Until May 5. The Office Gallery 32 Kleanthis Christophides Street, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99-848495. www. theofficegallery.com Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until July 21. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac.org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until July 21. Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316 Cyprus Icons and Mosaics Makarios III Foundation, Archbishopric, old Nicosia. Monday-Friday 9am-4.30pm and Saturday 9am-1pm. Tel: 22-430008 Old Maps and Engravings 16th-19th Century Permanent exhibition: Cyprus and other Greek lands, Europe and America. Viewing by appointment. Gallery Leventi, 6 Polykleitos St. Tel/Fax: 22-348451/ 99658694. Cyprus Yesterday and Today Permanent exhibition. Diachroniki Gallery Idalion, 32 Makarios Ave., Dhali. Open Monday-Saturday 11am-5pm. Tel: 22525691

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18 WHAT’S ON Nightlife Nicosia district Turn up the Volume Club evening playing deep tech, house, Dutch progressive and trance, with go-go dance show. April 19. Buena Vista Club (Time Club), 107 Eptanisou, Nicosia. 11pm. €25/20 open bar. Tel: 99-549451 Marlenka Café Music Weekends Come and enjoy a glass of wine, your favourite cocktail or dinner while you listen to violin pedagogue Professor Robert Hovanesyan and member of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. Marlenka Cafe, 92-94 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Every Saturday and Sunday evening from 8.30pm. Tel: 70-001129 Live Jazz Event Jazz music with band ‘D Lirious’, food and drinks available. Every Friday night at Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. 9:30pm.For reservations contact 22-844000 Music Nights Entechno and folk music at RED. Every Saturday. Red, Dionysus 15, old town hall square. Tel: 22-767711. www.music. net.cy/red Agapiou Escuela de Danza Parties Latin parties every Sunday at Sitio Cafè, 20 Makarious Avenue, Nicosia.10pm Milonga/Argentinean Tango Regular Milonga/Argentinean Tango every Thursday at Enallax,16-17 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. 10pm

Baroque Live music every Thursday night from the 70s, 80s and 90s, 9.30pm until late. Open on a daily basis as regular bar from 10am2am.Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. Tel: 22-844000 The Petsteppers Trio playing live every Monday. Lotofagi Bar, 8 Athinas Avenue, Old Nicosia. 10pm. Tel: 22-347573 Funky Jelly at Domus With DJ Yiotis and Theo playing uplifting lounge tunes. Domus lounge bar, 5 Korai St, Old Nicosia. 10pm until late. Tel: 22-433722 Arabesque Sundays With belly dancers and ethnic music. Mberdema Gold, 30 Nikiforou St, Famagusta Gate. 11.30pm until late. Tel: 22345946 Club Red Live Greek music and various events. 15 Dionysiou St, Old Municipality Square, Nicosia. Thursdays-Sundays, 10pm onwards. Tel: 99-516799/ 22-767711 Lush Playing R&b, hip-hop, basement and old school music. Friday and Saturday, 11.30pm. 6 Evagorou Avenue. Tel: 99853333 Scorpios Platinum With various theme nights from Wednesday-Sunday. Stasinou 3, Engomi. Wednesday and Thursday 11pm- 3am, and Friday and Saturday 11pm-4am. Tel: 99-545690

Times Bar ‘Manic Sundays’ with Manic Mike playing progressive/electro. 73 Athens Avenue, Finikoudes Promenade. Tel: 24-625966 DMC An uplifting atmosphere with a range of stimulating weekly events. Laiki Gitonia, 1 Watkins St, Finikoudes. Open daily from 9.30pm. Tel: 99-458138 Salsa Island Regular event every other Friday featuring DJ Escobar. Music includes Pure Salsa, with a twist of Pure Salsa, Merengue, Mambo, Son and Cha Cha Cha. Blitz Roof and Pool Bar Terrace, 4th Floor, Kition Hotel. 10pm until late. Tel: 96-717271 Horseshoe Pub 60s, 70s and 80s music from MondaySunday. Horseshoe Pub, LarnacaDhekelia road, opposite Palm Beach Hotel. Tel: 24-646111

Limassol district Aroma Anatolis Nasma El Sahra dance group an evening of Oriental dance accompanied by music with infused with the flavours of the Middle East and Asia Minor. April 14. Apla Ellinika (formerly known as Underground). 8.30pm. €10. Tel: 97-791169/ 99-319021

Jazzy B With live jazz music on various nights each week. JazzyB, Corner of Anexartisias & Athinon str. €8. 10.30pm. Tel: 99-605502 Half Note Blue velvet play classic soul, funk and RnB every Saturday night. Half note Music Bar. Tel: 25-377050 Woodman’s Pub Traditional English pub, serving an excellent range of foods including Sunday Roast. Big Screen TV’s, Karaoke every Friday evening and a quiz with a rolling jackpot every Monday. 73 Georgiou Avenue. Tel: 25-879082

Blue Wine and Lounge Bar Serving over 140 selected wines from across the world. 96 Rigenis St, Classic Hotel, Old Nicosia. Open daily except Sunday. 12 noon until late at night. Tel: 22-664006 Marco Polo Playing live Latin music. Marco Polo Bar, Holiday Inn rooftop, 70 Regina St. 11pm until late. Monday- Thursday €10 with one drink. Friday and Saturday €20 including two drinks. Tel: 22-712712 Ithaki Bar Charismatic bar with outdoor summer area. 33 Nikiforou Foka St. Old Nicosia. 7pm-2am expect Mondays. Tel: 22-434193 Avlaia Music Stage Hosting live bands on weekdays and regular Greek music weekends with George Arestis and Dimitris Makris. Avlaia, Corner of Emmanuel Roidis and Prodromou St. Tel: 22 675638 Chateau Status A café/bar and restaurant with various theme rooms catering to different tastes. Ledra Palace Road. Monday-Sunday 10am2am. Tel: 77771167 Potopion to Ellinikon With live Greek music on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Potopion to Elinikon, 18 Theophani Theodotou St, Zina Palace building. 9pm until late. Tel: 22-722760 Brew Lounge and tea bar. Brew, 30b Hippocrates St, Nicosia. 11.30am-2am on weekdays, 11.30am-3am on weekends. Tel: 22-100133 Mystiagogia Relaxed bar playing both Greek and English rock, and a selection of chill out music. Mystiagogia, 42 Areos St, Old Nicosia. Open daily 8pm-2am. Tel: 99-788486

Skaraveos Restaurant, café and bar with Persian Cuisine. Wednesdays: electronic music, Thursdays: reggae and Fridays: progressive psychedelic and Saturdays: rock and funk. 11pm-2am. 4 Nikokreontos St. Tel: 99-935777 Amalfi Lounge Bar Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday live music with Yiota Louka, Christos Andreou, Konstantinos Koutras and Yiannos Hadjiloizou. Enjoy exotic cocktails, finger food and Cuban cigars daily from 5pm-2am. Hilton Park Hotel. Tel: 22-377777 Enallax With various live music shows each week, with a focus on English and Greek rock. Athinas St. old Nicosia. Wednesdays & Thursdays 11pm-2pm, Fridays-Saturdays 11.30-3pm. Reservations: 99-617820

Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel Every Monday Jezebel & Lisa-Marie present a themed show 9.45pm for an hour at Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel. Free Moonlight Bar Every Friday Jezebel sings golden oldies 9pm – midnight in the Moonlight Bar inside the Aloe Hotel on the harbour road in Kato Paphos. Free entry The Sea Gypsies Live acoustic blues and country music every Friday from 10pm. The Old Fishing Shack Ale and Cider House, Margarita Gardens, Tefkrou Street, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99-805390/99-170667 Latin Nights at Notos Latin music in a rooftop bar. Notos, Harbour area. Every Thursday and Saturday. 10 pm until late. Tel: 26-939616

Larnaca district Club Deep Mayday Fridays: with DJ Ruda, hosted by Marshall. €10 incl. 1 free drink. Super Saturdays: with DJs Dekzta and Ruda, hosted by Marshall. €10 incl. 1 free drink. Every Wednesday night, student night: Pure Vibes with DJs Cos and Dekzta, hosted by Marshall. Free entrance. Phinoikoudes Promenade. 12-4.30am. Tel: 97-843001 Cosmopolitan Lounge Bar Every Friday night: English & Greek music from 11-2am. Cocktail night with cocktails created and designed by Cyprus’ No.1 mixologist, Marios Zeniou. Music provided by DJ Tommy Gee. Every Saturday night: Live music & DJs from 11-late. Cocktails created by top mixologist, Marios Zeniou. Every Sunday night: Classic lounge bar grooves with DJ Harry Borg playing the best deep house grooves from 11pm. Free entry. Strictly over 21s. Phinoikoudes. Tel: 97-843001

The Latest Addition to Saripolou Square Just Kitchenbar, Limassol

the club’s guests, there will no striptease here ladies and gentlemen. Turn up the Volume Club evening playing deep tech, house, Dutch progressive and trance, with go-go dance show. April 19. Buena Vista Club (Time Club), 107 Eptanisou, Nicosia. 11pm. €25/20 open bar. Tel: 99-549451

Crowne Plaza Lounge-Bar On Mondays rediscover your romantic side with Violin Duo playing classical music and popular melodies on the violin. Every Wednesday, local guitarist - Byron Athinodorou will be playing a mix of Spanish melodies, pop-rock hits and Greek classics on the guitar, alongside his own compositions. Every Friday Jazz – Blues night with a mix of upbeat and smooth jazz classics. Crowne Plaza. Tel: 25-851515 Cuba Tropical Local band playing Cuban-Latin sounds every Sunday. Wet Beach Bar, Amathountos Avenue. 9pm-11.30pm. Tel: 25-320006 Harleys Café Bar Happy hour 10am-6pm. Every Tuesday, pub games. Every Thursday, quiz night. Special theme nights once a fortnight. Amathus Area. Tel: 25-328533 Electronic music at Barfly Quality house, techno and minimal beats with guest DJ. Every other Friday. Barfly, 1 Elenis Paleologinas St. 10pm until late. www.myspace.com/pmdj Mandaloun With Lebanese food and DJs every Friday and Saturday night playing a variety of ethnic, world and chill out music. Mandaloun, opposite Le Meridien Hotel. 7pm2am. Tel: 25-636845 Graffiti House, tribal house, oriental and mainstream hits. Enjoy your drink with finger food and nargile. Wednesdays- Saturdays, 9pm-2am. Graffiti bar, 236 Ayios Andreas St. Tel: 25-747552

by Anna Hassapi

Paphos district

Turn up the volume in Nicosia Techno may still rule the house in Berlin, but for all those dancing fiends out there who enjoy burning the midnight oil and hanging out with hyper-energetic types a little closer to home, there are a few colourful clubs in the capital who like to mix it up with go-go dancing and electronic music. On a good week, the city’s dance club scene presents a festive, fun atmosphere of memorable merrymaking and innocent debauchery and this Saturday is no exception as Buena Vista Club prepares to host Turn up the Volume. Locals and out-of-town visitors ought to head down there this weekend for a chance to shake your groove. The night will get underway with George Town & Andy on the decks warming the crowd up with really great high energy tracks varying from deep tech and house. The main set will be played by Michael-M spinning the latest Dutch progressive electro and house sounds and last but not least Nikolas Menicou rounds off the evening with a closing set of trance. And let’s not forget, Beuna Vista’s distinction from other club nights strikes a chord with a go-go dance show. Go-Go dancing is about being sexy and conveying a good time to

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Paphiessa Hotel Thursday: Dave Roberts sings hits, Paphiessa Hotel, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99-185952 Square Bistro Saturdays: David East entertains on the guitar. 8 pm. Square Bistro, Tala Square. Tel: 26-930408/99-966139

Famagusta district Sirena Bay Bar Playing a diverse range of music, from chill out to upbeat electronic tunes. Sirena Bay, near Golden Coast Hotel, Paralimni. 7am1am. Tel: 99-511701 Guru Bar Live music with DJ Dimi, bongos and dancers. Guru Bar, 11 Odysseos Elitis Street, Ayia Napa. Every Thursday, 10pm. Tel: 23721838 Vanilla Bar Playing funky house tunes. Vanilla Bar, 41 Makarios III Avenue, Ayia Napa. Monday-Sunday 9am2am. Tel: 23-721126 Cliff Bar Open air bar/café playing chill out music and offering a great selection of cocktails. Grecian Park Hotel, Konnos Bay, Cavo Creco, Protaras. 12noon-2am daily. Tel: 23-832000

Saripolou Square in Limassol’s old town centre is a vibrant space where charming bar restaurants abound; it is a sort of ‘social’ melting pot, busy day and night, frequented by students, hipsters, young families with children, and even the elderly. The ambience, however, is decidedly ‘young’. The latest addition to this busy square is Just Kitchenbar, a place that shares all the defining characteristics of its location. In this sense, there’s nothing exceptional or surprising about Just Kitchenbar, which is not necessarily a bad thing as the bar boasts all that it needs to. Trendy space: check; located in a stone-walled ‘old’ building, the bar features unprocessed wooden furniture and modern deco that contribute to an industrial look with a twist. Nice cocktails: check. Mediterranean fusion dishes: check. Slightly over priced food: check (as practically anywhere else in Limassol, a salad will cost you more than €10). Starters, however, are reasonably priced at €4-6 each, so it might be a good choice to order a starter to share with your drink. Just Kitchenbar also features a good variety of sitting options: you can sit at a table, or at the higher/island bar type of tables, at the bar, or at the tables outside. The latter choice will give you a view of life on this busy square, but less of the venue’s own atmosphere. As for the menu, it also offers a good selection of drinks, coffees and teas, as well as food mains and starters. This sense of variety also applies to the music played at Just Kitchenbar. Various DJs work the decks on different days of the week. According to its owners, Just Kitchenbar caters to a slightly more mature crowd of people in their thirties and above. In reality, it is a great place for anyone wishing to experience the ambience of one of Limassol’s most popular areas, whether it is for an afternoon coffee, a nice dinner, or some drinks with friends. Just Kitchenbar Where: 22 Kanari and Corner of Saripolou St, Limassol Reservations: 99 951925 When: Daily 5pm-2am

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19 What’sonlistings Larnaca district Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Opens April 17, 7.30pm until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm and 4pm- 7pm. Tel: 24621109 Helen Tumelty’s Mosaic Studio Permanent exhibition of mosaic pictures, tables and mirrors. Just off Zenon Kitieos St. Studio also offers mosaic classes in a small friendly environment throughout the year. Tel: 99-925315 Cyprus Artists Pieces from the Larnaca municipality’s permanent collection on display. Larnaca Municipal Gallery. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm, Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 24-657745

Limassol district My Utopia Solo art exhibition by Maria Tsiakka. Until April 15. Stegi Grammaton Kai Tehnon, June 16 1943 Avenue. Friday-Sunday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Monday: 10am-10pm. Tel: 99-231912/25-749179 Mary-Lynne Stadler Solo art exhibition. Until April 17. Thesis Furniture Shop, 207 Saint Andrews Street. Tel: 25-359479. www.marylynnestadler.com Myth of Image Solo painting exhibition by Andreas Makariou. Until April 17. Thiseas Art Gallery, 9 Thiseos Street. Working hours (including the weekend):11am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Tel: 99-674243/96-335889 Erick Vittorino Solo art exhibition by Brazilian interior designer/decorator, muralist and colour specialist. Until April 22. ArtHouse 59 Kitou Kyprianou Street Old Town Limassol. Open daily: 2pm-10pm Christos Michlis Solo painting exhibition. Until April 26. Rouan Gallery, 28 Dodekanisou. MondaySaturday: 10.30am-1pm and 4.30pm-7 .30pm. Tel: 25-350845 Random Walk Solo art exhibition by Dimitra Bista. Until May 4. 50-1 Gallery, 49 Ellados Street, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 12 midday-4pm. Email: info@50-1gallery.com Alessandra Desole Solo painting exhibition. Until May 5. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 Blackdove Art Studio Permanent exhibition of artwork in oils, acrylic, print and mixed media, including painted driftwood, by Mary-Lynne Stadler. Commissions welcome and art tuition on offer in a number of media. Tel: 99-048369. www.marylynnestadler.com. Anoyira Mosaic Artwork Discover the magic of mosaics and Anoyira. Friday-Sunday 10am-4pm, other times by appointment. Tel: 99-108710 Katie Sabry Studio Permanent exhibition of paintings in oils, watercolours and pastels. Mosaics Workshop, 9 Georgiou Malekidi St, nr Rialto Theatre. Tel: 99-571139. www.katiecolours.com Art by Susanne Gallery with contemporary artwork. Shop 2, Marina Beach, Amathus Avenue. Daily 10am-4pm. Percentage of profits go to children with Cystic Fibrosis. Tel: 99-247668 Theomaria Art Gallery Permanent exhibition of Vera Parlalidou’s ceramics. 7 Vassilisis Karlotta St. MondayFriday 8am-1pm. Tel: 25-745777 Michael Owen Galleries Permanent exhibition of oil and watercolour paintings. Lania. Tel. 25-432404. www. michaelowengallery.com Olivera Papathoma Permanent exhibition in City Art Gallery. 255A Saint Andreas St. Monday-Friday 9am1pm, 4pm-7pm. Sat. 9am-2pm Sea King Permanent exhibition of old aviation photos. Sea King restaurant, near Akrotiri base. Tel: 25-954500

Paphos district Judith Constantinou Permanent exhibition of watercolours. The Studio, Stephanie Village, Tala. Tel: 26652760 Stewart B Johnson Open house viewings of Scottish artist’s works by appointment. G. Xenopoulou st. Tel: 26-930525 Gallery at Home with Theresa French Watercolours, prints and cards. 2 Modestou Panteli, 2 Nicolas Cliff, Yeroskipou. Tel: 26962597/ 99-316485 Stone Sculptures Permanent exhibition by Andreas Constantinou. Polis Chrysochous, near central square. Call artist for viewing. Tel: 26-321227/99585543 Michael Gorman Figurative paintings and prints. 20 Theodorou Kolokotroni, Peyia. Open daily. Tel: 99952376/99-006832/26-621424

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Harry and Sheila Hawkins Art by Harry Hawkins and books by Sheila Hawkins. Ayias Zonis St., Neo Chorio. Open daily. Tel: 26-321123 Herbs and Wild Flowers Arts and crafts inspired by the flora of Cyprus. Medicinal herbal teas and oils available. Information Centre for the Akamas National Park at the School of Pano Arodes. Tel: 99-616748 David Lester Working Studio in Peyia, with permanent exhibition of oil paintings and other works by the author of ‘Wishful Thinking’. Tel: 26621130

Famagusta district Blue Spice Restaurant Permanent exhibition of Carolina Alotus’ works. Blue Spice, 29 Aphroditis St (between Perneras and Protaras rd), Ayia Napa. Tel: 23832088. www.CarolinaAlotus.com Where are the Rights of the Children of Karpasia? Permanent photographic exhibition. Famagusta Cultural Centre, 35 Evagorou St, Dherynia. Closed Sundays. Monday-Friday 7.30am-4.30pm and Saturday 9.30am-4 .30pm. Tel: 23-740860

Music Paphos district Support Pafos A big charity concert with artists from Greece and Cyprus which aims to collect food, medicine and other essential items to be distributed to people in need. April 14. 28th October Square. 6pm

Theatre & Dance Nicosia district Communication... Generally Theatre for teens by Theatre Antidote. April 14. ARTos Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyiton Avenue. 4pm. €7/10. In Greek. Tel: 24822677/ 97-697000 The Good Body XMAS Productions presents a play by Tony award-winning playwright Eve Ensler. April 12-14. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate. 9 pm. The monologues will be performed mostly in English, with two exceptions in Greek. All net profits will go to local charities supporting Children in need and abused children, and the Shelter for Abused Women and Children in Cyprus. Tel: 99467966/22-797650. For reservations please email thegoodbodyshow@gmail.com Pinocchio Theatre Maskarini unique adaptation of well-known tale. Until April 14. Russian Cultural Centre, 16 Alassias Street. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-761607/22270420 The Apple Idea Planners presents popular Greek romantic comedy starring Natalia Dragoumi and Gerasimos Gennatas. . 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 99-300253. www.soldoutticketbox.com April 15: Strovolos Municipal Theatre April 17-18: Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue Pasatempo New theatre group Attraversiamo, presents a show that consists of a compilation of scenes from Greek cinema from the 60s and 70s, blended together with dancing and singing. April 17-18. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 97-895323/22-797650 The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19. Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate. 7.30pm. Entrance is free (donations welcome). The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www. littleboxtheatre.com The Eulogy A black comedy that breaks the mould on what we consider a typical monologue by Greek poet, playwright Iakovos Kambanelis. Until April 20. Epigoni Theatre, Kyriakos Karaolis Square, Old Aglantzia. Every Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €8. Tel: 99-222974 The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 20. Russian Cultural Centre. 11am. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96302770 Trelantonis Stage 018 of THOC presents a classic work of Greek literature by Penelope Delta. Until April 28. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Every Sunday at 6pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300

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Theatre for kids by kids Cyprus offers a relatively impressive array of theatrical experiences, but did you know that also includes plenty of stage shows created with children and their parents in mind? It’s a great week for kids’ theatre and here are a couple of the children’s theatre companies to consider if you’d like to take the whole family out for an afternoon of kid-friendly stage entertainment. First up is Little Box Theatre, the children’s branch of the theatre company Theatro Transcendental. Founded over a year ago, the theatre company will present its first multimedia production on Friday at the Melina Merkouri Hall; written, directed, filmed and acted by a group of five to 12 year olds. The company’s first full-length show is entitled The Lost Island and centres on nine strangers stranded on island following a plane crash. Unbeknownst to them they’re actually part of new reality TV show and the whole thing is a set-up to entertain audiences. The show will be presented just the once and is in Greek, but an English group is currently being put together, so get in touch if you’d like to sign up your kids (any age from four to 18 is welcome). The second company worth mentioning is the Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI, who will present the musical The Monkey and the Sea King. Based on African fairytales, myths and legends, the production will suit the very little ones, ages three to nine years. The story unfolds in the good old days when In the Land of Peter Pan The Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents work by James Barry. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 1115 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatro presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. Until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609 Kai Mi Heirotera Theatro Lexi presents comedy by Giorgos Tsiakkas which satirizes Europe and Cyprus today. Until May 1. Latsia Municipal Theatre, Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688 Gone With the Jobless A comedy performance by Marinos Hatzivasiliou who, together with other actors from the popular TV programme Patates, present a hilarious show with humour and laughter. Until May 5. Diachroniki Music Stage, 2 Yianni Koromia Street, Kaimakli. Every Sunday at 9pm. €15. In Greek. Tel: 99-783455 A Steady Rain The theatre group D-tale presents two-character melodrama by Keith Huff. Until May 16. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area. On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. €12/15. Tel: 99-535625 The Dispute Main Stage of THOC presents tragic comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Until May 17. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717 Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. Until May 31. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. On specific days at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 6pm. In Greek. Performances on April 17-19 will be with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-772717/22-864300 Centuries Away from Alaska Dionysos Theatre presents play by Akis Dimou, directed by Tonia Misiali. Until June 2. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street. On Fridays and Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99621845/22-818999 Sovrakaless Play based on the book by Terrence McNally and the film The Full Monty. Until June 9. WhereHaus 612, 5 Michael Kousoulide, Pallouriotissa Industrial Area. On Specific days at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 70-000612

the animals could talk, with the Lion (the King of beasts), Antelope, Zebra, Ostrich and the Monkey (the hero of musical). While the performance is in Russian, organisers are keen to point out the one thing we all relate and connect with is the language of music. The show will have its premiere on Friday at the Markideon Theatre in Paphos, and will then go on tour to Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol. The Lost Island Little Box Theatre presents a hilarious production incorporating both film and theatre, written, devised, filmed and acted by the kids. April 19. Melina Mercouri Theatre, Famagusta Gate. 7.30pm. The event will also feature an exhibition of the kids’ artwork on the project, and free snacks and drinks. Free, donations welcome. In Greek. Tel: 99-832370. www.littleboxtheatre. com The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 April 19: Markideio Theatre, 27 Andrea Geroudi, Paphos. 6pm April 20: Russian Cultural Centre, Nicosia. 11am April 21: Theatre Skala, Larnaca. 11am April 21: Limassol Theatre Arts School. 5pm

Larnaca district The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 21. Theatre Skala. 11am. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770 Playing Doctor Theatro Skala presents the contemporary American comedy by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. Until May 26. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street. On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 24-652800

Limassol district Children of Cain Theatro Ena presents psychological thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos. April 13-14. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena. 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Gethsemane A play about British public life by David Hare. April 16. Rialto Theatre. 8.30pm. In Greek with Greek and English subtitles. €12/6. Tel: 77-777745 Shear Madness popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides presents adaptation of one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world, by American authors Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan. April 10-17. Agios Athanasios Municipal Theatre, 42, Stavraetou tou Machera Str, Agios Athanasios. 8.30pm. In Greek. €20. Tel: 70-001910 Pasatempo New theatre group Attraversiamo, presents a show that consists of a compilation of scenes from Greek cinema from the 60s and 70s, blended together with dancing and singing. April 21 & 23. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena). 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 97-895323 The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 21. Limassol Theatre Arts School. 5pm. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770

Paphos district The Monkey and the Sea King The Moscow children’s musical theatre of drama A-AI presents a musical based on African fairytales, myths and legends. April 19. Markideio Theatre, 27 Andrea Geroudi. 6pm. For kids from 3 to 9 years. In Russian. €10/5. Tel: 96-302770

Other Events Nicosia district Second Motorbike Show & Exhibition The exhibition will include new motorbike models, special equipment, a large range of accessories and many other products for the modern motorcyclist. With Live music, shows and competitions. April 13-14. Pavilion Hall, Lakatameia. Saturday: 10am-9pm. Sunday: 11am-9pm. Tel: 22-322222 Baby, Toddler and Christening Exhibition An exhibition of products and services for expectant parents and infant children also covers the needs of organising a christening. April 13-14. Hilton Nicosia, Archbishop Makarios III Avenue. 1pm-8pm. €5. Tel: 22315474/22-315477 NDS Fashion Bazaar Nicosia Dog Shelter fundraiser with clothes (samples from London) for sale, games for kids, food & drink and dogs for adoption. April 14. Junior School. 11am-4pm. 10 per cent of proceeds will be donated to charity. Tel: 99-868512/22-357005 Cyprus Film Days 2013 A showcase of international and local productions, special tributes, parallel screenings, workshops and music events. April 19-28. Rialto Theatre, Limassol and Zena Palace, Nicosia. Tel: 77-777745/77-772552. All films screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles. Free to all afternoon and late midnight screenings. €6 day card/€25 general entry card (for all festival screenings). A full, detailed programme at www.cyprusfilmdays. org Kyriakos Michaelides Tailor Museum A sightseeing attraction for visitors in the area as well as a space where the young and new generations may become aware of the richness of the traditional tailor’s craft dating back to the sixties. Old Nicosia, Phaneromeni area. Tel: 99-796333 Singing Group Singing for fun. All kinds of music in harmony small Nicosia group Tuesdays 5.30pm-7pm, all welcome. Call Olivia 99-497318 Rooftop Theatre Group Regular play script-writing workshop. In the room next to Kala Kathoumena coffee shop in old Nicosia (Phaneromeni Square). 6pm. In English. Tel: 22- 661354 Kindermusik with Vaso Come and see how music and movement can stimulate your young child’s developing mind and body. Tel: 96-693462. For full details please visit: www.kindermusikwithvaso.com. kindermusikwithvaso@gmail.com

Childrens African DrumagiQ Includes: Drums and rhythm tuition with educational approach, psychological expertise, culture, customs, games, dance and innovative creative techniques. Every Friday. Kisa Centre, old Nicosia. 5-6pm for children under 12, 6-7pm for children 12-15. Tel: 22-878181 Serenity House Offering classes in yoga, tai chi and anger management, self awareness seminars traditional Thai and classic massage, and more. Serenity House, 2 Einstein St, Ay. Omologites. Tel: 99-434353, Rebecca (Yoga) 99487927 or splishys@cytanet.com.cy Healing Rooms Free 20 minutes healing sessions for the well-being of spirit, mind and body in a loving atmosphere. Confidential. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 8-9.30pm. 225 Strovolos Avenue, near Metro roundabout (above Afrikanos Bath Store). Tel: 99-771084 Inter-faith prayers and meditation Every Friday. Baha’i Centre, 11 Parthenonos, Kaimakli. Tel: 22-624283 HIV Discussion Group Discussing issues around HIV for sufferers and friends of sufferers. Every Thursday. UNESCO Amphitheatre, Intercollege, Makedonitissas Ave. 7pm. Free Nicosia Horrible Hash House Harriers Exercise, eat, drink and be merry with Nicosia Hash House Harriers. Meetings every Tuesday 7.30pm for a walk, jog or run around Nicosia. For directions to the run or more info, Tel: 99-308436 or visit www. nh4.com.cy Nicosia Writers’ Workshop If you enjoy creative writing and want to meet people with similar skills, then the Nicosia Writers’ Workshop is the place to be, so bring your ideas and we’ll open a new world together. 48 Rik Avenue, Angantzia. Every Sunday from 11am-1pm. Free membership to new candidates. Ring Machela on 99-867315 Writing Workshops Unleash your creative side with Rhay Christou. Rhay’s Studio, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99 522333 Italian for Beginners Lessons offered by the Dante Alighieri Society and the Italian Embassy. Monday and Wednesday 6.30pm-8pm.Tel: 22358168/99-339644 Children’s Theatre Workshop Dionysus Theatre brings kids closer to theatre. Three different age groups, ranging from 6-18+. Classes are in Greek. Dionysus Theatre, 29 Diagorou St. Tel: 22818999/99-621845 or visit www.music.net. cy/dionysos Play in a Day Fun theatre workshops geared towards adults. Every Thursday 6-8pm. (lessons for youths between 14 and 17 also take place on Wednesday 5pm-7pm). 15 per session or 50 per month. Taught in Greek and English. For registration Tel: 99-130916/99-552654. theatrenicosia@gmail.com Arts & Moods Creative workshops for children of all ages. 15 Averoff Street, Strovolos. Tel: 22313142. email: artsandmoods@cytanet.com.cy Brocante Antique and vintage furniture market. Every Sunday 9am-7pm. In front of the old municipal market in old Nicosia and outside the Akanthos workshop space. Tel: 22-100984. www.facebook.com/akanthos. furniture St Paul’s Thrift Shop Thrift Shop for clothes and bric-a-brac is open every Saturday morning from 10ammidday in St Paul’s Cathedral car park. Lots of bargains on offer at very reasonable prices. Tel : 22-445221 St Paul’s Babies and Toddlers Non-religious, non-political and multi-national organisation that caters for newborn to pre-school kids with activities including outdoor and indoor play equipment and toys. St Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. No membership required. babiesandtoddlers.googlepages.com Cans for Kids Quiz Nights First Friday of every month. 8.30pm. Esogba, behind the Junior School. €5. Drinks and home cooked food available. Tel: 99666011. www.cansforkids.org Cyprus Go Association Meetings every Saturday to learn the game and improve skills. Oktana Café, 2 Aristidou St. 5pm. Tel: 99-476253. cyprus@europeango.org, cyprus.european-go.org Porcelain Painting Paint your own dinner set or special gift for your loved ones. Beginners classes morning and afternoon. Strovolos. Tel: 99620992 Saint Andrews Bridge Club Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 4pm, Saturday 7pm-10pm; 15 Heroes Avenue. Tel: 22-781063 or 96-510121 Tarot Card Game Lessons Not lessons in the divination art but rather the strategy and memory game. Every Wednesday evening. Brasserie Au Bon Plaisir, 15 Alasias Street. 8pm. Tel 96-755111


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Larnaca district Transformative Tarot Course Fun & educational, meet other like-minded people. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 7.30-9 .30pm. contact: seekersofthetarot@yahoo. com for more details Kara – Mind & Body Centre Gain a certificate in Tarot Reading. An 18week course that covers symbology, colourology, numerology and much more. KARA - Mind & Body Centre, Oroklini. Tel: 99-029952. tarotcyprus.yolasite.com/aboutus.php Fisu Meditation Learn Fisu Meditation. Free introductory talks on why meditate and what meditation is all about. Book by appointment, 24532479/99-665330 Larnaca Hash House Harriers Every Monday, 5pm. For more information call Fred-the-web on 24-647175 Kition Hash House Harriers Run/jog/walk from a pub/taverna round the town and back. Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm. All welcome. Join us and have some fun. Tel: 24-647283 Antidote Theatre Workshops Drama workshops for children aged 5- can attend weekly workshops to learn about theatre through games and play, and participate in productions staged at the end of each year. Theatre Antidote also offers its students the Trinity Guildhall drama examinations in June, a useful qualification for university applications. Antidote Theatre, Apothikes st.Lazarus. Tel: 24-822677. info@ theatreantidote.com/ www.theatreantidote.com Baby Antidote Brings the young tots up to 3yrs in touch with theatre, by combining storytelling, fairytales and play. Through interactive performances inspired by favourite children’s books, the heroes come to life as the little ones embody them in their own unique way. Apothikes st. Lazarus. Every Monday and Friday, 9.30-11.30am. Entrance is €4 per family, and includes refreshments and snacks. Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos Social and benevolent organisation supporting charitable groups. The James Mercury Lodge meets at Dhekelia Barracks. Every Tuesday, 7.30pm. Next to ‘George’s Taxi’ on the South Road. Tel: 24-635812 RAFA Larnaca Bay Branch Social gathering taking place on second Tuesday of each month. Beachcomber Restaurant, Makenzie Beach . 7pm. Tel: 24363752. www.rafacyprus.co.uk/larnaca Larnaca Reading Group If you enjoy reading and debating the pros and cons of a book, you are welcome to join, the group endeavours to read a diverse selection of books. Larnaca Reading Group (LRG) meets the first Monday of each month in the Reading Lounge, upstairs in the Academic & General Bookshop, address: 41 Hermes Street. Tel: 24-628401/99-597094 /99-925315 Cash Bingo Eyes down every Wednesday, 8.30pm, and Sunday, 8.30pm, Makedonas restaurant, Dhekelia road. Food and drinks available at venues. Tel: 99-108391 Line Dancing Every Friday, 8pm. Makedonas restauraunt, Dhekelia road. Tel: 99-108391 Royal Engineers’ Association Meets on second Tuesday of the month at venues around the Island. For details of next meeting contact Bob Beer (Chair) on 97633728 Larnaca Chicago Bridge Club Thursdays, 9.30am-1pm. Tel: Pete on 24424899 Larnaca Walking Tours Wednesdays: Larnaca Past and Present, 10am from CTO office in Vassileos Pavlou Square. Fridays: Skala and its Craftsmen, 10am from Larnaca Fort. Tel: 24-654322 Leon Friendly Darts League Meetings carried out at selected pubs: Tuesdays, 8.30pm. Tel: Bob Johnson on 24427275

Mazotos Camel Park Adventures for the family. Camel rides, swimming, play areas and more. Tel: 24991243/99-416968. www.camel-park.com

Limassol district Mind Body & Spirit Exhibition Join wellbeing experts Discover natural health, organic products, the environment, yoga, spirituality free seminars or workshops and much more. April 13-14. St Raphael Hotel. Saturday: 11am-8pm. Sunday: 11am-7pm. €8. Tel: 25-834200/96-472717. www.mbscyprus.com Dragon Boat Challenge Open to all with crews expected to battle it out over the 200m course, watched by crowds of spectators, to be crowned champions on the day. April 14. Yeremasoyia Dam. 9am-2pm. €10 per person. Min crew 16 per team (Max 22). Tel: 99-424130. Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/pages/Cyprus-Dragon-Boat-Association/175349099216647 LTAS Third Annual Talent Show Limassol’s stage school for kids is giving young singers, dancers, musicians and entertainers the opportunity to perform in a competition showdown which will be judged by a panel of professionals flying in from the West End, London and top musicians of Cyprus. April 20, deadline for registration is April 16. Limassol Theatre Arts School, Panathineon 13, Ayia Zoni. 3pm-9pm. €5. To enter or to book tickets, simply call 99-784927 www.limassolarts.com Operational Efficiency by Technology Danish-Cypriot marine seminar on how to operate your fleet competitively now and onwards. The seminar will be followed by a workshop and dialogue meetings with the delegation companies together with a reception, mini exhibition and dinner. April 18. Carob Mill, Vasilissis Street, Old Port. Tel: 22-660418 or e-mail yiakaf@um.dk Cyprus Film Days 2013 A showcase of international and local productions, special tributes, parallel screenings, workshops and music events. April 1928. Rialto Theatre, Limassol and Zena Palace, Nicosia. Tel: 77-777745/77-772552. All films screened in their original language with Greek and English subtitles. Free to all afternoon and late midnight screenings. €6 day card/€25 general entry card (for all festival screenings). www.cyprusfilmdays. org NASA International Space Apps Challenge Limassol A two-day technology development event during which citizens from around the world will work together to address current challenges relevant to both space exploration and social need. April 20-21. Cyprus University of Technology, CUT Studies and Student Welfare building, Athinon Street. 9am to 6pm April 21 (36hours). During the event there will be offered coffees, energy drinks, juice and snacks. Tel: 97-719440/96-549344. misaakidis@yahoo. gr. olia.dramitinou@gmail.com. http://spaceappschallenge.org/location/limassol International Christian Fellowship East Please join us, Sundays 10.30am, Angel’s English Nursery School, 37 Ampelakion, Germasogia. Sunday school available, small groups meet midweek. Tel: 99-815033. www.icf.org.cy Day out in Lania Visit the museum, church, olive mill, wine press and the artists’ galleries. Lania. Glennis208@gmail.com Island Blend Barber shop group sing a wide repertoire of songs at events and raise money for Friends for Life. Every Thursday at UKCA, 4pm-6pm. Tel: 25-397456 The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22-511521/25-341525 Food for Friends Vegetarian social group, with monthly lunch-time outings to tavernas and short presentations on related subjects. Monthly lunch on last Saturday of month. Tel: 25634487/25-634487 Rising Star Youth Theatre of Limassol Theatre workshop for aspiring actors and actresses from the age of 6 years and up. Call 99-608826 for information. Children’s Theatre Workshop Organised by the Versus theatre group. Theatro Ena, Limassol Municipal Market, old town. Classes for ages: 5-9, 10-13, 17-17. Saturdays 9am-3pm. Tel: 99-428691. www. theatroversus.com

Water: no living thing exists without it. Water is essential to life as we know it and as it cycles from the air to the land to the sea and back again, water shapes our planet and nearly every aspect of our lives. Its beauty inspires art and this week at the Gallery Kypriaki Gonia in Larnaca visitors can bask in the watery master-

Get out to Gallery Kypriaki Gonia and drink it all in works by Ero Farmaka. Entitled Water Stories, this collection of stories of the sea and the ocean, stories of rain and rivers, stories of liquids and tears; an invitation to a wet world bright, dark, turbulent, motionless, real and metaphysical. Naturally, Farmaka’s paintings are executed in watercolours. There are two main themes: landscapes and space. Both are addressed with an abstract interpretation that occasionally evokes a raw, nostalgic flavour with a touch of mysticism thrown in to boot. Nature is analysed in colour, light, shadows and shapes move between abstraction and symbolism. Yellow hues and Magic Craft Supplies For the latest on Magic Craft Supplies & Penny’s Parties, please visit www.pennycyprusmagic.com 25-634487/99-304237 Theatre Workshops Open to students between six and 16. Every Saturday. ETHAL Theatre. Basement, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Ave. Tel: 25-877827 Premiere Group Theatre group producing annual musicals. The group conducts monthly social events that include camping, picnics and sports evenings. Tel: 25-775922. www.premiere. com.cy C3A Limassol Join us and share educational, creative and leisure activities in friendly, sociable groups. Attend Open meetings, listen to informative talks, enjoy social activities.: C3A gmail (c3a. limassol@gmail.com) C3A, PO Box 51922, 3509 Limassol. Find out more: http://c3acyprus.org/limassol/ Help Me Grow Lecture on child development by the Health Ministry. Every Wednesday. Lecture hall, New Limassol Hospital. 6pm. In Greek. Free Baha’is of Limassol Weekly discussion circle. Tel: 25-340021 Happy Valley Hash House Harriers Weekly runs on Thursdays around the southwest of the island, times vary, see www.hvh3.org.uk. Tel: 99-434794 Amathus Hash House Harriers Run, jog or walk every Sunday afternoon. For more info Tel: 99-905746. www.ah3. freeservers.com Limassol Walks Get to know the historical centre of Limassol. Mondays at 10am. Walks begin at the CTO Information Office, 115A Spyros Araouzos St. Free. Tel: 25-362756 Limassol Crusaders Rugby Club Training on grass for Cyprus League matches, or just to get fit, Tuesdays 6.30-8.30pm and Thursdays 7-9pm, AEK Katholiki Stadium, Tagmatarchou Pouliou St. Seniors and d Juniors. Tel: 96-323962. www.limassolcru-sadersrfc.com Table Tennis Monday and Friday at 10 am at UKCA, 37 Ter-mopilis Street. Contact Antonio 99-334706 Limassol Bridge Club Mondays and Fridays, 3.30pm at Limassoll Sporting Club. Tel 99-645338 Car Boot Sale Every Saturday and Sunday at Moni Station.. Tel: 25-323525/25-365102 Linopetra Corner Car boot sale on Saturdays, 8am-2pm. Tel:: 99-612832

iridescences move silently in grey-black skies and the deep blue sea. Born in Nicosia, Farmaka graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Many of you might be familiar with her work as her paintings are in public collections, such as the Public Library of Cyprus, at the Zambelas collection and the Cooperative Bank of Engomi. Water Stories Solo painting exhibition by Ero Farmaka. Opens April 17, 7.30pm until May 20. Kypriaki Gallery Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4.30 pm-8pm. Sunday: 11amRoyal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Social and benevolent organisation. Aphrodite Bitter Lake Lodge meet at the UKCA Club. Wednesdays, 6pm. Tel: 99-425527. The Troodos Pride of Cyprus Lodge meets at the UKCA Club. Every other Sunday, 10am. Tel: 99-345384 Riding for the Disabled Horse riding for disabled riders from The Red Cross and Theotokos Foundation every Thursday morning 8.30am-11.30am. Happy Valley, Episkopi. Volunteers greatly needed to assist with rides. Tel: 25-773058. Email: rdaroster@gmail.com RAFA Aphrodite Branch Social Meeting First Wednesday of every month. Sergeants Mess. Akrotiri. No food provided. 7.30pm. Tel: 25-932196 RAF Akrotiri Voluntary Band The band plays a large repertoire of classical music at military dinners, Episkopi Fete and charity fund raisers. Meetings every Monday: 7.30pm. Padre’s Centre at RAF Akrotiri. Tel: 99-925524 The Royal Military Police Association The Cyprus branch seeks new members. First Friday of every month. The RMP Corporals Mess, WSBA Episkopi. 2pm. Tel: 26642120/99-453867 Cyprus Donkey Sanctuary Visitor centre with shop, refreshments, hillside walk and picnic area. Friends of the Cyprus Donkey, Vouni. Daily 10am-4pm. Tel: 25-945488

Paphos district Swinging Jazz Evening Charity music evening featuring the Melanie from 4front entertainment and Michael Antoniou. April 19. Friends Bar in Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. €20 and include a 3 course hot buffet. €5 of the proceeds go to the Cancer Patient Support Group. Win 2 free tickets by entering the competition; please see the advertising section of the Cyprus Mail for details. Tel: 99-854375

Spiritualist Meetings. Monthly ‘Modern Spiritualists in Cyprus’ meetings are held on the last Sunday of the month in Stroumbi. 7pm start. For full details www.yvebrooks.org or Tel 97-801472 Paphos Flower Club Courses in flower arranging. Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. Beginners 2pm, intermediate classes 12.30pm. Beginners. Tel: 99-475564/99-533704. Intermediate: 99-744635 Orphean Singers Three times a year this well established singing group delights audiences with an entertaining concert. Meetings every Friday at Kamaras club, 9.30am-12pm. Tel: 26-913249 Paphos Light Music Society A new group starting up in Paphos for the appreciation of light opera, Gilbert and Sullivan etc. Non-singers also welcome. Meetings every fourth Monday at 3.00pm in Paphos area. Tel: 26- 723002/ 99-370883 Paphos Town Centre Walking Tour Get acquainted with the newest part of the city and learn how the town evolved from the late Byzantine and Mediaeval times. Every Thursday, 10am. CTO Information Office, 3 Gladstonos St. Tel. 26932841 The Corona Society Go along and meet new friends at monthly meetings held every second Wednesday of the month, 2.30pm – 4pm. Coffee mornings held every last Tuesday of the month, 10.30am – 12.00pm. Annabelle Hotel. All proceeds go to local charities. Tel: 99177479 Scottish Country Dancing With the St Andrew’s Society, Paphos, at the Latin Parish Hall every Tuesday evening from September to May 6-8pm. Beginners welcome 5.30pm. Tel: 99-298512 Timi Village Car Boot Market Every Sunday 7am-1pm all through the year. Tel: 99-611637 Evans Plus Evans Comedy Magic Show, at the New Kikkos Bar Coral Bay - Alternate Tuesdays. 9.30pm. Tel 99-173801 Singles Nights at Ollie’s Bar Every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Ollie’s Bar, Trimithousa. 8pm. Tel: 99-769899 Quiz Nights Play for weekly prizes and a jackpot. Every Friday. Kings Hotel, Tomb of the Kings Road. 8.30pm. €2. Tel: 26-939075 Quiz night Quiz at the New Olympus Hotel. Every second Thursday of the month. 7.30pm. To register your team call: 26-932020 New Friendly Bridge Chicago bridge every Tuesday with all bridge partnerships welcome. Fantasia Club. 6.45pm. Tel: 26-937551 Table Tennis Club Night Coaching for all levels by Gordon Allen. Every Wednesday night. New venue, 7pm. Tel: 99-841471, 26-652763 Badminton Club Atromitos Badminton Club for children and adults meets four times a week, days and evenings, to suit all levels, coaching available or play just for fun. Tel: 99971150/99-519504.badmintonpaphos@ cytanet.com.cy www.atromitosbadmintonclub.org Emba Badminton club Emba Badminton club meets on Saturday mornings, and Tuesday and Friday afternoons. All levels of play are catered for. Tel: 99-276192. www.EmbaBadmintonClub. org

A glossy, kooky tale about a family of off-beat geniuses Are you a fan of Wes Anderson? The House of Arts and Literature in Paphos is hosting a special screening of Anderson’s beloved contemporary classic The Royal Tenenbaums. One of the key American films of the new millennium, Anderson mingles romance, tragedy, social observation and unforgettable characters in his buoyant third feature, about a family of off-beat geniuses living in New York. The House of Arts

and Literature has a as regular screenings throughout the year featuring an array of film genres, so make sure to look out for what’s on next. The Royal Tenenbaums A screening of Wes Anderson classic comedy/ drama. April 17. House Of Arts and Literature, 41-43 Athinas Street, Paphos. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 26-818560

Paphos Adonis Lions Club Meetings every second and fourth Monday of the month at Paphos Gardens Hotel Resort. New members welcome as well as visiting members of other Lions Clubs. Tel: 26-622810/97-635883 Alzheimer Self Help and Support Group Offers dementia patients and their carers the opportunity to meet others with this condition, share feelings and exchange experiences. Latin Parish Hall, Coastal Rd. Chlorakas. Every first Wednesday of the month at 10am. Tel: 26-621530/96767164 Cancer Patients’ Support Group Association’s Day Centre - 84 Ellados Avenue, Paphos, near Carrefour’s on Polis Road. Tel: 26-952478. Coffee morning on the second Tuesday of the month, 10.30am. Craft group meet every Thursday, 10am-12pm. New members always welcome. Quiz nights and meal on Thursdays and meal, 7 for 7.30pm. Tel: 26654007 or visit www.cancerpatientssupport.net Cancer Patients’ Support Group – Paphos Information Help Line Trained volunteers who will listen and assist anyone needing information, emotional support, befriending or referral to an appropriate professional. Available from 9am-1pm Monday to Friday. Tel: 97760989 Paphos Bereavement Support Group The group meets the first Monday of the month from 2-4 pm at the Cyprus Samaritans Centre, Chlorakas. For more information please contact Sally on 99-312662 or Rita on 99-175510 Gamblers Anonymous Support group for gambling addicts, partners and families. Meetings every Tuesday. Ayia Kyriaki Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. Tel: 26-622289 Self-Improvement and Fulfilment Dr. Eva Bratslavsky clinical psychologist and psychotherapist weekly discussion group meetings on self-confidence, selfesteem, relationship enhancement, assertiveness. 3pm. Tel: 99-495467 Hemi-Sync sound technology of The Monroe Institute Metamusic CDs for quantum learning, deep relaxation, meditation, workshops. Contact Linda Leblanc, accredited Outreach Trainer of The Monroe Institute. Tel: 26-621272/ psygnos@spidernet.com.cy Reiki Training Philip Westwood, Reiki Master/Teacher is now taking bookings for Reiki 1 & Reiki 2 training courses.Tel: 99-407526/26271640 or email philipreiki@cytanet.com. cy Polis Charity Bookshop, Crafts and More Now open six days a week. Monday- Saturday, 10am- 1pm. Large stock of books, videos, talking books, jigsaws and greeting cards. Proceeds donated to local charities. Goods in first rate condition always needed. Arch. Makarios Avenue, Polis Chrysochous. Tel: 99-867511 Mums ‘n’ Toddlers Group Mums, Tots & Babies - Join us for a fun filled morning of Music & Movement, Story time, Arts & Crafts, Free Play, snack & coffee time etc. Spacious garden at our new location in Chloraka. Five groups per week offered. Also ongoing sale of nearly new clothing (1Euro per item) raising funds for local charities. Tel: 99-867662. First Time Mums’ Club Come and join us for a cup of tea. Bring baby with you and meet other mums and get tips, ideas and advice on caring for your little infant. Weekly meetings where topics include breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping tips for baby and mom, milestones, what works and lots more. Thurs 10-12. Cholorakas. Tel: 96-429659 Apollo Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association Meeting on the third Thursday of every month. UKCA Clubhouse, Tombs of the Kings Road. 7pm. Tel: 26-991615 Basic Dog Training and Grooming Fridays. 3pm. Kallepia. Tel: 26-643079/99105557

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The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Tailor-made courses, wine classes and tasting can also be organised on request. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22-511521/25-341525 Coffee Morning A warm welcome for all women. Interesting talks and a chance to get together socially. Second Thursday of the month. (except July and August). 9.30am St.Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. In English. Tel: 99-924363 Walking Tours of Nicosia Mondays: Palouriotissa and Kaimakli: the past restored guided bus and walking tour. Thursdays: walking tour of Nicosia.. Free. Tel: 22-674264 Bird Watching in Cyprus Birdlife Cyprus regularly arranges bird watching trips around the island. Tel: 22455072, 99-059541. www.birdlifecyprus.org Horse Races Every Wednesday and Sunday at the Nicosia Race Club. Tel: 22-782727. Subject to change check website. www.nicosiaraceclub.com. cy

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Paphos Tigers RFC Mini Rugby: Tuesdays, 4.30pm-5.30pm. Kinyras Centre, Cypria Maris Sports Ground. Tel: 99-934315. barrie@cytanet.com.cy Paphos Cycling Club Newly founded to help promote cycling in Paphos as a great form of exercise, meeting and making new friends. Every Sunday at Hectors Barin Coral Bay at 9am. Tel: 99320213. www.paphoscyclingclub.com

Tours around Ayia Napa Ayia Napa and the Sea: a different dimension. Mondays in English and German; Fridays in English and Swedish, 10am from CTO office. Tel: 23-721796 Folk Art Workshop Art workshop for children. Cultural Centre of Famagusta, Evagorou 35, Dherynia. Tel: 23-721140 Bingo and Games Every Tuesday night. Quiz, bingo and games every Thursday night. Party night every Saturday. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. Tel: 23-831690 Charity Boot Sale Every Tuesday morning. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. 10am-12pm. Tel: 23-831690 Open Air Market Every Wednesday. St Thekla Beach restaurant, Ayia Thekla, 500m from the church. 9am-4pm. Tel: 23-743778

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It’s time to lighten up - but will you be burnt, baby, natural or even lavender this season? EMMA MCCARTHY on the fairest spring shades

The four new blondes 1. Lavender blonde Lady Gaga was right - this season, we’ll be loving that lavender blonde. “Ombre has been a massive trend but while last season’s tones were very soft, this season’s will be much stronger - particularly with hints of lavender and violet,” agrees Andrew John, colour director of Percy & Reed’s salon. “Lavender tones look really strong all over short or bobbed hair, while those with longer lengths should focus on the mid-lengths and ends.” They aren’t the only ones championing lavender locks either. “Playful, washed-out paintbox shades have grown up this season,” adds Jane Stacey, international technical director for Toni & Guy, who cites rich amethyst as a key shade, while international colour specialist Goldwell has also launched a new shade - Beautified Lilac. This is applied using the new “Transition” colour-dipping method to create a “melting” effect between the lavender hue and the blonde base.

2. Baby blonde Platinum hair is no longer about achieving an ice queenworthy blonde - in fact, it has been defrosted completely as spring/ summer 13 instead calls for the pale blonde seen on the head of a bouncing new-born babe. “Baby blonde is the perfect shade for

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spring - light, delicate and naturally luminous,” says Bruno Elorriroz, advanced creative director at Aveda. “With an almost-white, youthful angelic effect, the new platinum is all about appearing softer and natural, while retaining an iridescent glow. It’s all about getting the tonal balance right - we’re not going for harsh ice queen here,

With an almost-white, youthful angelic effect, the new platinum is all about appearing softer and natural, while retaining an iridescent glow more ethereal princess.”

3. Burnt blonde If anyone knows a thing or two about hair dye, it’s Bleach London. But the salon that fi rst brought us the dip-dye is taking its inspiration not from My Little Pony but from the Seventies this season. “The warm, rusty gold blondes of the likes of Marianne Faithfull and Stevie Nicks have replaced the ashy silver tones we’ve been obsessed with recently,” says the

salon’s founder Alex Brownsell, who counts Cara Delevingne as a modern-day devotee of the look. “As well as looking effortless and sexy, burnt blondes are also really easy to maintain as you don’t have to have regular salon trips to top up the colour. As we see more of the trend for Seventies fashion emerging, we’ll certainly be seeing a lot more of this hair shade too.”

4. New natural blonde Think you know a natural blonde when you see one? Well, after you’ve been introduced to the latest highlights you may not be able to tell so easily. The latest technique soon to be launched by L’Oréal is Nature Ombré, which promises to infuse hair with a subtle partial ombré effect using its fi rst no-ammonia blonde solution for a super-natural result. Over at Daniel Galvin, the salon has furthered last year’s popular Finger Painting highlights with the introduction of Freehand. As well as being applied by hand - rather than combs, brushes and foils – truly natural highlights are guaranteed thanks to a new Whitewash colour formula, which gently lifts and lightens the natural pigment of the hair with a low developer for a softer fi nish. It means you’ll be left with locks which look sunkissed, rather than bleached.

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Designers are conspiring to make us expose all our least favourite bits this summer. KAREN DACRE reveals all... or maybe not

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ands up if you hate your tummy. You’re not alone: a recent survey suggests that in the UK at least, 77 per cent of women share your pain. What about your hips? Join the other 96 per cent. Off the beach many expose middles with the same alacrity with which we

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flashes of flesh with cutaway dresses and plunging V-neck T gowns. The collection, which was met with huge critical acclaim, delighted and terrified in equal measures What works on svelte measures. d models doesn’t always translate A to your Average Joanna and is a valuable lesson most of us have gotten to grips with the hard way. Of cours course, in an ideal world we wouldn’t give giv a toss. We’d wear the tiny hotpants, hotpan squeeze into the lovehandle-hug handle-hugging bodycon dresses and shake our cellulite-speckled thighs like w we just don’t care. Except

few of us have the guts for that. Those who do should head to the high street, where the crop of unfriendly fashion is equally bountiful this season. And rightly so. After all, it is here that toe curlingly terrifying clothes belong. While splurging on a Balenciaga crop top you’d need to be tanked up to even think of putting on is nothing short of insanity, buying one from Topshop is a far more sensible alternative. Begin your valiant search at River Island. The store’s recently launched collaboration with Rihanna includes crop tops, slashed-tothe-thigh transparent dresses and high-shine Lycra knickers - and is a faultless example of the brand’s dedication to exposing our lumps and bumps this summer. Taking its lead from the catwalk, Topshop has some equally itsy-bitsy pieces in store and a collection of crop tops set to delight the under-16s. As does M&S, which, surprisingly, is embracing the trend for bloomers with gusto. Fancy it? On behalf of polo-neck wearing women everywhere, I salute you.

Vogue signs up to new 10-point code protecting models at work By Louise Jury The glossy fashion bible British Vogue has become the fi rst publication to sign up to a new code of conduct on working conditions for models. The influential title has taken the lead in agreeing to abide by a 10-point code drawn up by the models committee of Equity, the union that is better known for its campaigning for actors.

The deal means that models hired by British Vogue will work for no more than 10 hours a day, have suitable food provided and will do no nude or seminude shoots unless approved in advance. The code also includes breaks, transport, suitable temperatures for the clothes being modelled and prompt payment. It lays down that no model should be asked to do anything “dangerous, degrading, unpro-

fessional or demeaning”. It also means no models under the age of 16 can be used in photo shoots representing adult models. Model Dunja Knezevic, the chair of Equity’s models committee, said she hoped that other magazines, retailers and designers would now also sign up and “prevent treatment of the kind which would be wholly unacceptable in any other profession”. The code was drawn up

n to cover shoots both in on studios and on location nces based on the experiences rkof union members worky ing across the industry y ranging from “the very y good to the extremely bad”. Alexandra Shulman, n, e, editor of British Vogue, d said the magazine had been working with agencies to help in the education and mentor--

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merica’s ageing population is posing special challenges, fitness experts say, because it is difficult to design effective workout routines for people with such a wide range of abilities. For one 70-year-old, the goal may be to run a marathon, for another it’s getting out of a chair. “If you are teaching 10-year-olds, it’s perfectly reasonable to do an activity that everybody would participate in,” said Dr Wojtek ChodzkoZajko, an expert on ageing with the American College of Sports Medicine. “But 20 80-year-olds could be as different as chalk and cheese.” Some baby boomers could be athletic, he explained, while others would be unable to get out of bed. There are now more Americans age 65 and older than at any other time in US history, according to Census Bureau figures. Some 40 million people age 65 and over lived in the United States in 2010, accounting for 13 per cent of the total population. The older population grew from 3 million in 1900 to 40 million in 2010. Older adults should be doing aerobic activity to help maintain body weight, strengthening exercises to develop and maintain muscle mass and some type of flexibility training, according to Dr James Graves, Dean of the College of Health at the University of Utah. Physical activity can reduce the risk of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and osteoporosis, he said, as well as improve the quality of life by maintaining functional capacity, such as the ability to climb stairs, open doors and carry groceries.

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Mary Ann Wilson is the creator and host of Sit and Be Fit, a senior fitness programme that has aired on US public television since 1987 “A very healthy 70-year-old can safely participate in high-intensity activity while a frail 60-year-old needs to lower the intensity,” said Graves. “My recommendation is to work with a personal trainer or group leader who has knowledge and qualifications to work with the elderly.” Mary Ann Wilson is the creator and host of Sit and Be Fit, a senior fitness programme that has aired on US public television since 1987. The majority of her viewers are women over 65. For that population, she said, the goal of exercise is health and well-being, not physical prowess. “Gravity has been working on them for 70 years,” said Wilson, a reg-

istered nurse who specialised in geriatrics. “Gravity is not our friend after many years of pulling our heads, shoulders and upper torsos forward and down.” The 30-minute class includes warm-up, circulation and strength segments, a finger segment (for stiffness), standing for balance, and fi nal relaxation. Posture, breathing, balance, cognitive functioning and reaction time are among the most important-and neglected-components of elder fitness, she said. “Focusing on gait is really important because as we age our gait changes,” said Wilson. Karen Peterson, author of Move with Balance: Healthy Aging Activities for Brain and Body, stresses a mind-body approach in workouts with seniors. “In our society it seems people don’t really like to do things unless they’re good at it already,” said Peterson, a kinesiologist based in Maui. “But what the brain likes is to be challenged.” Her exercises include tossing a bean bag to improve reaction time, walking a figure-eight pattern for balance, as well as eye stretches, jaw relaxers, childhood games and cognitive challenges to keep body and mind alert. “We take balance exercises and add conversation or math problems,” she said. “The concept is to always progress, always get more challenging.” To tackle the isolation and diversity of the older population, Peterson initiated a mentoring programme in which the fitter seniors work with the frailer. “Some partners will become friends,” she said. “They’ll get really turned on.” Experts agree that it’s never too late to do something. “Exercise is effective even in the most frail individual,” Wilson said. “If they can wiggle their toes, they can exercise.”

Hab Habitat: A self-supporting, climbing member of the Apocynaceae family, growing to about 10m in tropical rain forest ynac areas of central Africa. It is covered in grey/green, speararea shaped leaves and produces clusters of highly aromatic, azashap lea-type flowers, which go on to form hairy, fawn-coloured lea-t seed pods. All parts of the plant are very poisonous. Wha does it do: When an early English explorer in the 17th What century sailing off the coast of West Africa tried to make cent llandfall d to take on water and fruit he was assailed by a local tribe that fired on his ship with what were described as puny arrows; it was only when these missiles reached their targets that they were made fully aware of the potential. It was not necessary for the arrows to effect deep penetration, merely to scratch the victim, to achieve their purpose. The barbs

were coated in a resin made from the seed of kombe, which contains strophanin, an extremely powerful glucoside. In addition, the plant contains the alkaloids ouabain and ineine: all capable of causing death in any animal whose blood stream is pierced by the arrow tip. The resulting death was described as ‘living rigor mortis’ by the crew. The Victorian missionary David Livingstone and his botanist Kirk were the first to bring the plant back to Europe for scientific analysis, where it was found to have greater cardiac healing potential than digitalis, as it does not have the same harmful effects on the liver and kidneys as the latter, and was known to 19th century physicians as ‘milk for the ageing heart’. Kombe fell from popularity between the wars but has recently been restored to prominence mostly by the activity of German practitioners who prefer its action in the case of geriatric heart patients. Veterinarians use an extract from the plant to anaesthetise the eyes of dogs before surgery, but it has no effect on the eyes of humans. Next dangerous plant

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24 BOOKS

Disaster area: local Sri Lankans search the wreckage of the 2004 tsunami

Anne Frank step sister highlights post-Holocaust traumas By Belinda Goldsmith

Survivor’s overwhelming tale of family swept away By Claire Harman “I thought nothing of it at first,” Sonali Deraniyagala writes in Wave: A Memoir of Life after the Tsunami of the view from her hotel window on Boxing Day, 2004. “The ocean looked a little closer than usual. That was all.” Deraniyagala and her husband, both Cambridgetrained economists, their two small sons and her parents were packing up to leave the nature reserve in Sri Lanka where they had spent Christmas. Her husband was on the loo, her elder son was reading The Hobbit. What happened next was so peculiar and devastating that it seems to come from the pages of mythology rather than a young urbanite’s holiday. The sea came up the beach so fast that Deraniyagala and her husband didn’t even say

anything to each other but grabbed the children and fled, not even knocking next door to alert her parents. Minutes later they were in a Jeep, being driven away by someone from the hotel. Then, as quickly, they were submerged by the tsunami, and Deraniyagala was sent spinning away alone, the sole survivor from her family. Eight years later she is able to tell this appalling story with a skill that matches its strangeness. Deraniyagala was thrown instantly into a life that seemed to belong to someone else; she found no “coming to terms” with such a trauma but constant pain. Through the months of rage, self harm and alcoholism that followed the tsunami, she found it impossible to deal with the disaster. “Was I

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their mother?” she writes, poleaxed by a long-delayed return to the family’s London home. “They would be aghast to see the mess I am now. This is not who I was with them.” The author doesn’t need to solicit the reader’s sympathy with this story - most will find it overwhelmingly moving and dreadful. Deraniyagala’s style is spare and wryly realistic as she goes back through vignettes of her marriage and the lives of her five and seven-year-old sons, a collection of snapshots of ordinary life: cricket practice and sweet wrappers and belching competitions. There is no idealisation or portentousness: Deraniyagali understands that the best way to memorialise is to be honest, even about one’s false memories and hindsight. As if that

wasn’t enough, Deranayagali’s book also gives fascinating evidence of how people remember and narrate extreme experiences. The timescale of her account of the tsunami is inexplicable: some moments drag out, others pass unnoticed. When you don’t know what’s happening, there isn’t a “story”, and she doesn’t impose one. The chasm is as strange as the random remains: searching in the ruins of the hotel, all that she can recognise of the room where disaster struck is the bolthole in the floor that locked the window - her last instruction to her son. “Loss of life” has rarely seemed such a potent phrase. Memoir seems like a debased coin these days but this wrenching and deeply philosophical book restores the gold standard.

As the step-sister of World War II diarist Anne Frank, Eva Schloss was in great demand when she went public with her story of surviving Auschwitz but now she hopes a new memoir will highlight another issue - surviving life after the Holocaust. Schloss, 83, said it was increasingly important that ageing Holocaust survivors pass on their stories while they still can so younger generations understand the suffering Jewish people faced and the consequences of prejudice. With her memoir, After Auschwitz: A Story of Heartbreak and Survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Schloss said she hoped to convey the message that the horrors continued for a lifetime. “People have no idea how traumatic it was to cope with such loss, with living in a different country,” Schloss said. “After the war Europe was in chaos and no one wanted to know what had happened to you. People felt guilty. You had to stay quiet and suppress your fears which came out in nightmares. You just had to try to live with it.” Schloss was arrested in Amsterdam in May, 1944, on her 15th birthday during the German occupation and, with her mother, was forced to listen to her brother and father being tortured in the next room while in detention. A similar fate befell Eva’s playmate and neighbour Anne Frank who died

in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Frank survived two years in hiding in Amsterdam where she wrote her diary that highlights real lives during the Holocaust. The two families had been friends and several years after the war Schloss’ mother married Anne Frank’s father, Otto, whose relentless optimism she cites as a key reason for her ability to cope with the post-war years. Schloss remained silent for nearly 40 years about her ordeals and it was not until she was invited to an exhibition about Anne Frank in London 1986 and asked about her own life that she started to talk. She never looked back. With her third book, Schloss said she wanted to focus on the lifetime of suffering faced by survivors after the slaughter of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. She said she was one of the lucky ones because she had managed to build a new life in London where she lives with her husband of 60 years, Zvi, with whom she has three daughters. “All us survivors are quite elderly and in a few years we won’t be around so we need to tell our stories,” she said. “Racial tolerance is improving with more mixed marriages but religious tolerance seems to be getting worse with more fanatics now. It is my duty to try to explain and to promote more acceptance and tolerance in the new generations.”

By William Leith

Lost at Sea

Every Contact Leaves a Trace

The New Few

By Jon Ronson

By Elanor Dymont

By Ferdinand Mount

Jon Ronson is an extremely funny writer and a brilliant journalist. If you read this collection of his stories you’ll see that he’s funny precisely because he is such a sharp reporter. He knows exactly where to look for stories that resonate - and writes them with perfect pitch. The North Pole, the boxes of stuff in Stanley Kubrick’s house, the underbelly of the credit economy, the artist who painted 50 self-portraits, each under the influence of a different drug. Ronson is both ruthless and empathetic - a perfect combination. He’s great on detail, too. He spots the tiniest things but always keeps the big picture in view.

This murder mystery, which gripped me with unusual force, starts on a summer evening at an Oxford college. Several years after graduating, Alex and Rachel have returned for a visit. He’s a lawyer. She’s an academic. They knew each other slightly when they were at the college, then they met again, years later, and had a very swift romance. Now they’re back. You’ll spend the whole novel wondering exactly why they have come to visit their old college. By the end of the evening, Rachel is dead - beaten to death with a rock. Horrible. Alex tries to find out why. Or is he the killer? This novel sucks you in beautifully, and will not let you go.

Ferdinand Mount, who wrote Cold Cream, an exquisite memoir, and Mind the Gap, about the British class system, has turned his mind to the problem of inequality. Why are a tiny number of people very, very rich? Why are so many so poor? In Mind the Gap, Mount made a brilliant point about how the Industrial Revolution had moulded Britain’s unique social mix. Here he’s good on what’s happened more recently. He explains how capitalism has subtly changed over the years. He’s very good on the relationship between shareholders and fund managers and unpicks financial products. The Few, it turns out, are very clever – and virtually unopposed.

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25 On the move: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in London

Horoscope

BY SALLY BROMPTON

ARIES The past few weeks have been hectic but now the time has come to take back control of your life. You may have been able to ignore certain financial responsibilities in March 21 - April 20 the past but not any more. There are bills that have to be paid even if that means dipping into your reserves. Cosmic forces are focussing on what you earn and what you spend but really all you have to do is live within your means.

TAURUS In a few days time your solar year will begin and with Venus and Mars also moving into Taurus relationships are bound to be high on the agenda. If you’re not happy with your April 21 - May 21 situation this is the moment to do something about it. Just be sure you know what you want.

Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Becoming an outsider wherever you go

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himamanda Ngozi Adichie’s fi rst two novels, Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun, were both firmly set in Nigeria, where Adichie was born. The first followed the dysfunctional family life of a teenage girl, Kambili; the second revolved around several characters before and during the Biafran war of the 1960s. A volume of stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, followed, with many tales set in America. Americanah spends time near the opening and close of the book in Nigeria, has an interlude in Britain, and resides, for its longest spell, in America, where Adichie has lived for much of the past decade. The pendulum-like structure provides its subject and its theme, largely about what moving between countries and cultures does to identity. Politics plays a part in the story, as it is in all Adichie’s writing. But the major dramas here are internal. Ifemelu and Obinze, the two main characters, both, by the end of the novel, part of “the Lagos youngish and wealthyish”, fall in love in Nigeria as teenagers in the Nineties. Ifemelu wins a scholarship to study in America, with Obinze vowing to join her. Denied a visa, Obinze goes to Britain instead. Ifemelu stays in America for than a decade, slowly - agonisingly – building a

Fresh depictions of Obama-era America and affluent Lagos life says JEROME BOYD MAUNSELL new life. She works as a babysitter, has American boyfriends, and starts an anonymous blog about race, written from the perspective of “a Non-American Black”. Adichie offers an unsparing portrait of being an incomer to America and Britain, tracing the emotional desolation Ifemelu and Obinze feel shedding their roots, and the economic traps they face, as they are initially forced to adopt new identities (and take on new names) to work. Ifemelu struggles to accommodate herself to misguided pity towards Africans. If some Americans see her in stereotypical terms, many of them are also seen stereotypically, drawn with a problematic flatness. In her blog, however, Ifemelu is wittily alive to nuanced shades of difference. Ifemelu’s blog entries appear in the novel and must have been fun to write. They also become wearying, as Americanah threatens to become a tract on

race. The distanced perspective of the blog is due to Ifemelu’s “outsider” status in America, allowing her to see and to say certain things. Yet when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she has become an outsider there: an “Americanah”, looking “with American eyes”, as one friend teases. Two different writers within Adichie seem to be struggling with each other in Americanah: one preoccupied by inflammatory themes about society; the other concerned with characters and emotions. They don’t gel, as they could. One of the nicest touches is how Adichie tackles this very tension, showing Ifemelu’s growing disillusionment with her blog’s stridency. In Nigeria, race falls away as an issue for Ifemelu; in Britain, for Obinze, class, money and the threat of deportation dominate. While Adichie is not overly concerned with literary style, and sometimes writes merely robustly despite some careful, moody passages, she constructs situations with intricacy and subtlety. There is a particular freshness to the depictions of Obamaera America and affluent Lagos life, which neatly sidestep cliché. Yet the largest part of Americanah’s considerable power lies in its clear-sighted portrayal of its two main characters, who always, for all their incongruities, feel real.

Authorised Thatcher biography to be unveiled By Robert Dex The first volume of Margaret Thatcher’s authorised biography will be published after her funeral this week. The book, which was written by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore and is called Not For Turning, was commissioned in 1997 on the understanding it would not be published during her lifetime. Its author was allowed full access to Lady Thatcher’s private papers and also interviewed her extensively while researching the work.

Lady Thatcher, who did not read the manuscript which ends in November 1982, also supported requests for interviews with her family and people who worked with her and Moore was allowed to see government papers held back from public view under the 30-year rule. Stuart Proffitt, from publishers Allen Lane, said: “Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher immediately supersedes all earlier books written about her. Having worked closely with Lady Thatcher on both

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volumes of her autobiography, and read all the other main books about her, I was astonished at how much Moore says which has never been public before. At the moment when she becomes a historical figure, this book also makes her into a three dimensional one for the fi rst time. It gives unparalleled insight into her early life and formation, especially through her extensive correspondence with her sister, which Moore is the fi rst author to draw on. It recreates brilliantly the atmosphere of British

politics as she was making her way, and takes her up to what was arguably the zenith of her power, victory in the Falklands. Moore is clearly an admirer of his subject, but he does not shy away from criticising her or identifying weaknesses and mistakes where he feels it is justified. It is, by any standards, an exceptionally impressive book and to be publishing it at this moment is a rare privilege.” Moore is currently writing the second and final volume called Herself Alone.

GEMINI Mercury, your ruler, moves to focus on your dreams and desires encouraging you to make a number of important decisions about your future. Don’t rush: you have plenty of May 22 - June 21 time to consider all the pros and cons. The longer you take, the wiser your judgement will be.

CANCER This is an important time for you. So many of your dreams are now on the brink of success or failure that even a minor decision could make all the difference. Don’t rush into anything but be ready to act decisively when you see the June 22 - July 22 opening you have been waiting for.

LEO The Sun, your ruler, crosses the midheaven angle of your chart later this week, an auspicious omen by anyone’s standards. You may have to fight for something you want but that shouldn’t worry you in the least. Just remember July 23 - Aug 23 you don’t have to beat everyone into submission!

VIRGO

Aug 24 - Sep 23

No matter how mundane the things you have to do early in the week, try to make time to sit quietly and think about the wider implications of your life. You were born to make a difference, to add your little bit to the sum of human knowledge. Are you doing all you could?

LIBRA

Sept 24 -Oct 23

There are things no one knows about you, not even those who share your most intimate secrets. You may be tempted to tell all this week, to get matters off your chest but, in a word, don’t. The urge will pass but the repercussions of what you say could drag on for months.

SCORPIO At times you’re too independent for your own good: you certainly have no intention of compromising your freedom or beliefs. But with the Sun about to begin its annual transit Oct 24 - Nov 22 of Taurus there are certain things you cannot possibly do alone. Don’t be too proud to ask for help.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov 23 - Dec 21

Don’t sacrifice yourself too willingly this week: let partners and colleagues make all the running. Some people genuinely need your help but others are just trying to take advantage of you. You’re under no obligation to ease others’ burdens by adding to your own.

CAPRICORN

Dec 22 - Jan 20

As from this week you will begin to see just how fortunate you really are and just how much can be achieved if you don’t believe the world is against you. The Sun in Taurus is a hugely positive influence. Use it any way you want to but for goodness’ sake use it.

AQUARIUS

Jan 21 - Feb 19

So what if you made a mistake? You’ll make plenty more before the week is through, and so will everyone else. What matters is not the mistake but that you learned from it. Your current problem is one you have confronted before. But this time you’ll know how to deal with it.

PISCES Don’t let a failure in communication get you down. A loved one may overreact to what you say but since when have you been perfect? The reason they’re so emotional is because Feb 20 - March 20 they think the world of you. Perhaps it’s time to make your own feelings a little more clear.


26 MARKETPLACE

A whirlwind of colour from Dior Addict Dior Addict has declared its love for fashion with an electric whirlwind of colours in the Dior Addict Gloss range. This new accessory lets you enjoy the latest fashion trends with the ultimate shine. It comes in four shades: Spring Ball: a fine, soft, nude hue, while delicate and light, will complement all your favourite evening wear. Princess: a bright, lively and cheerful pink with all the elegance of a mischievous princess. Délice: a lively, peppery coral inspiring desire. Diablotine: this bright colour displays provocative red sensual passionate woman. Mix and match: new opportunities to make more refined your look and complete your style.

Rock the crisis ... new offers from Hard Rock Cafe The situation might change but our tastes stay the same and at Hard Rock Cafe Nicosia, the music never stops, and now there are more choices at one of the capital’s hottest spots. For the first time, Hard Rock Cafe offers Just About Noon set menu at really attractive prices. So boost your spirits with the new hearty options. The new set menu includes popular choices of appetizers, favourite dishes and, of course, classic rock desserts. For just €12.50 choose between an appetizer or dessert with your main course accompanied by a soda or coffee. The offer is valid only on weekdays, and excludes holidays. An excellent proposal for small rockers, on Sundays children dining up to age 12 at Hard Rock Cafe will enjoy food from the kids menu completely free! There is also an animator on site offering face painting, balloons and more.

Fasten your seat-belts, AXE Apollo ready to fly you away AXE is giving the opportunity to one lucky contestant to win a trip to space! AXE Apollo wants to show everyone they are hiding a hero inside by announcing the biggest competition ever realised by a brand. Mission ‘AXE Apollo Space Academy’ could send one lucky winner on a very real adventure to space. Among the winners there could even be a Cypriot! Take part in a unique test and compete in order to win a place at AASA’s Global Spacecamp. Through an interactive game, contestants will be asked to take part in a three-stage test, which will determine the one lucky winner who will travel to AASA’s camp in Orlando, Florida. There they will battle it out to see who can win a trip to space! The preliminary stages that contestants will have to compete in will be nerve-racking and will require speed and imagination. The road to AASA’s Global Spacecamp might be difficult but the prize will more than compensate the winners who will leave as normal

people but will return as real heroes! The first stage takes place until May 31. Candidates need to register their participation on the AXE Apollo Space Academy website (https:// www2.axeapollo.com/el_GR/) and get their friends to vote for them. The 50 candidates with the most votes will qualify for the next stage. The second stage will take place between May 31 and July 15. The 50 chosen winners will then do battle through AXE Apollo’s facebook page as they take part in a digital and social competition. Through the page they will show why they deserve to be in the top five. The public and a designated AXE committee will then decide who will be the lucky five who will qualify for the third stage of the competition. The third stage will take place between July 16 and the end of the calendar year. AXE Apollo Space Academy will train the five lucky winners and will decide which contestant to send to space. The candidate with the most votes will graduate in first place at AASA’s Global Spacecamp and will go on to compete for a seat for a journey to space!

Hyundai starts production of car hydrogen fuel cell technology

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New stylish and practical package Nestea Nestea has come up with another surprise, inviting consumers to enjoy its drinks in a handy 250ml bottle. The new package is smaller in size, modern and elegant. As usual, the tea will have the same great taste, but also 30 per cent less sugar, and therefore calories, thanks to being sweetened naturally by the stevia plant. The Nestea thus continues to innovate, not only in taste but also the appearance. The new special edition packs are available in all stores in classic flavours of lemon and peach.

Automaker Hyundai has begun operation of the first plant of new technology cars with hydrogen fuel cells. First off the assembly line was a proudly whitewashed Hyundai ix35. Hyundai is the first industry operating unit of mass production with the new technology, which offers market cars with zero emissions! At a special event held on the occasion, vice president of Hyundai Eok Jo Kim said: “With the ix35 Fuel Cell, Hyundai has ushered in the lead for a future without pollutants. The new model is the most eco-friendly car ever built and shows that fuel cell technology is not an impossible dream anymore.” Hyundai expects to get 1,000 of the cars into circulation, mostly in European cities by 2015. In January the ix35 Fuel Cell was honoured with an award during FuturAuto Motor Show in Brussels.

A new vision for eye make-up Hypnôse Palette is Lancôme’s new vision for eye make-up. In eight new palettes, Hypnôse Palette are revolutionising the use of wet products and are extremely bright, in addition to offering excellent coverage and duration. The four shades and eyeliner in each of the pallets can be used to create three gorgeous looks in five easy steps, achieving professional results even if you’re new to eye make-up. Choose between: Doll Eyes: cool, natural tones for an effortless look. Star Eyes: elegant, harmonious shades for a sophisticated look. Drama Eyes: intense smoky shades for a spectacular look. SUNDAY MAIL• April 14, 2013


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tury (10) 8 See through doctor breaking the law (6) 10 Cloth left by an overcoat (6) 11 During the raid, Leonard was not doing anything (4) 12 Geoff sat squirming out of view of the audience (8) 14 Teardrop troubling animal (8) 16 Bothersome pair (4) 17 A pupil, during disturbed rest, is not as fresh (6) 19 Tending to sag, having no work in dry environment (6) 21 The rodent hiding most of the temperature device (10) 22 Bite lip (4)

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Answers to Double Crossword 2364 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Wagoner; 5 Macaw; 8 Sangria; 9 Thrusts; 10 Entreat; 11 Drop-out; 14 Strewed; 16 Peridot; 18 Rompers; 19 Reissue; 20 Lento; 21 Sporran. Down – 1 Wanted; 2 Glorious reign; 3 Newsboy; 4 Russet; 5 Manet; 6 Carpet-sweeper; 7 Wraith; 12 Tremolo; 13 Spiral; 14 Stress; 15 Design; 17 Disco. QUICK: Across – 1 Scruple; 5 Acrid; 8 Caravan; 9 At issue; 10 Surplus; 11 Litotes; 14 Envying; 16 Rubicon; 18 Incense; 19 Fitting; 20 Tidal; 21 Acolyte. Down – 1 Scrawl; 2 Redistributed; 3 Pulsate; 4 Excess; 5 Airer; 6 Revolutionary; 7 Danish; 12 Avocado; 13 Profit; 14 Enigma; 15 Grease; 17 Chill.


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Kyriacos Andreou (Bboy Kyri) Professional Dancer and Coach of Network Cartoon Crew, winners of Pancyprian break-dance competition boty Cyprus 2013 along with Marios Thoupis (both members of Looney Tunes crew)

Dream house: rural retreat or urban dwelling? Where would it be, what would it be like and why?

Rome

Where do you live? In an apartment in Nicosia with a childhood friend, from where I study business administration at University of Cyprus

Best childhood memory? The fi rst time I saw someone breakdancing on the internet and then trying out dancing moves with my friends. I’ll never forget the excitement and happiness I felt. I thought I wanted to learn that dance more than anything in the world.

Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish? My parents own a restaurant Kerkyra in Oroklini so I usually go there. My favourite dish would be barbecue ribs with extra sauce and chips . I absolutely love it

hours of dancing before I had something to eat. Usually I have a croissant from the bakery.

Would you class yourself as a day or night person? What’s your idea of the perfect night/day out? I would say it depends on the occasion. I like going out during the day with my friends but also going clubbing and dancing the night away. Perfect day I would say I wake up in the morning and go on a small trip or walk down town meet new people and at night time go dance at a club with my friends and some really nice music .

and pizza you can fi nd anywhere and you can’t have enough of the ice cream. What is more I went to practise with a dance crew and I loved op it - it opened my eyes to the level of dancing in Cyprus.

To learn from the master: Michael Jackson

Best book ever read? What’s your dream trip?

The Da Vinci Code. It made me e realise that there is a lot we don’t know about.

A trip around the world to experience as much as possible. The more you experience exp with our own eyes and body the more I feel I would be able to express with my da dancing.

Favourite film of all time? What food would you really turn your nose up to? I don’t like snails I tried them once when I was urged by my grandma but thought they weren’t all that great and I’ll never try them again. But I always try new stuff

What did you have for breakfast? Nothing. I always sleep late cause of uni and dancing and when I wake up I’m usually in a rush. Today I did 3

Battle of the year(boty) Chris Brown own gest is in it and its all about the biggest competition in breakdance.

What music are you listening to in the car at the moment?

Best holiday ever taken? A trip to Italy. I went to visit some me relatives and I went to Milan,, d Venice, up the mountains and e Rome. I absolutely loved the Italians, their language and culture but most of all I loved theirr sta food. They make the best pasta

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Artists like Chris Brown, Tyga, Hall of Fame

What is always in your fridge? W Orange juice DDi Dinner nner eerr ddate: aatte: Or OOs scaar W Wi ilde Oscar Wilde

My dream house would be on a hill near the sea and it would have a music studio and a huge dance hall where I could practise or make events so everybody can come and dance. I could dance and listen to my music all day and night cause dancing is what moves me in life and a house that is truly mine you would be allowed to dance anywhere. It would be near the sea so I could go swimming all the time and go running and exercise.

If you could pick anyone at all (alive or dead) to go out for the evening with, who would it be? Michael Jackson! Tell me how to moonwalk!!!

If the world is ending in 24 hours what would you do? Meet my family. Eat my favourite dishes. Stay in and dance until the end. It would be my last dream coming true.

What is your greatest fear? Me not being able to dance .

Tell me a joke… Why do men chase women they have no intention of marrying? For the same reason dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving

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CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

11.00 11.30

07.00 08.00 16.30

Kaftis Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00 15.30

CYBC 2

17.00

Local cultural show.

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies

18.45

Paizoume Kypriaka

Live cookery show. Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

Moiraia Fengaria

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

20.00 21.00

22.00

22.30

Repeats

07.50

Kati Psinetai (rpt)

23.30

08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures

14.50

NRG Zone George Et Fanchette

15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

Repeats

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Panselinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)

MEGA 07.00 08.00

18.40 19.30 20.20 21.25

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves

09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00 16.00 18.00 18.30

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Zois (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Dr Cook New Greek cookey show.

19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.10

00.00 00.10

Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Piso Sto Spiti FILM: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

01.30 03.00 04.30

SIGMA 06.10 07.00 08.20

10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30

A low-rent gigolo tries to raise the money for legal fees when his friend and former manager gets into trouble in Amsterdam. Comedy sequel, starring Rob Schneider. 2005.

20.20 21.20 22.30

News ‘Til Death

00.20 00.25 01.20

Sitcom chronicling the domestic discord and disasters of middleaged couple.

Greek music show.

00.00 00.05 00.30

Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

With News at 18.00.

22.20

Top Gear Seventeenth season. Episode 2: The trio travel to Italy to test high-performance hatchbacks.Also, petrolhead comedian Ross Noble is in the Reasonably Priced Car and the McLaren MP412C supercar comes under review.

FILM: Night Falls On Manhattan A rookie attorney is put in charge of the prosecution of a drugs lord who killed the lawyer’s father. Thriller, starring Andy Garcia. 1997. With News at 23.30.

00.15

A look ahead to the tournament that will be staged in Brazil, which has already seen the qualification process begin in Africa, Asia and South America.

This ambitious account on the life of France’s best known literary rebel, George Sand as she settled in the country after a tumultuous life in Paris. Drama, starring. Raphaël Personnaz. 2010. Part 2 of 2.

News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

06.20 06.50 07.00

The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

Euronews Kids’ TV FIFA World Cup Magazine 2014

Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos

16.00 18.00 18.15

ANTENNA

Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

PLUS TV

Anna Paola (rpt) Protoselido Eleni

06.45 07.20

Variety show featuring entertainment as well as segments on cooking, health, astrology, and more. Hosted by well-known presenter Eleni Menegaki.

08.30

Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Stin Igeia Mas

10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00

09.05 10.00

Greek comedy series.

17.50 19.40

02.10 03.30 04.00 04.30

Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life.

21.15 22.00

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Nights In Rodanthe A doctor who is travelling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn. Romantic drama, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. 2008.

Greek variety show, with well-known guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.

News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mona Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Kid’s TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema

23.30

09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.25 16.15 16.45 17.40 18.15

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Odd Girl Out A tiff between best friends at high school sparks a cycle of bullying which grows increasingly vicious leading to emotional problems. Teen drama, starring Alexa Vega. 2005.

22.45

FILM: A Lover’s Revenge Story about a female radio psychologist whose on-air advice makes her the target of a deranged man. Thriller, starring Alexandra Paul. 2005.

FILM: Fists Of Fury A kung-fu fighter avenges his relatives, slain by their gangster boss. Martial Arts action, starring James Tien and Bruce Lee 1971.

01.10 01.50 02.20

CAPITAL

00.30

FILM: K- Pax A mysterious mental patient, convinces both staff and fellow patients that he comes from a utopian plane. Drama, starring Kevin Spacey. 2001.

Raising Hope (Fox Life, 22.40)

01:15 Silk 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 The Diamond Queen 04:45 Ideal 05:15 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:25 My Family 09:55 Keeping Up Appearances 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Hustle 13:05 The Diamond Queen 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 Keeping Up Appearances 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 The Diamond Queen 18:20 Life On Air: David Attenborough’s 50 Years In Television 19:10 Walk on the Wild Side 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 2 Point 4 Children 22:00 The Diamond Queen 22:55 Lead Balloon 23:25 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 23:50 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:35 Mad Dogs

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 The Aviators 08:40 Chasing Classic Cars 09:30 Prehistoric 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 13:05 Mighty Mississippi 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisher-

man: Mozambique 15:25 Prehistoric 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Unchained Reaction 17:50 Meteorite Men 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Unchained Reaction 22:50 Meteorite Men 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Unchained Reaction 02:50 Meteorite Men 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 10:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 12:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 14:45 Athletics: Greene Light 15:00 Fitness: The Box 15:15 Snooker: China Open Beijing 16:30 Gymnastics: European Championship Russia 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 Boxing: Bigger’s Better Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Lapland 01:00 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reserva-

tions 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Happy Endings 3 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 12:50 Last Man Standing 2 13:15 The Neighbors 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:25 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 19:25 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Happy Endings 3 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 2 21:50 Last Man Standing 22:15 The Neighbors 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Happy Endings 3 23:55 Don’t Trust The B... In Apartment 23 2 00:20 Last Man Standing 00:45 The Neighbors 01:10 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3

07:30 Love Affair 09:30 Red Riding Hood 11:15 Underbelly Files - Infiltration 13:00 Poseidon 15:00 Saint John Of Las Vegas 16:30 Neverending Story Ii: The Next Chapter 18:15 80 Minutes 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Prey 23:00 Whistleblower 01:00 Hustler TV 02:45 Corporate Affairs 04:30 Cash 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

05:05:10 The Grey 07:05 In Her Shoes 09:20 The Artist 11:10 Crimson Tide 13:05 Beginners 14:50 X-Men: First Class 17:10 Action Zone 17:45 Albert Nobbs 19:50 Bridesmaids 22:00 The Double 23:45 We Bought A Zoo 01:55 Conan The Barbarian 03:50 Super 8

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 Nba Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 00:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Privileged 08:00 Friends 08:25 Top Boy 09:20 Luck 10:20 One Tree Hill 11:15 Strike Back 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 Privileged 14:30 Top Boy 15:25 Luck 16:15 Big Bang Theory 16:40 2 Broke Girls 17:25 Mentalist 18:10 C.S.I. Miami 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Pan Am 20:30 Friends 21:00 Necessary Roughness 22:30 Closer 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Sherlock

ants At Milwaukee Brewers 16:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2 19:30 PRE GAME(E) 20:15 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS E.N.P (E) 22:15 POST GAME (E) 23:00 A DIVISION CYPRUS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 23:15 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 2

Holmes: A Game Of Shadows 02:20 My Afternoons With Margueritte 03:45 Big Bang Theory 04:10 2 Broke Girls 05:00 Mentalist 05:45 C.S.I. Miami 06:30 Gossip Girl

19:10 The Hunting Party 21:00 Analyze That 22:40 Cine News 23:00 Paranormal Activity 3 00:30 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:20 Outrage

08:15 Beautiful (2009) 10:00 Above The Law 12:00 Goodbye Girl (1977) 14:00 Space Cowboys 16:15 Safe Passage 18:00 Poltergay 20:00 Fathers And Sons 22:00 Easier With Practice 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Carnage 05:45 Art Of Travel

18:55 Take Shelter 21:00 Better Life 22:45 Room In Rome 00:40 Dirty Girl 02:15 Take Me Home Tonight 03:55 Cine News 04:25 The Names Of Love

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Catfish 21:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas 22:00 MTV World Stage 23:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 01:00 MTV Geordie Shore 02:00 Only Hits

02:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 05:00 TBA 06:00 Sports Unlimited 07:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 7: Better Wedge Play 07:30 Feherty - Roger Maltbie 08:30 Academy - Bernhard Langer: Driver 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Playing Lessons - Ian Poulter 10:00 Golf Central International 10:30 NHL: New Jersey Devils At Philadelphia Flyers 13:00 MLB: San Francisco Gi-

07:00 The Angry Hills 08:50 The Great Lie 10:40 Bad Day At Black Rock 12:00 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 13:45 Texas Carnival 15:00 White Heat 16:55 Somebody Up There Likes Me 19:00 Grand Prix 22:00 Splendor In The Grass 23:50 Many Rivers To Cross 01:20 Bachelor In Paradise 02:05 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 04:40 East Side, West Side

05:45 Machine Gun Preacher 07:55 Cine News 10:30 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 12:10 Mad On Novacinema 12:50 The Way 15:00 Absence Of Malice 19:10 Darling Companion 21:00 Ncis 22:00 In Darkness 00:30 The Conspirator 02:35 Apollo 18 04:05 House Of The Rising Sun

By Preston Wilder

The Prey (LTV, 21.00) It’s all getting a bit French! A French gangster movie on Pick of the Day last night - and another French thriller tonight, its trailer (in French) asking “Who is the hunter? Who will be the prey?” which is all quite exciting. Albert Dupontel is the hunter (or possibly the prey), doing time for bank robbery but breaking out when his ex-cellmate - now a free man - turns out to be a serial killer with designs on Albert’s family; also at stake is the loot from the bank, which Albert managed to hide before being arrested - and fans of classic Hollywood may discern a touch of The Night of the Hunter but this is something else again, “a testosterone-packed thriller full of breathtaking stunts,

The Prey

convoluted plot lines, interesting characters and unexpected shock moments,” to quote a breathless fan at the Internet Movie Database. And you thought the French just made films where people smoked Gauloises and talked endlessly. Made in 2011.

In Darkness (Novacinema1, 22.00) Phew, that was close: fans of traditional European art cinema may be wondering what’s happened to their favourite continent, with all these gangsters and serial killers - but this is the kind of European film we know and love (or just know), a sober-minded drama for the middlebrow audience. It’s a Holocaust movie, the ultimate ‘serious’ genre (inevitably, it was nomi-

nated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar), telling the Schindler’s List-ish tale of Leopold Socha, a sewage inspector in the Polish city of Lvov who helped a group of Jews by hiding them in the sewers. As in Schindler, the point is a rather unworthy man becoming a hero despite himself; as in Diary of Anne Frank, the Jews bicker endlessly but remain (of course) sympathetic - and you also have a horrible setting (the sewers) for those close-ups of rats and so on. Wellmade, engrossing and probably unnecessary, with a gratuitous interlude in a concentration camp so we can all shake our heads at those eeeevil Nazis (they’d shoot a man for not wearing his cap!). Old-school Euro-cinema still lives. Mostly in Polish; made in 2011.


SundayMail Mercy The foibles of male vanity exposed as a man falls in love

That’s My Boy Adam Sandler bonds with son he fathered as a teenager

Tuesday, LTV3, 8pm

Saturday, NovaCinema1, 10pm

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Magic Mike Toned male flesh in this tale of ageing male strippers Sunday, NovaCinema1, 10pm

Complete guide to what’s on the small screen this week, including our selections and satellite choices


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CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Early morning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

11.00

Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Cookery show.

11.30

Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00 15.30 16.00 18.00 18.15 18.45

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

19.20

Moiraia Fengaria

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

20.00 21.00

22.45

News Vimata Stin Ammo Friends (rpt)

Code Europe Local investigative show.

23.30 23.45

News Repeats

Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

07.50 08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures

NRG Zone FILM: The School Of Rock

23.30

12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Magaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri (rpt) Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tis Haras (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 08.00

Repeats

18.40 19.30 20.15 21.25 22.20

Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy US medical drama.

23.10

Replay

00.00 00.05 00.30

News Sports News Radio Arvila

Greek sports show.

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00 16.00 18.00 18.30 19.30 20.20 21.20 22.20 23.10

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Me Ta Panetelonia Kato The Vampire Diaries

00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00 04.00

News ‘Til Death Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.45 19.40 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.30

00.20 00.25

Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

02.00 03.00 03.45 04.10

PLUS TV

Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Epta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) News Aspra Balonia 60 Lepta

07.20

Local investigative show.

22.00

08.30 09.00 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Cold Case Fourth season. ‘Stalker’. A suicidal killer takes the entire team hostage while they investigate a 2006 murder case and the detectives must act quickly to avoid a tragedy. Season finale.

CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Prey’. When a vocal coach is murdered in a theatre, a string of bizarre evidence inspired by previous cases leads Stella to believe someone is playing the CSIs. Flack checks the victim’s criminal record and discovers he had been in trouble for stalking, turning the spotlight on one of the women he harassed.

01.20

Live parady show.

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

SIGMA

Supernatural drama, about a young girl who becomes the object of passion for two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - both at war for her soul.

With News at 18.00.

Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘A Bone to Pick’. Kitty is advised to undergo a risky bone marrow transplant after her collapse at the beach, and asks Sarah to bring her a box of love letters from an old relationship that she wants to keep secret. Meanwhile, Kevin discovers Robert has been going to visit a woman and confronts him, but is mortified when he finds out the reason behind their meetings.

American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.

22.30

06.30 06.50 07.00

An idle guitarist spies a much-needed moneymaking opportunity, and poses as a supply teacher - only to end up creating a new rock band. Comedy, starring Jack Black and Joan Cusack. 2003.

Local period drama, based on true events.

22.00

Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt)

The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

ANTENNA

22.45

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09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.30 16.20 16.50 17.40 18.10 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) LTV Sports News Star News

Magikos Kosmos Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Sto Mati Tou Kiklona (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron News So Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports Time Capital Sports FILM: Annapolis A trainee cadet at a naval academy clashes with a senior officer and ends up having to fight him in a boxing match. Drama, starring James Franco. 2006.

Supernatural Sixth season. ‘Mannequin 3: The Reckoning’. The brothers investigate mannequins that have come to life and discover an ill-fated practical joke could be behind the bizarre events. Dean rushes away when he gets a call from Lisa’s son Ben, leaving Sam to take care of things alone.

23.20

CAPITAL

22.50

FILM: Lasko: Death Train A former soldierturned-priest tries to prevent a ruthless gang from unleashing a deadly virus. German action thriller, starring Jef Bayonne. 2001

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FILM: No Mercy Two cops pose as hitmen for an undercover sting, but when one ends up dead the other heads for New Orleans to catch the killer. Action thriller, with Richard Gere. 1986.

Safe House (Novacinema1, 19.55)

01:30 Only Fools and Horses 02:00 South Riding 02:55 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 03:25 The Weakest Link 04:10 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 04:35 Only Fools and Horses 05:05 South Riding 05:55 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 06:30 As Time Goes By 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Lead Balloon 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 Himalaya With Michael Palin 13:55 My Family 14:25 The Weakest Link 15:10 Lead Balloon 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 Casualty 17:30 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 18:20 The Diamond Queen 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 Only Fools and Horses 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Ideal 23:20 Paradox 00:15 South Riding

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Man, Woman, Wild 08:40 Way Of Life 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Movies

11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Sons Of Guns 13:05 Prophets Of Science Fiction 13:50 Chasing Classic Cars 14:15 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Mega World 17:50 Extreme Engineering 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 1000 Places To See Before You Die 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 Mega World 22:50 Extreme Engineering 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Mega World 02:50 Extreme Engineering 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 1000 Places To See Before You Die 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 All Sports: Watts 10:00 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 12:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 17:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Boxing 00:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 01:15 Car Racing: Lamporghini Super Trofeo Italy 01:45 Motorsports:

Motorsports Weekend Magazine 02:00 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:45 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 3 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Once Upon A Time 2 12:50 Revenge 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 3 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Once Upon A Time 2 21:50 Revenge 2 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Once Upon A Time 2 00:20 Revenge 2 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 04:50 Make It Or Break It

07:30 Dangerous Attraction 09:00 Kick-Ass 11:00 Trouble With Dee Dee 12:30 Book Of Eli 14:30 Mr. Troop Mom 16:00 Skellig 17:45 Dark City 19:30 Action Zone 20:00

LTV Sports News 21:00 Mercy 23:00 Eva 00:55 Hustler TV 02:35 Freeway Killer 04:10 Mystic River 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 19:00 Nba 2012-13 21:00 Barclays Premier League Review 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Best Premier League Games 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League Review 04:00 Ironman 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Friends 07:40 Necessary Roughness 09:30 Big Bang Theory 10:00 2 Broke Girls 10:50 Mentalist 11:35 C.S.I. Miami 12:30 Pan Am 13:15 Closer 14:00

Necessary Roughness 15:50 Big Bang Theory 16:15 Eastbound & Down 16:45 2 Broke Girls 17:30 Hawaii Five-0 19:00 Closer 19:45 One Tree Hill 20:30 Two And A Half Men 21:00 Strike Back 22:40 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:25 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 00:20 Lesbian Vampire Killers 01:50 Goodbye Girl (1977) 03:40 Eastbound & Down 04:10 2 Broke Girls 05:00 Hawaii Five-0 06:30 Closer

07:35 Live Wire 09:05 ScoobyDoo 10:35 Fair Game 12:30 General’s Daughter 14:30 Bad Boys 16:30 Alaska 18:25 Magic Men 20:00 Whistleblower 22:00 Bleeding 23:30 Action Zone (E) 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Sympathy For Delicious 06:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

05:10 The Skin I Live In 07:10 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 09:15 Sister 11:05 The Way 13:15 Flicka 3: Best Friends 15:00 Never Been Kissed 16:50 Cine News 17:30 The Iron Lady 19:20 Films & Stars 19:55 Safe House 22:00 Wanderlust 23:50 The Following 00:50 Opal Dream 02:20 Cine News 03:10 Love To Kill 04:45 Witchville

05:30 The Brave One 07:35 Good Neighbor Sam 09:50 Cine News 10:50 Intolerable Cruelty 12:30 $5 A Day 14:10 The Perfect Storm 16:20 Shallow Hal 18:15 Thor 20:15 Fun With Dick And Jane 22:00 Captain America: The First Avenger 00:10 Shame 01:55 Mad Dog And Glory 03:35 Cine News 04:15 Coriolanus

18:35 The Talented Mr. Ripley 21:00 Extreme Measures 23:05 Ncis 23:55 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

18:45 Anonymous 21:00 Manolete 22:40 A Distant Neighborhood 00:20 Friends With Benefits

02:00 TBA 05:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 06:00 America’s Game: 1977 Dallas Cowboys 07:00 Big Break Greenbrier - Green With Envy 08:00 Big Break Greenbrier - Last Resort 09:00 Golf Central International LIVE From The Masters 10:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA 15:00 TBA 18:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA 23:00

Punk Payback With Bas Rutten To G-String Or Not To G-String 23:30 Best Stuff On Wheels 2

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Mission Lydia 20:30 MTV Everyday Girls 21:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards Pre-Show 22:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

07:00 Adam’s Rib 08:45 Cass Timberlane 10:45 The Rounders 12:10 The Younger Brothers 13:30 Tribute to a Bad Man 15:05 Hot Millions 16:50 Travels With My Aunt 18:35 Stay Away, Joe 20:20 Light In The Piazza 22:00 The Outfit 23:50 Butterfield 8 01:40 Tribute to a Bad Man 03:20 The Sandpiper 05:15 Stay Away, Joe

By Preston Wilder

The Whistleblower (LTV3, 20.00) “You’re not safe. Accidents do happen,” our heroine is warned. “You’d do better to shut your mouth,” someone tells her - but she won’t shut her mouth, that’s the problem: she’s uncovered a sex-trafficking scandal, and she’s doing her best to expose it. “I’m just doing my job,” is the way she sees it - and ‘she’ is based on a real person, a Nebraska cop called Kathryn Bolkovac who worked as a UN peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and was shocked by what she found there, not just corruption but also a prostitution network catering to UN officers and diplomats. Rachel Weisz plays her, flanked by two other British heavyweights (Vanessa Redgrave and Benedict Cumberbatch) plus an Italian

heavyweight (Monica Bellucci) - a fine cast for a littleknown movie, its obscurity possibly explained by the fact that it sounds a bit too virtuous. Do-gooders are admirable, but seldom entertaining. Made in 2011.

Wanderlust (Novacinema1, 22.00) George (Paul Rudd) and wife Linda (Jennifer Aniston) go on the road, having lost their jobs and trendy Manhattan lifestyle. They stop at a motel, where a lady shows our weary heroes to their room. “If you’re George ... then where’s John, Paul and Ringo?” quips this lady - then waits, smiling meaningfully, as if expecting a response to her ludicrous witticism. That kind of detail is the best part of Wanderlust, a patchy

Wanderlust

comedy where the main plot peters out but there’s always something fun on the fringes, minor characters turning out to be zany, bizarre and/or unreasonably annoying. Paul and Linda end up in Elysium, a hippy commune they find along the way, signposted by a nudist (“I’m a nudist,” he explains unnecessarily; “Oh yes, we noticed your penis earlier,” replies George politely). Some of the jokes are witty, like the hippies showing approval by rubbing their fingers (it’s “less aggressive than clapping”); some are over-the-top, like the infamous ‘mirror scene’ (you’ll know it when you see it); the result is amusing, with the two stars in good form - and a minor character usually comes to the rescue when things go flat. Made in 2012.


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CYBC 1 08.00

Moiraia Fengaria (rpt)

CYBC 2 08.00

Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

13.00 14.00 14.30

17.15

Edoxe Ti Vouli Kai To Dimo News Me Kali Parea

Vimmata Stin Ammo (rpt) Two episodes of local period drama, based on true events.

18.00 18.15

News Patates Antinahtes (rpt)

18.50 19.00 19.10 21.00

Ego Ki Esi Local comedy series.

19.30 20.00 21.30

Local Sketch News Savvato Ki Apovrado

22.30

02.30 04.30

News Tete-A-Tete (rpt) Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt) Me Kali Parea (rpt) Repeats

23.15 00.10 02.20

06.00 06.30 07.00 07.30 08.00 08.50 09.40 10.30 11.20 12.10 13.50 16.50 18.00 18.10 18.30 20.20 21.20 23.00

Album Show News In English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews

Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Men Kai Den (rpt) Paris Kai Eleni (rpt) Steps (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) O Tzitzigas Kai O Mermigas (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Laikes Paraskeves (rpt) Your Face Sounds Familiar (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Ekeino To Kalokairi To Kafe Tis Haras News Exairetika Afieromeno FILM: Indianna Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull The heroic archaeologist races against a sinister Russian scientist to recover a mysterious artefact of untold power. Action adventure, starring Harrison Ford. 2008.

Lost Fifth season. ‘Lighthouse’. Jacob sends Hurley on a mission across the island, but Jack must accompany him. In Los Angeles, Jack’s difficult relationship with his son is revealed. Meanwhile, Jin discovers that Claire thinks the people at the temple stole her son.

Variety show, with wellknown guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.

23.30 23.45 00.45

News In English New In Turkish NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA (rpt) American version of the talent contest, in which solo singers and groups compete to win a recording contract by impressing judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and LA Reid.

Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

18.45

FILM: Hannah Montana: The Movie As the popularity of ‘Hannah Montana’ hits new heights, Miley escapes from under the spotlight with a visit to her hometown of Tennessee, where she learns there is more to life than performing. Teen drama, starring Miley and Billy Ray. 2009.

Vivian Kanari hosts new show featuring a mix of news, information and live music.

16.30

Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

Local drama series.

10.30

ANTENNA

00.45 00.55 01.00 01.40 02.40 03.50 04.40

News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo Blackout Mavros Okeanos (rpt) News Eftyhismenes Meres (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 07.00 09.40 10.20 11.00

12.00 13.00 15.00 17.00

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Proino Mou (rpt) Kid’s TV Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck

SIGMA 08.30

Feature-length animated adventure, dubbed in Greek.

10.00

A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.

14.00

Oi Vasiliades (rpt) Pername Kala (rpt) Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

19.00

15.40 17.00

Me Ta Pantelonia Kato (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.15 21.15 22.20 00.20 00.30

News Anonymous Mousiko Kouti - Live News Kapse To Senario Greek edition of the improvised comedy show, in which guests create spontaneous routines and sketches based on suggestions from the studio audience.

01.00 01.40 02.20 03.20 04.00 04.30 05.00 05.40

Kleise Ta Matia (rpt) Epafi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi Palirroia (rpt) Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou

Mes Stin Kala Hara

20.15 21.20

13.00 13.40 14.20

Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) The Cooking (rpt) Annita SoS

15.40 16.50 18.00

With News at 18.00.

18.45

Pame Paketo (rpt)

22.00

23.15

00.40 04.00

10.30

Local comedy series.

15.05 15.35 15.40

Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Fotis - Maria Best Of Mila (rpt) Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Greek FILM: Enas Trellos Tha Mas Sosei Vathi Kokkino Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Tricks Of A Woman

12.05 13.15

00.10 01.05 01.40

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Greek FILM: Afti Pou Den Ligise Telemarketing Greek FILM: To Katharma The Third Reich News FILM: The Fighting Temptations A man learns he has been left a considerable inheritance - but he must first ensure a choir wins a competition. Musical comedy, with Cuba Gooding Jr. 2003. With News at 17.30.

18.00 18.55 19.05 19.55 20.05 21.00

Remington Steele News Pacfic Blue News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Steel Magnolias Drama, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts. 1989. See Pick Of The Day.

Cold Case (rpt) Crime drama, starring Kathryn Morris as Lilly Rush, a detective working for the Philadelphia police department, who investigates unsolved homicide cases that happened years before.

Las Vegas (rpt)

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Mes Stin Kali Hara (rpt) Magazino (rpt)

Kids’ TV LTV Sports News (rpt) Star News Diet.. Please (rpt)

A fashion photographer bets a rival that he can transform an ugly duckling into a beauty. Drama, starring Vincent Pastore. 2008.

Drama series focusing on a security team at a large casino.

23.50 23.55

CAPITAL

Comedy. 1988.

20.15 21.15

News Al Tsantiri News (rpt) Live satirical comedy show that features Lakis Lazopoulos giving ‘his version’ of the news.

23.00

07.50 12.05

Weekend variety show, informative and entertaining.

talk-show that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes.

With News at 18.00.

19.30

Barbie In The Pink Shoes

PLUS TV

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FILM: Primal Doubt A married romance novelist agrees to meet a man she met on a dating website, but finds herself caught up in a murder case. Thriller, starring Janine Turner. 2007.

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FILM: Barb Wire A leather-clad bounty hunter becomes a fugitive in a fascist future America after helping rebels fight the government. Sci-fi thriller, starring Pamela Anderson. 1996

In Time (Novacinema1, 19.05)

01:20 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal 02:15 The Weakest Link 03:00 Walk on the Wild Side 03:30 Doctors 04:00 Casualty 04:50 The Diamond Queen 05:40 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:30 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 My Family 10:45 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 11:10 Drop Zone 12:00 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 12:50 2 Point 4 Children 13:20 My Family 13:50 After You’ve Gone 14:20 Walk on the Wild Side 14:50 Casualty 15:40 EastEnders 17:40 Walk on the Wild Side 18:10 My Family 18:40 Incredible Journeys With Steve Leonard 19:30 The Weakest Link 20:15 Doctor Who 21:00 Being Erica 21:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:30 Bedlam 23:15 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 23:40 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 00:15 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 00:45 Doctor Who

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 08:40 Mighty Mississippi 09:30 The History Of

Singapore 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Unchained Reaction 13:05 Meteorite Men 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:40 Science Of The Movies 16:15 Mythbusters 17:00 Man, Woman, Wild 17:50 Risk Takers 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Mega World 20:20 The Aviators 21:10 Unchained Reaction 22:00 Man, Woman, Wild 22:50 Risk Takers 23:40 River Monsters 00:30 Chasing Classic Cars 01:15 Man, Woman, Wild 02:05 Risk Takers 02:55 Cafe Racer 05:20 Chasing Classic Cars 06:10 The Aviators

09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 15:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 16:30 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 19:30 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 21:00 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom 00:00 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 00:15 Fight Sport: Superkombat 01:30 Snooker: World Championship Un. Kingdom

05:40 The Gates 06:30 Desperate Housewives 7 10:20 Raising Hope 2 11:10 Scrubs 9 12:00 Happy

Endings 3 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 2 12:50 Make It Or Break It 14:30 Grey’s Anatomy 15:20 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 21:00 Once Upon A Time 2 21:50 Revenge 2 22:40 Modern Family 4 23:05 New Girl 2 23:30 Jane By Design 00:20 Bones 04:25 Raising Hope

07:30 Nine 09:30 Chain Of Fools 11:15 Monsters Vs. Aliens 13:00 Unknown (2011) 15:00 Battle Los Angeles 17:00 Pre-Game 18:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 (Live) 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Private Benjamin 23:00 Paranormal Activity 00:35 Hustler TV 02:30 Last Days Of Disco 04:30 Machete 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 13:15 Legion Of Super Heroes 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 Barclays Premier League Preview 14:45 Ironman 15:45 Toyota Australian Football International 2012 16:15 Best Premier League Games 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 23:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Best Clas-

sic Premier League Games

07:15 Pan Am 08:00 Friends 08:30 Big Bang Theory 09:00 2 Broke Girls 09:30 2 Broke Girls 10:00 Privileged 10:45 Strike Back 11:45 Mentalist 12:30 Hawaii Five-0 13:15 Top Boy 14:15 Necessary Roughness 15:00 Supernatural 00:05 Prey 02:00 80 Minutes 03:45 Action Zone 04:15 Closer

07:30 Scooby-Doo 09:00 Next Three Days 11:30 Up In The Air 13:30 Winning Season 15:30 Extract 17:15 Majestic 20:00 Somewhere 22:00 Whistleblower 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Corporate Affairs 06:00 Scanner Darkly

05:35 Encounter With Danger 07:05 Cine News 07:40 Amador 11:35 Cine News 12:00 Chicken With Plums 13:35 The Sitter 15:00 Ncis 16:50 Cine News 17:30 Flicka 3: Best Friends 19:05 In Time 22:00 That’s My Boy 00:05 Magic Mike 02:00 The Following Guilt 02:50 Sister 04:35 London

05:40 The Ghost And The Dark-

England 14:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 15:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 3 18:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 21:00 MLB Player Poll 21:30 MLB On FOX: Washington Nationals At New York Mets

ness 07:30 Captain America: The First Avenger 09:40 Music Of The Heart 11:50 The Smurfs 15:40 Suddenly, Last Summer 17:40 Mad On Novacinema 18:20 Three On A Couch 20:15 Intolerable Cruelty 22:00 Gone Baby Gone 00:00 Passion Play 01:40 $5 A Day 03:20 There Will Be Blood

05:10 Payback 06:50 Tt: Closer To The Edge 08:35 Cine News 08:50 Fast Five 11:00 War Horse 13:30 Extreme Measures 15:30 The Bourne Identity 17:30 Transporter 2 19:05 Margin Call 21:00 Loyfa Kai Parallagi: Sirines Sti Steria 23:00 The Hit List 00:40 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:50 Colombiana

06:10 Wings Of The Dove 07:50 Oneireyomai Tous Filous Mou

09:45 The Stone Angel 11:40 Let’s Make Love 13:50 My Father The Hero 15:25 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 17:00 War Of The Buttons 21:00 The Three Musketeers 22:55 Sweet Home Alabama 00:50 Restoration 02:50 Manolete 04:20 Our Day Will Come

02:30 TBA 03:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 06:00 Pinks All Out Norwalk 07:00 Golf Fitness - Rotation 07:30 Golf Fitness - Women 08:00 Feherty 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Playing Lessons - Fred Couples & Mark Wahlberg 10:00 Golf Central International 10:30 NHL: Nashville Predators At Chicago Blackhawks 13:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XIX: San Francisco V Miami 13:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XX: Chicago V New

06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV World Stage 13:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Mission Lydia 16:30 MTV Everyday Girls 17:00 MTV Movies & Stars 18:00 MTV Megadrive 18:30 MTV Slips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 22:00 Only Hits 00:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 00:30 MTV Party Zone 04:00 Only Hits

07:00 The Clock 08:35 Mr. Skeffington 11:00 High Society 12:50 The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm 15:00 Mildred Pierce 16:50 East Side, West Side 18:35 The Strawberry Blonde 20:10 Elvis: That’s the Way It Is 22:00 Wild Rovers 00:15 Grand Prix 03:05 The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 04:50 Eye of the Devil

By Preston Wilder

Steel Magnolias (Capital, 21.00) Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts and Olympia Dukakis are magnolias - gracious, beautiful Southern flowers - but beware, for they’re made of steel beneath the feminine trappings. “Looks like two pigs fightin’ under a blanket,” quips sharptongued Olympia when a rival makes the mistake of dancing, a reminder that the tag-line described this smash-hit chick-flick as “The funniest movie ever to make you cry”; the crying comes later, with irrepressible Julia (Oscar-nominated) who gets married, has a child despite being diabetic and ... well, you’ll find out. The ladies sit around in Dolly’s beauty parlour, feudin’ and bickerin’ and gossipin’; “I don’t see movies ’cause

they’re trash, and they got nothin’ but naked people in ‘em!” says grumpy Shirley at one point - and an audience of middle-aged women who feel similarly about (most) movies took this one to their hearts, making it a huge hit. Manipulative, but not trash - and no naked people, sorry Julia fans. Made in 1989.

That’s My Boy (Novacinema1, 22.00) I have a confession: I don’t hate Adam Sandler films. I mean yes, they’re obviously mindless and aimed at your inner cretin - but they usually manage a couple of mind-bending gags (even Jack and Jill had the whole Al Pacino sub-plot) that make them unexpected, if

That’s My Boy

not exactly good. That said, I haven’t seen this one, pairing Sandler with Andy Samberg from ‘Lonely Island’ (their comedy songs have over 40 million hits on YouTube); Adam is an irresponsible dad, Andy the son he fathered at age 13 (a schoolboy crush on a teacher that “went a little too far”) and raised as a single parent. Andy’s now a rich hedge-fund manager, Adam needs cash in a hurry - so he suddenly shows up just as his estranged son is about to get married, and of course the two ultimately bond and so on and so forth. Sounds pretty lame, then again all Adam Sandler films sound pretty lame - because they are pretty lame; still, I can’t bring myself to hate them. Also with 80s rapper Vanilla Ice (as himself). Made in 2012.


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CYBC 1 07.30 10.30

12.30

Church Service Diagonismos Kypriajou Tragoudiou (rpt)

07.00 08.00 17.05

Cypriot song contest.

17.30 18.20

I Ypaithros Weekly farming show.

13.00 13.30

Kypros Ena Taxidi Eimaste Edo Local talk-show aimed at youth.

14.00 14.30

CYBC 2

News Me Kali Parea

19.15 19.25 19.35 20.30 21.00

Tete-A-Tete (rpt) Aminesthai Peri Patris Local military and defence show.

18.00 18.15

News Patates Antinahtes (rpt) Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

19.00

22.30

Local comedy show.

I Oraia Lenou

20.00 21.30

News Pame Paradosiaka

Repeat of local sketch.

22.30

New local entertainment show with songs and dances from Cyprus.

23.15 00.00

Tete-A-Tete

00.15

Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.

23.30 23.45

05.15 06.00 06.30 07.00 07.30 08.00 08.50 09.40 10.30 11.20 12.10 13.50 15.15 16.50

Album Show News In English & Turkish (rpt) Euronews

Aliki (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) To Pio Glyko Mou Psema (rpt) Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) Paris Kai Eleni (rpt) Steps (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) O Tzitzikas Kai O Mermigas (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Exairetika Afieromeno (rpt) Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt) Tha Vreis Ton Daskalo Sou (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) With News at 18.00.

Lost Sixth and final season of drama. ‘The Substitute’. On the island, the being now occupying Locke’s body turns to Sawyer and promises to tell him why he’s on the island. Back in Los Angeles, Locke loses his job and encounters a number of familiar faces.

Ego Ki Esi

19.30

NRG Zone Kid’s TV Mihanokinitos Athlitismos Album Show I Kypros Konta Sas (rpt) News In English News In Turkish Tete-A-Tete (rpt) NRG Zone Weekend X-Factor USA (rpt) American version of the talent contest, in which solo singers and groups compete to win a recording contract by impressing judges Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and LA Reid. Presented by Steve Jones.

Local talk-show, hosted by Vivian Kanari.

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ANTENNA

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To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) News Your Face Sounds Familiar

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News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kotsopoulo Late night talk-show.

Blackout Game show in which places contestants in complete darkness.

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Mavros Okeanos (rpt) News Eftyhismenes Meres (rpt)

Church Service Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega FILM: 13 Going On 30 A teenager wishes she could be a grown-up but struggles to cope when she wakes up to find 17 years have passed overnight. Romantic comedy, with Jennifer Garner. 2004.

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Piso Sto Spiti (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

SIGMA 06.10 07.10 08.10 09.30

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Kleise Ta Matia (rpt) Epafi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi, Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi Palirroia Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou

Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Kid’s TV Efta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) The Cooking News Pame Paketo (rpt) Talk-show, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes in their lives.

Anonymous (rpt) News Mousiko Kouti - Live FILM: The Glass House Two orphaned youngsters are taken in by former neighbours - but the kids soon suspect their carers have an ulterior motive. Tense thriller, starring Leelee Sobieski. 2001. With News at 00.00.

Oi Adiafthoroi (rpt) Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) UEFA Champions League Magazine A review of the latest matches in Europe’s premier club competition, plus a look ahead to forthcoming fixtures.

With News at 18.00.

Greek talent competition. See Pick Of The Day.

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News Repeats

MEGA

20.15 21.30 22.30

02.00 03.20

07.50 10.45 11.35 12.05 13.00 13.40 15.40 16.40 17.30 19.00 19.30

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Magazino (rpt)

Kids’ TV Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News Star News Quiz Fun Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Doc Hollywood An arrogant plastic surgeon’s outlook on life radically changes when he is stranded in rural South Carolina on the way to Hollywood. Comedy, with Michael J Fox. 1991

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News Siga Min To’ Xeres Celebrity FILM: Rocky II Retired boxer Rocky Balboa is tempted back into the ring for another shot at Apollo Creed’s heavyweight title. Drama sequel, with Sylvester Stallone. 1979.

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FILM: Romeo Must Die An avenging cop seeks out his brother’s killer and falls for the daughter of a businessman who is involved in a money-deal with his father. Action starring Jet Li. 2000.

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Kids’ TV Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Greek FILM: To Nifopazaro Telemarketing Kipotehnia Greek FILM: Agapisa Kai Ponesa The Third Reich Star Stories FILM: Baby Snatcher A woman tries to keep her ailing marriage alive by passing off a kidnapped child as her own. Factbased thriller, starring Veronica Hamel . 1992. With News at 17.30.

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Remington Steele News Pacific Blue News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: The Contractor A former assassin is coaxed back into service for one last mission, but ends up on the run after being framed for the murder of a policeman. Action thriller, starring Wesley Snipes. 2007.

FILM: Five Fingers Of Death A student of kung fu meets resistance on his way to a major Chinese tournament. Martial arts drama, starring Hsiung Chao 1972.

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CAPITAL

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FILM: Jesse Stone: Sea Change The hard-drinking chief of police of a sleepy backwater town pursues a serial killer and investigates the rape of a teenager. Detective drama, starring Tom Selleck. 2005.

LTV Sports News News Repeats 00.30

Late Programmes

X-Men: First Class (Novacinema2, 17.50)

01:40 As Time Goes By 02:10 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal 03:05 My Family 03:35 The Weakest Link 04:20 Drop Zone 05:15 As Time Goes By 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Fimbles 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Fimbles 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:25 The Weakest Link 10:10 My Family 10:40 One Foot In The Grave 11:15 Keeping Up Appearances 11:45 Only Fools and Horses 12:15 2 Point 4 Children 12:45 Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive 13:15 Lead Balloon 13:45 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 14:05 As Time Goes By 14:35 One Foot In The Grave 15:10 Great Expectations 16:00 Doctors 18:20 My Family 18:50 Only Fools and Horses 19:20 Heart & Soul 20:10 Great Ormond Street 21:00 As Time Goes By 21:30 Little Britain Christmas Special 2006 22:00 Silk 22:50 Waking The Dead 23:45 Spooks 00:35 Dara O’Briain Live From The Theatre Royal

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Unchained Reaction 08:40 Meteorite Men 09:30 Science Of The Mov-

ies 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Man, Woman, Wild 13:05 Way Of Life 13:50 Chasing Classic Cars 14:40 Solving History With Olly Steeds 15:30 The History Of Singapore 16:15 Deadliest Catch 17:00 Sons Of Guns 17:50 Prophets Of Science Fiction 18:40 Chasing Classic Cars 19:05 Cafe Racer 19:30 Chasing Classic Cars 20:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 21:10 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 22:00 Sons Of Guns 22:50 Prophets Of Science Fiction 23:40 Mega World 00:30 The Aviators 01:15 Sons Of Guns 02:05 Prophets Of Science Fiction 02:55 1000 Places To See Before You Die

09:30 Motorsports: Motorsports Weekend Magazine 09:45 Superbike: World Championship Spain 10:30 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race

Netherlands 11:30 Tennis: Wta Tournament Poland 12:30 Weightlifting: European Championship Albania 14:30 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Football: Uefa Women’s Champions League 16:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 17:00 Snooker: Masters In London United Kingdom 18:15 Football: Eurogoals 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Pro Wrestling: This Week On World Wrestling Entertainment 22:30 Pro Wrestling: Vintage Collection 23:30 All Sports: G Wars 01:30 Football: Eurogoals 02:15 All Sports: Watts

05:40 The Gates 06:25 Scrubs 9 07:40 Raising Hope 08:05 Scandal 2 08:50 The Hour 2 09:45 Grey’s Anatomy 9 10:30 Private Practice 6 11:10 Once Upon A Time 2 12:00 Revenge 12:50 Modern Family 4 13:15 New Girl 2 13:40 Last Man Standing 2 14:05 The Neighbors 14:30 Bones 3 18:20 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 19:15 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 20:10 Happy Endings 3 20:35 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 23 21:00 Scandal 2 21:45 The Hour 2 22:45 Grey’s Anatomy 9 23:30 Private Practice 6 00:15 Raising Hope 2 01:55 Make It Or Break It 03:35 Scrubs 9

Ncis: Los Angeles 07:30 Easy A 09:30 World According To Garp 12:00 Wild Target 14:00 Family Man 16:15 Magic Men 18:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 (Live) 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Whistleblower 23:00 Love Don’t Cost A Thing 00:45 Hustler TV 03:00 Best In Show 04:45 Education N 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 13:15 Legion Of Super Heroes 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 Nba Action 14:40 2013 Wtcc 15:10 Liga Bbva 2012-13 17:00 Pre-Game 18:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 201213 20:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 22:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 00:00 Best Premier League Games 00:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 02:30 Planet Speed 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 07:15 Big Bang Theory 07:40 How To Make It In America 08:10 Eastbound & Down 08:40 Friends 09:05 2 Broke Girls 10:00 One Tree Hill 10:45 Strike Back 11:35 C.S.I. Miami 12:25 Hawaii Five-0 13:15 Luck 14:15 Necessary Roughness 15:00 Gossip Girl 00:05 Sympathy For Delicious 01:50 Botched 03:30

08:15 Riding Tornado 10:15 Mars Attacks! 12:15 Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole 14:00 Fork In The Road 16:00 Jeremiah Johnson 18:00 Green Hornet 20:00 Henry’s Crime 22:00 Mirror Has Two Faces 00:15 Daring! TV 03:45 Ma Part Du Gateau (My Piece Of The Pie) 05:45 Lionheart

05:50 The Hit List 07:20 Cine News 07:45 Home Alone 09:30 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 11:05 The Conspirator 15:00 Bury The Lede 15:50 Cine News 19:05 Adikos Kosmos 21:00 Person Of Interest 22:00 Magic Mike 23:55 Zookeeper 01:50 Encounter With Danger 03:20 Rampart

05:30 The Grey 09:50 Cine News 10:05 The Deep End Of The Ocean 11:55 Bridesmaids 16:00 The Artist 17:50 X-Men: First Class 20:05 Shampoo 22:00 Beginners 23:50 Hide And Seek 01:40 Paul 03:30 Albert Nobbs

06:40 The Illusioninist 08:30 Ana-

lyze That 10:05 Salvation Boulevard 11:40 Transporter 2 13:10 Margin Call 15:00 The Haunting 16:55 Tt: Closer To The Edge 18:45 Fast Five 21:00 The Eyes Of Laura Mars 22:50 The Bourne Identity 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:15 The Son Of No One 04:50 30 Minutes Or Less

At Minnesota 15:00 The Masters Rd.3 Augusta, GA 19:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XVII: Washington V Miami 19:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders V Washington 20:00 America’s Game: 1975 Pittsburgh Steelers 21:00 The Masters Final Rd. Augusta, GA

05:45 Let’s Make Love 07:50 Cine News 08:40 Twins 10:25 I Don’t Know How She Does It 11:55 Cine News 12:20 Illegal 13:55 Les Emotifs Anonymes 15:15 The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn 17:00 Paper Moon 18:45 Cine News 19:15 Chalet Girl 21:00 I Skoni Toy Chronou 23:15 Restoration 01:15 Cyberbully 02:45 The Names Of Love 04:30 Wings Of The Dove

06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 11:30 S7S Lockdown Top10 12:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas (E) 13:00 MTV Movies & Stars 14:00 MTV Daria 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Catfish 17:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV Megadrive 19:30 MTV Slips 20:00 MTV Paris Hilton my new BFF 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Young and Married 01:00 Only Hits

02:00 TBA 03:00 MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers At Arizona Diamondbacks 06:00 TBA 7:00 The Golf Fix 07:30 Golfnow - Hawaii 08:00 The Haney Project: Michael Phelps 09:00 Golf Central International LIVE From The Masters 10:00 MLB: Los Angeles Dodgers At Arizona Diamondbacks 13:00 Big Ten Men’s Gymnastics Big Ten Team Championships

07:00 Suzy 08:30 The Gazebo 10:10 Young Tom Edison 11:45 The Merry Widow 13:30 The Wheeler Dealers 15:15 Adventures of Don Juan 17:00 The Rounders 18:20 The Honeymoon Machine 19:50 The Champ 22:00 Period Of Adjustment 00:00 The Outfit 01:40 The Law And Jake Wade 03:05 Suzy 04:50 The Merry Widow

By Preston Wilder

Your Face Sounds Familiar (Antenna, 21.00) I recall a time, not too long ago, when Greek was king and speaking English marked you out as a traitor or worse - but things have changed, and local audiences are now expected to recite the English title of this new (Greek) variety show and indeed to get the joke, such as it is. The joke is that various Greek celebs dress up as other, mostly non-Greek celebs - Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga - and attempt to sing in the style of the people they’re imitating; familiar-looking faces with songs attached, hence ‘your face sounds familiar’. The show sounds familiar too, the usual talent-show malarkey only with Joe

and Jane Bloggs replaced by has-beens looking for a quick career boost - but Antenna proudly reports that it’s “broken TV viewing records in China, Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Chile, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia and Vietnam”, so it’s obviously what people want. Imagine what it’ll do in countries where they actually understand the title.

Magic Mike (Novacinema1, 22.00) Ladies! Has your weekend been dull or frustrating? Don’t despair: get your girlfriends together and check out the toned male flesh (plus some female flesh) in this tale of male strippers, starring hunk du jour Channing Tatum! That’s how Magic Mike was marketed, as

Magic Mike

a film for a girls’ night out - which is fair enough but there’s also something more in this excellent drama, an undertow of melancholy and the wry realisation that there’s something sad about a 40-year-old male stripper. ‘Magic’ Mike (that’s Tatum) isn’t quite there yet - but he’s not getting any younger, and his fantasy life as a “cock-rocking king” on the stage of the Xquisite strip-joint is rapidly giving way to the problems of his offstage life. The best scene is a wild party with a hurricane raging outside (the film is set in Florida), the lashing rain and gale-force winds ignored by the revellers - just as the strippers themselves are in denial, strutting their ageing stuff as long as the women keep cheering (and paying). Recommended. Made in 2012.


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CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

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CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00

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Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC

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News Kaftes Piperies

Local talk-show.

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Paizoume Kypriaka New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

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News Patates 8

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

Live cookery show.

18.45

Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Greek version of reality show featuring a group of amateur chefs each staging a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television.

ANTENNA

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Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

00.00 01.30 02.20

Friends (rpt)

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NRG Zone George Et Fanchette

07.50 08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

This ambitious account on the life of France’s best known literary rebel, George Sand as she settled in the country after a tumultuous life in Paris. Drama, starring. Raphaël Personnaz. 2010. Part 1 of 2.

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Motor Sports Kati Psinetai (rpt) News In English & Turkish (rpt) Proti Enimerosi (rpt) Biz/Emeis (rpt) Apo Mere Se Mera (rpt) Euronews

18.40

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Proektaseis News Repeats

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

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Eilikrina

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News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.45 19.30 20.20 21.15 23.20

22.20 23.00

Oi Vasiliades FILM: When A Stranger Calls A babysitter at a remote lakeside home is terrorised by threatening phone calls that seem to be coming from inside the house. Horror, starring Camilla Belle. 2006.

00.00 00.10

News ‘Til Death Sitcom chronicling the domestic discord and disasters of middleaged couple.

01.00 03.00 04.30

Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

PLUS TV

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Pame Paketo CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘Greater Good’. When a man is released from an 18-month jail term for killing a cyclist, Mac reopens the case to investigate new evidence suggesting he was not the driver of the vehicle. Mac has a breakthrough when the ex-convict’s daughter reveals a prior conviction for drink driving. Meanwhile, Lindsay gives birth.

Greek drama series.

US medical drama. Local topical talk-show.

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

Local comedy series.

Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)

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American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.

22.30 23.30 00.45

05.30 06.30 06.50 07.00

MEGA

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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonta Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

07.20 08.30 09.00 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV Berdema Fotis Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe Third season. ‘Immortality’. The team investigates a bio-terrorist armed with an insect that has a taste for human flesh. Meanwhile, Walternate discovers there are some lines he will not cross in his plans to save the world, and alt-Olivia is reunited with Frank following his return from Texas.

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06.45 09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.30 15.25 16.15 16.45 17.40 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Kids’ TV Magikos Cosmos Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Mermaids A mermaid enlists the help of her two sisters to track down the human who killed their father. Fantasy adventure, starring Sarah Laine. 2003.

22.45

FILM: Nightwaves After the death of her husband, an investigative reporter hears about a murder over a police scanner. Drama, starring Bruce Dinsmore. 2003

Colde Case (rpt) FILM: If Tomorrow Comes Fighting to escape the demons of his past, a young man involves his best friend in a struggle for survival. Drama, starring James Madio 2000.

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CAPITAL

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FILM: Shakedown An earthquake traps a cult leader and his followers after they infiltrate a building that contains biological weapons. Action, starring Ron Perlman, 2002.

Luck (LTV2, 21.55)

01:05 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 01:35 My Family 02:05 The Weakest Link 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors 03:50 Silk 04:40 After You’ve Gone 05:10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:00 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 06:30 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Charlie and Lola 09:25 My Family 09:55 One Foot In The Grave 10:25 The Weakest Link 11:10 EastEnders 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Great Expectations 13:00 Silk 13:50 My Family 14:20 Mutual Friends 15:10 One Foot In The Grave 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Hustle 18:20 Silk 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 Keeping Up Appearances 22:00 Spooks 22:50 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff 23:20 Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive 23:50 Ideal 00:20 The Diamond Queen

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 River Monsters 08:40 Rodeo 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 The Aviators 13:05 Chasing Classic

Snooker: China Open Beijing 16:30 Gymnastics: European Championship Russia 18:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 Boxing: Bigger’s Better Heavy Weight Contest 00:00 Strongest Man: Champions League Lapland 01:00 All Sports: Watts

Cars 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 17:50 Mighty Mississippi 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:05 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 Prehistoric 22:00 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 22:50 Mighty Mississippi 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 Reign Of The Dinosaurs 02:50 Mighty Mississippi 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 Prehistoric 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 10:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 12:00 Gymnastics: European Championship 14:45 Athletics: Greene Light 15:00 Fitness: The Box 15:15

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Scandal 2 12:45 The Hour 2 13:45 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 19:30 Desperate Housewives 7 20:15 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 The Hour 2 22:50 Raising Hope 23:15 Scrubs 9 23:40 Scandal 00:25 The Hour 2 01:25 Jamie’s Ministry Of Food 02:25 Desperate Housewives 7 03:10 Raising Hope 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3

07:30 Desert Son 09:15 Switch 11:00 Road Trip: Beer Pong 12:45 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark 14:30 Executive Decision 16:45 Midnight In Paris 18:30 Carnage 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Underbelly Files - The Man Who Got Away 23:00 Runaways 00:55 Hustler TV 03:20 Boxer (2009) 05:00 Youth In Revolt 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Toyota Australian Football International 2012 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:35 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Two And A Half Men Ix 08:30 Hawaii Five-0 10:00 Friends 10:30 Pan Am 11:15 Necessary Roughness 13:05 Gossip Girl 13:50 2 Broke Girls 14:40 Hawaii Five-0 15:25 Hawaii Five-0 16:10 Two And A Half Men 16:35 One Tree Hill 17:20 Strike Back 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 Privileged

20:30 Friends 21:00 Top Boy 21:55 Luck 22:50 Closer 23:35 Fringe 00:20 Due Date 01:55 Imagine That 03:40 Two And A Half Men Ix 04:05 One Tree Hill 04:50 Strike Back 06:30 Gossip Girl

07:45 Lesbian Vampire Killers 09:30 Haunting Of Bryan Beckett 11:15 Groupie 13:00 Bruc 14:45 Warrior’s Way 16:30 Dead Calm 18:15 Oscar Et La Dame Rose (Oscar And The Lady In Pink) 20:15 Incendiary 22:00 Running With Scissors 00:05 Daring! TV 03:35 Action Zone (E) 04:05 Alive 06:15 Stone

05:05 League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 06:55 Cine News 07:25 This Must Be The Place 09:25 A Thousand Words 11:00 Action Zone 11:35 Treasure Buddies 13:10 What’s Your Number? 15:00 Shall We Dance? 16:50 Cine News 17:35 Bad Teacher 19:15 Mad On Novacinema 19:55 Intouchables 22:00 A Gang Story 23:50 The Big Year 01:30 Sacrifice 03:10 Cine News 03:55 Contraband

05:45 London 07:20 To Tango Ton Christougennon 09:05 The Harder They Fall 10:55 Cine News 11:25

Pay It Forward 13:30 The Portrait Of A Lady 15:55 Two For The Road 17:50 Hollywood 1 On1 18:25 Young Adult 20:05 Seeking Justice 22:00 The Transporter 23:40 High Crimes 01:40 Suspect Zero 03:25 Martha Marcy May Marlene

19:20 Fierce Creatures 21:00 The Jackal 23:10 The Following – 00:00 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

19:25 I Don’t Know How She Does It 21:00 My Super Ex-Girlfriend 22:45 It Happened To Jane 00:30 Another Earth

00:00 Sports Unlimited 24:00 Golf Central International 01:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 02:00 NHL: Montreal Canadiens At Pittsburgh Penguins 04:30 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 07:00 Morning Drive 08:00 The Haney Project: Michael Phelps 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Titleist Performance Institute: Putting 10:00 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 13:00 Golf Central International 13:30 NHL: Montreal Canadiens At Pittsburgh Penguins 16:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Es-

pana Rd. 1 19:30 MLB Player Poll 20:00 MLB: San Francisco Giants At Milwaukee Brewers 23:00 European Tour Real Seguros Open De Espana Rd. 1

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Young and Married 21:00 MTV Underemployed 23:00 MTV Ridiculousness 00:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 02:00 Only Hits

07:00 Song Of Love 09:00 The Charge Of The Light Brigade 11:00 Across The Pacific 12:35 Cimarron 15:00 Bad Day At Black Rock 16:20 Beau Brummell 18:10 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 20:00 Somebody Up There Likes Me 22:00 Flareup 23:35 Splendor In The Grass 01:25 ...Tick...Tick...Tick 03:05 At The Circus 04:40 Bachelor In Paradise

By Preston Wilder

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Novacinema4, 21.00) “If you thought breaking up was hard ... try breaking up with a superhero!” This must happen a lot, because superheroes are notoriously volatile - but Luke Wilson doesn’t know that Uma Thurman is a superheroine named G-Girl when he meets her alter ego on the subway and strikes up a relationship. Alas, Uma turns obsessively jealous, needy and controlling (“the trifecta,” notes Luke’s best friend sagely) so our hero decides to break up - and of course she takes revenge as a Woman Scorned is wont to do, throwing maneating sharks through his bedroom window and that kind of thing. A comedy that was criticised for

perpetuating stereotypes of women as insecure and oestrogen-addled - but it’s actually quite good fun, a cheesy men’s-magazine joke about Women in Control (help!). Uma’s a threat even before she becomes an ex-girlfriend, in the way she takes charge of everything and tells Luke he’s using his tongue all wrong; immature men will laugh, women will laugh at men for being immature. Everybody wins. Made in 2006.

A Gang Story (Novacinema1, 22.00) Not the most memorable title, but I guess ‘The People From Lyon’ didn’t sound like a winner either. That’s the original French title - Les Lyonnais - those people

A Gang Story

from Lyon being gangsters, specifically Serge and Momon (Tcheky Karyo and Gerard Lanvin) who’ve been friends since they were kids. Both men are now middle-aged, and Momon has retired from ‘the business’ - but he’s forced back into action when Serge is arrested and a ruthless cop tries to make him snitch on his old friend. “There’s one code at play here: a hood’s gotta do what a hood’s gotta do,” sighed Henry Barnes in The Guardian, dismissing the film as dull and flashback-heavy - and it’s certainly erratic, with far too much plot to fit into 100 minutes, but writer-director Olivier Marchal used to be a French cop himself and has a feel for this kind of pungent underworld milieu. Shame about the title, though. Made in 2011.


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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

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Apo Mera Se Mera

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Entehnos

Current affairs show. Local cultural show.

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Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

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Eponymos News Repeats

NRG Zone FILM: Hocus Pocus

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05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00 07.50 08.40 09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Three witches are accidentally resurrected by a teenager and cause mayhem in modern-day Salem. Supernatural Disney comedy, with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. 1993.

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Brothers & Sisters (rpt)

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Fourth season of American drama series. ‘The Science Fair’. Expectant fathers Kevin and Scotty help Paige prepare for a science fair, leaving Sarah upset that she is not needed by her daughter. Saul asks Holly to give Ryan another chance, and Simon pays a visit to Nora.

Local period drama, based on true events.

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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Megastructures The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Cookery show.

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 08.00

Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00 16.00 18.00 18.30 19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.10

Aiyia Fuxia(rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy US medical drama.

Enopion Tou Laou News Sports News Radio Arvila Greek parody show.

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Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt) Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira Oi Vasiliades The Vampire Diaries Season one. ‘You’re Undead to Me’. Elena discovers some shocking stories about Stefan’s past, while Damson grows weaker as his imprisonment continues and he tries to get Caroline’s help to escape. Bonnie’s special powers manifest themselves, leaving her scared and confused, and Logan uses Aunt Jenna to further his secret agenda.

With News at 18.00.

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Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt)

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News ‘Til Death Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30 20.20 21.30 23.30

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Al Tsantiri News CSI: NY Fifth season. ‘The Past, Present and Murder’. A media mogul is suspected of murder, but claims he was acting in self-defence - and matters are complicated by the disappearance of the alleged victim’s body. As inquiries continue, Mac discovers that the case is connected to an earlier investigation involving a missing flash drives.

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News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 08.30 09.00 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40

Classic Cartoons Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Popular tear-jerking talk-show.

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Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: A Perfect Murder A businessman decides to have his unfaithful wife murdered and hires her unwitting lover to do the deed. Thriller remake, with Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen. 1998.

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CAPITAL 06. 45 Kids’ TV 09.05 Magikos Cosmos (rpt) 09.35 Akti Oneiron (rpt) 10.00 Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Capital Sports (rpt) 12.30 Milagros 13.20 Kids’ TV 14.25 Telemarketing 15.25 Top Models 16.15 Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) 16.45 Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis 17.40 Akti Oneiron 18.15 Sto Mati Tou Kiklona 19.15 News 19.50 Sports News 20.05 Igeia & Zoi 21.00 FILM: Blue Tornado An Air Force squadron leader investigates the disappearance of jets near a mysterious mountain. Action, starring Patsy Kensit. 1991.

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A hot-tempered soldier infiltrates the Seattle Mafia intent on revenge. By-the-book thriller, starring Eddie Cibrian and Chuck Norris. 1998.

Ta Kopelia Local comedy series.

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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

FILM: Logan’s War: Bound By Honor

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FILM: The Defender A bodyguard battles an unknown attacker who has ambushed a secret meeting between an American official and a terrorist. Action, starring Dolph Lundgren. 2004.

Kick-Ass (LTV3, 12.00)

01:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 01:40 Ideal 02:10 The Weakest Link 02:55 My Family 03:25 Only Fools and Horses 03:55 EastEnders 04:25 Doctors 04:55 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:25 Ideal 05:55 Only Fools and Horses 06:25 My Family 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Only Fools and Horses 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Great Ormond Street 13:05 Waking The Dead 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 Only Fools and Horses 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Great Ormond Street 18:20 Waking The Dead 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 22:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:50 As Time Goes By 23:20 Rev. 23:50 Silk 00:40 After You’ve Gone

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Sons Of Guns 08:40 Prophets Of Science Fiction 09:30 The History Of Singa-

pore 10:15 Science Of The Movies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 Mega World 13:05 Extreme Engineering 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 River Monsters 17:50 Rodeo 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 1000 Places To See Before You Die 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 River Monsters 22:50 Rodeo 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 River Monsters 02:50 Rodeo 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 1000 Places To See Before You Die 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 11:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 12:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Cycling: Amstel Gold Race Netherlands 16:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 18:15 Snooker: Haikou World Open 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Athletics: Greene Light 22:15 All Sports: Campus 22:45 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 22:50 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 22:55 Golf: Masters In Augusta 23:55 Golf: Golf Club 00:00

Sailing: Yacht Club 00:05 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 00:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 01:30 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 3 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Modern Family 4 12:25 New Girl 2 12:50 Glee 3 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Modern Family 4 21:25 New Girl 2 21:50 Jane By Design 22:40 Raising Hope 2 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Modern Family 4 23:55 New Girl 2 00:20 Jane By Design 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 2 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It

07:30 Action Zone (E) 08:00 Guitar

09:45 Detroit Rock City 11:30 Action Zone (E) 12:00 Shelter 14:00 City Of Angels 16:00 Other Guys 18:00 Hollywood Buzz (E) 18:30 Felicity: An American Girl Adventure 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Primal Fear 23:15 Unthinkable 01:00 Hustler TV 03:00 Unnatural & Accidental 04:30 Life As We Know It 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Nba Action 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 20:00 Best Premier League Games 20:30 La Liga Review 201213 21:45 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 23:45 2011 World’s Strongest Man 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 Ironman 02:00 Spirit Of Golf 02:30 Best Premier League Games 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 One Tree Hill 08:00 Two And A Half Men Ix 08:30 Strike Back 10:20 2 Broke Girls 10:45 Eastbound & Down 11:15 Hawaii Five-0 12:45 Closer 13:30 One Tree Hill 14:15 Strike Back 16:00 Friends 16:25 Privileged 17:10 Closer 18:05 Luck 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 2 Broke Girls 20:30 Big Bang Theory 21:00 Mentalist 21:45 C.S.I. Miami 22:30

Ncis: Los Angeles 23:15 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 00:10 Majestic 03:00 Action Zone 03:30 Friends 03:55 Privileged 04:40 Closer 05:30 Luck 06:30 Gossip Girl

07:30 Action Zone (E) 08:00 Rudo Y Cursi 10:00 You’re A Big Boy Now 12:00 Kick-Ass 14:00 Season Of The Witch 16:00 Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage 17:30 Biutiful 20:00 Mercy 21:30 Action Zone (E) 22:00 Bird 00:40 Daring! TV 04:05 Freeway Killer 05:45 G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra

06:15 Against All Odds 08:25 Management 10:00 My Future Boyfriend 11:20 Films & Stars 11:55 Five 13:25 Puss In Boots 15:00 Bounce 16:50 Cine News 17:10 Do No Harm 18:45 Hollywood 1on1 19:20 Hemingway & Gellhorn 22:00 Game Of Thrones 23:10 The Rum Diary 01:15 Demeni Kokkini Klosti 03:05 Cine News 03:50 Unthinkable

06:20 Old School 07:50 A Dangerous Method 09:30 Tower Heist 11:15 Larry Crowne 12:55 The Caine Mutiny 15:00 Cine News 15:35 Michael 17:25 Man On A Ledge 19:15 There Will Be Blood 22:00 Walk The Line

15:00 MLB: Philadelphia Phillies At Cincinnati Reds 18:00 PRE GAME(E) 18:45 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: AEP VS OMONOIA (E) 20:45 POST GAME (E) 21:30 A DIVISION CYPRUS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP 22:00 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes

00:25 The Woman In Black 02:10 Transit 03:40 Point Blank

21:00 Salvation Boulevard 22:40 Cine News 23:50 Quarantine 2: Terminal 01:30 Adult Zone

19:30 The Art Of Getting By 21:00 Jane Eyre 23:05 Paradeisos 00:55 Majority

00:00 Sports Unlimited 02:00 MLB: Philadelphia Phillies At Cincinnati Reds 05:00 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Top 10 - Fred Couples Highlights 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 6: Working The Ball 10:30 NHL: San Jose Sharks At Phoenix Coyotes 13:00rag Race High 13:30 My Ride Rules 14:00 Pinks All Out Atlanta

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 MTV GreekLips 19:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Catfish 23:00 MTV The Inbetweeners 00:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 02:00 Only Hits

07:00 Captains Courageous 09:00 The Hook 10:40 Hot Millions 12:30 Some Came Running 14:45 Travels With My Aunt 16:35 The Sandpiper 18:35 Butterfield 8 20:25 Boys Town 22:00 Mutiny on the Bounty 01:00 It! 02:40 Betrayed 04:30 Bhowani Junction

By Preston Wilder

There Will Be Blood (Novacinema2, 19.15) There will be gasps. There will be oohs and aahs. There will be Oscars (and in fact there were, Daniel DayLewis winning Best Actor as ‘Daniel Plainview’). There will be puzzlement, especially towards the end when DDL yells “I drink your milkshake!” and Paul Dano - as a preacher named Eli Sunday - doesn’t seem to have aged at all after many years. There may also be complaints that this famous film doesn’t have much to say, and that’s probably true - but it’s still irresistible, a character study of a strange, tormented man, spiced with outlandish set-pieces and a hypnotic score. Plainview is an “oilman” in the early 20th century, churn-

ing out black gold from the rocky innards of the Western landscape; he claims to be accompanied by his “wonderful son H.W.” but in fact the boy is an orphan, adopted by Plainview after H.W.’s dad was killed in a drilling accident - and the lie eats away at this plainspoken man, finally destroying his relationship to oil; oil gives him a son, and oil takes him away. There will be layers. There will be excellence. Made in 2007.

Mercy (LTV3, 20.00) If you’re a novelist, beware women whose names start with ‘M’ and end with ‘y’. Misery made life a misery for snowbound author James Caan (actually the psycho’s name in Misery was ‘Annie’, but work with me here) -

Mercy

and a woman named Mercy does the same to Scott Caan (son of James) in this tart romantic drama, which Caan also wrote. He’s a successful author who writes about Love but “Love as I see it”, meaning one-night stands with no intention of settling down - at least till he meets Mercy (Wendy Glenn), a woman (and literary critic) who resists his easy blandishments and hooks him like no other. The film’s problem may be that Mercy is an impossible character to play - a woman so smart and beautiful she instantly turns this shallow hack into a true romantic - but the script is apparently quite strong on the foibles of male vanity. Caan writes from experience, with doting dad James also on hand to offer good advice: “Love is a myth!”. Made in 2009.


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Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

Cookery show. Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00 15.30 15.35

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

20.00 21.00

Apo Mera Se Mera Lottery Draw Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

19.20

Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

22.40

Friends (rpt) American comedy about the lives and loves of six New Yorkers.

22.30 23.30 23.45

05.30 06.30 06.50 07.00

The making of the greatest structures and machines ever created.

09.30 10.25 11.15

07.50 08.40

NRG Zone A Touch Of Frost: Near Death Experience

Brothers & Sisters (rpt) Fourth season. ‘Run Baby Run’. Saul takes offence at Nora’s offer of help with the taxes, while Kitty considers a career in the Senate when Robert grows disillusioned with politics. Sarah goes on a date with a man she met at Paige’s science fair, but discovers his opinions differ from hers on children’s rights.

News Vimata Stin Ammo Local period drama, based on true events.

22.00

Euronews Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Megastructures

The irascible copper finds his methods are called into question when a colleague is seriously injured during an attempt to thwart a suicide. The murder of a widow soon gives Frost a chance to prove his worth again, but the investigation only reveals an intriguing web of deceit, and it isn’t until a forensic psychologist joins the team that they realise a serial killer is at work.

Local cultural show.

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I Kypros Konta Sas News Repeats 23.35

12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) Vodka Portokali (rpt) Fila To Vatraho Sou (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Tis Agapis Mahairia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras Ta Koritsia Tou Baba (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.40

Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local comedy series, with village setting.

19.30 20.15 21.15 22.20

Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Grey’s Anatomy

23.00 00.00 00.05 00.20 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

Oikonomahies News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Horis Oria (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

US medical drama.

MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 08.00

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Epomeni Mera (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Greek competitive cooking reality show, open to amateur and home chefs.

09.00 10.00 11.40 14.00

Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Eheis Meson

16.00

Yia Sena

18.00 18.30

News Erastis Ditikon Proastion (rpt)

Current affairs show. Local talk-show.

Greek drama series.

19.00 20.20 21.20

Sto Para Pente News Klemmena Oneira

22.20

Oi Vasiliades

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.00 10.50 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.15 18.00 18.05 18.40 19.30 20.20 21.15 22.20 23.20

Fifth season. ‘Yahrzei’. A jewellery valuer is murdered at an auction and tests reveal the gun that killed him dates back to World War II. Mac’s first suspect is a neoNazi, but as the case continues, he finds the key to solving it lies in events that took place during the Holocaust.

Greek drama series. Greek comedy series.

23.10

The Vampire Diaries US supernatural drama series.

00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00 04.30

News ‘Til Death

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To’ Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Anna Paola Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Oikogeneiakes Istories CSI: NY

US sitcom about a married couple.

00.20 00.55

Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora Proino Mou (rpt)

01.20 02.10 02.40 03.00 04.00

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.20 08.30 09.05 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Ti Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) Berdema (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV Berdema Fotis - Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

21.15 22.00

Vathi Kokkino Greek drama series.

23.30

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

00.15 01.15 02.20

09.05 09.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.25 16.15 16.45 17.40 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Magikos Cosmos Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Igeia & Zou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Sto Mati Tou Kiklona News Sports News Epi Topou FILM: Everybody Wins A shady woman lures a private eye into a New England town’s pool of corruption. Drama, starring Will Patton. 1990.

Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer Sixth season of detective drama. ‘War Zone’. After returning home from duty in Afghanistan, three soldiers are gunned down outside a club; Brenda’s investigation puts her on a collision course with Major Edward Dorset.

22.45

CAPITAL

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FILM: Gladiator A tough Chicago teenager gets involved in the underground boxing scene and comes under the influence of a crooked promoter. Drama, starring James Marshall. 1992.

00.40

FILM: Red Rock West A drifter who is mistakenly hired as a hitman intends to take the money and run, but his plan backfires when the real killer turns up. Thriller, with Nicolas Cage. 1993.

Repeats

Batman Begins (LTV3, 19.30)

01:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 01:40 As Time Goes By 02:10 The Weakest Link 02:55 EastEnders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Lark Rise To Candleford 04:45 Rev. 05:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 05:45 My Family 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Garth And Bev 07:10 Tweenies 07:30 The Green Balloon Club 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Garth And Bev 08:25 Tweenies 08:45 The Green Balloon Club 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 Rev. 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Silk 13:05 Lark Rise To Candleford 13:55 My Family 14:25 Mutual Friends 15:15 The Impressions Show With Culshaw &... 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The Weakest Link 17:30 Silk 18:20 Lark Rise To Candleford 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:15 The Weakest Link 21:00 My Family 21:30 After You’ve Gone 22:00 Silk 22:50 One Foot In The Grave 23:25 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:10 Spooks

07:00 Sunrise Earth 07:55 Mega World 08:40 Extreme Engineering 09:30 The History Of Singapore 10:15 Science Of The Mov-

ies 11:05 Deadliest Catch 11:50 Time Warp 12:15 River Monsters 13:05 Rodeo 13:50 Cafe Racer 14:35 1000 Places To See Before You Die 15:25 The History Of Singapore 16:10 Mythbusters 17:00 The Aviators 17:50 Chasing Classic Cars 18:40 Cafe Racer 19:30 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 20:20 Science Of The Movies 21:10 The History Of Singapore 22:00 The Aviators 22:50 Chasing Classic Cars 23:40 Deadliest Catch 00:30 Science Of The Movies 01:15 Mythbusters 02:05 The Aviators 02:50 Chasing Classic Cars 03:15 Chasing Classic Cars 03:40 Cafe Racer 04:30 The History Of Singapore 05:20 Wild Fisherman: Mozambique 06:10 Science Of The Movies

09:30 All Sports: Watts 11:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 12:00 Snooker: Haikou World Open 14:00 All Sports: Watts 15:00 Cycling: Fleche Wallonne, Belgium 16:30 Snooker: Haikou World Open 17:30 Snooker: Players Tour Championship Ireland 19:00 All Sports: G Wars 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Fight Sport: Fight Club Fight Club 00:00 Snooker: Haikou World Open 01:30 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 7 06:25 Bones 3 07:10 Raising Hope 2 07:35 Scrubs 9 08:00 Grey’s Anatomy 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 09:40 Desperate Housewives 7 10:25 Bones 11:10 Raising Hope 2 11:35 Scrubs 9 12:00 Grey’s Anatomy 9 12:50 Private Practice 6 13:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 15:20 Desperate Housewives 7 16:05 Bones 16:50 Raising Hope 2 17:15 Scrubs 9 17:40 Grey’s Anatomy 8 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 19:20 Desperate Housewives 7 20:10 Bones 21:00 Grey’s Anatomy 9 21:50 Private Practice 6 22:40 Raising Hope 23:05 Scrubs 9 23:30 Grey’s Anatomy 9 00:20 Private Practice 6 01:10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 7 02:00 Desperate Housewives 7 02:45 Raising Hope 03:10 Scrubs 9 03:35 Surviving Suburbia 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 8 04:50 Make It Or Break It 3

07:30 Match Point 09:35 Bruc 11:15 Dreamcatcher 13:30 Jackie Chan’s First Strike 15:00 Shattered Silence 16:45 Peggy Sue Got Married 18:30 Haunting Of Bryan Beckett 20:00 LTV Sports

News 21:00 Hangover Part 23:00 My Soul To Take 00:55 Hustler TV 02:30 Meeting Venus 04:30 Takers 06:30 LTV Sports News (E)

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 La Liga World 21:30 Planet Speed 22:00 Barclays Premier League 201213 00:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13

07:15 2 Broke Girls 08:00 Big Bang Theory 08:30 Mentalist 09:15 C.S.I. Miami 10:00 Friends 10:30 Privileged 11:15 Closer 12:05 Luck 13:00 Gossip Girl 13:45 2 Broke Girls 14:35 Mentalist 15:20 C.S.I. Miami 16:00 Friends 16:25 Pan Am 17:10 Necessary Roughness 19:00 Gossip Girl 19:45 2 Broke Girls 20:30 Two And A Half Men Ix

21:00 Hawaii Five-0 22:30 Ncis: Los Angeles 23:15 Fringe 00:05 Unthinkable 02:00 Fathers And Sons 03:50 Friends 04:15 Pan Am 05:00 Necessary Roughness 06:45 Gossip Girl

Water For Elephants 13:15 Hugo 15:25 Films And Stars 15:55 The Longest Yard 17:50 John Carter 20:10 Your Highness 22:00 One For The Money 23:40 Trust 01:30 Margaret 04:00 Poker Face

07:45 Black Rain 10:00 Bonnie And Clyde 12:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 14:15 After.Life 16:00 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge Of Kitty Galore 17:30 First Deadly Sin 19:30 Batman Begins 22:00 All Good Things 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Unnatural & Accidental 05:45 In Praise Of Older Women

19:10 Love Crime 22:45 Cine News 23:00 Game Of Thrones 00:05 Person Of Interest 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

05:20 Rampart 07:10 Cine News 09:40 The New Protocol 11:15 Hollywood 1on1 11:50 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years 13:20 This Means War 15:00 From Here To Eternity 17:00 Cine News 17:35 Five Minarets In New York 19:35 Action Zone 20:10 Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World 22:00 Deadly Hope 23:40 Killer Elite 01:40 Turn Me On, Dammit! 03:00 Cine News 03:35 Chronicle

00:00 Pinks All Out Atlanta 0:30 Golf Central International 01:30 MLB Player Poll 02:00 My Ride Rules 02:30 NHL: New York Rangers At Philadelphia Flyers 05:00 MLB: Detroit Tigers At Seattle Mariners 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 The Golf Fix 10:00 Feherty 11:00 MLB: Detroit Tigers At Seattle Mariners 14:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XIX: San Francisco V Miami 14:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XX: Chicago V New England 15:00 America’s Game: 1976 Oakland Raiders 16:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 16:30 NHL: New York Rangers At Philadelphia Fly-

05:05 Walk Don’t Run 07:00 A Far Off Place 08:50 Cine News 11:15

21:00 Mao’s Last Dancer 23:00 One Day 00:50 Chasing Amy

By Preston Wilder

The Hangover, Part II (LTV, 21.00) It’s Stu, Phil and Alan (Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis), the hapless trio from the first Hangover, once again on a wedding-related jaunt where things go terribly wrong - and Part 2 faithfully reprises all the ‘money’ moments in Part 1, albeit changing the details slightly. Part 1 had a tiger in the room, now it’s a capuchin monkey; Stu was missing a tooth in Part 1, now his face is tattooed; Mike Tyson appeared in Part 1 - and appears again in the sequel, belting out ‘One Night in Bangkok’ which is where the film is set. Still a lively comedy, with some undisputed highlights, but the slavish repetition is a bit depressing - and the Galifinakis character has been much-

weakened, turned into a standard-issue manchild instead of the singular weirdo he was in the original. It gets worse: The Hangover, Part III has already been filmed, and comes out next month. Made in 2011.

Deadly Hope (Novacinema1, 22.00) Be thankful for small mercies: this might’ve been a made-for-TV thriller about a female assassin named Hope, and thankfully it isn’t - but it is a made-for-TV thriller, our heroine (not named Hope) being Alana de la Garza, a successful obstetrician whose life unravels when her business partner and fellow doctor is murdered. Turns out he was stabbed through the

heart with a needle, the surgical precision of the strike making our heroine briefly a suspect - but Alana has more to worry about when she meets another man and he too is murdered in the same way. Don’t you hate when that happens? Alana was apparently the killer’s intended victim, which sounds a bit strange since he (or she) is killing these people with a small hypodermic needle - can’t (s)he see who it is before stabbing them? - but veterans of made-for-TV thrillers know not to question these things too closely. The real question is why Nova are showing such trashy obscurities in a prime movie slot - and yes, I know they often appear on Plus or Capital, but we don’t pay a subscription fee for Plus or Capital. Made in 2012.

Deadly Hope

ers 19:00 MLB: Kansas City Royals At Atlanta Braves 22:00 TBA 23:00 Lucas Oil On The Edge Swamp Buggies: Truck Figure 8s 23:30 Wrecked Two Brothers One Showdown

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV GreekLips 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 16:00 MTV Crash Canyon 17:00 MTV Pranked 18:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 18:30 Only Hits 20:00 MTV Movies & Stars 21:00 2013 MTV Movie Awards 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits

07:00 The Devil Makes Three 08:30 The Fighting 69th 09:50 Edge of the City 11:15 The Sandpiper 13:10 Betrayed 15:00 Mutiny on the Bounty 18:05 Bhowani Junction 20:00 Now, Voyager 22:00 It! 23:40 Flareup 01:20 Blackboard Jungle 03:00 The Devil Makes Three 04:30 Beau Brummell


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