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Octo-mom

Germany & Cyprus

Meeting a mom of eight - how does she do it and how many litres of milk a week is that?

Although relations between the two are currently strained they date back 800 years

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Lawnmower parents who never let their children go

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People: How many kids is enough?

Eight for one Nicosia mum

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n the scholastic calendar, this time of year is plain slog. Mock exams, entrance tests and scholarships loom. The most frequently used phrase in our house is, “Have you done your…” All of which makes me wonder whether I might be on the verge of joining a breed I have always disdained: the helicopter parent.

Faced with a choice between catching up on Borgen and explaining (again) how a metaphor works, immersion in the woes of the Danish government are put on hold. But I am still a rank amateur as an interfering mother. The head of a top girls’ school calls those of her students “lawnmower parents,” because they hover far lower than the mere helicopter variety.

As much time is spent placating overfretful mothers and fathers as dealing with the pupils, she says.

One striking development in fussy parenting is the way that it has edged up the age-scale, enfolding university age offspring who should really be left to a life of toasties, unwashed jumpers and occasional seminars until theyemerge and scour the world for a job.

Forget about the helicopter parents, these ones fly much lower says ANNE MCELVOY Alas, such slouchy independence is becoming rare. Undergraduates start by being delivered to the distant fiefs of Exeter and Durham with dad driving a car-full of stuff - with a supermarket delivery to follow. Some parents barely leave them to it even then. One friend travels to see her daughter at uni every week. When I ask if she considers herself a helicopter mum, she says innocently: “No, I just take the train.”

Much of this is down to a far easier re-

Children at university really should have cut the cord

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lationship between the generations. If mum and dad are happy to offer bedroom space to their offspring’s latest swain and stay chilled when they come home at 5am, no wonder the umbilical cord remains intact into the twenties.

Financially, I am surprised by how many parents who worked hard themselves for their prosperity now want to hand over large chunks early on, without the requirement that the kids earn even a symbolic amount.

Quite how this helps produce graduates enabled for the workplace, or indeed the rest of life with its setbacks and erratic triumphs, is a mystery.

One of the things I learned from going to university a long way from home was that there are times when you feel sad, stressed or just a bit out of joint, and that you cannot always run to someone else for comfort comf or motivation.

A colleague recently published a piece in The E Economist about new technology enab enabling parents to track their children: a sort of Asbo-tag even for the well-behaved. well-beha Reaction in the office divided b between younger colleagues who tho thought it a terrible infringement of the th teenage right to be somewhere your parents would not want you to be - and harassed parents who thought it would decrease their worry levels.

I doubt it wo would. Lawnmower parenting is addictiv addictive: no amount of reassurance that Jack Jac and Chloe are doing fine will ever be enough. One American student got so irked by her over-atten over-attentive parents that she took ou out a harassment suit agains them. against L Let’s hope it doesn’t com to that. But if my come d darlings decide I am g getting a little too c close, I shall very happ pily leave them a copy o of Delia Smith and a hot water bottle.

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Ugly war on women waged in beauty’s name

By Rosamund Urwin The cosmetic surgery industry has waged a long war against female selfconfidence. Since women who have an A* in body love won’t be popping into clinics chasing bigger, bouncier boobs or a button nose, the body tyranny brigade have to prey on any nagging insecurities we may have. They certainly don’t want women thinking there’s more fun to be had in improving our minds than fretting about our figures; they want all our self-worth (or lack thereof ) to rest on how we look.

The primary propaganda in this fight are their ads. In an ethically objectionable double-whammy, these not only trivialise invasive surgery - making it seem like getting a new bottom is just like buying a new bag - but they pretend that sticking silicone mounds in your chest or having fat sucked off

your thighs will be a fast-track path to the land of the happy.

There’s the one that declares “Breast enlargement: feel great!”, spectacularly overlooking the potential to feel really, really not great. You know, when your nipples go numb. Or you get necrosis. Or you die.

In another, a model beams moronically while holding a sign proclaiming: “I’ve just had my breasts done, but the biggest change you’ll see is on my face.”

But studies suggest women who have gone under the knife are more likely to suffer from low self-esteem than those who haven’t. Surgery is not a quick-fi x if salve for the soul is what is really needed - insecurities about the physical often being a manifestation of underlying psychological issues.

Last week, the UK’s Royal College of Surgeons also called for a new

code of practice for cosmetic surgeons, which would prevent them telling women that they will look more beautiful after surgery. Which is wise, because usually they don’t look more beautiful, just more bland. Quirks are ironed out. Uniformity reigns. Likewise, faces so injected with fi llers as to become immobile don’t always look younger. Sometimes they take on a leaden, tragic look - perhaps showing the absurdity in fighting a battle against ageing that no one has ever won.

Cosmetic surgeons often say they are giving people choice. But it doesn’t feel like a freedom to be bombarded with rhetoric that suggests there is so much wrong with you that you need to construct a “new you” to feel good. It’s an ugly business trying to make the world see beauty in a narrow way. Let’s not let these body butchers succeed.

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Six nations of funny shaped balls

by Richard Dickenson When you face the One Great Scorer For Him to mark against your name He’ll not ask you if you won But if you played the game.

Along with Newbold‘s poem VitaïLampada, also about playing the game, that was one rhyme my ex-international grammar school headmaster insisted we should know. There is another version now as you’ll see later.

But here we are, it’s Six Nations Time again. Several weeks of mud, wind, blood and rain.

Even without a haka or two that sounds like heaven to me. And it’s a good way of keeping thirty or so violent thugs and thousands of bloodthirsty spectators away from the city centres during Saturday afternoons. I say that as not quite all rugby

players are particularly bright. I mean, how many normal people regard getting bashed, crushed, thumped and upended as a pleasurable weekend pursuit? As an example, there was one famous English prop forward who, told that the All Blacks were invincible observed ‘Well, no wonder we lost against them then, if you can’t see ’em how can you beat them?

Rugby coaches are none too sharp, either. The fi rst one I ever had told us to line up alphabetically according to height and then pair off in threes for training.

Coaches are usually nicknamed ‘Warren’ as in ‘Warren nasty bastard’ and tend to come in for pretty ribald joshing though just once in a while it’s good natured.

Not so for referees. Let me say at the start that it’s not true that referees are paranoid bastards. The ‘bastards’ bit is right enough but not the paranoia; everyone really does hate them. Still, I’ve made

it a rule never to say rude things about referees so I won’t change the habit of a lifetime even in the case of that confounded idiot who sent Warburton off thereby ruining the closing sequence of the last World Cup. Anyway this is a time for remembering the great men of the past. All will be there on the field or in the memories of the crowd.

I cherish the thought that while Scotland is having its current bad patch somewhere north of the border there may already have been born another superb man of rugby like Gavin Hastings. I think and shudder at memories of Jean Pierre Rive and Serge Blanco. Then there are the three Irish Os, O’Driscoll, O’Gara and O’Çonnell. One thing you must say about the Irish. Off the field they treat you like royalty; on the field they want to kick your teeth in. Their reputation for subtlety was stressed when Mike Watkins, after playing at Lansdowne

Road with its famous swirling wind, noted all the flags were pointing in different directions.

He thought the Irish might have starched them to fool the enemy.

From Italy there’s the pretty boy of today’s game, the blond scissors they call Bergamasco. Italy is an increasing power. Gone are the days when they trained like Jonah Lomu but played like Joanna Lumley.

Even the English merit applause this year for the way they’ve weathered the stigma of the World Cup debacle when they threatened like Tarzan yet performed more like Jane. It used to be correctly said that rugby was a game for gentlemen from everywhere but for no bad sportsmen from anywhere.

And lastly to little Wales. A lot of people don’t understand the eternal rivalry between Wales and England. Yet it is built on trust and understanding. They don’t understand us and we don’t

trust them. Yet, even with our smallest of all rugby populations to draw from we still had the greatest of them all, the King of Kings, Gareth Edwards, the only man so fast that he could switch off the light and be in bed before the room was dark.

When all is said and done it’s as well to remember that no-one ever beats Wales - even if they score more points. Thus we have a different version of that opening doggerel. Our version goes…

When you face the Great Welsh Scorer And he marks against your name He won’t ask you if you won Or if you played the game.

He’ll just fi x you with a mighty glare At the one thing to distinguish And ask you, in a thunderous voice ‘Well, did you beat the English?’

Some hope this year, no wonder it’s 2013.

Interim gas supply

CB deputy fury

Soccer boost

new cases of cancer a year in Cyprus, Health Minister Androulla Agrotou revealed this week in a speech to mark World Cancer Day. According to the minister, cancer has become an epidemic with one in three Europeans likely to develop the disease at some stage of their lives.

“Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in Europe and has increased on a global scale,” she said. “In some countries it is now the first cause of death, surpassing cardiovascular diseases,” she added.

“This is the fi rst time, through the National Committee, which was created by the cabinet, that Cyprus is giving an organised answer on the subject of cancer,” she said. “Last year, head of the Committee, Dr Adamos Adamou, issued an action plan against cancer,” she added.

proposals from companies interested in supplying the island with limited quantities of natural gas have been received by the Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA).

Cyprus is seeking to secure shortterm supplies of the fuel not exceeding 1.2 billion cubic metres per year as a stop-gap solution until such time as it can bring ashore its own gas.

Under the terms of the call for expression of interest, actual supply of gas should begin no later than early 2015 and up until September 2018.

Having initially received 17 expressions of interest, DEFA shortlisted 14 companies that met the minimum criteria. In January of this year, DEFA sent these companies the tender documents so that they would submit their proposals by February 4. Negotiations leading to the selection of a supplier are expected to take some weeks.

days before the presidential elections, which he is not contesting, President Demetris Christofias on Monday appointed a deputy Central Bank governor – a position reserved by the constitution for Turkish Cypriots which has been vacant for the past 50 years – sparking a storm of controversy.

Christofias said the appointment of senior director Spyros Stavrinakis was necessary due to the Central Bank’s increasing obligations, rejecting suggestions it that it was politically motivated.

It was a rather unexpected appointment, with information of the government’s intentions only reaching the public domain late on Saturday evening.

Presidential frontrunner, DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, said the appointment was unconstitutional, unacceptable and that he would revoke it if elected this month.

teams from the Russian football championship will take part in a friendly tournament in Paphos between February 9 and 19 according to a statement released by Paphos’ Tourism Development and Promotion Programme (ETAP). Travel Agency, Tecoma Services Limited took the initiative in co-operation with the Russian Football Association and was given the backing of the Cyprus Sports and Football Associations and the Cyprus Tourism Organisation.

“These are very important developments with regards to attracting sports tourism and especially footballs teams over the winter months to Paphos,” the statement said.

The matches will be played at the Yeroskipou and Pafiakos stadiums.

It is the fi rst time the tournament is being held in Paphos with the matches being transmitted via the internet on the Football National League website.

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Eight is enough

Family matters: Maria with (from left) Yiannis (11), Iraklidios (8), Rafaella (14), Styliana (13) and Loucas (6, front) Photo Christos Theodorides

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talk to Maria Charalambous at her home in the Nicosia suburb of Lakatamia – but we meet at a nearby landmark and she leads me the rest of the way, just in case I can’t find the house. As we approach the block of flats where she lives on the ground floor I suddenly see her hand shooting out from the car window, pointing out a handy parking spot. I’d probably have found a parking place on my own, just as I’d probably have found the house – but I guess it’s inevitable. It’s not that Maria is naturally bossy and takecharge (though she is, I think); it’s also that, when you’re a mother of eight children, it becomes second nature to assume that people are helpless till proven otherwise.

Why, in this day and age, would someone have eight kids? And how, in the current economic climate, can someone feed, clothe and raise them? The first question is perhaps the more puzzling, though the second is the more pressing. I have a word with 14-year-old Rafaella while Maria leaves to pick up her three youngest sons from the barber’s (it’s a holiday, so the kids are home from school), and she admits that many of her friends think it’s weird to come from such a large family – yet she also admits that she’s used to it. Now and

What makes someone have eight kids? And how do they cope once they have them?

THEO PANAYIDES meets a Nicosia octo-mom then (not very often), says Rafaella, she might find herself home alone when her parents and siblings go out somewhere, and the sudden silence is unnerving when you’ve grown up with the constant racket of a family of 10 (“You tell yourself, ‘I wish I’d gone with them’”). Rafaella is Maria’s fourth child, older than Styliana (13), Yiannis (11), Iraklidios (8) and Loucas (6) but younger than Giorgos (18), Eleni (17) and Petros who’s 15, says Maria – then stops herself: “15 …

16 … sorry, yes, 16”. It must be hard to keep count sometimes.

Maria herself was last-but-one in a family with six siblings; she was born in the now-occupied village of Peristeronari near Morphou, and grew up in the village of Fasoula near Paphos.

Even as a child, she always wanted to marry a man from a large family – and duly met Antonis, who comes

from a family with nine siblings. She married young, at 22 (she’s now 42), and had her first child two years later, at which point she stopped working.

Antonis works as a bus driver, bringing in a salary of around €1,500, including overtime; that’s the family’s only income, to which one can add about €900 in child benefits.

So how does it work? How do you raise eight kids (half of them teenagers) on €2,400 a month? On the one hand, it’s impossible; on the other, it doesn’t seem so bad. The house isn’t a hovel; the furniture is old, but in good condition. There are five bedrooms so the kids sleep two to a room, which is fair enough. They have private lessons in the afternoons, like most kids in Cyprus, and plan to go to university. Giorgos (who’s currently in the army) has already been accepted to study Law; Eleni wants to be a nutritionist, Petros a designer, Rafaella a TV reporter – the usual glossy jobs for children of the middle class. Maria mentions expenses which no dirtpoor family could afford, like buying a car (admittedly an old, cheap car) for Giorgos to come and go on his furloughs. Recently, she says, one of her daughters was being bullied and called names at school – so Maria paid for a makeover, fi xing the girl’s teeth, changing her hair and taking

her to a dietician.

Then again, she had to borrow money for that makeover, a loan which she’s now paying off. Money in general is very tight. Petrol alone comes to almost €300 a month, claims Maria (she spends much of her day ferrying kids to and from schools, friends’ homes and private lessons), with her son’s car adding another €80. Everything’s so expensive now; “I need €20 every day just for bread and milk” (she gets through six two-litre cartons a day). When it comes to bathtime, the water-heater gets switched on once only and the kids all rush to take their baths one after the other.

The family haven’t had a vacation in years. The house is rent-free – it belongs to the government – so that’s one big expense avoided, but Maria also has a problem with the muscles in her wrist, and needs help with the housework; a Sri Lankan girl comes in, costing about €400 a month. That used to be covered by the state, but benefits have been slashed in recent years; “If you have €2,000 a month, they say you’re rich,” notes Maria acerbically.

Do the numbers add up? Obviously, or Maria and her brood wouldn’t be surviving. It helps, I think, that they get help from various sources: Charalambides Dairy donate milk for

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boyfriends like they were shirts,” she says at one point. Kids used to get up for their elders, now you ask them to move and they snarl ‘What for?’ (“They give you lip,” adds Rafaella, very much her mother’s voice).

Everyone has it too easy: “We’ve all got used to our comforts,” we have maids “just to turn on the light so we can go to the bathroom”. And of course the family as an institution – let alone large families like her own – is under threat.

“From now on, you won’t see families with children,” she predicts grimly. “They live together – if you notice, they don’t even get married anymore. The son leaves home, the daughter leaves home, and they live together. When they’re ready to get married, they will. Maybe they’ll have a civil wedding, if not they’ll just live together. And if they do decide to have a child, it’ll be at age 40.

If they decide”.

Maria worries a lot – about drugs, “sexual harassment”, how selfish and solitary our society is becoming.

I’d assumed that her life as a mum was harder five years ago, when the needy schoolkids, the Parents’ Association offer free sandwiches, and so on. Maria’s paediatrician gives her a good price, and her hairdresser won’t take any money (her hair, in any case, is usually done by her daughter, DIYstyle). But what’s interesting about Maria Charalambous isn’t the bookkeeping side, or the details of precisely how she makes the most of a modest income. What’s interesting is Maria herself – because, after all, being a parent (let alone a parent of eight) has very little to do with money.

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e talk for about 40 minutes. During that random 40 minutes, the phone rings twice – both calls being from family members needing help, fi rst her son from his army camp, then her brother from a hospital where his kid is being treated. This, apparently, is par for the course: Maria is the person others go to with their problems – dynamic, reliable, a doer. She’s “the mother”, as she says again and again, making it sound like some sort of mythical archetype – the Earth-Mother, with myriad children sprouting from her loins. She’s the fi rst to get up in the mornings, at 4.50am, a full two hours before the kids leave for school. “It’s up to the mother” to solve her offspring’s problems.

“You have to turn days into nights, and nights into days. At night you have to sleep and not sleep, to think about the children, to think ‘Today my son said this or that to me. I have to fi nd a solution’.”

Eight-year-old Iraklidios had a traumatic experience at school recently, when some older boys pushed in the door of the toilet while he was peeing. He left school in tears, and told his mother. “‘I’ll fi x it’,” Maria remembers herself saying, “and straight away – I mean straight away – I called the headmistress”. A few days later, Iraklidios had problems again when another boy “touched him on the forbidden spot” during PE class. Once again, Maria swung into action, going down to the school to get things sorted out.

None of her children have rebelled, even the teenagers; all of them (she says) share their prob-

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‘Whatever problem you’re having, tell your mother.

The mother is a sister, a friend, a mother. She has to get angry like a mother, to give advice like a friend, and to help like – like a god’ lems with her. “When my kids come home, I tell them: ‘Kids, talk to your mother. Not your father’”. After all, “the father works. He comes home tired, he might be angry. ‘Tell me instead’. The mother is always calm.

And we’ll fi nd solutions. ‘Whatever problem you’re having, tell your mother’. The mother is a sister, a friend, a mother. She has to get angry like a mother, to give advice like a friend, and to help like – like a god.”

Is she always calm, then?

“Always.”

But having eight kids must drive a person crazy.

“Oh, I yell,” she admits with a shrug. “I smack. It’s not abuse – though it depends, I’ve seen parents hit their children violently, that’s different. But when you see them fighting and killing each other over something trivial, are you just going to let them get on with it? No. You’ll grab the thing they’re fighting over, put it away, then give both of them a smack on the bottom and that’s that. I won’t just smack one of them and let the other go.”

They don’t fight too often, though, claims Maria; there’s an ‘all for one and one for all’ mentality, with the older kids helping the younger ones. That, I suspect, is the secret ingredient in large families.

A tribal impulse is created, a kind of herd instinct which regulates behaviour automatically; it becomes harder to be the rebel – the bad kid – when you’re surrounded by seven good kids. And there’s something else too: whether consciously or not, Maria has a touch of ‘us against the world’, implicitly contrasting the values espoused by herself and her little tribe with the values held by the rest of society.

Again and again, she comes back to the fact that things have changed, things are going downhill. (It should be noted that she’s very devout, her walls adorned with Jesus and other icons.) Girls these days “change their

kids were young, but she disagrees: “They were kids,” she explains, “but you could monitor them. You worry more today. Back then I wasn’t worried, because I opened my door and came home, brought my kids inside and the door closed behind us – and all eight were tied to my apron, I could see them all. But today they’re outside, they’re grown-up. I can’t tell my soldier son to be home by 8.”

Some might call Maria Charalambous old-fashioned and overprotective. Others may just shrug and say it’s her own fault for having so many kids. Why did she do it, anyway? “Because we love family,” she replies after a pause – then looks defensive, as if worried that people will think she’s moaning, or expecting others to clean up her own mess.

“I don’t have fi nancial problems – or any problems – I can’t overcome,” she says firmly. “But can I say something? The state said it would support large families – all the governments, not just Christofias, DISY too, all of them – and the first people they’re targeting today [with spending cuts] are large families! I say, let them target the foreigners. Why do we have all these foreigners working in Cyprus? And the money going out of the country. Have we thought about that? Has the government thought about that?”

Maybe we all need an EarthMother type running the country, someone to cook our food and wash our clothes (she loads up the washing-machine twice a day, says Maria) and point out handy parking spots.

Nonetheless, the world is changing.

14-year-old Rafaella admires her mum, and thinks she’s doing a great job; she loves being part of a big family, and “playing with my brothers and sisters” tops the list when I ask what she likes to do with her time – but, even so, she herself doesn’t plan to go down that route. “Maybe one or two kids,” she says warily when I ask about her parenting plans. It’s tough being ‘the mother’.

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Anti-austerity: a large families demonstration late last year about cuts in benefits

Benefits’ cheats The Labour ministry is to clamp down after European citizens are scamming social security by claiming benefits despite having left the island.

About time someone took some action.

Dodgy dealing Presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades, who called for a money laundering probe to be undergone of his legal firm after allegations were made against it that it was involved in dodgy financial dealings.

Russian boost Five teams from the Russian football championship will take part in a friendly tournament in Paphos which started yesterday, giving a boost to sports tourism on the island.

Cypriots in space Cypriots have made their home across the globe but outer space remains as yet unexplored territory, though a newly launched company hopes to change that and has entered a competition to land a robot on the Moon by the end of 2015.

Violent scuffles Violence erupted in Paphos this week when police confronted striking builders who tried to stop strike-breakers who were brought in to take over the work at a hotel construction site. Strike breaking is a nasty business but surely there has to be a better way.

Drug priest defrocked The Holy Synod has defrocked a priest who was found guilty of drug traffi fficking last year. The former priest is currently rrently doing a five-year stint in prison rison after he was on of some three caught in possession kilos of cannabis.

CB fury Spyros Stavrinakis is the man who has caused most controversy this week, although not through any fault of his own. President Christofias on Monday appointed him deputy Central Bank governor – a position that has been vacant for the pastt 50 years – sparking a storm of controversy.

06 FEATURE Teamwork: Christopher and Tammy Kane

Christopher Kane has just made it big – and the designer has elder sister Tammy to thank, says KAREN DACRE

Raising Kane PPR agreements boosted the careers of Alexander McQueen (right) and Stella McCartney (far right)

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n fashion circles, the air is thick with talk of Christopher Kane.

Six years into his career, the Scottish designer and jewel in the crown of London Fashion Week has secured backing from the fashion power house PPR, which has purchased a 51 per cent stake in his business. Set to follow in the footsteps of Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen, who made similar headlines when they announced deals with PPR some 12 years ago, Kane, 30, has found himself elevated from the circle of upcoming London designers which he has comfortably inhabited since 2006, into fashion’s super group.

If he was a star before, he is a supernova now, along with his sister and business partner Tammy, who is the energy at the core of the growing Kane empire. So much so in fact that Vogue’s fashion features director Sarah Harris suggests that, if Tammy would allow it, “Christopher would have her out on the runway with him to accept applause”.

But in a modest email, Tammy played down her invaluable role in Kane’s success story. “Mainly I manage the business and share an office with Christopher so we are always together. Christopher draws up ideas for the collections and I help him edit those ideas.”

By his big sister’s account - “we protect each other” - she says Christopher Kane is an “extraordinary creative talent” who is set to benefit from the creative independence the deal with PPR has promised to provide.

Born near Motherwell, five years before her baby brother, Tammy has long been Christopher’s number one fan. As children the two were inseparable and hid out in one another’s bedrooms after nightmares. As teens they shopped together in Glasgow city centre with Christopher advising Tammy on her Saturday night outfit choices.

Having decided on a career in fashion at an early age, Tammy completed a degree at the prestigious Scottish College of Textile Design before making a move to London in 2002 at the same time as Christopher, who had enrolled at Central Saint Martins to do a fashion degree of his own. He launched his eponymous label immediately after graduation.

Ten years on, Tammy, described as Christopher’s ‘muse, model, manager and sounding board’, is at the heart of the Kane brand Ten years on, Tammy, described

by Harris as Christopher’s “muse, model, manager and sounding board”, is at the heart of the Kane brand. “It was Tammy who inspired his career in the fi rst place,” says Suector at sannah Frankel, fashion director Grazia. g of an Despite being something icon for the British fashion industry, Tammy - recognisable by her striking blue eyes and jet black hair - who appeared in mLove Magazine last Septemorn ber alongside her newborn lent baby Bonnie is the strong silent que, partner. And theirs is a unique, collaborative process.

For Natalie Kingham, the senior womenswear buyer at olMatches and long term fols lower of the Kane brand, it is Tammy’s astute ability to un-derstand what women wantt stoto wear that makes her Christostopher pher’s secret weapon. “Christopher my test creates the clothes and Tammy runs them,” says Kingham. “While d beaushe is incredibly talented and tiful, she is a regular woman saying her unthis works for me. She is neither touchable nor unreachable. That’s a great thing to have.” vinced.

Harris is equally convinced.

“Tammy is the brand,” she says.

“I remember his fi rst show. Every model had long hair, centre parted - they were like mini Tammys striding out. Christopher designs with her in mind. It’s second nature to him since an early age, he’s always made and bought clothes for her to wear, and I think if she said she wouldn’t wear something, then he wouldn’t put it out on the catwalk.”

As a result, when it came to signing on the dotting line with PPR, the role of his sister is undoubtedly one that ranked high on Christopher’s agenda. “The business support network around us is to free me up to focus on the elements of the job I love the best and am best at,” says Tammy, “helping Christopher realise his ideas.”

It’s been a seamless 30-year working relationship so far. Long live the Kanes.

On the catwalk: Christopher’s Spring Summer 2013 show at London Fashion Week and (left) his resort collection 2011

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Cyprus – Germany. 800 years of history and culture Exhibition at The Society of Cypriot Studies in the grounds of the Archbishop’s Palace. Runs until end of March. Entrance to the exhibition is free.

Catalogue on sale at major bookshops and at the exhibition, €35. For guided tours and groups call www.go-gecko-fi ahead on: 22 432578t.com, Tel: 99 037988 (Dave Metcalf), 97 671446 (Mike Chater-Poole)

Optimistic vs pessimistic: Charalambos Chotzakoglou at the exhibition Photos Christos Theodorides

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Relations between Cyprus and Germany are currently strained over eurozone bailouts but the bond has been solid for the last 800 years discovers ALIX NORMAN

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ermany and Cyprus: it’s not a partnership that springs immediately to mind. Cyprus and Greece, of course; Cyprus and Britain, certainly; Cyprus and Italy, evidenced by the Venetian Walls. But the current exhibition entitled ‘Cyprus – Germany. 800 years of history and culture’ proves how little I know.

“Without Germany, there never would have been a Kingdom of Cyprus,” is the opening bombshell dropped by Dr Charalambos Chotzakoglou, my guide on a historic tour of the relationship between the two countries. Organised by the The Society of Cypriot Studies (of which Dr Chotzakoglou is President) and the Embassy of Germany, the exhibition is housed in the grounds of the Archbishop’s Palace.

The story of Germany’s involvement in Cyprus starts with Richard the Lionheart. The island having been sold, it eventually passed into the hands of Aimery de Lusignan - an intelligent chap, who realised he would need political and ecclesiastical recognition to hold on to the country.

An embassy was sent to the German Emperor of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, proposing an exchange: “Crown me King of Cyprus,” said Aimery, “and I’ll give you not just overlordship, but also land for your knights.”

The German Emperor agreed, and in one fell swoop, our cunning diplomat had created the Kingdom of Cyprus, established ties with a major empire and received the protection of the Order of the Teutonic Knights.

“Some of the documentation concerning these German Knights still exists,” says Dr Chotzakoglou. He opens the catalogue which accompanies the exhibition – an exquisitely produced record of the historical exchanges between the two countries – and indicates a photograph of the inscription on the tombstone of the German Secretary of the Order who died near Paphos in 1297. Also on display are a number of German-made silver coins dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, which suggest the presence of the Teutonic Order as well as the formation of commercial agreements between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Cyprus.

In the Middle Ages, as German merchants plied their wares round the Mediterranean they established agents at each port of call, including Cyprus. These historical foreign correspondents were tasked with reporting on the news of the day, each report taking the form of a two-page news-

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The bulk of the display consists of two types of exhibit: German paintings from the Medieval era, and 47 large metal plates crafted in Nuremberg

letter, examples of which can be seen on the walls; one newsletter begins: “Im jahr 1571...” and describes the excellent trading prospects in Cyprus.

There are also a number of maps by German engravers of the time; one fascinating example alluding to the importance of Cyprus as a pit stop for pilgrims en route to the Holy Land requires the viewer to almost stand on their head: the cartographer has dispensed with geographical exactitude and has instead divided the region according to places of pilgrimage in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The bulk of the display consists of two types of exhibit: German paintings from the Medieval era, and 47 large metal plates crafted in Nuremberg. I’m particularly intrigued by the latter: were our ancestors overly voracious in their eating habits? Dr Chotzakoglou corrects my misconception: “They were mainly used for ‘hostia’, Latin for the wafers of bread consumed in Holy Communion. And also, as a display of wealth among rich nobles.”

Two such different functions, and yet both traditions are still in evidence today: “I scoured the churches

of Cyprus to find these plates – over 200 religious establishments - many of which were still being used for their original purpose! Most of the priests had no idea of the plates’ origin and historical value.” And the idea of the plates as a sign of social status continues to this day in the form of the ‘souvanza’, a decorative shelf still seen in many traditional houses and used to display one’s most treasured possessions. The bronze and tin discs are intricately engraved, often with inscriptions in Latin or Gothic, sometimes with depictions of religious figures or geometric patterns.

Most are from the Venetian period, though a number date from the times of the Ottomans.

The paintings adorning the walls are on loan from the Byzantine Museum and Art Galleries of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, and were all painted by German artists of the period. They depict religious scenes: those by Protestant artists focus on scenes from the Old Testament, while those by Catholic painters depict incidents in the New Testament. “The works are very distinct,” says my guide. “You can immediately tell which religious category they belong to: the Protestant paintings are full of light and the message of love, while the Catholic works are darker, a reminder of our mortality and impending doom for sinners.”

We move on to the two final exhibits: the newest and the oldest, both brought from Germany in the 1950s for use as instructional aids by K. Spyridakis, founder of the Society of Cypriot Studies. Clustered on a

Around the world: George Panayiotou (centre) with contestants Marina Sofocleous and Timotheos Vassiliou in Idaho, 2009

windowsill are a number of scientific devices, built in Germany and used in the teaching of Physics and Chemistry to students of the Pancyprian High School. Opposite the instruments a cabinet contains the island’s most ancient Teutonic link: fossils which were found in Germany and used in Geology lessons in Nicosia, some of them over 300 million years old.

Dr Chotzakoglou concludes the tour: “It’s not just an exhibition but the whole history of the German Cyprus relationship. It’s a living effort, a work in progress.” I bid my guide ‘Auf wiedersehen’ and leave with a wealth of new knowledge to process. I’ve traversed over 800 years of cultural connection in the space 60 minutes; if you too can spare an hour of your time this or next month, you won’t regret it. ‘Cyprus – Germany. 800 years of history and culture’ brings our history to life.

08 TRAVEL

Catch of the day CHARLES CAMPION was spoilt for choice when he toured the the Belgian coast’s many cafés and restaurants out of season

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very summer, the 70km of beach that make up the Belgian coast are covered by row after row of oiled and sunbathing holidaymakers. But out of season there are the same small towns, the same bars, the same restaurants, the same chocolatiers, the same hotels, the same breweries, the same seafood: the only difference being that you get them all to yourself.

Starting at De Panne, the southernmost of the 10 towns that run up the coast like a string of pearls, the charm of the coast is its variety, each town has its own character. In De Haan you’ll find elegant Belle Époque architecture, Ostend is livelier - it has been welcoming visitors since the 1800s - De Panne is largely French

Shore thing: traditional shrimp fishing on horseback takes place at low tide both in winter and summer at Oostduinkerke

speaking, and Middelkerke caters mainly for families.

Check in to one of the many simple and comfortable hotels - the Belle Vue at De Haan is typical, an elegant building, sympathetically renovated, very comfortable - and when you have a base camp established you could either hire bicycles or take the coastal tram.

The tram line is set back from the beach and runs the whole length of the coast, with 70 stops along the way. Wherever you are you will be in

The mediaeval city of Bruges

the next town in 15 minutes, there’s a good service and the trams run until nearly midnight.

If you ask Belgians what they do for recreation, they look at you rather surprised and answer that they love eating out. For anyone interested in restaurants, Belgium has a great many to offer - from stunning takeaway chip shops (frites are taken very seriously here) to smart, classical, three-Michelin starred restaurants that take a pride in serving local produce.

For a winning combination of a great terrace overlooking the sea and simple but good fish, try the Aguadelmar at Ostend - the shrimp croquettes are outstanding. Or try a restaurant such as Apropos in Koksijde, with a menu that changes with the seasons and the kind of cuisine we class as French - langoustines, lobster and turbot.

In De Panne is Le Fox, a twoMichelin starred restaurant where Stephane Buyens is cooking up a storm - fresh local produce meets real talent. Note the cheese trolley with 50 Belgian cheeses, most of which are excellent.

Towards the southern end of the coast is Oostduinkerke, home of the “peerdevisschers” - shrimp fishermen on horseback. Sturdy Brabant horses pull the nets through the shallows at low tide before the little grey shrimps are taken back to the fish-

Fried fish balls are a regional speciality

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09 Belgium has hundreds of beers

Visitors to Pompeii this week

ermen’s clubhouse - the “Estaminet de peerdevisschers” - where they are promptly boiled in fresh water. The fishermen maintain that trawler caught shrimp are inferior because they are cooked in sea water but it’s hard to tell the difference as they are both magnificent - the shrimps may be fiddly to peel but a joy to eat.

While in Belgium you have to try a beer or two - in Middelkerke (jammed with families in the summer but crowd free off-season) you’ll find a bar called Del Toogoloog. It has a beer for every occasion, and the list features

Towards the southern end of the coast is Oostduinkerke, home of the 'peerdevisschers' - shrimp fishermen on horseback some 400 different options - differing strengths, colours, ages and prices.

There’s plenty of good eating and drinking to be done on the coast but you should save a day for the medieval city of Bruges, which lies just inland. Bruges is a shoppers’ paradise.

There’s an outstanding deli (sausages and cheese) called Diksmuids Boterhuis, or you could do a “choco-crawl” simply wandering and sampling your way around all the chocolate shops.

The best is called BbyB, a stylish and modern shop with dazzling, simple chocolates with intense flavours - try the passion fruit, or the coffee and salt caramel.

Then there’s the amazing Temple to Beer, which unsurprisingly has a vast range of bottled beers and specialist badged glasses. For lunch in Bruges the Refter Bistrot is the less formal second-string restaurant of the three-Michelin starred restaurant Karmeliet. Good cooking and steady pricing. You should also take the tour at the Halve Maan. This is the last brewery in Bruges and the tour guide is both funny and irreverent. Afterwards you get to sample the beer.

Out-of-season breaksters who want to walk along the beaches or in the sand dunes of West Flanders will be happy enough just staring out across the North Sea and enjoying the peaceful gun-metal grey-blue water as it catches the spring or autumn light. Anyone who enjoys good food will be happy hopping on and off the tram as they explore the array of different bars and restaurants.

There really is something for everyone - Ostend even has a special guided trip entitled The Marvin Gaye Midnight Love Tour. Apparently the great man spent the last two years of his life in Ostend, and you can see the block of flats where he composed Sexual Healing - just the thing to stimulate the appetite for a beer and some grey shrimps.

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EU moves to save historic Pompeii THE European Union launched a €105 million restoration of the Roman city of Pompeii on Wednesday, and said it would seek to protect conservation funds from the mafia.

The project began a day after police arrested a restorer on suspicion of pocketing hugely inflated fees for work at the crumbling world heritage site that was declared to be in a state of emergency in 2008 due to its deterioration.

The money will pay for a new drainage system, the reinforcement of some structures and staff training, and includes "a variety of measures to protect itself from the influence of organised

crime - the Camorra - which infects many parts of the region," the European Commission said.

The Camorra is the local mafia which thrives on trafficking, extortion, and government contract frauds in and around Naples, the largest city in southern Italy, 25km from Pompeii.

Italy declared a state of emergency in Pompeii in 2008 after archaeologists complained about poor upkeep, mismanagement and lack of investment.

The town, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD until its rediscovery in 1748, attracts 2.3 million tourists a year, but suffered further

serious damage in torrential rainfall in 2011.

The EU's regional fund spent €7.7 million on restoration at Pompeii from 2000-2006, but today just five individual sites are open due to damage, compared to 64 in 1956.

EU Regional Affairs Commissioner Johannes Hahn said he had taken an interest in launching the restoration plan since the 2010 collapse of the House of the Gladiators, used by the warriors before fights in the nearby amphitheatre.

The EU did not say how it would prevent mafia involvement in future restoration projects at the site.

Qantas network now open for Emirates passengers Emirates’ customers can now enjoy the benefits of what the Emirates and Qantas partnership has to offer, following the opening up of bookings to a number of Qantas domestic destinations, with travel from March 31.

The proposed Emirates and Qantas partnership gained interim authorisation from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on January 17 for. The partnership remains subject to final regulatory approval in relevant jurisdictions.

Emirates customers can now choose from 32 Australian destinations that Qantas operates to including Canberra, Port Lincoln, Cairns and Hobart, opening up Australia to passengers from all over the ever expanding Emirates network.

From March 31, Emirates’ Skywards members will also be able to earn Skywards Miles on Qantas international fl ights and domestic fl ights that are part of a continuous international journey with Emirates or Qantas. Qantas Frequent Flyers will be able to earn points on all Emirates fl ights.

Emirates fl ies twice daily to Larnaca. In the morning, EK 107 arrives from Dubai while in the afternoon EK108 arrives from Malta on its fl ight back to Dubai.

10 FOOD & DRINK WINES with George Kassianos

The king of Crete H ow much do we know about Cretan wines? I have visited the island at least four times, mainly around Chania, and wine is always an important part of my holidays. From the fi rst trip I set out to discover Cretan wines. At fi rst I was disappointed.

In most Cretan taverns there’s no such thing as a wine list - wine is ordered by the kilo and served in a carafe. These types of wine are usually supplied by one of the island’s co-operatives or bulk producers and is just basic wine, with the merit of being cheap.

Locals will tell you, with great seriousness, that the ‘really good’ wine comes from the villages in the mountains – or specifically, a certain village in the mountains that they know. This might have solved the wine problem. I tried various recommendations and concluded the wines were mostly worse than the basic. Cypriots have this habit too, suggesting village wine made from over-cropped vines, unsuitable grape varieties that may have relatively high alcohol content. The style is generally oxidized, or semioxidized, and it will not last more than a few days in the fridge once decanted from the barrel.

But after some determined experimentation and visits to wineries in Crete, my quest was successful.

There are very good winemakers on Crete, occasionally making exceptional wines. These are wines which have aroma, depth, complexity, length and, of course, deliciousness.

Lyrarakis, a family owned winery, is one of them. Established in 1966 it wasn’t until 1992 they bottled their fi rst wine using the Lyrarakis name. The winery is based in Peza appellation, in the village of Alagni, near Heraklion, and the vineyard area comprises of 14 hectares with gravel over limestone soils. The warm climate is tempered by the altitude, which averages 550 metres.

Manolis and his son George Lyra-

It is hard to track down good wine in Crete but once you do it is worth going back for more

rakis have an international reputation, and they are also champions of local varieties - Manolis has saved some indigenous grape varieties from extinction.

George Lyrarakis visited Cyprus and presented his wines to the public at Chateau Status in Nicosia recently followed by live music from Cretan folk singer Psarantonis.

2011 Vilana, Cretan Regional Wine, Abv 12% Crete is dominated by red grape varieties but Vilana is the undisputed queen of the white varieties on the island. Pouring pale yellow colour, citrus and pear, the predominant fruit of this indigenous variety are evident on a subtle nose along with mountain herbs. Fresh, crisp texture, hints of citrus and pleasant acidity in balance. Excellent with salads and dips, but also with Sarikopitakia – sheep’s cheesefi lled pastries fried in olive oil - or Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves with rice and herbs). €7.49

2011 Cuvée Grande Colline, Protected Geographical Indication Crete, Abv 12.5% This dry white is a result of a blend of the three grape varieties: Vilana grapes, white Muscat and Sauvignon Blanc. It has a clear, greenish-yellow colour, refi ned subtle aromas, low intensity, of lemon, flowers (the Muscat effect in geranium leaf) and fruit with pear, citrus and exotic fruit presence in pineapple and mango predominant as well as some mineral. The body is rich with a slightly refreshing sensation, a good balance of flavour and

a long lasting herbal taste to the fi nish. Very good with fasolakia (fresh beans cooked with crushed tomatoes) and the famous Cretan dakos – dried bread with grated tomatoes, olive oil, cheese and oregano or enjoy with Cretan snails, fried fish or grilled chicken, Cretan Graviera cheese. €10.62

2011 Idyll, Protected Geographical Indication of Crete, Abv 12% The juice of Kotsifali (Cretan red grape variety) and Syrah remains briefl y with the skin of the pressed grapes in a pneumatic press. The rer, sult is an intense rose colour, with violet reflections, the nose is perfumed with light red berries and cranberries, similar fl avours come through the palate. The fruit is perfectly balanced with natural acidity. Enjoy with cheese, charcuteries and generally cold appetisers. €10.62

2010 The Last Supper, Regional wine of Heraklion, Crete, Abv 13% Three grape varieties from non irrigated private vineyards with a limited yield produce this red – Kotsifali, Mandilari and Syrah grapes. Deep ruby red colour, aromas which are reminiscent of red fruits in a fairly open nose, partly preserved red berries and cherries, earthy notes and some oak. Vegetal and earthy notes on the palate, predominantly red fruit, oak, fi ne dusty and fairly mature tannins, elegant acidity, slightly creamy, not particularly deep, slightly rustic style, attractive fi nish. Served with pork or lamb and potatoes slow-cooked in a traditional Cretan wood-burning oven. €10.62

Kotsifali, Cretan Regional Wine Abv 13% From the mountainous vineyards of Heraklion, this Kotsifali varietal has a bright red colour and a fairly cool nose with preserved

red berries, figs and blueberries, light vegetal and some floral notes.

There are some more figs evident on the palate, vegetal notes and a hint of green tobacco with quite fi ne and slightly dusty tannins. Finally, there are some integrated spicy oak, fairly persistent, mineral traces, good fi nish. Try with Cretan meat pie or lamb with mizithra cheese or rooster cooked in red wine. €7.49

Mandilari Oak Aged Plakouta Vineyard, Cretan Regional Wine Abv 13% The Mandilari indigenous grape variety is sourced from the rare low-yield Plakouta vineyard, a premier cru slope at 500m. Lyrarakis believes in the potential of this grape variety. Red ruby colour, fairly mature plummy nose, blackberry jam, earthy and cedary notes and some old oak. Polished, slightly muted preserved fruit on the palate, dried dark berries and preserved plums, fairly persistent, tart and bitter herbaceous notes, fairly prominent astringent tannins, slightly rustic style, delicately juicy with a moderate acid bite, astringent on a good fi nish. Enjoy with lamb on vine twigs, hen and zigouri pilaf, and Cretan Graviera cheese. €17.35 Imported and Distributed by Othon Ghalanos Ltd

China's thirst for Australian wines is golden - for now

By Pauline Askin CHINA'S growing thirst for Australian wines may be a golden ticket for now, but whether demand will last remains unknown m even as vintages from w Down Under gain new fans amid a surge of growth in broader Asia.

Australian bottled wine exports to China soared by 15 per cent year on year in 2012, according to official data, bolstered by a sales push targeting the country's wealthy drinkers and making Aus-

tralia the top overseas market for wines priced at more than A$7.50 ($7.90) a litre.

Overall, exports gained 3 per cent globally, with declines in bot bottled wine exports to som countries offset by some inc increases in bulk wine sal sales.

"In South Australi it's going to be a lia, fantastic year," said Damian Torresan, a winemaker at Koppamura wines in South Australia. "China has been a bit of a golden ticket for a lot of places sitting on bulk wine for the last few years."

Though China was far ahead, bottled wine exports were good across the board in Asia, with those to Japan up by 11 per cent, those to Hong Kong gaining 6 per cent and exports to Thailand up 7 per cent.

In many nations, the changes reflected an increase in wealth and status, with wine the means of showcasing both.

"In terms of Thailand, what we're hearing is there's an increase in wealth and increasing wine awareness so people are experimenting and buying more," said Louisa Aherne, a spokeswoman for Wine Australia, a government agency that supports the wine sector.

To a certain extent, the cur-

rent success is due to luck. There has been good Australian production in the face of a poor US season in 2011 and low volumes in Europe in 2012.

While growers were pleased with their gains, they remained wary, noting that while China is an area of massive potential growth, some of the gains may well have been due to short-term conditions.

"Absolutely celebrate all of the positives and hope that it does reflect the beginning of a substantial turnaround, but at the very least I think we could say a full industry turnaround is probably a couple of years away yet," said Lawrie Stanford, executive director of Wine Grape Growers

Australia.

A 2012 study by Australian Growers and Resources Economic suggests that in the next two years production-bearing areas will grow, potentially posing a different challenge.

"As an organisation we really do believe we are capable of producing more than can be sold profitably - the positive signs at the minute are definitely higher prices but lower volumes," he added.

China's vast population means there is plenty of market to share, Torresan added, but it's still far too early to make any predictions for next year.

"Anything to do with growing - until it's in the bottle, your money's not in the bank."

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11 RECIPES

with Maria Socratous

Sweets for your sweet Victorian Valentine’s Day Gift Makes about 30 340g plain flour, plus extra to dust 1 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 1 tsp ground nutmeg 1 tsp ground cloves 2 tsp ground cinnamon 2 tsp ground ginger 225g unsalted butter, softened 170g soft dark brown sugar 1 medium egg, beaten Vegetable oil for greasing Icing sugar for dusting Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and spices into a mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then gradually beat in the egg. Stir in the dry ingredients until you have a smooth dough. Gather together and press into a flattish disc.

On a floured surface, roll out the dough to just under 1cm thick. If it’s too soft to handle, wrap it in cling fi lm and chill for an hour first. Either cut out circles, then press into oiled heart-shaped moulds or use cutters to stamp out heart shapes, then chill for at least 1 hour.

Heat the oven to 180C/gas 4. Put the biscuits on lightly greased baking trays and bake for 7-10 minutes until dark golden and crisp. Cool completely on wire racks and dust with icing sugar to serve.

Warm Chocolate Mousse Serves 6 125g dark chocolate, broken into pieces 2 tbsp whipping cream 3 medium egg yolks 7 medium egg whites

Pure indulgence for a romantic gesture for Valentine’s Day

puffed up but still wobbly. Serve immediately with a scoop of ice cream on top.

1 tbsp granulated sugar Ice cream to serve

Passion Fruit Cheesecake

Preheat the oven to 180C/gas 4. Melt the chocolate in Bain Marie. Heat the cream in a small pan until it just steams, then pour it over the melted chocolate, stirring until smooth. Add the egg yolks and mix until well combined.

Whisk the egg whites with an electric hand mixer until soft peaks form.

Gradually whisk in the sugar until the mixture resembles shaving foam.

With a metal spoon, mix one third of the whisked egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then gently fold in the remaining two thirds.

Divide the mousse equally among 6 x 200ml ramekins and bake for 4-5 minutes until the puddings are

150g shortbread fingers 40g melted butter, plus a little extra for greasing the tin 500g mascarpone 100ml fresh cream 100g sugar 2 tbsp cornflour 3 eggs, beaten 165ml passion fruit pulp Icing sugar, for dusting

Whyyoushoulddrink Tea Tea: it’s not just the cure-all for relationship woes and staple drink of British sit-coms it’s a beverage with a lengthy and distinguished history.

The Chinese have the earliest records of tea consumption, with records dating back to the 10th century BC, long before the English thought of brewing up a good cuppa. It was used in the Orient not only

as a beverage, but also as a curative, a status symbol and social aid: the famed tea ceremony of Japan was introduced from China in the 15th century by Buddhists as a semi-religious social custom.

The Eastern philosopher Laozi (ca. 600-517 BC) even described tea as “the froth of the liquid jade” and named it an indispensable ingredient to the elixir of life.

Closer to home, in the Mediterranean ‘tsai’ is traditionally flavoured with cinnamon and cloves, while in America – despite the legacy of the Boston Tea Party – it is often drunk iced, with lemon and sugar.

The three main types of tea are Black, Oolong and Green, produced from the leaves of the tree Camellia sinensis, which contains high levels of antioxidants. These

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Serves 6

Set aside to cool completely.

Beat together the mascarpone, fresh cream and sugar until smooth.

Sift the cornflour into the mixture and add the beaten eggs a little at a time. Mix in the passion fruit pulp and pour into the spring form tin.

Bake for 30 minutes then lower the heat to 180C/gas 4 and cook for a further 15-20 minutes until golden but still a little wobbly in the centre. Cool completely on a wire rack before removing from the tin. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6.

Grease a spring form tin with a little butter and line the base with baking paper. Crush the biscuits to a fine crumb in a processor and pulse in the melted butter. Spread evenly over the base of the tin and bake for 7 minutes.

COMPILED BY ALIX NORMAN not only aid in cell regeneration but may also help prevent cancer and improve your skin.

The tannins in black tea, which provide its distinctive colour, not only give tea its slightly bitter taste, but also help the digestive processes and fight tooth decay, while the catechins it contains help reduce blood pressure and clogging of the arteries; studies in the Netherlands have shown that men who drink black tea are 50 per cent less likely to die of ischemic heart disease.

Often recommended as a dietary aid because it speeds up the metabolism, there is currently a great deal of research into Green Tea. Recent studies on mice have suggested that it may keep the brain cells from dying, staving off Alzheimer’s

and Parkinson’s; though this hasn’t yet been proved in humans there’s clearlyy no harm in enjoying a cup now and then. Meanwhile, researchers in the East have linked the very low levels of prostate cancer to the high consumption of Green Tea across Asia and there are indications that it may prevent certain types of diabetes.

But what about the notion that tea contains more caffeine than a cup of coffee? Well, though tea does contain some caffeine, it’s generally in much lower amounts, and you can drink it all day long without guilt – there are no calories in tea unless you add them yourself in the form

of milk or sugar.

Tea is beneficial in one w way or another the whole ye year round: drink tea with lemo lemon when you have the i t sniffl iffles, tea can boost your winter immune system and lemon helps to clear the sinuses; in summer, iced tea can cool you down and tea bags in the bath help soothe sunburn!

At the end of a tiring day, there’s nothing like a mug of hot tea to ease tension. It may have been around for millennia, but even as you read this, new benefits are being discovered. So put on the kettle and settle down to some quiet time, safe in the knowledge you’re doing your body – and mind – a lot of good.

12 FOOD & DRINK RESTAURANT REVIEW by Stephanie Robb

OTHER PLACES TO TRY NICOSIA DISTRICT Trattoria Romantica Evagora Pallikaridi Street, Tel: 22 377276 La Pasteria Spyrou Kyprianou Ave, Tel: 22 460460 Il Forno Ledras Street, Tel: 22 456454 Marzano Diagorou Ave, Tel: 22 663740Pizza Mia Prevezis Street, Tel: 22 676233 Da Paolo K. Paleologou Street, Tel: 22 438538 Il Baccaro Prodromos Ave, Tel: 22 676969 Pene e Vino Verenikis Street, Tel: 22 784545 Pizza Mia Spyrou Kyprianou Ave, Tel: 22 374444 Occhio Alkeou Street, Tel: 22 255111 Diosmos & Kanella Onasagorou Str, Tel: 22 681070 Vivere Holiday In, Tel: 22 712712

Treat yourself to gourmet Italian Caprice, Limassol

LIMASSOL DISTRICT Artima Charoupomylos Laniti, Vasilissis, old port, Tel: 25 820466 Pasta Mia Kolonakiou 26, Tel: 25 376999 Pizza Express Akadimias street, Tel: 25 318709 Al Pesto Amathountos Street, Tel: 25 328782 La Boca Columbia Plazza, Tel: 25 278000 Vivaldi Four Seasons Hotel, Tel: 25 858000 San Lorenzo Amathoundos Avenue, Tel: 25 322922 Baguette Brasserie Andrea Themistocleous Str, Tel: 25 107398

LARNACA DISTRICT Al Dente Athinon Ave Tel: 24 664540 Casa Mia Ristorante Italiano Okeania street, Oroklini, Tel: 24 644575 Italia Spaghetteria Academia Centre, Tel: 24 629450 Just Italian Kappari Street, Paralimni, Tel: 99 337890 La Casa Di Napa Solomou street, Ayia Napa, Tel: 23 722137 Zizi Ayia Napa, Tel: 23 723823 Zizi Protaras, Tel: 23 831414

PAPHOS DISTRICT Cavallini 65 Poseidonos Avenue, Tel: 26 964164 Grazie Ristorante Anastasias & Theoskepastis Street, Tel: 26 818298 Mare E Monti Aphrodite’s Ave, Tel: 26 967979 Risto La Plazza Cafe Bar Restaurant Alkminis street, Tel: 26 819921 Ristorante Bacco Elysium Hotel, Tel: 26 844444

VITAL STATISTICS

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here are times when the hectic routines of our daily lives demand we spoil ourselves during the weekend and what better way to do so than a delightful gourmet meal. It was with this in mind I treated myself in the best way possible by choosing to dine at the Caprice, located within the Londa hotel in Limassol.

Location-wise, Caprice has all the advantages a restaurant within a hotel can offer. It is ideally placed to have a superb sea view that remains enchanting all day. The atmosphere is of muted elegance and serenity, so you instinctively leave your hec-

pieces of art.

The best way to thoroughly appreciate this menu is by making your meal one of three courses. I did this by starting with Drippling di Pesce con Moscardin e Dressing di Salsemediterranee, a colourful fish with baby octopus and Mediterranean sauce. It was truly a masterpiece in presentation and taste. If seafood is not your ideal starter you could try the Carpaccio di Manzo con Rucole e Parmigiano, or beef Carpaccio, rocket and parmesan cheese.

However, if you want to commit to the Italian cuisine’s standards there are plenty of pasta based starters, including the fantastic Risotto alla

If seafood is not your ideal starter you could try the Carpaccio di Manzo con Rucole e Parmigiano, or beef Carpaccio, rocket and parmesan cheese tic routine at the door and just thoroughly enjoy your meal with nothing in mind.

Caprice has recently undergone a menu change, after hiring Giovanni Caraccioloto to create an Italian a-la-carte menu. The chef has brought a taste of authentic Italian cuisine, a feat not commonly managed in Cyprus. To put it in his own words, to chef Giovanni, “great food is like a work of art”. And this is how you should prepare for your meal at Caprice, to enjoy eating delectable

SPECIALTY Gourmet Italian WHERE Caprice restraurant, Londa Hotel, Yermasoyia PRICE €50-70 per person CONTACT 25 865555 be a crime. Chef Giovanni’s take on traditional Italian desserts should not be missed. Try the Tiramisu Secodoricettetradizionale, which is a tiramisu made to compete those found in the restaurants in Italy.

However the star of the night was the Rivisitazione del Cannolo Allasiciliana, which looked like an ice-cream like cream in a chocolate cone. The cream turned out to be ricotta cheese with sugar and chocolate pieces.

All in all, my visit to Caprice was memorable. The impeccable and genuinely friendly service only added to the experience. Everyone should treat themselves to a visit at Caprice which defi nitely won’t disappoint.

Milanese con Zafferano, one of the best risotto’s I have tasted in Limassol - chef Giovanni’s version was absolutely delicious.

On the mains menu there are meat dishes, fish dishes and dishes from the grill. The Filetto di Vitello con Patate al Miele e Salsa al Lambruscocarni is a mouthwatering fi llet of veal with honey potatoes and Lambrusco sauce. The veal was cooked to perfection.

Leaving Caprice without tasting its utterly delicious desserts would

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games Dead Space 3 Dead Space 3 brings Isaac Clarke and merciless soldier John Carver on a journey across space to discover the source of the Necromorph outbreak. Crash-landed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, Isaac must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts. He will then put his engineering skills to the ultimate test to create and customise weapons and survival tools.

The ice planet holds the key to ending the Necromorph plague forever, but first Isaac must overcome avalanches, treacherous ice-climbs and the violent wilderness. Facing deadlier evolved enemies and the brutal elements, Isaac can choose to team up, not only for his own survival but for that of mankind’s. Play together with a friend or go it alone as Isaac Clarke using the seamless new drop in, drop out co-op functionality. Each mode offers unique story ele-

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Team up and take down the terror together Play the full campaign in online co-op or single player Easy drop-in and drop-out play Head planet side and experience a hostile new environment Discover underworld cities and accept side missions

Eels

The Courteeners

Wonderful, Glorious For all Mark Everett’s extracurricular activities (documentary making, writing his autobiography), his music project, Eels, have built an often weird, sometimes wonderful, occasionally indulgent vault of songs over 10 albums. Wonderful, Glorious is too muffled of sound and too short of Everett’s trademark breathtaking moments of beauty or power to rank alongside his best work. Much as it would have benefited from the firm editorial hand that would have culled a couple of the weaker tracks, Eels don’t make bad records. Bombs Away channels Tom Waits; Peach Blossom showcases Everett’s knack of combining bombast with emotion and the epic The Turnaround is a rare moment of Dire Straits’ influence on contemporary pop.

By John Aizlewood

Anna In their hometown of Manchester, The Courteeners are popular enough to sell out the city’s 10,000-capacity MEN Arena. Elsewhere, however, they remain more of a niche concern - and their third album is unlikely to change that dynamic. Like the unlikely lovechild of Liam Gallagher and Guy Garvey, frontman Liam Fray veers from swaggering rabble-rouser (Lose Control) to trembling balladeer (When You Want Something You Can’t Have), without ever establishing an identity of his own. The highlights come late on. Money is a glorious glam-rock stomper and album closer Here Come the Young Men has a guitar line to make Johnny Marr jealous. But the overall result is unconvincing: the jury is still out on The Courteeners.

By Rick Pearson

We all use our smartphones and tablets in the bathroom, but tab there’s an unwritten rule that you the do it discreetly, and don’t really brag about ab touching your device your… well, you get while touching t idea. So while on one hand it’s the ide easy to bbe disgusted by CTA Digital’s stand, on the other we’re toilet paper/iPad paper/ probably all quietly reaching for our credit cards.

The iPad Pedestal Stand keeps the two important things we’ve come most im to rely on in the bathroom in easy February 10, 10 2013• SUNDAY S MAIL

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terror and fight to fend off the extinction of the human race Consoles: PC, PS3, Xbox 360

Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse If last week’s Biffy Clyro double album wasn’t enough chest-beating Celtic rock for you, this Scottish quintet are ploughing a similar furrow.

They’re not as loud as their neighbours but do have more teeth than their meek name and underwhelming album title suggest. Their fourth album is also their major-label debut, so they can expect more attention this time around. The songs largely deserve it. They’re at their best when operating at speed, as on the exhilarating Holy and the grandiose, anthemic Late March, Death March. They also show a lighter touch with the looping piano of the pretty opener, Acts of Man, and the minimal Dead Now. Mostly it’s a big sound - less Frightened Rabbit, more bunny boilers.

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reach. And a gooseneck mount means it’s easy to position your tablet at the optimal viewing angle. The only thing missing is a much needed splashguard, and a bottle of touchscreen-friendly disinfectant.

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The best item is, without doubt, the sleeping bag sofa: just imagine taking a lie down in that to watch a movie. Only, we might not make the end of the movie…

Bring the campsite indoors

Pre-damaged luggage makes a baggage handler’s job so much easier

At this time of year, camping sucks. But if designer Stephanie Hornig had her way we’d all be snuggled up in sleeping bags every night - with the help of her wonderful campsite-inspired furniture.

Hornig’s final-year project at the University of the Arts in Berlin let her explore the idea of bringing a life in the great outdoors inside for

The staff at your local airport responsible for getting your bags onto a plane in a timely manner are particularly skilled at damaging and destroying even the most rugged of suitcases. So why not beat them to the punch with

Catch that thief Building on the increasing popularity of iPhones and their theft Gotcha is an app that picks up ‘Find My iPhone,’ shakes it about, and well trounces it in the crime fighting department, quite frankly…

It’s all about the pin code. The minute some nasty evil thief inputs your code incorrectly the app takes a photograph of said criminal and emails it straight to a designated account - that is, yours. In addition to this the app also tracks the location of the phone.

Unfortunately, thieves being the clever lot they are, many have developed a myriad of tricks to deactivate the trusted ‘Find My iPhone’ app (generally by removing the sim card). Because Gotcha! reacts so swiftly - there is a much higher chance of actually catching the aggressor.

Gotcha! on Google Play

Tiffany’s engagement ring finder Yes, as if you hadn’t noticed; Valentine’s Day is just around the corner - and whether that fact makes you cry, panic, or jump on your Oprah inspired sofa with glee, there are some ways you (ladies) can increase your chances of meeting a handsome, monied, gorgeous suitor.

Visualisation is where it’s at. The key is in the details - you must (imperative) really see the colours, hear the sounds, and focus on exactly where you are and how you feel. Otherwise, well, the task is doomed to failure. Which brings us to the heavenly Tiffany’s App. It’s beautifully designed, showcasing the crystal clarity of the never-ending stream of delightful engagement rings on offer in the store, and could prove a brilliant tool for manifesting the relationship and ensuing the marriage of your dreams.

Time, effort and a lot of pennies have gone into designing this app! Not only will it bring a rich, bright sparkle to your handset but it might just bring you the suitor to boot - and you don’t even have to buy breakfast… www.itunes.apple.com

pre-distressed luggage that looks like it’s already been through countless flights - at least two.

Available in four different sizes and six different colors, the hardside Crash Baggage luggage comes pre-dinged and dented so you really don’t have to worry how it will be handled once it disappears into the bowels of an airport. Its creator claims it also makes it easier to spot your bags on a luggage carousel, but that feature’s a tough sell given every bag looks like it’s been through World War II after a flight.

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Flight DIRECTED BY Robert Zemeckis STARRING Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle US 2012 138 mins

FILM REVIEW by Tracy Philips

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ohn Gatins has received an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay for this fi lm. He worked on it for 12 years apparently. So while I am very happy for the man (an impressive amount of time to spend on one fi lm), it might have been a bit better if he had worked on it less and made it a tad shorter. Denzel Washington’s performance is fi ne, really quite good (also Oscar nominated) - as a pilot whose serious addiction to alcohol and cocaine presumably played some small part in him alienating his ex-wife and teenage son, but also miraculously seems to be instrumental in him steering a passenger jet to safety despite engine failure and bits falling off. He does a 360-degree turn and glides it into land, narrowly missing the John The Baptist Pentecostal Mission (“praise the Lord”) and saving all but two crew and four of the 102 passengers on board.

The fi lm opens with Captain Whip Whitaker (Washington) in a hotel room, hungover after a night with Katerina Marquez (played by Nadine Velazquez - naked naturally). It is not clear if the affair with Katerina, one of his fl ight attendants (although not for long), contributed to the break-up of his marriage or is a convenient source of comfort after. Either way, she doesn’t seem too bothered about getting on a plane flown by a man she knows is tanked up on alcohol and cocaine. Why would she be?

The confidence it gives him is obvious, especially when he says, “no auto-pilot, I am flying today!” His co-pilot looks seriously worried though, although he doesn’t feel the need to mention it at the time. If he had, they might not have flown at all and he would have saved his two crushed legs. It gets slightly more surreal when Captain Whip surreptitiously pours himself a vodka

Despite the title Flight is more a treatise on the evils of alcohol and drugs than a disaster movie and orange while talking to the passengers over the speaker system. I thought, this is shaping up like a serious version of Airplane.

Despite the title of the fi lm, it is less an airplane disaster movie than some sort of treatise on the evils of alcohol and drugs. The fi rst 20 minutes or so is severe turbulence, people strapped in upside down or hanging by a foot from the overhead locker area and, “we have lost vertical control,” action.

I made a mental note to myself to keep the seat belt on at all times during the next fl ight I take. The rest of the fi lm (about two hours) is spent watching our national hero struggle with guilt and alcoholism on the road to redemption and personal recovery. And along the way he engages in a less than convincing relationship with a recovering heroine addict and former prostitute called Nicole (played by Kelly Reilly). Whip meets Nicole in hospital and tells her “together, we’ll save the world.” Gripping stuff. You can see where this is heading and I wouldn’t have thought it was to an Oscar nomination, but I wasn’t on the committee.

Robert Zemeckis’ direction and Gatins’ screenplay seem to have a rather alarmingly Christian message. Too many “praise Jesus” and “God has a higher plan for you” moments for my liking, along with shots of the nice people at Alcoholics Anonymous. The fi lm fails to deal with any of the potentially interesting questions about what ac-

Robert Zemeckis’ direction and Gatins’ screenplay seem to have a rather alarmingly Christian message

filmsummaries Flight Seasoned airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly everyone on board.

After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero – but, as more information comes to light, there are more and more questions as to who or what was really at fault, and what really happened on that plane? Also starring Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle and Bruce Greenwood. Directed

by Robert Zemeckis. (Drama, 138 mins.)

Our rating:

Gambit Harry Deane (Colin Firth) is an expert in fine art, though he’s equally accomplished at taking abuse from his insolent boss. That’s about to change. The plan is to trick the avid art collector into buying a fake Monet painting – and, to assist in the heist, Deane hires a rowdy Texas cowgirl (Cameron Diaz) to help him fool the richest man in England. As the plan begins to unravel, however, Deane finds he’s falling in love with

tually happened up there in the air and who is really responsible for the crash. On the one hand we are supposed to believe that despite being off his head on alcohol and coke, Whip Whitaker did what no other pilot could do in a simulation of the same experience. So Whitaker is a perfectly functioning alcoholic and super pilot, then. But if the alcohol and drugs didn’t cause the crash, it was a fault with the plane (which by the way nobody seems to be the slightest bit interested in), then the illegal substances presumably helped him save lives. Maybe it was

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the rodeo queen, ensuring further complications. Also starring Alan Rickman, Stanley Tucci and Tom Courtenay. Directed by Michael Hoffman. (Crime comedy, 89 mins.)

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Sammy’s Great Escape Sammy and Ray, a pair of leatherback turtles, are captured by a poacher and shipped off to a spectacular aquarium show in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape – but, with their new friends Jimbo the bugeyed 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: N/A

Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are the married couple seen in ‘Knocked Up’ – but, a few years after the events of that movie, their lives are anything but tranquil. They face challenges of parenting, loss of romance and financial woes, not to mention dysfunctional families. These stresses are exacerbated as they both approach their 40th birthday. Also starring Maude Apatow, Iris Apatow, Jason Segel and Megan Fox. Directed by Judd Apatow. (Comedy, 134 mins.)

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Django Unchained Texas, 1858. Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a German dentist turned bounty hunter, buys a slave called Django (Jamie Foxx) in a rather unorthodox manner – but, since Schultz doesn’t believe in slavery, he soon frees Django and the two become partners in Schultz’s business. After a profitable winter, they head to Mississippi where their goal is to locate Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). When they succeed, they find an excuse to be invited to the plantation where she is being held. There, they are guests

the boost he needed to do the unthinkable? They certainly didn’t hinder him in his efforts. So why does he have to spend the next two hours beating himself up about it and trying to atone for his sins?

This fi lm is deeply unsatisfactory but relatively easy watching, if dull and a bit preachy at times. It just goes on for far too long. John Goodman has a mildly amusing cameo role as Whitaker’s friend and drug supplier, who turns up with the expensive stash and the “stroke mags” when required. Don Cheadle plays the lawyer, which is not much of a role as there is no real courtroom drama. There is of course the enquiry, near the end of the fi lm. I won’t spoil it by telling you what happens but suffice to say Whitaker’s lawyer and best friend think it is a good idea to put Whip up in a hotel room, with access to an excessively packed mini bar, the night before the hearing. There is a reasonable soundtrack that includes the Rolling Stones and the Cowboy Junkies. But overall, nothing to write home about. Washington’s Oscar nomination is not quite as shocking as Gatins’. But best original screenplay, really?

of the mansion’s master, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where their act bamboozles everyone except Candie’s personal slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), who smells a rat the moment he sets eyes on Django.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino. (Period action with comedy elements, 165 mins.)

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Texas Chainsaw 3D The killer family of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ are presumed dead, angry townspeople having burned their farmhouse to the ground. 20 years later, a young woman named Heather (Alexandra Daddario) learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her grandmother, and decides to bring her friends along on a road trip to investigate her inheritance. On arrival she finds she has inherited a mansion – but knows nothing of the terrors that lurk in the basement. Turns out Leatherface survived the fire. Also starring Trey Songz and Dan Yeager. Directed by John Luessenhop. In 3D. (Horror, 92 mins.)

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15 Gambit

Another unnecessary remake T

he Coen Brothers seem to like remaking old movies these days, as we know from The Ladykillers and True Grit. Some might say that is just being lazy. Why bother unless you have something to add? The 1966 original of Gambit starring Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine is somewhat dated now, but as dated art heist, comedy capers go, it still works reasonably well. And even watching it now, the young Mr Caine has a certain appeal as a suave cockney cat burglar posing as an old Etonian while attempting to rip off the world’s richest man.

Fast-forward 50 years and transfer the setting to London, which by the way is the only thing in this fi lm that looks really cool. Colin Firth (who takes Caine’s role) certainly isn’t. Much as I love him as an actor if he isn’t wading out of a lake somewhere in Derbyshire in a wet, white shirt and breeches, it just doesn’t do it for me. Harry Deane, his character in this film, is no Mr Darcy, and no Michael Caine. He is, unlike the original, actually posh, definitely understated and slightly tragic through parts of the film. He is bullied by his boss, the media tycoon, nudist, art collector and general “shitbag” Lionel Shahbandar (played by Alan Rickman), an uncouth specimen who thinks he can get his kit off whenever he likes and impress a woman by chucking his money about, abusing his staff and hanging a few Monets on his wall.

Deane has a plan to get revenge on Shahbandar, with the help of his forger friend the Major (Tom Courtenay) and Texan rodeo queen PJ Puznowski (Cameron Diaz). Why the Texan cowgirl element to the plot? Who knows? Diaz is frankly as overdone as Firth is underdone. The plan is to sell Shahbandar a fake Monet Haystacks, which Deane thinks

The Coen brothers’ Gambit is a star-studded rom-com and con but pales in comparison to the original Shahbandar is too much of an “ignoramus” to notice is not the real thing.

As in the original, there is a dream sequence in which everything goes according to plan, followed by the real thing, which takes longer and naturally doesn’t. And while it is relatively amusing in parts, as a farce it is weak. There are a few slapstick moments that raise a smile: Colin Firth trying to lift a chair (marginally funnier than it sounds), getting caught in a number of compromising situay losing his trousers tions and finally ge of the Savoy Hoon a window ledge tel while trying to steal a Ming vase. Firth may not be a natural comedy actorr but a better e made more script could have of his talents. I would have expected more of Joel and Ethan e Americans Coen, but maybe e British just don’t get the sense of humour.. Witty it isn’t.

The funniestt moe fi lm ment in the whole onist is when a receptionist izzes at the Savoy quizzes Firth about his penis, “how is the Mang?” jor this evening?”

This follows a coneen versation between out Deane and PJ about he Deane’s friend the inforger, Major Wingate. Two of the ten hotel staff listen s in amazement as

Finding Nemo 3D Marlin, a clownfish, is devastated when his wife and 399 or so of their children are wiped out by a barracuda, and becomes over-protective of his sole surviving son Nemo. One day, stung by his father’s observation that he’s not a strong swimmer, Nemo sets out for a boat on a dare and is captured by a diver, who relocates him to his office aquarium – so Marlin sets off to look for him, getting into various adventures including a run-in with some sharks, an encounter with a school of jellyfish and a ride on a sea turtle, not to mention being swallowed by a whale. Directed by Andrew Stanton in 2003. In 3D. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 104 mins.)

Our rating:

Les Miserables In early 19th-century France, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) is at the end of his 19 years in a brutal Toulon prison after stealing a loaf of bread. On his release under the stern eye of Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe), the desperate Valjean is destitute and hungry; he is given food and shelter by the Bishop of Digne, who

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DIRECTED BY Michael Hoffman STARRING Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz, Alan Rickman US 2012 89 mins

also covers for him when Valjean steals the silver and is caught by Javert, an act of forgiveness that changes the course of Valjean’s life. Some years later, he’s the respected mayor of the poor town of Vigau, as well as a benevolent, generous factory owner. Fantine (Anne Hathaway) is one of his employees, fired by the manager when he discovers the unmarried Fantine has a child. Fantine falls ill, and Valjean promises to take care of her little daughter Cosette. Still hunted by Javert for breaking his parole, Valjean makes a new life for himself and the now teenage Cosette (Amanda Seyfried), who falls in love with Marius (Eddie Redmayne), a Parisian revolutionary. Directed by Tom Hooper. (Musical drama, 157 mins.)

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Jack Reacher When five pedestrians are shot by a lone sniper, the evidence points to an ex-soldier named James Barr; Barr is quickly arrested – but, before signing a confession, he demands that DA Alex Rodin (Richard Jenkins) “get Jack Reacher”. Although no-one knows how to do that, Reacher (Tom Cruise) turns up anyway. He’s a former military investigator, he’s seen the news, and

they take this to be a coded reference to the couple’s sexual exploits (As if, don’t get me started on the chemi lack of sexual chemistry!).

Cue raised eyebrows, more inn innuendo and much Ju snickering. Julian Rhind-Tutt and Pip Torre Torrens are really very t excellent in their cameo roles haugh staff, who look as the haughty De down on Deane as he struggles to find a credit card that will cover the extortionate cost of a suite for what they assume to be his Texan tart. Frankly, they are the highlight of the who film. Nothing whole els comes close in else te terms of laugh out lo loud comedy.

When it comes t lazy, it doesn’t to g get much lazier t than a few nat tional stereotypes e either.

Diaz as a tr trailer trash Texa attempting to an s show some Japanes nese businessmen how to do karaoke is

he has history with Barr from the Afghan war zone. He surprises Barr’s lawyer Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), the DA’s daughter, with his unique technique and detective work – and the surprises continue as a possible conspiracy unfolds. Also starring Werner Herzog. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. (Action thriller, 130 mins.)

Our rating:

An… [What If…] On a night in 2009, in the Plaka area of Athens, Demetris (Christoforos Papakaliatis) has a choice. He can either take his dog for a walk – in which case he’ll meet Christina (Marina Kalogerou) – or stay home, in which case he’ll fall victim to a robbery. In the first scenario he’ll get a chance to alleviate his loneliness, experience a powerful love affair, fatherhood, but also unemployment and infidelity. In the second he’ll keep living alone, facing the consequences of the Greek recession. A simple ‘what if’ will decide his destiny and happiness. Also starring Giorgos Constantinou. Directed by Papakaliatis. In Greek. (Drama, 111 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

a low point. And Diaz’ Texan drawl really does grate on your nerves. In the end Harry Deane is never cool but he’s never irritating as such. And here’s another thing, when you go to watch a romantic comedy of any sort, you do kind of expect the two romantic leads to have at least a modicum of chemistry between them. As I have already suggested, Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine, yes, Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, no, no, no.

In what possible universe would this ever work? I was expecting a bit of flirting at least. In 1966, the sexual tension was there. It was pretty clear and straightforward. This is 2013, and admittedly sexuality is less straightforward these days, but I could happily have believed that Harry Deane is more interested in the Japanese businessmen that in PJ. Overall a pretty pointless remake, in my view. But then, there never was much point to this kind of movie.

Just don’t get too excited about the fact that this is a Coen brothers’ movie. The Big Lebowski it isn’t. But it is watchable and if you’ve got nothing better to do on a Monday evening, why not?

Life of Pi Growing up in Pondicherry, India during the 1970s, Piscine, known to all as Pi (played as a teenager by Suraj Sharma, as an adult by Irrfan Khan), has a rich life. His father owns a zoo, and Pi spends his days among tigers, zebras, hippos, and other creatures. But after Pi attempts to befriend a Bengal tiger, named Richard Parker, the young boy learns a harsh lesson from his father about the relationship between human and beast. As circumstances worsen for them, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a Japanese cargo ship – but Pi soon finds himself in the company of a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and Richard Parker after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Directed by Ang Lee. In 3D. (Drama, 127 mins.)

Our rating: ****

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey A hobbit named Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug.

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continued from page 15 company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever … Gollum.

Also starring Richard Armitage and Andy Serkis.

Directed by Peter Jackson. In English, with occasional dialogue in made-up languages with Greek subtitles. In 3D. (Adventure fantasy, 169 mins.)

Argo

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Argo

Hotel Transylvania

As the 1979 Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, six of the American embassy staff escape the mob attacking the compound and find shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador in Tehran. Another 52 Americans are taken hostage.

CIA ‘exfiltration’ specialist Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) concocts a risky plan to free the six living in daily danger of discovery.

He plans to fly in posing as the producer of a Hollywood sci-fi movie, ‘Argo’, and – with the six consular staff posing as his location scouting team, using false papers – lead them out on a flight to safety and freedom. It’s a crazy plan; but will it work? Based on a true story. Also starring Alan Arkin and John Goodman. Directed by Affleck. (Dramatic thriller, 120 mins.)

Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. It’s a special weekend and Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family and many more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’ 118th birthday. For good old Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem; but everything could change for the over-protective dad when one ordinary human guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis. Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky. In 3D. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Cartoon comedy, 91 mins.)

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The Impossible A family of five is caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the chaos and mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time, the Thailand tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Maria (Naomi Watts) is swept away and struggles to survive with her eldest son, teenage Lucas (Tom Holland).

Somewhere in the chaos – or perhaps already dead – are her husband Henry (Ewan McGregor) and her two smaller sons, Simon and Thomas. Based on a true story. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. (Drama, 114 mins.)

Our rating:

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An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 10.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbara Cine Studio, tonight 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday 9pm, presented by Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy Jerichow Cine Studio, Monday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy Faust Cine Studio, Friday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Argo (12) Rio 4 7.50 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 2) 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Impossible (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.10pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Anna Karenina (K) Rio 1 (in English) at 7.35pm, weekends also at 2.30 and 5pm; Rio 3 (dubbed into Russian) at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian). Tel: 7777-8383

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Barbara Barbara (Nina Hoss) is a doctor in 1980s East Germany, banished to a rural hospital as punishment for applying for an exit visa. As her lover from the West carefully plots her escape, Barbara waits patiently and avoids friendships with her colleagues – except for Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld) the hospital’s head physician, who is warmly attentive to her.

Even as she finds herself falling for him, however, Barbara still can’t be sure that Andre is not a spy.

As her defensive wall slowly starts to crumble, she is eventually forced to make a profound decision about her future. Directed by Christian Petzold. In German, with Greek subtitles. (Drama, 105 mins.)

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Jerichow Thomas (Benno Furmann), a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran, returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali (Hilmi Sozer), a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That’s when Thomas meets Laura (Nina Hoss), his Turkish boss’s young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born.

Directed by Christian Petzold in 2008. In German, with English subtitles. (Drama, 93 mins.)

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In late-19 -century St. Petersburg, the vivacious Anna (Keira Knightley), wife of respected politician Karenin (Jude Law), embarks on a torrid affair with a handsome Russian cavalry officer, Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Her husband is initially understanding, asking only that Anna end the affair – but Anna is unable to stop, her mad love sending her on a path to self-destruction. Also starring Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald and Domhnall Gleeson. Directed by Joe Wright. NOTE THAT SOME SCREENINGS ARE DUBBED INTO RUSSIAN. (Drama, 129 mins.)

agrees to help and, in the process, discovers the true hero within. Directed by Peter Ramsey. In 3D. (Cartoon adventure, 97 mins.)

Rise of the Guardians Jack Frost (voice of Chris Pine) is chosen to join an elite group of superheroes – the so-called ‘Guardians’, namely Santa Claus (voice of Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (voice of Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (voice of Isla Fisher) and the Sandman, whose job is to protect children everywhere. Jack is an unwilling hero; he’d prefer to roam the world on his own, freezing ponds and causing snow days – but the world’s children are threatened by Pitch (voice of Jude Law), a.k.a. The Boogie Man, who wants to turn dreams into nightmares and banish belief in Santa, Bunny, and Tooth. Jack reluctantly

Flight (18) Rio 1 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm. Tel: 77778383 Gambit (K) Rio 6 at 8pm, weekends also at 3pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 8 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 This is 40 (18) Rio 3 at 7.40pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Django Unchained (15) Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Texas Chainsaw 3D (18) Rio 2 at 7.45pm. Tel: 25-871410 Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 2 (in Greek), weekends only at 3 and 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Les Miserables (K) Rio 6 at 10pm, weekends also at 5pm.

Tel: 25-871410 Life of Pi (K) Rio 5, weekends only at 2.30 and 5pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 2.30, 4.15 and 6pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.25pm, weekends only at 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbara Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org (K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

LARNACA Argo (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm. Tel: 77778383 The Impossible (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.25, 7.50 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.10pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Anna Karenina (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5 and 7.30pm (in English) and 10.10pm (dubbed into Russian).

Tel: 7777-8383 Flight (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.30 and 10.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Gambit (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 This is 40 (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40pm. Tel: 77778383 Finding Nemo 3D (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 An… (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in Greek) at 10.15pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Life of Pi (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25 and 7.45pm, weekends also at 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Hotel Transylvania (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) 5.25pm, weekends only 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Argo (12) Rio 7 at 5pm (weekdays only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Faust A version of the German legend in which a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge – except that in this version Faust (Johannes Zeiler) is a poor doctor who struggles even to pay for bread, and finds himself resorting to the town’s evil moneylender (Anton Adasinsky). The latter leads Faust on a dreamlike tour through the city – though, instead of a greed for knowledge, this Faust has much simpler desires which don’t become clear until later. Directed by Alexander Sokurov. In German, with Greek subtitles. (Fantasy drama, 140 mins.)

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The Impossible (12) Rio 3 at 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Anna Karenina (K) Rio 1 (in English) at 5, 7.30 and 10pm; Rio 5 (dubbed into Russian) at 5 and 7.30pm.

Tel: 26-207000 Flight (18) Rio 6 at 5pm (weekdays only), 7.30 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Gambit (K) Rio 4 at 7.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 This is 40 (18) Rio 2 at 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Django Unchained (15) Rio 4 at 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Finding Nemo 3D (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30 and 5.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Les Miserables (K) Rio 2 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4pm.

Tel: 26-207000 Jack Reacher (15) Rio 5 at 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Life of Pi (K) Rio 3, weekends only at 3 and 5.20pm.

Tel: 26-207000 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12) Rio 6, weekends only at 4.30pm. Tel: 26207000 Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 6 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 3pm. Tel: 26-207000 Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 1 (in English, in 2D), weekends only at 3pm. Tel: 26-207000

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17 Tourists Who Shoot Photography exhibition and book launch by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert. Argo Gallery, 64E Digeni Akrita Avenue, Nicosia. Opening: February 13, 7.30 pm, February

14 – March 2. Monday – Friday 10.00 to 13.00 and 17.00 to 20.00, Saturday 10.00 to 13.00. info@argogallery.org.

The accompanying book Tourists Who Shoot is available for purchase at the gallery, priced at €12 on the opening night and €15 thereafter

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ext time you’re on holiday and take out your camera: stop.

Before you contort your face and assume an unnatural pose to get the shot you want: look around. Because among the hundreds of tourists snapping away, there might be someone who’s not focusing on the view: they’re focused on you!

Tourists of the world, beware: you are the subject of the photography exhibition: Tourists Who Shoot, and the woman behind the lens is Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert.

Modest, softly-spoken and possessed of a keen insight in both mind and lens, Theopisti has spent the last four years travelling to major tourist destinations around the world to capture - not the sights - but the visitors. “It’s all my husband’s fault!” she says with a smile when asked about the inspiration for the project. “I feel there’s a special relationship between a photographer and a foreign destination, you’re earning something that you can take back home. But my husband hates taking photos, posing for pictures or even holding a camera! He feels that, by being behind the lens, you’re losing out on the actual experience of the place.” One day, the couple were Ayia Sofia in Istanbul when they noticed that tourists were snapping, not the interior itself, but a poster depicting exactly the same view that surrounded them. “My husband pointed out the ridiculousness of the situation: taking a photograph of a photograph as it were, and that was it. The idea was born.” Theopisti started photographing tourists that very day.

In the course of completing Tourists Who Shoot, Theopisti has taken thousands of shots at major

An exhibition this week turns the tables on visitors to tourist hotspots, showing photographs of them taking photographs. ALIX NORMAN gets a sneak preview

tourist destinations around the world. Her travels have included the Pyramids of Egypt, the Acropolis in Athens, famous locations in Prague, New York, Ravenna, St Louis and even Paphos. But despite such a comprehensive body of work, she began her career as a painter, teaching and working in Prague, after a varied educational route that included a Fulbright Scholarship for her Masters in Advertising in Illinois, Art Education in Texas and a PhD in Museum Studies in the UK, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the AG Leventis Foundation (France).

The two themes of art and education seem to run throughout her life, for as well as being a renowned photographer, Theopisti currently works as an Associate Professor of Photography at the Cyprus University of Technology.

“As a teenager I wanted to be a painter, an artist; I didn’t know what a photographer was and the

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subject was certainly not taught in the schools here.”

Although many things appear to have influenced her move towards a career in photography, three incidents stand out. “While in the USA, I embarked on a project called The Dress in which I shot the same dress on a number of women. It was more of a performance than an exhibition, but I won an award for it that enabled me to buy more fi lm and further my skills. Then, at the University of Texas at Austin, I met the anthropologist and Professor of Photography Mark Goodman who taught me how to use the darkroom properly and work with street photography.” The third incident occurred in Prague: the couple had fallen so in love with the city that they decided to relocate. While teaching Art History at the Anglo-American University, Theopisti continued her artistic work. “I got to a point where I was painting in a photorealistic

style. At some point I stopped and thought: ‘What’s the point?

I’m more interested in the photographic image than in painting!’

So I turned my attention to photography.”

She believes that to really understand a subject you have to research and study it for a long time, and her upcoming exhibition is a form of research, a way of understanding how people use their cameras. “When photography started, having one’s photo taken was a rare occurrence, so the poses were very formal and serious. As it became more common and more people had access to cameras, the poses have become more playful.”

It is this seeming playfulness

What’sonlistings Exhibitions Nicosia district

The Celebration of Love Group art exhibition.

Opens February 12, 7pm until February 14.

Atelier K, (Karima Ben Otman’s Art Studio ),10B Georgiou Malekidi Street, Limassol.

7.30pm-10.30pm. karimabenotman@live. com

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of both photographer and subject that Theopisti has captured in her shots, viewable both at the exhibition and in the accompanying book. “Now I see opportunity everywhere I go,” she says. “From being merely a tourist with a camera, I feel I’ve become a ‘post-tourist’. I now look first at the tourists and not the location.”

Tourists Who Shoot, depicts the joyful abandon, intensity and humorous struggle any tourist experiences in their quest to secure the perfect shot. Visit the upcoming exhibition and prepare to be moved and charmed as you identify with the photographic efforts of Theopisti’s subjects. Who knows, maybe you’ve been caught on fi lm yourself!

Tourists who Shoot Solo photography exhibition and the book launch by Theopisti StylianouLambert. Opens February 13, 7.30pm until March 2. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue. Monday-Friday: 10am1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10am1pm. Tel: 22-754009. www.argogallery.org The Work of Art as a Functional Object Second part of group exhibition.

Opens February 13, 8pm until March 8.

Centre of Contemporary Art Diotopos, 11 DZ, Crete Street. Tuesday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 22-766117 Paraskeva Pappagelli Solo sculpture exhibition. Until February 15. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street. Monday-Friday: 10.30pm12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30pm-12.45pm. Tel: 22-760286 Impressions Solo photo exhibition by Sergey Yastrzhembskiy. Until February 28. The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 86-88-90 Phaneromenis Street. Visiting hours: Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. (except on bank holidays). Tel: 22-128157 Social Contract Solo painting exhibition by Avraam Christou. Until February 28. Alpha Gallery, Makarios Avenue & 3 Papanikoli Street. Monday-Saturday 10.30 am-1pm and 4.30pm-7.30pm. Tel: 22751325 / 99-303366. www.art.com.cy

Lush Art in Austere Times Fifth edition of group exhibition featuring works at affordable prices. Until March 1.

Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Descendance Group exhibition. Until March 2. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street. Monday-Friday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm.

Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-766655 Asia Minor, 90 Years of Memory Exhibition of relics, records and works of art from Asia Minor. Until March 31. The Cultural Centre of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation, Archbishop Kyprianos Plaza. Monday-Friday: 9am-4.30pm, Saturday: 9am-1pm. Tel: 22-430008 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. TuesdaySaturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm.

Sunday: 10am-4pm. 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: 22-525691

Larnaca district Mindscapes Solo painting exhibition by Thekla Papadopoulou. Until February 28. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday: 11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 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: 24657745

Limassol district The Celebration of Love Group art exhibition. Opens February 12, 7pm until February 14. Atelier K, (Karima Ben Otman’s Art Studio ),10B Georgiou Malekidi Street. 7.30pm-10.30pm. karimabenotman@live.com

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18 WHAT’S ON Nightlife Nicosia district The Sound Of Nick Warren Well-known English house DJ and producer gets behind the decks. February 15. Occhio Lounge, 23, Alkeou Street, Engomi. 11pm. €17/12. Tel: 99-399769 Anna Vissi Cypriot diva performs live. February 15.

Blinkers Club, 5 Andrea Avraamidi, Engomi. 11.30pm. €70/€35. Tel: 22-351550 Vassilis Kazoulis Popular Greek singer performs live. February 16. DihoRock, 1 Apodimon Square, Lympia. 10.30pm. Tel: 99-463699 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 22844000 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

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 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

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 Monday-Sunday. Horseshoe Pub, Larnaca-Dhekelia road, opposite Palm Beach Hotel. Tel: 24646111

Limassol district 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

Half Note Blue velvet play classic soul, funk and RnB every Saturday night. Half note Music Bar, cnr Saripolis and Socratous st. Tel: 25377050 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: 25879082

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 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: 22434193 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 10am-2am. 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

Lush Playing R&b, hip-hop, basement and old school music. Friday and Saturday, 11.30pm.

6 Evagorou Avenue. Tel: 99- 853333 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 Skaraveos Restaurant, café and bar with Persian Cuisine. Wednesdays: electronic music, Thursdays: reggae and Fridays: progressive psychedelic and Saturdays: rock and funk.

11pm-2am. Nikokreontos St. Tel: 99-935777 Amalfi Lounge Bar Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday live music. 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 Orpheas Piano Bar With live jazz and piano on various nights.

Orpheas Piano Bar, 24 Athinas St, old Nicosia. Free entrance. Tel: 99-697259

Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel Every Monday Jezebel & LisaMarie present a themed show 9.45pm for an hour at Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel. Free entry 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: 99-805390/99170667

Larnaca district Vassilis Kazoulis Popular Greek singer performs live. February 14. ShowRoom Café, 21 Makariou Avenue. 9pm. Tel: 95-167187 Casa de la Musica Club night with resident DJ Jon Fitz joined by internationally famous guest DJs from Ibiza TBA. Every Friday night. Club Deep, Finikoudes Promenade. 12 midnight-4.30am. €10 with a free drink. Tel: 97-843001

comfortable lounge atmosphere, gourmet dining and a few surprises this could turn out to be quite an evening.

Night of Love Lounge atmosphere, gourmet dinner and many surprises, with local singer George Stamataris serenading guests. February 14. Teatro Lounge Bar – Restaurant, Grigoris Afxentiou 9, Nicosia. 9pm. Tel: 22-864395/77777181. E- mail: teatroinformation@gmail.com

Cuba Tropical Local band playing live 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 night. Every Thursday, quiz night. Special theme nights once a fortnight. Near Esso station, 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 Jazzy B With live jazz music on various nights each week. JazzyB, Corner of Anexartisias & Athinon str. €8. 10.30pm. Tel: 99-605502

by Bejay Browne

Paphos district

Prepare for a night of love at Teatro Listen up lovebirds, Christmas seemed like it was only yesterday, but we are already in the second week of February and you know what that means, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.

Going out for Valentine’s Day is one of the most popular ways to celebrate this romantic holiday, especially if you haven’t had a chance to get out together for awhile. Where you go and what you do can make the difference between just another date or an incredibly memorable event.

For most couples Valentine’s Day means a nice dinner out on the town and if it’s a unique dining experience you’re looking for then look no further than the Teatro Lounge Bar – Restaurant this Thursday, located on the ground floor of the THOC new building, for an evening aptly named Night of Love. And just to get you in the mood for a little romance local singer George Stamataris will be serenading couples from nine o’ clock until the early hours in the splendid setting of Teatro. With its

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Latin Nights at Notos Latin music in a rooftop bar. Notos, Harbour area. Every Thursday and Saturday.

10 pm until late. Tel: 26-939616 Paphiessa Hotel Thursday: Dave Roberts sings hits, Paphiessa Hotel, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99185952 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: 23-721838 Vanilla Bar Playing funky house tunes. Vanilla Bar, 41 Makarios III Avenue, Ayia Napa. MondaySunday 9am-2am. 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

Take a well earned rest after shopping Dominate King, Paphos A clothes store might not be the first place that springs to mind when you’re in the mood for a relaxing drink or a tasty snack but a new Dominate store in Paphos offers just that.

The eight-floor building opened a few months ago in a prime location close to the technical school of Paphos.

This is the third shop in the Paphos-based chain and the new Dominate King is also home to the head office of the organisation.

On the ground floor of the contemporary, glass-fronted building is the store’s café. Serving a wide choice of drinks, coffees and snacks, this is a great place to rest weary feet after spending time browsing the goods on offer, which include women and men’s fashion clothing, shoes, bags and much more.

This café is a good central location to meet friends for a relaxed catch-up and gossip.

Often frequented by students from nearby schools at lunchtime, Dominate café is open only during shop hours and closes most evenings just after 7pm.

Light meals and snacks as well as more substantial offerings such as burgers and chips are all on offer. Dishes are well cooked, well presented and served by chatty, smiling staff, which makes a welcome change from some other Paphos cafés I’ve visited recently.

If you’re feeling peckish, I can recommend the chicken crepe; it’s delicious and priced at under €5. Soft drinks are €1 and a glass of wine is €3.50.

The café is fashionably styled and decked out with modern chairs, tables and sofas. There are also a few brightly coloured chairs in the shape of hands - which are surprisingly comfortable.

The entire building reeks style and no corners have been cut in the café. It’s not a large place, but an outdoor seating area, for use in warmer months, will increase the number of possible covers.

It may take a while to catch on in Paphos, but Dominate King has created a great space with good service, tasty food and well priced drinks which should see them doing well in coming months.

If you’re passing through the centre of Paphos, it’s well worth dropping in for a spot of retail therapy (much of the women’s clothing I aspire to see hanging in my wardrobe) topped off by a well earned glass of wine.

Dominate King Where: 17, Anexartisias Street, Paphos Contact: 26 952900 When: open until 7.30pm Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri, 3pm- Wed and 7pm Sat

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19 What’sonlistings Da Vinci Machines – An exhibition of Genius Exhibition displaying more than 60 interactive machines from Da Vinci original drawings, 15 high quality reproduction artworks, giant art panels and rare copies of Leonardo codices. Until February 28. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Vasilissis Street, (Medieval Castle Area).

Tel: 25-342123 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. Monday-Friday 8am-1pm. Tel: 25745777 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 9am-1pm, 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: 26-652760 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: 26-962597/ 99-316485 Stone Sculptures Permanent exhibition by Andreas Constantinou. Polis Chrysochous, near central square. Call artist for viewing. Tel: 26-321227/99-585543 Michael Gorman Figurative paintings and prints. 20 Theodorou Kolokotroni, Peyia. Open daily.

Tel: 99-952376/99-006832/26-621424 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: 26-621130

Famagusta district Blue Spice Restaurant Permanent exhibition of Carolina Alotus’ works. Blue Spice, 29 Aphroditis St (between Perneras and Protaras rd), Ayia Napa. Tel: 23-832088. www.CarolinaAlotus.com Where are the Rights of the Children of Karpasia?

Permanent photographic exhibition.

Famagusta Cultural Centre, 35 Evagorou St, Dherynia. Closed Sundays. MondayFriday 7.30am-4.30pm and Saturday 9.30am-4.30pm. Tel: 23-740860

Music Nicosia district Nature in the Soul The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with two distinguished artists with conductor Ayis Ioannides and soprano Margarita Elia. February 13. Strovolos Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. €12/7.

Tel: 22-313010

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Limassol district Nature in the Soul The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with two distinguished artists with conductor Ayis Ioannides and soprano Margarita Elia. February 14. Rialto Theatre. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 77-777745 Rigolleto - The Met: Live in HD Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera of New York in high-definition. February 16. Rialto Theatre. 7.55pm. €20/15.

With Greek and English Subtitles Tel: 77777745. Tickets: www.rialto.com.cy

Paphos district Nature in the Soul The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra collaborates with two distinguished artists with conductor Ayis Ioannides and soprano Margarita Elia. February 15.

Markideion Theatre. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 26-932571

Theatre & Dance Nicosia district Kali-Kantzar & Co A musical directed by Lea Maleni with music by Dimitris Zavros. Until February 10. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Every Saturday and Sunday at 6pm. In Greek. The performances on February 9 and 10 will be with Greek and English surtitles. Tel: 22-864300 The Glass Menagerie The new theatre group Krama presents play by Tennessee Williams. Until February 11. THOC New Stage, Kampou 29, Strovolos. Every Sunday and Monday at 8.30pm. €10/8. In Greek. Tel: 22-480300 Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy. February 11-12 &14. ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959 Misery Stephen King’s psychological thriller staged by Satiriko Theatre. Every Friday and Saturday. Until February 13.

Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia.

Every Wednesday and Friday at 8.30pm.

In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609. satiriko@cytanet.com.cy. www.satiriko.com The Grönholm Method The New Stage of THOC presents play by the Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán Ferrer. February 14 until February 23.

THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 77-772717 The Children of Cain Theatro Ena presents the psychological thriller by Andreas Thomopoulos.

Feburary 15 until March 31. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203 Trelantonis Stage 018 of THOC presents a classic work of Greek literature by Penelope Delta. February 16 until February 23.

THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Saturday February 16 & 23 at 6pm and Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300 Are You Afraid of the Dark?

A play aimed to help children overcome their fears, based on Jill Tomlinson’s fairytale. February 16. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. 5pm. €5 for children/€9 for adults. In Greek. Tel: 99-358663/99621669 In the Land of Peter Pan The Puppet Group of Satiriko Theatre presents work by James Barry. February 17 until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Every Sunday at 10.30am. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22312940/22-421609 Antigone THOC presents Sophoclean tragedy directed by Despina Gatziou. Until February 23. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22864300 Isadora Duncan Satiriko Theatro presents play by Thanasis Theologis based on the life of the famous dancer. Until February 24. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia.

Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15/10. Tel: 22312940/22-421609 Nursing Home The Cherubim Theatre Anemona celebrates its tenth anniversary presents comedy by Nearchos Ioannou. Until March 17. Anemona Theater, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031

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DANCE Once again VERAMàND STUDIO is presenting a range of performing arts, cultural theory and arts

Learn more about site specific theatre workshops and seminars. The courses are designed for professional artists, arts managers and academics who wish to expand their training in their specific or related professions/ field of study. The event coming up this week, in collaboration with Dance Gate Lefkosia, offers a unique opportunity for international networking and practical experience with high quality course leaders and organisation.

This Saturday, German artist Angie Hiesl will run a one-day workshop and lecture on site-specific theatre/installation performance.

Hiesl founded Angie Hiesl Produktion, and since 1997 has been collaborating with the choreographer, director and visual artist Roland Kaiser.

Hiesl and Kaiser are currently in Nicosia until February 18 working on the subject of transgender and transexuality as part of their research as selected Modul Dance artists.

For those not in the know, Modul-dance is a multi-annual co-operation project (20102014) in which 19 European dance houses from 15 countries are involved, focusing on the development of independent profesShear Madness Popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides returns with an adaptation of one of the longest-running non-musical plays in the world. Until March 17. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street.

Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910/22-675787 God of Carnage Dionysos Theater presents multi-award winning comedy by Yasmina Reza directed by George Mouaimis. Until March 17. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street.

Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 99-621845 The Switch Theatro Ena presents play by Argiro Toumazou. Until March 28. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue. Every Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12.

Tel: 22-348203 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents a theatrical comedy directed by popular Cypriot actor and director Loris Loizides. Until March 29. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street. Thursday and Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Larnaca district How to Rob a Bank Skala Theatre presents a three act comedy by Samy Fayad. Until March 31. Skala Theatre, 15 Kyriakou Matsi Street. Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 99-490102

Limassol district One Day More An original musical production featuring scenes and songs from some of the popular musicals Organised by Premiere Group and PATH (Performing Arts at The Heritage). February 8-10. Pano Polemidia Cultural Centre. Friday at 8pm. Saturday 3.30pm & 8pm. Sunday 3.30pm. €12/8 (children under 12 years old). Tel: 70007175. www.onedaymore.net Haroula The Central Stage of ETHAL presents the Cypriot play by Christos Zanos, directed

by Adonis Florides. February 10 & 12.

Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue. 8.30pm. In Greek. €10.

Tel: 25877827 In Wonder(?) Land A physical theatre performance, about Cyprus as a country, a society. February 9-12. Old Vinegar, 34 Genethliou Mitella. 8.30pm. Tel: 99-669476/99491246

sional dance artists. Its aim is to create the optimum production conditions for artists, dancers and choreographers throughout Europe to facilitate their mobility and promote the dissemination of their work.

As for Hiesl’s work, the human body is a central topic, with its confines and no limitations at the same time. Hiesl’s and Kaiser’s original aesthetic means of expression as well as their concepts turn out to be sensual provocations – an invitation to the audience and to passers-by alike to take a new look at something we believed was familiar, a re-arrangement of reality. They communicate their art in workshops and lectures. The multi-award winning works are being shown globally.

Angie Hiesl & Roland Kaiser: Workshop and Lecture Workshop and lecture on site specific work for professionals and students from the fields of visual arts, performing arts and interdisciplinary research and practices. February 16.

VERAMàND Studio, 16 Aitolon Street, Nicosia.

10.30am-1.30pm. €25. Tel: 70-000625/95100625. www.VeramandStudio.com

Other Events Nicosia district The Cyprus Wind Quintet Highgate School fundraiser, presenting concert featuring musicians from the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. February 10. Skali Cultural Centre, Aglantzia, Nicosia. 3pm. concert €5 per adult and free for children. Additionally, there will be a programme for children at €2 per child. www.aglantzia.org.cy Vagina Monologues Eight artists will each perform a monologue through their own art form, based on the renowned, awardwinning play by Eve Ensler. February 7-10. Myloi Cultural Center, 4 Constantinoupoleos Street, Kaimakli. 11am-1pm and 4pm-7pm. Theatre piece in Greek. Admission is free. (Any possible incomes will be donated to charity, to the Cyprus Family Planning Association (CFPA). Tel: 99-743055/99-695669 Excellence is not a destination, but an endless journey Professor Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) will give an open lecture on the pursuit of excellence. February 12.

University of Cyprus Hall B108, Anastasios G. Leventis University House.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Greek and vice versa will be provided. RSVP: 22-894333 by February 11. Information: 22-894305 Night of Love Lounge atmosphere, gourmet dinner and many surprises, with local singer George Stamataris serenading guests.

February 14. Teatro Lounge Bar – Restaurant, 9 Grigoris Afxentiou (Ground floor of THOC new building). 9pm. Tel: 22-864395/77-777181. E- mail: teatroinformation@gmail.com Angie Hiesl & Roland Kaiser: Workshop and Lecture Workshop and lecture on site specific work for professionals and students from the fields of visual arts, performing arts and interdisciplinary research and practices. February 16. VERAMàND Studio, 16 Aitolon Street. 10.30am-1.30pm. €25. Tel: 70000625/95-100625. www.VeramandStudio.com Stories in Screen A series of video work presentations.

Until March 15. Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art Gallery Solonos 10, Paphos Monday- Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-6pm. Saturday: 10am-1.30pm. Tel: 99-311225

German Film Days Screenings of current German scene.

February 8-28. Cine Studio cinema of the University of Nicosia (Intercollege).

9pm, except on Sundays, when they start at 8pm. Barbara and Faust have Greek subtitles, all other films are with English subtitles. Tel: 96-420491/22674607. www.ofk.org.cy Point Centre for Contemporary Art Within the framework of the opening ceremony of the new contemporary art centre. Until February 15. Point Centre for Contemporary Art Megaron Hadjisavva, 2 Evagorou Street. Tel: 22662053. Email: info@pointcentreforcontemporaryart.com 7 films: Harun Farocki A selection of screenings by legendary German filmmaker, critic and teacher followed by discussion and talk with the artist Bidoun Library A mobile library consisting of books, magazines and other printed matter about the Middle East Screenings at the Shoe Factory An extraordinary selection of rare eclectic films. January 28 until March 29.

The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Str. 8pm.

Free. Films shown in original language with English subtitles where applicable.

For more information: www.pharosartsfoundation.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. 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: 96693462. 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) 99-487927 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 99867315 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: 22-358168/99-339644 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: 22-818999/99-621845 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 10am- midday 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 multinational 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: 99-666011. 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@european-go.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: 99-620992 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

20 WHAT’S ON

THEATRE

Experience opera from the Met

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/ about-us.php Fisu Meditation Learn Fisu Meditation. Free introductory talks on why meditate and what meditation is all about. Book by appointment, 24-532479/99-665330 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 5can 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: 24-363752. 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: 24-628401/99-597094/99925315 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 97-633728 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 24-427275 Mazotos Camel Park Adventures for the family. Camel rides, swimming, play areas and more. Tel: 24991243/99-416968. www.camel-park. com

Limassol district Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come and join a ramble starting in Sotira and finishing near Curium Beach and there will be a bus to the start and collection at the finish. February 17 book by midday February 17. The complete walk sheet can be found at www.csrc.ws. csrc. bookings@gmail.com World Photo School Workshop Digital photography workshop designed for complete beginners as well as for those who want to cement their knowledge on DSLRs. Limassol weekend workshop 23-24. 10.30am-4.30pm. Tel: 99-938023. worldphotoschool@gmail. com. www.worldphotoschool.com 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: 99815033. 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: 25-634487/25-634487 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, 1717. Saturdays 9am-3pm. Tel: 99-428691. www.theatroversus.com Magic Craft Supplies For the latest on Magic Craft Supplies & Penny’s Parties, please visit www. pennycyprusmagic.com 25-634487/99304237 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. Contact: c3a.limassol@gmail.com. http://c3a-cyprus.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

An innovative production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, set in Las Vegas no less, is coming to the Rialto Theatre live from the Metropolitan Opera, in New York.

In his effort to hoist opera out of its traditional settings and propel it into the 21st century, Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, has turned to directors from stage, screen, and even TV to create productions that will shock and hopefully awe contemporary audiences.

Opera lovers around the world will get a chance to see what the fuss is all about and decide for themselves on Saturday when the Met’s Live in HD series offers its latest production in a simulcast to some 1,900 theatres in 64 countries. In this production, audiences are transported from 16th century Italy to Las Vegas in 1960. Inspired by the antics of the Rat Pack, Piotr Beczala is the womanising Duke of Mantua, Željko Lucic is his tragic sidekick, Rigoletto, and Diana Damrau 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: 25362756 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 Juniors. Tel: 96-323962. www.limassolcrusadersrfc. com Table Tennis Monday and Friday at 10 am at UKCA, 37 Termopilis Street. Contact Antonio 99-334706 Limassol Bridge Club Mondays and Fridays, 3.30pm at Limassol 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 Royal 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 8.30am11.30am. 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

is Rigoletto’s daughter, Gilda.

As well as watching the full length operas, screenings usually include specially produced features which give audiences a unique look behind-the-scenes – including interviews with artists, directors and stage managers, as well as short Met documentaries. The big screen transmissions offer an opportunity for Limassol residents to experience worldclass opera on their doorstep – whether you’re a dedicated fan or are curious to give the art form a first time try.

Rigolleto - The Met: Live in HD Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera of New York in high-definition. February 16. Rialto Theatre, Limassol.

7.55pm. €20/15. With Greek and English Subtitles Tel: 77777745. Online ticket: www. rialto.com.cy 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 Ocean Bar Restaurant Every Thursday: Bingo Night, 8pm. Tel: 96-381509. Every Friday: Multi Media Quiz with many prizes to be won, 8.30pm. Tel: 99-032876. Ocean Bar Restaurant, 10 Christina Court, Onicilliou St, Ayios Tychonas

Paphos district World Photo School Workshop Digital photography workshop designed for complete beginners as well as for those who want to cement their knowledge on DSLRs. Paphos weekend workshop 16-17.

10.30am-4.30pm. Tel: 99-938023. email: worldphotoschool@gmail.com. www. worldphotoschool.com Health & Well Being Exhibition Exhibitors plus free lectures, workshops and fitness classes. February 17. Aloe Hotel.

10am to 6pm. Tel: 99-387311or e-mail, mail@ in-any-event.biz. www.in-any-event.biz 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 97801472 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: 26723002/ 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. 26-932841 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: 26939075 Quiz night Quiz at the New Olympus Hotel.

Every second Thursday of the month.

7.30pm. To register your team call: 26932020 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: 99-971150/99-519504.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.

Paphos Tigers RFC Mini Rugby: Tuesdays, 4.30pm-5.30pm.

Kinyras Centre, Cypria Maris Sports Ground. Tel: 99-934315/26-652959. 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 and a perfect way to see areas of beauty in Cyprus you would never normally see. We are an informal club and we welcome new members from all walks of life and abilities. We meet every Sunday at Hectors Bar in Coral Bay at 9am. Tel: 99-320213. www.paphoscyclingclub.com 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: 26-622810/97635883 Alzheimer Self-Help Group Offers dementia sufferers and their carers the opportunity to meet oth-

Follow as a cockroach tries to get to the moon Following a successful run of Katsarida in the summer, Vassilis Mavrogeorgiou’s Greek language play is back in the capital for another run, this time round at the ARTos Foundation.

Characterised as a ‘pocket musical’, it’s a simple story about a cockroach who wants to go to the moon. Viewers will have the chance to watch the amazing adventures of the cockroach come to life through the use of black humour, surrealism, music and something that resembles stand-up comedy, all of which

is performed with the infectious child-like enthusiasm of Christos Nicolaou and Panos Makris.

Katsarida Pocket musical combining physical theatre with stand-up comedy. February 11-12 & 14.

ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Ave, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €15. Tel: 99-201959

THEATRE

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: 22-329293/99-924363 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: 22-455072, 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

ers with this condition, share feelings and exchange experiences. Every first Wednesday of the month. Crazy Spoon Centre Coral Bay Road, opposite Paphian Sun Hotel, Kissonerga.

10am. Tel: 26-621530/ 26-622234

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: 26-654007 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: 97-760989 Paphos Bereavement Support Group If you’ve suffered a loss or death, either recently or in the past, you are welcome to share your feelings with others in a safe and confidential environment.

Group meets on the first Monday of each month, 2pm-4pm. Association’s Day Centre, 9 Dimitriou Mavrogenous, (the road alongside Constantinides Bakery opposite CYTA). Tel: 26-952478 Gamblers Anonymous Support group for gambling addicts, partners and families. Meetings every Tuesday. Ayia Kyriaki Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. Tel: 26622289 Self-Improvement and Fulfilment Dr. Eva Bratslavsky clinical psychologist and psychotherapist weekly discussion group meetings on self-confidence, self-esteem, 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 New PAWS charity shop Yeroskipou next door to Pet Stop. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9am5pm. Saturday 9am-4pm. Tel: 97695857 Basic Dog Training and Grooming Fridays. 3pm. Kallepia. Tel: 99-105557

Famagusta district 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: 23721140 Bingo and Games Every Tuesday night. Quiz, bingo and games every Thursday night.

Party night every Saturday.

Woody’s Inn, Protaras. Tel: 23831690 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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FASHION 21 Christopher Kane unveiled leopard print knitwear as part of his a/w13 collection

Pierre Hardy high tops

Leopard print for the lads F

We may have tittered at some sights on the men’s catwalks recently but next season’s top trend is no laughing matter. Boys say hello to some animal CRE magnetism, says KAREN DACRE

Leopard print parka from YMC

or those who enjoy sniggering at the absurdity of fashion, the menswear shows that took pla in Paris, Milan and Lonplace do last month must have don be a right laugh. But while been new-found trouser shapes might have t raised a titter from some, and hats fro driftwood a full on belly crafted from the proved that menswear is laugh, they b brighter, bolder and braver than ever Cu shrieks of joy all round before. Cue m - not to mention a huge grin from ma “plank man” Craig Green, who had la the last laugh when his headpieces were nomi nominated for London’s Design of the Year award. jok after all, is on us. MensThe joke, bo wear is booming.

And we’re not talking grey sh shirts and suits here. What’s on the catwalk is the result of a supply-and-demand process driven, in part, by male shoppers who are more adventurous with fashion than ever before.

The menswear on offer in shops at the moment is equally innovative. In among the navy crew-neck sweaters, Oxford shirts and slim-cut denim which, by the way, will long remain in favour irrespective of any newfangled fashion trends that come their way - are metallic raincoats, fluoro-floral print sweaters and leopard print - yes, leopard print - and the most intrepid menswear consumers can’t get enough.

This new-found affection for the print that once dominated Bet Lynch’s wardrobe was certainly in evidence at London’s men only fashion week last month. Nowhere more so than on the front row, where leopard proved the print du jour among the events’ most dapper attendees.

Some opted for bold knitted sweaters in the print while others favoured roll-sleeved shirts and T-shirts.

For the more low-key dresser, this moment of animalism was celebrated

with the help of high tops splattered with animal prints and on thick, cosy scarves in vibrant shades of orange.

In the collections for next summer, unveiled over the three-day spectacle, leopard print also proved to be a prevailing trend that won’t be leaving us anytime soon.

In Christopher Kane’s offering for Autumn/Winter 2013, the designer relied on a sometimes subtle animal print motif to add depth to knitwear, while in their latest collection the design trio behind extraordinary brand

dressers. “Animal print nt on men mits, “but can be tricky,” Bates admits, ble A: age it’s all down to the double and attitude.”

Undoubtedly best saved for the youthful, leopard print looks best combined with elements of s a leopardstreetwear. ASOS has at looks achprint denim jacket that ith skinny ingly cool teamed with hile for jeans and high tops, while ensa higher price point menswear YMC has a range of leopard-print pieces in

Some opted for bold knitted sweaters in the print while others favoured roll-sleeved d shirts and T-shirts Sibling sent supersized chunky-knits bearing an exaggerated leopard print down the catwalk.

Further emphasising the huge appetite for leopard print among male consumers, online menswear mecca Mr Porter has chosen a selection of leopard-print knits by Sibling to star in an one-off capsule collection that was unveiled at London Collections: Men. The designs - available online now - include a pink woollen sweater and a navy blue T-shirt. s puts Sibling designer Jo Bates tion the success of the collection nfidown to a new-found confi ng dence among men. “One thing oI think is brilliant at the mole ment is the return of the male e peacock,” he says. “Men are h being more celebratory with the way they present them-selves.” g Terry Bates, buying manager at Mr Porter, credits the success of leopard print to “the energy and verve of menswear”. But he is all too aware that this is a trend that will send shiv-ers through more discreett

masculine cuts. And it at is a masculine cut that ok is key to pulling this look ll, off without looking, well, as camp as Christmas. A skin-tight Lycra T-shirtt in ing leopard print is one thing ane but a Christopher Kane nt is chenille scarf in the print something else entirely..

Go on, broaden your horizons.

Why Treacy takes his hat off to UK’s royal family Milliner Philip Treacy has hailed Britain’s royal family for showcasing headwear to the world.

Having designed for the Queen, the Duchess of Cornwall and princesses Anne and Beatrice, he said it was royal patronage around the world that made hats a necessary modern accessory and the royal family was the ultimate advertisement for his “thriving small London business” based in Battersea.

Treacy, 45, said: “The Queen is synonymous with hats. We see the royals at ultimate dress-

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ing-up moments - and they have more dressing-up moments than you or I. It’s very unusual to see the Queen without a hat.” Thirty-six of his creations were worn at the wedding of William and Kate.

He said a new book of photographs, published this weekend, gave an intimate behind-the scenes view of his work - “a non-glossy perspective on fashion”.

And while models for whom he has crested headwear such as Grace Jones and Naomi Campbell have reputations as prima donnas, Treacy said

he had only ever found them a delight. “Grace Jones puts ut the fear of God into people but is fantastic. With Naomi, the s myth precedes her. But she’s ry one of the most extraordinary women in the world.”

Treacy admitted many ive people did not see the intensive ut work that goes into a hat. But he said: “I have a job in a tril-lion.”

Top that: Treacy created headwear for ‘extraordinary’ Naomi Campbell and Princess Beatrice at William and Kate’s wedding (left)

Printed sweatshirt from Asos.

Left: cotton blend sweater

by Sibling for Mr Porter

22 BEAUTY Nailed it: leather and skull motifs by Nails Inc sold out thanks to Alexa Chung. Below: leather, concrete and feather varnishes

Textured talons From leather to feather, 2013 is the year of tactile nails. They feel good, says EMMA MCCARTHY

O

ver the past few years nails have undergone quite a transformation. Thanks to the booming nail art movement and wave after wave of innovative technologies, it’s been a long while since we beauty buffs were content with slicking on a single monotone coat of glossy lacquer.

But this year the focus is not so much on the look but the feel of the nails themselves.

Judging by what the major nail varnish brands have up their sleeves, 2013 promises to be the year of some very tactile talons indeed.

Textured nail varnish has quickly become one of the fastest growing trends to date.

Nails Inc’s Bling It On Leather & Skulls kit (nailsinc.com) proved an instant success. After being worn by Alexa Chung at last year’s British Fashion Awards ahead of its launch, the product sold out as soon as it hit stores and now boasts a waiting list of almost 3,000 people.

Inspired by the fetishistic leather trend

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NEW GREEK COURSES Starting in February and March Levels 1, 2 & 3 Organisations and other bodies that have attended the course include the UN Secretariat, the UN Development Programme, the World Council of Churches, the British Army, the British High Commission, the American Embassy, the French Embassy, the German Embassy, the Russian Embassy, the Irish Embassy, the Italian Embassy, the British Council and the French Cultural Centre.

which swept the A/W2012 catwalks, the limited edition varnish dries into a semi-matte texture that looks identical to a coat of leather. Available in tan and rich black, with a burgundy shade on the way, the set comes with metallic skull and crossbones motifs to appliqué on to a single nail for added effect.

But while you may have to clamour with a

OPI has launched four gritty and glittering Liquid Sand varnishes, part of its collaboration with Mariah Carey few thousand others to get your hands on one of these sets, Nails Inc has more tactile formulas on offer over the coming months. Its Concrete pots, available in four block shades, dry to a rough stone-like fi nish, while the brand also has a denim effect polish and Feather Effect collection – with varnishes containing tiny particles to give nails a feathery texture – planned for the summer.

But Nails Inc isn’t the only brand opting for “feel good” in 2013. Celebrity favourite Ciate put itself on the map last year with its

Caviar Manicure and Velvet effect kits, as well as the more recent Sequined Manicure set (selfridges.com). But fans will will have to wait to try the Colourfoil manicure, inspired

by London’s street artists. It is designed to create an edgy graffiti look using a collage of metallic foils available in three colours: Carnival Queen, Wonderland and Kaleidoscope Klash.

Maybelline New York is also going big on texture this year, with upcoming launches including shredded and polka-dot formulas, while OPI has launched four gritty and glittering Liquid Sand varnishes as part of its collaboration with singer Mariah Carey (lenawhite.co.uk).

But perhaps one of the most tactile launches comes courtesy of budget beauty brand MUA, which has recently unveiled its much-anticipated Fur Effect Nails (muastore.co.uk), available in five fluffy shades including bubblegum pink and plush purple.

And the real beauty of this textured trend is that, while it may look like a masterpiece in the offi ng, it is actually a doddle to do. Unlike intricate nail art, with these foolproof application sets and polishes you don’t have to visit a manicurist – or even have a steady hand - to create these effects. All you need is one magic pot.

And it’s not just for the nails…

If 2012 was the year crystallised eyebrows found fame within the beauty world, 2013 looks set to be the year of jewellery for your lashes. At least, so says Seattle-based entrepreneur Natalie Russo, who is championing the latest trend in avant garde false eyelashes with her line of intricate and handmade creations. Crafted from tiny beads, wire and miniature clay charms, each set designed by the 21-year-old boasts its own weird and wonderful theme, including insects and fruit salad.

Good enough to eat

“The concept of eyelash jewellery evolved out of my frustration with traditional false eyelashes,” says Russo.

“I didn’t like how expensive they were, and how they would fall apart, so I experimented with making them out of sturdier materials.”

With Russo’s online boutique also offering delivery overseas, it seems it will only be a matter of time before we see her eyelash jewellery popping up elsewhere. It’s definitely one trend worth keeping your eye on. etsy.com/shop/eyelashjewelry

SUNDAY MAIL• February 10, 2013

HEALTH 23

Is fat still a feminist issue? As obesity rates soar while plus-size is celebrated, one writer says we need to destigmatise skinny, while another argues it’s healthy to show women in all their splendour

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BY ALEXANDER MCCOWAN

The big fat bod dy shape debate... ...

Fatlash Rosamund Urwin A friend recently raved to me about Silver Linings Playbook. She reeled off the fi lm’s virtues - a rare romantic comedy with something smart to say, a stellar cast - before whispering conspiratorially: “And you know what the best bit was? There’s a part where you see Jennifer Lawrence’s stomach - and it wasn’t completely, 100 per cent flat.”

Lawrence clearly has a phenomenal physique. But my friend’s reaction shows how accustomed we have become to seeing “perfect” bodies on screen, buffed and bronzed. As a side effect, on the rare occasions that we do see “imperfect” female flesh, it isn’t allowed just to be casual nakedness.

But if the (exceedingly) personal still is political, at least we are now starting to see a female “fatlash”. Cellulite need no longer be the cardinal sin on screen. Some tummies wobble a little. Girls, the Sky Atlantic series that is probably more talked about than watched, is leading the way. Lena Dunham, who plays the protagonist Hannah, is the owner of a slightly rounded belly. She spends much of the show in her birthday-suited glory, with the lights staying firmly on during the show’s awkward, unsexy sex scenes.

Dunham certainly doesn’t feel forced to attest to insecurities about her figure to please the body tyranny police. This shift is also evident in the new E4 series My Mad Fat Diary, which has been dubbed “Skins for the Xanax generation”. Sharon Rooney, who plays a 16-stone 16-year-old in the series, has said of her role: “I do wish there were more normal people on television. Because when you walk down the street, it’s rare to see someone flawless.”

Some argue that when the illnesses of indulgence are costing the UK’s NHS an estimated £6 billion a year, we shouldn’t be cheering a bit of back fat or a big bosom. I disagree. For this isn’t about thin or fat, it’s about variety - not showing just one type of body on screen. Besides, most of the leaders of this “fatlash” aren’t actually big, they are just standing next to desperately thin people, who have skewed our view of what a normal size is.

So Jennifer Lawrence is slim, just not a sample size. And Dunham actually has the body of Botticelli’s Venus (seriously - Google it) - which shows the shift (and shrinking) in what is held up as the paragon of female beauty in our society.

If there is just one teenager who feels a little more confidence because of Dunham’s blasé attitude or Rooney’s success, I’d call that a victory. Because adolescence is tough enough without hating your ‘thunder thighs’ and wondering why you don’t live up to a

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e digitally-manipulated ideal. As Susie Orbach wrote in Fat is a Feminist Is-sue, “Without a body that girls feel alll right about, nothing much in their livess feels OK.” That body hatred is often whatt makes the family size bag of Malteserss e seem so tempting. It’s the brief escape d of comfort food, before the renewed shame. And this fi xation is a distrac-g tion from other dreams - from winning Nobel prizes, from writing that hilari-ous, generation defining screenplay, orr just from being happy. So I say: thank God for the fatlash. Long may it reign.

FatBash Jasmine Gardner Fat is weighing in - all over ens and our book our screens et the measure of a pages. Get

A question of shape: Girls’ Lena Dunham and (right) Jennifer Lawrence

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by Anne H Putnam; Big Brother, a new Lionel Shriver novel about a woman whose brother gnisable after gaining is unrecognisable hundreds of pounds and an E4 series about a 16-stone teenager and waistlines are clearly the big issue.

This can only be a good thing – hitting an increasingly pertinent topic of obesity right in the belly. Thin women and the fashion industry are often criticised for being bad role models to young girls. But the number of obese people around the world is rising fast.

Fat itself is not offensive. Yet it’s a mistake to sell any woman as a proud, fat female – a pillar of the fat movement.

This is what happens whenever a larg-

Fatal bean used by shamen and native American Indians Name: Texas Mountain Laurel (Sophora secundiflora) Otherwise known as: Mexican Bean Tree, Mescal Habitat: An evergreen tree member of the Leguminosae family growing up to 8m in well-drained light soil in full sun beside watercourses, and native to high ground in Mexico and southern Texas. It has dense obovate, alternate leaves and produces clusters of highly fragrant purple flowers that transform into long bean pods that contain the bright red beans. All parts of the tree are poisonous.

What does it do: Mountain Laurel contains the alkaloid Cytosine or Sophorin, which is hallucinogenic and narcotic, and acts on the human system like Nicotine. Traces of the bean, dating from the fifth millennia BC have been found in rock shelters and caves known to have been the sites of religious ceremonies among the plains tribes of the border areas. The

er woman comes along. Whether Dunham is actually overweight no longer matters because everybody is already busy screaming, “Hurrah, well done fat woman,” praisstro ing a better, stronger and “normal” role model. wron Of course nobody This is all wrong. should expect to be “celebrity thin” but the backlash against the superskinny should not be to celebrate fat, but to celebrate health. Believe that vir Dunham, by virtue of being suppossom edly fat, is someone to emulate and it becomes all too easy to convince yourself that y your (probably much fatter) tumm tummy is something to celebrate. Yo You might think “Sod the bike rid ride” and stay on the sofa with a c cake. Yet we don’t require any more m encouragement to let oursel ourselves go.

This is not a popular view. general the stereotype of In general, the thin person pe is she is a judgmental bitc bitch. She’s dissatisfied with life an and dissatisfied with you - and y your size. She’s thin, she must be b smug, let’s hate her. Conversely, Convers the fat person is unhappy, helple helpless and persecuted. par This is partly why arguments such as mine a are met with a common criticism - that making people worry about being overweight will fuel the emotional problems prob that make the sensitive souls fat iin the first place.

But this is not about pointing and laughing at fat pe people. It’s about not pretending fat is a good thing. It simply isn’t.

Shriver’s story is about a man, Edison, whose proble problems have led him to eat and whose weight we makes him an object of disdain. But it is also about the necessity of losing that weight.

This is not surprising from Shriver - a consciously thin woman who has admitted to consuming nothing but coffee each day until dinner - but I can far more sympathise with this narrative than one that pretends Edison’s size is not the problem. There is a US-based web community that supports the fat heroism cause. It’s called “Fat!So?”.

There is a simple answer to this question: So, you are killing yourself. Don’t take the rest of us with you.

shamen of the Kiowa, Apache and Commanche were so practised in using the bean that they were able to consume a measured dose without the fatal consequence; it is claimed that half a bean will kill a human. Spanish explorers recorded that the bean was employed in ceremonies to prophesy the future, and that the medicine men were distinguished by the wearing of necklaces and leggings made from the bright red beans.

Early settler physicians in the border areas employed extracts from the bean to treat hysteria, epilepsy and ear disorders.

It appears from 20th century anthropological records that the use of the bean by the plains tribes in religious ceremonies fell away because of the high fatality rate and was replaced by the dried buttons of the Peyote, which are not as dangerous but are equally hallucinogenic and are considered a panacea for all manner of physical and emotional disorders. It is the Peyote that features in the legendary tales of the Yaqui Indians by Carlos Castaneda.

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24 BOOKS Music lovers: Benjamin Britten, left, and Peter Pears in 1946

Everything about the girl

Startling secret of Benjamin Britten

By Barry Millington Bang on cue for the centenary of Benjamin Britten comes this landmark new biography

by Paul Kildea (Benjamin Britten: a Life in the Twentieth Century), complete with the latest skeleton to tumble out of the composer’s wellstocked closet. Britten, we learn may have been suffering from syphilis. It was, according to the author, a congenital heart condition (“aortic incompetence”) that actually killed him, but the surgeon who operated is said to have found the aorta riddled with tertiary-stage syphilis; the diagnosis was never made public. Neither Britten nor his long-term partner Peter Pears from whom he would presumably have contracted it, was aware of the disease, which often presented no external symptoms and commonly remained undiagnosed, especially among male homosexuals.

This sensational revelation aside, Kildea’s biography is indispensable on many counts. He gives short shrift to ill-founded allegations that Britten’s father was a paedophile, but writes sensitively (and often amusingly) about Britten’s own predilections and the fundamental

ways in which they informed his works.

He’s incisive on the “bumbling amateurism” of the inter-war British cultural scene in which Britten grew up, with its second-rate musical administrators, impresarios and leading conductors. He describes also the latent homophobia that was prevalent (William Walton, on learning that Britten was being offered the music directorship of Covent Garden - a post he wisely declined was heard to mutter: “There are enough buggers in the place already, it’s time it is stopped.”)

Above all, he shows how Britten’s deeply held social convictions (he was a committed Left-leaning pacifist) shaped his entire oeuvre, seeing Peter Grimes as, in part, a critique of capitalism, and mounting a powerful defence of the much-maligned Owen Wingrave, an opera steeped in a loathing of war and the mindless drumbeat of Queen and country that provokes it.

It is an admirable feature of the book that it gives no less attention to the music than to the biographical aspects. Not that he feels it incumbent on him to praise without quali-

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fication. He is interesting, for example, on The Rape of Lucretia, which he is not alone in finding dramaturgically flawed. And it is in this context that he discusses the sometimes unconvincing nature of Britten’s female characters. Britten’s lack of empathy with female psychology, Kildea maintains, results in a series of characters (Ellen Orford in Grimes, Mrs Herring, Kate Julian in Owen Wingrave among them) with whom it is difficult to identify or sympathise.

Kildea has trawled through the archives, drawing on recently published letters and diaries as well as first-hand reports from those who knew Britten - among them collaborators such as pianist Graham Johnson and composer brothers Co-

lin and David Matthews. I’m not sure Kildea spells out as clearly as Matthews or John Bridcut (in his fi lm and book about Britten’s Boys) the nature of the composer’s chaste obsession with pre-pubescent boys: Britten remained at heart a 13-year-old and it was that innocence he cherished in his young friends.

Oddly, too the syphilis revelation was redacted from advance copies - the discussion of Pears’ probable infidelities, and the tensions caused by the consequent imbalance in their relationship, occurs only in the fi nal sections. Nevertheless, this is a masterly, highly readable account and the most comprehensive to date of the life and work of one of the 20th century’s great musical figures.

Before she met her musical and romantic soulmate Ben Watt and formed Everything But The Girl at Hull University in 1982, Tracey Thorn played guitar in a band called the Stern Bops.

When they asked her to have a crack at lead vocals, she agreed, on condition that she could sing inside a wardrobe. That’s a neat encapsulating image not only of the heartfelt, understated brand of pop that Watt and Thorn have put out for 30 years through EBTG and other guises, but also of this drily downbeat memoir (Bedsit Disco Queen).

Thorn has a lovely, lulling, disarming tone, with steel beneath the self-effacement. She forms the wispily tuneful, all female Marine Girls, who sign with Cherry Red records and have some success but don’t last long.

On her first day at Hull a fellow student has her paged over the tannoy. Almost immediately, Thorn and the ado part-gypsy jazz aficionado ngs Ben Watt start writing songs aul and living together. Paul age Weller joins them onstage at the first Everything But For The Girl gig in 1983. “For rn.

God’s sake,” says Thorn.

“If we’d known we were going to carry on for years we ha would have come up with better name.” orWhat follows is a corck rective to bombastic rock gbooks. Thorn recalls cadgg ing 10p pieces off adoring e rock journos to feed the meter in her flat in Hull.

She points out that the Eighties weren’t all Ma-ng donna and “toffs dancing ran in puffball skirts to Duran eak Duran” but also the bleak

poetry of The Smiths and the efforts of Rock Against Racism and the more futile Red Wedge.

There’s some namedropping, but it’s musicianly rather than vulgar, or involves Lenny Kravitz getting his dreadlocks stuck to her dress. Like Morrissey, only a lot more likeable.

Their career rallies following a collaboration with Massive Attack, and a subsequent single, Missing, sells three million copies.

But she rejects the chance to support U2 on a US stadium tour to have three children with Watt. Their lives reconfigure again: he becomes a club promoter, DJ and daytime dad, she a full-time mum who starts to write a book... then shelves it to pen a solo album.

That’s why the manuscript, rediscovered when she and Watt moved house last year, ends in 2007, which leads to some confusion over dates.

“I’ve let the inconsistencies stand, stand,” Thorne says.

“You’re a grown-up. I know you won’t mind.”

Are you a Rockabilly or a Wood Burning Stover?

PAPERBACKS

By Katie Law

By William Leith Married Love

Watch You Die

By Tessa Hadley

By Katia Lief

Tessa Hadley gives us snapshots of women’s lives. That’s not all she gives us in these lovely, poised stories but she’s great at stopping time and showing us someone’s life from the inside. Like the woman who’s taking something out of the oven when her husband drops dead and she’s left with the body in the moments before the ambulance comes. Or another woman, looking at the sleeping body of her internet lover, who, in an awkward moment before they made love, said the wrong thing, which meant she knew nothing would come of the relationship. A feast of angst and disappointment.

Darcy is a 39-year-old reporter on the New York Times. Her husband: dead. Her son: teenage.

Her romantic life: zero.

She’s still in shock, remembering the night she was making dinner for her husband when the police rang to tell her he’d driven his car off the road. One day the kid from the mailroom introduces himself. He asks her to lunch. He’s 23. They have a sandwich in the park.

Something about this kid seems... not quite right. Then he starts to stalk her an even worse sign. Very fast, very slick, and very creepy.

Is snobbism a bad thing? Not necessarily, says Harry Wallop in his light-hearted look at our lifestyles past and present (Consumed: How Shopping Fed The Class System). The former consumer affairs editor of the Daily Telegraph argues snobbism has become more or less synonymous with consumerism, and consumerism is what drives social mobility. What matters is how we spend it, not how much we earn or how we earned it.

Depending on our preferences, we fall into one of Wallop’s class categories. At the top are the Portland Privateers, so called because their babies are born at the exclusive private hospital. At the bottom are the Hyphen-Leighs, whose children have names like Kayleigh, Demi-Leigh, Chelsea-Leigh and

even Kaydie-Leigh.

In the middle there are several subtle but distinct gradations. Wallop is a Rockabilly, along with David Cameron.

Rockabillies holiday in Rock, Cornwall and wear Jack Wills.

They are “public school, floppyhaired, rugby playing, greenwelly university types”.

Then there are the Wood Burning Stovers, who favour Farrow & Ball, make coffee in Moka pots, are proud to be eco and despise wide-screen TVs. Then there are the aptly named, social-climbing Middletons – think Carole not Kate - who need no introduction beyond the newspaper headline, “from Pit to Palace”. Nor really do the Asda Mums. I liked Wallop’s theory that an Ambi Pur 3volution Oriental Spice is the “smell of an Asda Mum household distilled”.

It is, he argues, the naff equivalent of a scented candle, although being a Rockabilly, he’s clearly not comfortable using words like scented, fragranced or perfumed, preferring the word smelly. There are some interesting stats in among the trivia. In 1954 the termly fees at St Paul’s - £30 for tuition, plus £15 for lunch and books – were equivalent to £2,000 a year today, a tenth of today’s actual fees. In 1957 a typical family spent a third of their disposable income on food; today it’s just 17 per cent. And during the 2009 recession, when Waitrose introduced its Essential range, of 1,400 products it simply repackaged 1,200 of them but the contents and price remained the same. Lots to enjoy here and very of the moment, so best consumed quickly, before its sell-by date.

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Happy family: Winterhalter’s 1846 portrait of Victoria, Albert and their children

Horoscope

BY SALLY BROMPTON

ARIES Don’t get emotional about something needing to be dealt with on a purely mental level. The New Moon warns that if your feelings get the better of you, you’ll confuse not only March 21 - April 20 others but yourself and that will lead to all sorts of trouble.

Be ultra logical in everything you do.

TAURUS Try not to take yourself too seriously this week, even if partners and colleagues flatter your talents. A New Moon focussing on your career means you’ll find it easy to impress employers and other influential people. Bear in mind they April 21 - May 21 also value modesty and tolerance.

GEMINI Challenges are coming your way and it’s natural to feel apprehensive. But the planets indicate you’ll come through unscathed and turn even the most testing challenges into May 22 - June 21 triumphs. A dynamic New Moon indicates you’ll end the week closer to success than when you started.

CANCER A long-standing goal seems further away than ever and with egotistical Mars squaring up to optimistic Jupiter chances are it really is beyond your grasp. Far better to focus your efforts on what you have and make it the very best you June 22 - July 22 possibly can.

How Queen Victoria saw off her seven assassins

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f you had been walking down London’s Piccadilly one fi ne evening towards the end of June 1850, you might have seen an excited crowd gathering outside the mansion at number 94. Inside was Queen Victoria herself, paying a call on her dying uncle, the Duke of Cambridge. It was a surprise visit, and the police had not been warned; as the Queen’s carriage squeezed through the gates back onto the thoroughfare, towards the cheering and the applause, she was guarded only by a handful of outriders.

On the pavement the carriage halted for a second, and it was then that Robert Pate saw his chance.

Pushing through the crowd towards the carriage, he raised his cane and brought it savagely down on the monarch’s head. Victoria had been attacked before.

As Paul Thomas Murphy explains in this rich, rollicking but sprawling narrative, Pate’s assault was in fact the fi fth since she had become Queen. Never before, however, had an attacker actually struck her; as the carriage pulled away, leaving Pate in the clutches of Victoria’s footman, the wound was already swelling on her brow.

Later that evening, when the Queen’s doctor examined her, he found “a considerable tumour” as well as a little blood. To her credit, though, Victoria went ahead with her engagements. After her appearance in her box at Covent Garden that night, the wound clearly visible on her head, one correspondent wrote that he had “never heard such shouting”. It was, he said, “the very madness of affection”.

For Murphy, Pate’s attempt on

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daily ritual, which involved the same cab driver taking him on the same tour of the capital every afternoon, during which Pate would hurl himself around the cab like a monkey in a cage. As for Victoria’s fi rst assailant, a barman called Edward Oxford, he would burst into tears for no reason and amused himself by copying out passages from the Bible.

Probably the maddest of her attackers, though, was the last, Roderick Maclean, who fi red a revolver at her in 1882. the Queen’s life - he was, inMaclean was under the cidentally, quite mad, and impression that God had was eventually transported reserved the number four to Tasmania - was part of and the colour blue for him a pattern. Every time she alone; as he warned his was attacked, he explained, sister, if the British “don’t “Victoria, with unerring incease wearing blue, I will stinct and sheer gutsiness, commit murder”. The iroconverted each episode of ny, of course, is that Victonear-tragedy into one of ria herself, still mourning triumphant renewal for her her late husband Albert, monarchy”. That is probably Shooting Victoria: pushing it a bit; even so, there Madness, Mayhem and almost always wore black.

Although Murphy tries is no doubt that Victoria’s the Modernisation of to use the stories of Vicstoicism under fire endeared the Monarchy toria’s seven assailants to her to her people.

By Paul Thomas examine some of the great Contrary to what we often issues of the age, from the imagine, the position of the Murphy Queen’s role in politics to monarchy in 19th-century the development of contemporary Britain was probably more fragile ideas about insanity, his scatterthan it is today. Precisely because shot style means we never quite get Victoria was more involved in poliour teeth into any of them. All the tics than her successors, being fasame, and despite its length, his mously fond of Lord Melbourne and book is enormously entertaining.

Benjamin Disraeli, and appalled by He is especially good on the attackWilliam Gladstone, she was more ers themselves, whose stories are controversial. In a funny way, therepitiable rather than deplorable. fore, the fact that people kept trying It is astonishing to reflect that to kill her worked in her favour. poor Maclean, who ended up in Most of Victoria’s would-be asBroadmoor, did not die until 1921, sassins were spectacularly mad. more than a century after Victoria Pate himself only decided to attack was born. her after abandoning his bizarre

LEO What happens over the next few days makes it hard for you to control your temper. With amiable Venus poorly aspected and anger planet Mars at odds with Jupiter it’s not exactly July 23 - Aug 23 a recipe for sweetness and light. Keep reminding yourself what is at stake in the long-term.

VIRGO

Aug 24 - Sep 23

Anyone daring to take you on this week, verbally, emotionally or physically, will regret it. An aggressive Mars-Jupiter link makes you very combative, so much so you may actually go looking for trouble. A New Moon warns you not to alienate people who might be useful to you.

LIBRA

Sept 24 -Oct 23

With a New Moon in sympathetic Aquarius you can expect some good news this week. In one area at least your efforts are about to pay off. But other aspects warn your health could suffer if you overdo it physically. By all means celebrate but be careful not to go over the top.

SCORPIO You may be tempted to force through changes you know others don’t want this week, and you certainly have the power to do so. But the planets warn that even if you sucOct 24 - Nov 22 ceed you will create a lot of resentment. There are ways of winning without making enemies.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov 23 - Dec 21

If you find yourself in uncomfortable situations this week, or among people who send out negative vibrations, just get up and leave. Your peace of mind is paramount. The New Moon will make it easy for you to move around so don’t sit there suffering in silence.

CAPRICORN

Dec 22 - Jan 20

Pay no attention to rumours this week as the planets warn you’re better off being in the dark. If certain people want to spread gossip it’s up to them but keep your distance.

Meanwhile, the New Moon will bring an opportunity to boost your earning power. Take it.

AQUARIUS

Jan 21 - Feb 19

Your approach to life is normally upbeat but a recent loss or disappointment seems to have left you at a low ebb and you need a fresh challenge to get you back on course.

Today’s New Moon in your birth sign will boost your adrenalin while Saturn’s disciplined influence will help you stay focussed on a single goal. But a positive attitude is still all-important: your thoughts make your world.

PISCES With energetic Mars under pressure in your birth sign you will start the week at a frantic pace. But common sense – reinforced by a particularly perceptive New Moon – should Feb 20 - March 20 tell you that you can’t keep it up for long. Slow down and you will get more done.

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New era for Mazda in Cyprus

Give your lashes tone, curl and volume with Dior

The new packaging for Charalambidis Kristis’ fresh chocolate milk gives the product a new look, but it retains its great taste.

New packaging has been produced for both the 250ml carton and 330ml bottle, although the milk is the same as it has been for the last 40 years – free of additives and made with high quality cocoa. brin with The new packages bring them a surprise - the nnew 330ml bottle Sugar Free, a m milk that a it is can be enjoyed by all as ma from made de milk, delact m meaning th lactose the in intolerant c also can e enjoy it.

GPA Motion Ltd, a subsidiary of Geo. Pavlides & Araouzos and exclusive distributors of Mazda in Cyprus, presents brand new showrooms in Nicosia. A move that signals a new era for the Mazda, the new showroom is located on Grivas Digenis Avenue.

Mazda has presented a host of technological and design innovations over the years and is a company that dares to do something different. That’s why its cars set new boundaries in performance and safety, while redefining design and comfort.

Today, Mazda is the only manufacturer in the world that manufactures both petrol engines, diesel and rotary internal combustion engines. Some of the technological innovations it has to offer are crystalline and electronic fuel vehicles FCEVs with ‘clean engines’, and the system DIRECT-D (diesel direct injection with turbocharging).

Additionally, the Skyactiv technology sets its own standards in the construction of economic and environmentally friendly models.

Nest of delicious flavours in the centre of Nicosia The popular restaurant Greco’s Nest has moved into the heart of Nicosia, at 4-6 Themistokli Dervi Street. With a kitchen that combines the traditional flavours of the Aegean with the homely art of cooking and haute cuisine, the new and cosy space of Greco’s Nest is already welcoming customers.

The new ‘Nest’ is now open for lunch and dinner, where lovers of good quality food can take their pick from chosen Mediterranean dishes, island and Cretan cuisine. The secret of Greco’s Nest cuisine is the quality of its raw materials.

From the restaurant’s revamped menu diners can choose from salads, appetisers, pastas, meats, seafood and desserts. The menu also includes options for meze lovers.

With the Iconic Overcurl mascara Dior nurtures a passion for innovation. Inspired by the backstage experience, professional techniques for creating volume and curves and professional tools for hair and eyelashes, this new mascara gives shape and volume.

Diorshow Iconic Overcurl thickens the lashes in an instant, creating curves that become more defined with each new application.

The curved brush consists of elastic fibres which give a perfect grip on the lash, embracing each lash from one end to the other.

The zig-zag structure allows it to grip and to mould each lash, giving volume with each application.

The mascara itself is based on an innovative formulation, which reproduces the properties of elastin, combining different polymers to tone, cover and fix the lashes.

Greco’s Nest is open Monday to Saturday from 12:00 to 16:00 for lunch and from 19:00 to midnight for dinner. It is also open on Sundays from 12:00 to 17:00. For reservations call 22 680608

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Among them were 25 slimmers who had lost 1,021kg between them. Two among them won prizes of a trip to Venice.

Cambridge counsellors were also awarded during the event – Panicos Vrachimis from Limassol was awarded as New Councillor of the Year after helping Nikos Charalambides loose 125kg, in eight months.

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1. Cambridge directors Panikos and Helen Zenios 2. Mother and daughters all win awards 3. Ellis Zenios receiving the Film Award for outstanding International Slimmer film 4. Three International Slimmers of the Year - still slim 5.UK Director Clive Norton with Panayiotis Voskou, 15 years old who lost 20kg with consultant mother Marina 6. Male Slimmer of the Year Nikos Charalambides who lost 125kg with Panikos Vrahimi, New Consultant of the Year 7. Twenty-four successful slimmers who lost 1,021kg between them

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2 Intensified interest, editor concluded (10) 3 Saw old boy waited (8) 4 Stays in the wrong sector (6) 5 Delia could be perfect (5) 6 Returnable money (4) 7 Bank of Scotland (4) 11 Notes to accompany a ball? (5-5) 13 Little creature in Belfast (3) 14 Cherry loses her call (3) 15 Type of worm on twisted reed scowled (8) 19 Bean sprout (6) 20 Portion of rhubarb jam (5) 22 Foot-bridge (4) 23 One girl and almost another (4)

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A MINUTE WITH...

Sofoclis Aletraris Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment Grease

Where do you live?

Favourite film of all time?

In Strovolos with my wife Chryso and our dog, Max.

Saturday Night Fever and Grease.

Love the songs and dance scenes.

Best childhood memory?

Favourite holiday destination (or best holiday ever taken) and why? What’s your dream trip?

A gift I got and used to wear when I played football with other kids in Ayios Dometios: a pair of Olympiakos Piraeus socks. The other kids used to call me ‘Botino’ (a famous player of Olympiakos).

Best holiday ever taken: USA-tour of California, as I met very interesting people and saw magnificent places. Dream trip: Australia.

Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish?

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

Defi nitely for souvlaki at Kostas’ tavern in Ayios Dometios or at Koumbaroi tavern in Makedonitissa.

Any songs by ABBA and / or songs

by Stelios Kazantzides.

What is always in your fridge?

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Pomeg ra nate juice.

Full-fat halloumi mi cheese (made from sheep and goat’s milk), wholewheat bread.

Rural retreat: would probably be in Troodos. An old-fashioned style cou country house with a fi re-place.

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I am a day person. son. But my idea of the perfect night out is with good friends at Blinkers bar in Engomi.

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Petroleum resources sources with emphasiss on ing. offshore drilling.

Has broadened my yknowledge in hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation concerning Cyprus.

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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

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

12.00

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00

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

16.30

Euromaxx

17.00

Kati Psinetai (rpt) Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Apo Mera Se Mera Entehnos Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show.

18.45

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

19.20

20.00 21.00

NRG Zone FILM: Yesterday Today And Tomorrow A man travels back in time to fix the mistakes of the past. Drama, starring Maricel Soriano. 2011.

22.30

Local Sketch (rpt) News Repeats

14.50

16.40 17.30 17.40

Fifteenth season. A helping of four-wheel features, test-drives, races, challenges and antics with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig.

23.30

Repeats

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Panselinos (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

19.30 20.15 21.30 22.10 23.00

Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Presidential Elections 2013 Dancing With The Stars (rpt) Celebrities and pro dancers train and compete in a ballroom dancing competition.

Top Gear

Tete A Tete Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.

23.00 23.30 23.45

09.30 10.25 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

15.45

A guide to different types and breeds of dog featuring expert opinions from trainers, groomers and vets.

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

22.00

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Dogs 101 (rpt)

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

20.00 21.15

18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00 07.50 08.40

DW-TV’s magazine show, bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

Current affairs show.

15.30

ANTENNA

00.00 00.05 00.15 02.30 03.20 04.40

News Sports News Dancing With The Stars (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 10.00

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music, cookery, guest stars and more.

Hosted by real life couple Giorgos Liagas and Fay Skorda.

12.45 14.00 15.00

Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese (rpt) Eheis Meson Current affairs show.

16.00

Yia Sena Local talk-show.

18.00 18.20

News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.30

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.00 16.15 18.00 18.05 18.30 19.30 20.20 21.25 22.20 23.20

First season. ‘The Big Bang’. Nessa attempts to deal with a distraught gambler, but her efforts are thrown into disarray when she discovers he has a bomb strapped to his chest. Meanwhile, Mary and Sam prepare the pool for a private rock concert.

Oi Vasiliades News Greek drama series.

20.20 21.15

News Klemmena Oneira Greek drama series.

22.10 00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00 04.20

Presidential Elections 2013 News Gimni Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Aspra Balonia (rpt) Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama The Del Monte Heirs Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News 60 Lepta Oikogeneiakes Istories Las Vegas

00.10 00.15 01.20 02.10 03.30 04.00 04.30

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Me To’ Xeres (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.35

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

12.30 13.00 15.30 16.15 17.00

Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons More Kid’s TV To Kleidi Greek comedy series.

17.50 19.40

Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

21.15

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz

21.15

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Escape From Sobibor

22.00

Story about the largest successful escape from a Nazi concentration camp, when 600 captives made a bid for freedom. Wartime drama, starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer. 1987.

00.00 00.50 03.20

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 08.25 08.55 09.25 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.30 16.20 17.00 17.40 18.15

Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo 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: Evelyn A hard-drinking Irish rogue is left to look after his three children - but realises he must change his life for them. Drama, starring Pierce Brosnan . 2002.

22.45

Icon A former CIA agent fights to prevent the election of a Russian presidential candidate who plans to restore the country to a military dictatorship. Part 1 of 2.

00.30

FILM: Kiss Of Death A jailbird agrees to help the police as a means of exacting revenge on violent hoodlums who betrayed him. Thriller remake, starring David Caruso. 1995.

Man on a Ledge (Novacinema1, 19.10)

01:05 The Weakest Link 01:50 EastEnders 02:20 Doctors 02:50 Keeping Up Appearances 03:20 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 04:05 Doctor Who Confidential 04:20 Gavin & Stacey 04:50 Friday Night Dinner 05:15 Blackadder Goes Forth 05:45 Keeping Up Appearances 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 Spot’s Musical Adventures 09:35 Keeping Up Appearances 10:05 Mastermind 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors 12:20 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 13:05 Last Man Standing 13:55 Gavin & Stacey 14:25 Mastermind 14:55 The Weakest Link 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 17:30 Gavin & Stacey 18:00 Keeping Up Appearances 18:30 The Weakest Link 19:15 EastEnders 19:45 Doctors 20:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 21:00 The Old Guys 21:30 Friday Night Dinner 22:00 Last Man Standing 22:50 After You’ve Gone 23:20 2 Point 4 Children 23:50 Luther 00:40 Live At The Apollo

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55

Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Fifth Gear 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 World’s Toughest Jobs 22:00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 23:00 Superhuman Showdown 00:00 True Csi 01:55 World’s Toughest Jobs 02:50 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 03:50 Superhuman Showdown 04:50 True Csi 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Luge: World Cup Usa 10:00 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 10:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 10:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 12:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 13:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 14:00 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 15:30 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 18:15 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 19:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 21:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 00:45 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 01:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:45 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Who Do You Think You Are 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Happy Endings 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 12:50 Glee 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Tough Love Miami 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Tough Love Miami 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Happy Endings 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 21:50 Glee 22:40 Melissa & Joey 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Happy Endings 23:55 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 00:20 Glee 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Melissa & Joey 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Tough Love Miami

07:30 Flirting With Flamenco 09:15 Bleeding, The 10:45 Sins Of The Mother 12:15 U.S. Marshals 14:30 Lesbian Vampire Killers 16:00 Police Academy 17:45 Weakness 19:30 Hollywood Buzz 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Ticking Clock 23:00 Just Go With It 01:00 Hustler Tv 03:05 Incendiary 04:50 L’ Etoile Du Soldat 06:30 Ltv Sports News

Gossip Girl 20:30 Friends 21:00 Fringe 22:30 C.S.I. Miam 23:15 Bones 00:05 Middle Men 02:00 Lottery Ticket 03:45 Big Bang Theory The 04:10 According To Jim 04:55 Mentalist The 05:40 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 06:30 Supernatural

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Dropped 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 2011 World’s Strongest Man 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 00:30 K9 Nation 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 03:00 E-60 04:00 Nba 2012-13 (Live) 06:30 K9 Nation

07:15 Two And A Half Men 08:00 Friends 08:30 Closer, The 09:20 Harry’s Law 10:05 Chuck 10:50 2 Broke Girls 11:15 Bones 12:00 Borgias I, The 12:50 Supernatural 13:35 Two And A Half Men 14:25 Closer, The 15:15 Harry’s Law 16:05 Big Bang Theory The 16:30 According To Jim 17:15 Mentalist The 18:10 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 19:00 Supernatural 19:45

07:45 The Other Guys 09:45 Instant Justice 11:30 Case 39 13:20 Class Of ‘44 15:00 Stand And Deliver 16:45 Uninvited, The 18:15 Takers 20:15 Insidious 22:00 Un Prophete 00:40 Daring! Tv 04:05 Underbelly Files - Tell Them Lucifer Was Here 05:50 How Do You Know

05:15 Amnistia 06:40 Le Divorce 08:35 The Tempest 10:25 The Help 12:50 Confucius Aka: Kong Zi 15:00 Never Been Kissed 17:00 Chance De Ma Vie, La 18:35 Hollywood Buzz 19:10 Man On A Ledge 21:00 Ncis 22:00 Cowboys & Aliens 00:05 Xxx 02:10 Cine News 02:40 The Kane Files: Life Of Trial 04:15 The Sitter

05:25 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas 07:25 Shanghai 09:10 The Country Girl 10:55 Green Card 14:10 Mi Mou Aptou 17:35 Action Zone 18:10 Nisos 2: To Kinigi Tou Xamenou Thisavrou 20:05 The Girl Next Door 22:00 Morning Glory 02:15 Machine Gun Preacher 04:30

Cine News 04:55 In Time

Boxing Ik Yang V Mario Padilla 23:30 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Northwestern At Ohio State

19:00 Super 8 21:00 Con Air 23:00 The Devil Inside 00:30 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:30 Point Blank

18:35 The Talented Mr. Ripley 21:00 The Adjustment Bureau 22:55 Conviction 00:55 Spinning Into Butter 02:25 The Last Temptation Of Christ

02:00 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 02:30 Sea Master 03:00 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Penn State At Nebraska 05:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Northwestern At Ohio State Sdd 07:00 Academy 07:30 School Of Golf - Short Game Special 08:00 Feherty - Chubby Chandler 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 School Of Golf - Chapter 5: Chip It Like A Champ 10:00 Tba 12:00 Rip To The Tip 2011 A Band Of Brothers 12:30 The Moto: Inside The Outdoors Spring Creek National 13:00 Car Warriors 2 Corvette 14:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Northwestern At Ohio State 16:00 European Tour Africa Open D. 2 Sdd 18:00 Pre Game(E) 18:45 Cup 2012-13: Apollon Vs Nea Salamina (E) 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 21:45 Ringside

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 08:30 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 15:30 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 17:30 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Wake Brothers 20:30 MTV Wake Brothers 21:00 MTV Hitlist Hellas 22:00 MTV World Stage 23:00 MTV Savage U 23:30 MTV Savage U 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 MTV Geordie Shore 02:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 Torpedo Run 08:35 Gone With the Wind 12:10 Kelly’s Heroes 14:30 Many Rivers To Cross 16:00 , The Last Time I Saw Paris 17:55 , The Great Lie 19:40 Abbott And Costello In Hollywood 21:05 Ride Him, Cowboy 22:00 Period Of Adjustment 23:55 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn01:25 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 03:10 , The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 05:00 Travels With My Aunt

By Preston Wilder

Ticking Clock (LTV, 21.00) The clock is ticking for our pay-TV channels; you can tell money’s tight, because they’re scheduling Cuba Gooding Jr movies. Mr. Gooding won an Oscar in the 90s, but he’s now a byword for bad cinema - and, having already premiered on Nova this week (What Love Is, on Wednesday), he now turns up on prime-time LTV with this straight-to-video thriller. “A brutal murder!” says the trailer portentously (cut to Cuba shaking his head and sobbing: “There was so much blood...”).

“A twisted mind!”. The twisted mind belongs to the serial killer who sadistically butchered Cuba’s girlfriend - and our hero decides to investigate, uncovering a journal where the killer lists his past and future

victims. The plot has a couple of twists - “every trail leads to a seemingly anonymous 9-year-old orphan living in a group home,” says the synopsis mysteriously - but we’ve been here before, from the supersmart killer to the grisly action, not to mention Cuba Gooding Jr’s tired performance. “Hopefully Cuba will get another chance in the spotlight some day,” says a disappointed fan at the Internet Movie Database.

What, like next Tuesday on Cytavision? Made in 2011.

The Devil Inside (Novacinema3, 23.00) If we’re talking horror films, the real Pick of the Day is Insidious on LTV3 - but we’ll go with this one (a) to

warn you off it, and (b) to compare with Chronicle, tomorrow’s much better ‘found-footage’ drama. If you absolutely must watch a film where everything we see is supposedly from cameras wielded by the characters themselves, wait 24 hours and watch Chronicle instead - unless of course you want to see a spurious tale of exorcism and demonic possession, with a pair of maverick priests trying to cure a possibly possessed murderess. “The Vatican did not endorse this film, nor aid in its completion,” reads an opening caption - though why anyone would think the Vatican was in the business of financing cheapo horrors (especially ones with a dim view of the Catholic Church) is another matter. In a word, avoid. Made in 2012.

The Devil Inside

SundayMail Brideshead Revisited Flighty family and stately homes in big screen version of old favourite

This Means War Airy comedy where two CIA agents fall for the same girl

Tuesday, LTV, 9pm

Thursday, NovaCinema1, 10pm

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The Avengers Dream team of superheroes bicker among themselves before joining forces to fight evil 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 monrning entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

11.00

Kaftes Piperies (rpt)

11.45

Apo Mera Se Mera

15.30

Entehnos

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 16.30 17.00

Local cultural show.

Mazi Sto CyBC

18.00 18.15 18.45

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 21.00

17.50 18.40 18.50 19.00

20.30 21.00 23.15

00.15 00.45

Kati Psinetai (rpt)

Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Archbishop Makarios Year

News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) Entehnos (rpt) More Repeats

23.45

07.50 08.40 09.30 10.25 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Event marking 100 years since his birth, live coverage from the Convention Centre.

14.50

NRG Zone Presidential Elections 2013 Desperate Housewives

16.40 17.30 17.40

Seventh season.

‘Searching’. Susan tries to make the most of her remaining time after doctors advise her to settle any unfinished business.

Meanwhile, Bree desperately searches for a donor for her friend, and discovers two.

Elsewhere, Gabrielle and Lee enter their daughters into a talent show, and Lynette tries to educate Renee in the responsibilities of parenthood.

News Presidential Elections 2013 Third debate between the three candidates for Presidency.

23.30 23.45

05.30 06.30 06.50 07.00

Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Current affairs show.

Local talk-show.

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx DW-TV’s magazine show.

Cookery show.

16.00

ANTENNA

Repeats

15.45

18.40 19.30 20.15 21.00 23.10

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

06.00

With News at 18.00.

19.20

Oi Vasiliades

20.20 21.15

News Presidential Elections 2013 News Gymnoi Angeloi (rpt)

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Presidential Elections 2013 Replay Sports show.

00.25 00.30

News Radio Arvila Live parody show, poking fun at what makes the Greek headlines.

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

MEGA 06.30

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Greek drama series.

07.00

Nea Mera Morning variety show.

10.00

Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music, cookery, guest stars and more.

Hosted by real life couple Giorgos Liagas and Fay Skorda.

12.45 14.00

Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese (rpt) Greek drama series.

15.00

Eheis Meson

16.00

Yia Sena

18.00 18.20

News Master Chef (rpt)

Current affairs show.

Local talk-show.

SIGMA 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.30 15.10 16.15 18.00 18.05 19.00 19.30 20.20 21.00 23.55

First season. ‘The Strange Life of Bob’.

Nessa falls for a new employee at the casino, who seems reluctant to disclose any information about his past. Danny hunts for a peeping Tom who photographs unsuspecting women through their windows, and Sam enters an eating contest.

Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

Greek drama series.

00.00 00.10

Local drama series, based on true events.

01.00 03.00 04.20

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

Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Mi To’ Xeres (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Mi To Xeres Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) News Ora Kolpis Las Vegas

00.40 00.45 01.45 02.30 03.20 03.00 03.40

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.45 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

22.45

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kid’s TV To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Cold Case (rpt)

08.15 08.45 09.15 10.00

Fourth season. ‘A Dollar, A Dream’. When the body of a homeless woman is found with gunshot wounds at the bottom of a lake, the team is prompted to reopen a murder case from 1999. Rush and her group of investigators track down the victim’s estranged daughters in an attempt to piece together enough information to uncover the killer.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

00.15 01.10

11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 15.10 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) LTV Sports News Star News

Magikos Cosmos S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Capitla Sports FILM: Jesse Stone: Night Passage An alcoholic police chief gets caught up in a domestic abuse case that leads him to a money-laundering conspiracy. Detective thriller, starring Tom Selleck . 2006.

22.45

The Fixer A former White House communications director starts her own crisis management firm but finds that she cannot leave her past behind.

Supernatural Sixth season. ‘Live Free or Twi-hard’. Dean and Sam track down a bloodsucker who is linked to the disappearance of a number of girls.

23.30

CAPITAL

23.45

FILM: Blow Out A sound-effects expert is targeted by killers after accidentally recording a murder.

Nerve-jangling psychological thriller, starring John Travolta. 1981.

Horrible Bosses (LTV3, 22.00)

01:50 Friday Night Dinner 02:10 Come Fly With Me 02:40 Carrie’s War 04:10 The Weakest Link 04:55 Friday Night Dinner 05:20 Big Cat Diary 05:45 Come Fly With Me 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Old Guys 10:00 After You’ve Gone 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 13:00 Full Circle With Michael Palin 13:50 The Old Guys 14:20 2 Point 4 Children 14:50 Last Man Standing 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 17:25 After You’ve Gone 17:55 The Old Guys 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 21:00 Dinnerladies 21:30 As Time Goes By 22:00 Zen 23:30 Ideal 00:00 Carrie’s War

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering

13:35 Street Customs Berlin 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00 The Real Hustle 23:00 Ultimate Survival 00:00 River Monsters 01:00 Ross Kemp On Gangs 01:55 Dual Survival 02:50 The Real Hustle 03:50 Ultimate Survival 04:50 River Monsters 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 11:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 11:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 12:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 12:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 14:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 18:30 Football: Eurogoals 19:15 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 20:15 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:30 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 00:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:45 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35

Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Who Do You Think You Are 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Jane

By Design 12:50 Revenge 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Who Do You Think You Are 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Once Upon A Time 21:50 Revenge 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Once Upon A Time 00:20 Revenge 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Masterchef

07:30 Consenting Adults 09:10 Stone 11:00 All Good Things 12:45 Doors, The: When You’re Strange 14:30 Indian, The 16:10 ScoobyDoo 2: Monsters Unleashed 17:45 Romancing The Stone 19:30 Action Zone 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Flypaper 23:00 Going The Distance 00:50 Hustler Tv 02:30 Space Cowboys 04:40 Bitch Slap 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super He-

02:10 Two Tickets To Paradise 03:45 2 Broke Girls 04:10 According To Jim 05:00 Hawai Five 06:30 Supernatural

roes 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 (Live) 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 E-60 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League Review 04:00 Winter X-Games Europe 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Friends 07:50 Fringe 09:30 Big Bang Theory The 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 Mentalist The 11:30 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 12:30 Gossip Girl 13:15 Supernatural 14:00 Fringe 15:30 Big Bang Theory The 16:00 2 Broke Girls 16:30 According To Jim 17:20 Hawai Five 18:10 Hawai Five 19:00 Supernatural 19:45 Chuck 20:30 2 Broke Girls 21:00 Bones 21:45 Borgias I, The 22:40 Five Days 2 23:45 Top Boy 00:40 Seven Minutes In Heaven

08:30 Running With Scissors 10:30 Action Zone 11:00 Paranormal Activity 12:30 Chain Reaction, The 14:15 Star Trek (2009) 16:30 Facing Ali 18:30 Friends With Money 20:00 Just Go With It 22:00 Horrible Bosses 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:00 Trouble With Dee Dee, The 05:45 48 Hrs

05:30 Shame 07:10 The Sitter 08:35 Cine News 09:05 Jumping The Broom 11:00 Hollywood Buzz 11:30 Treasure Buddies 13:10 Yo Tambien 15:00 Green Card 16:50 Lies In Plain Sight 18:20 Films And Stars 18:50 Certain Prey 20:25 Who Is Clark Rockefeller? 22:00 The Rum Diary 00:05 The Following 01:05 Fish N’ Chips

05:10 Limitless 06:55 The Marrying Man 08:50 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 12:35 Manhattan Murder Mystery 14:30 Five Minarets In New York 16:35 The Last Tycoon 18:45 Beastly 20:15 She’s The One 23:45 Management 01:25 We Need To Talk About Kevin 03:20 Your Highness

Wheels 24:00 Sports Unlimited 18:45 X-Men: First Class 21:00 The Ghost And The Darkness 23:00 Ncis 23:50 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

19:25 Spinning Into Butter 21:00 La Chance De Ma Vie 22:40 Amador 00:40 Blue Crush 2

01:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Illinois At Minnesota 03:00 Courtside Jones 03:30 European Tour Joburg Open Final D. 07:00 School Of Golf - Chapter 31: Develop A Go-To Shot 07:30 Feherty - Gary Mccord 08:30 School Of Golf - Chapter 4: Better Ball Striking 09:00 Golf Central International Sdd 09:30 Academy 10:00 Nfl Game Day 10:30 Nhl: Los Angeles Kings At Retroit Ed Wings 13:00 Punk Payback With Bas Rutten Boxing Day 13:30 Dumbest Stuff On Wheels 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Michigan At Purdue 17:00 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Oklahoma St. At Oklahoma 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Apollon Vs Alkh 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Illinois At Minnesota 23:00 Punk Payback With Bas Rutten Boxing Day 23:30 Dumbest Stuff On

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 08:30 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 15:30 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 17:30 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Mission Lydia 20:30 MTV Everyday Girls 21:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 22:00 MTV Teen Mom 4 23:00 YO! MTV RAPS Best Of 23:30 MTV Snooki & SWOWW 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 :::Tick:::Tick:::Tick 08:35 Some Came Running 10:50 April in Paris 12:25 Gone With the Wind 16:00 The Fighting 69th17:20 Clash By Night 19:05 The Rounders 20:30 Postman’s Knock 22:00 Ryan’s Daughter 01:10 Get Carter 03:10 Bombshell 04:45 The Brothers Karamazov

By Preston Wilder

Once Upon a Time (FoxLife, 21.00) If the curse is broken, why aren’t they back yet?

That’s the question haunting the inhabitants of Storybrooke, Maine as Season 2 of Once Upon a Time kicks off tonight - and those who watched Season 1 will know that the people of Storybrooke are in fact fairytale characters who’ve been transported to the ‘real’ world and robbed of their memories by an evil queen (no, really). The curse has now been lifted by Emma, daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming (why would I make it up?) - but it clearly isn’t over since the fairytale peeps are still there, even though the evil queen is now powerless. What’s going on?

I’ve sampled a bit of this twee little soap and found it

Once Upon a Time

unwatchable, but its fans can’t get enough of it - and the current MVP appears to be ‘Mr. Gold’, a.k.a. Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle, of Full Monty fame), who injects some new magic and gives the plot its second wind. “There are new dangers now,” proclaims Prince Phillip, “but they’re nothing we can’t handle”. And they lived happily ever after. ‘Broken’ is the title.

The Rum Diary (Novacinema1, 22.00) A missed opportunity, for a very simple reason: its hero is too virtuous - which is a problem when that hero is played by Johnny Depp (an actor who always tends to be inert if he’s not allowed to run wild), and

even more of a problem when that hero is a hard-living, hard-drinking, totally irreverent writer based on Hunter S. Thompson (who wrote the original novel).

Depp is Paul Kemp, who gets a job as a newspaper reporter in Puerto Rico in the early 60s: “This place is like someone you f***ed and they’re still under you,” says a sidekick - the kind of outrageously funny line that could’ve made this a cult movie, but instead the plot bogs down in shady property deals and ugly Americans (“A liberal is a Commie with a college education, thinking Negro thoughts”), Kemp gets turned into a good guy, and there isn’t even much boozing after a memorably dissipated prologue. Should’ve been more fun - or just more decadent. Made in 2011.

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CYBC 1 08.00

Oikogeneia Solomou (rpt) Local series with events unfolding in a Cypriot village before and after the Turkish invasion of 1974.

08.40

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00

17.15

Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

13.30

Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Cookery show.

14.00 14.30

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

16.30

Vimmata Stin Ammo (rpt)

18.30 18.50 19.00 19.20 21.00

News Ego Ki Esi

18.45

O Daskalos (rpt)

20.00 21.30

News Savvato Ki Apovrado

Local comedy series.

Local two-part sketch.

23.40

02.45 04.45

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

Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

07.00

FILM: Johnny Kapahala: Back On Board

Candid Camera News In English New In Turkish NRG Zone Weekend FILM: Hocus Pocus

23.25 00.10 02.20

07.30 08.00 08.50 09.40 10.30 11.20 12.10 13.50 15.10 17.30

Album Show Repeats Euronews

Danda Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) Cheek To Cheek (rpt) Men Kai Den (rpt) San To Skilo Me Ti Gata (rpt) 40 Kimata (rpt) Super Babas (rpt) O Tzitzikas kai o Mermyngas (rpt) Tychi Vouno (rpt) O Polemos ton Astron (rpt) Yia Tin Agapi Sou Niose Me (rpt) Ekeino to Kalokairi (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 20.20 21.30 23.00

Vals Me 12 Theous News Eksairetika Afieromeno FILM: The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy An ordinary man is hurled into an intergalactic adventure when the Earth is destroyed, accompanied by his best friend who turns out to be an alien.

Sci-fi comedy, starring Martin Freeman. 2005

Ghost Whisperer (rpt) Fifth and last season of paranormal drama. ‘Dead Air’.

Melinda helps Ned as he tries to stop a vengeful ghost after the Grandview radio station broadcasts the humiliating secrets that led to his death..

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

23.30 23.45 00.45

06.50

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.

Two episodes of local period drama, based on true events.

18.00 18.15

NRG Zone Kids’ TV

A teenage snowboarding champion travels to Hawaii for his grandfather’s wedding, and helps save the family surf shop. Comedy sequel to Johnny Tsunami, starring Brandon Baker. 2007.

Local drama series.

11.00

ANTENNA

00.05 00.20 01.00 01.40 02.40 03.50 04.40

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

MEGA 07.00 09.40 10.00 10.30 11.20 12.10 13.00 15.30 16.30

Proino Mou (rpt) Kids’ TV Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt) Chuck Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

SIGMA 05.20 07.00 08.30 10.00 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00

Oi Vasiliades (rpt) News Anonymous

19.00

Local satirical show.

22.20 00.00 00.10

Mousiko Kouti - Live News FILM: Anaconda 3: Offspring A scientist working in a millionaire’s secret lab performs experiments on two giant predatory snakes - then, when the creatures escape and go on the rampage, enlists the aid of a mercenary to try and kill them. Monster movie, starring David Hasselhoff. 2008

01.40 02.20 03.20 04.00 04.30 05.00 05.40

Big Bang (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Oi Afthairetoi O Ios Tou Patera (rpt) Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou

Oi Takkoi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) Hua Mulan Mes Stin Kala Hara Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt)

07.50 12.05

Local drama series.

16.40

13.00 13.40 15.10

The Cooking Factory (rpt) Annita SoS

20.15 21.20

23.00

Pame Paketo (rpt) Popular 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.

17.30 19.00

News FILM: French Kiss

21.15

A woman travels to Paris to try and stop her fiance from leaving her, and gets mixed up in a French jewel thief’s criminal caper.

Romantic comedy, starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. 1995.

22.00

23.50 23.55 00.40 04.00

19.40

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

Mila (rpt) Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Greek FILM: O Papatrehas Comedy, starring Thanasis Vengos.

1966.

Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Cold Case (rpt) Third season. ‘Colors’.

Rush and Jeffries investigate a 1945 case involving baseball star Clyde ‘the Glide’ Taylor, who was subjected to a violent attack following a game and beaten to death with his own bat.

Las Vegas (rpt) Drama series focusing on a security team at a large casino.

Kids’ TV LTV Sports News (rpt) Star News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt)

CAPITAL 07.00 11.45 12.15 13.25 15.20 15.35 16.05 16.10

22.50

18.00 18.55 19.05 19.55 20.05 21.00

22.45

Icon Second-part of thriller, starring Patrick Swayze.

Vathi Kokkino Kostakis Ki Yioi LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Remington Steele News Acapulco HEAT News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Black Knight an employee in a Medieval World amusement park, sustains a blow to the head, and awakens to find himself in 14th century England.

Comedy, with Martin Lawrence. 2001.

Greek drama series.

23.30 00.10 01.05 01.40

Kids’ TV Kouzina Me Apopsi Telemarketing Greek FILM: Oikogeneia Horafa Mila Mou Prasina Kouzina Me Apopsi News FILM: The In-Laws Right before his daughter’s wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers. Comedy, starring Albert Brooks. 2003.

With News at 17.30.

Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

With News at 18.00.

With News at 18.00.

18.40 20.20 21.10

PLUS TV

01.00

FILM: Replicant A cop on the hunt for a serial killer teams up with a clone of his intended prey - but the double proves unpredictable. Thriller, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. 2001.

Puss in Boots (Novacinema2, 12.20)

01:25 The Weakest Link 02:10 EastEnders 02:40 Doctors 03:10 Last Man Standing 04:00 Robin Hood 04:45 Live At The Apollo 05:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 Doctor Who 11:00 Doctor Who Confidential 11:10 Last Man Standing 12:00 Full Circle With Michael Palin 12:50 Dinnerladies 13:20 As Time Goes By 13:50 Fawlty Towers 14:20 Last Of The Summer Wine 14:50 Casualty 15:40 EastEnders 18:10 My Family 18:40 The Weakest Link 19:25 Doctor Who 20:10 Last Man Standing 21:00 Live At The Apollo 21:45 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 22:30 Luther 23:20 Ideal 23:50 Getting On 00:20 Twenty Twelve 00:50 Last Man Standing

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Twist The Throttle 08:15 Fifth Gear 09:10 Mega Builders 10:05 Mighty Ships 10:55 Deception With Keith Barry 14:30 Extreme Engineering 15:25

You Have Been Warned 16:20 Dirty Great Machines 17:15 Fast N’ Loud 18:10 Texas Car Wars 19:05 Mythbusters 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Auction Hunters 23:00 Costa Concordia: The Whole Story 01:00 Body Invaders 01:55 Auction Hunters 03:50 Costa Concordia: The Whole Story 04:50 How It’s Made 05:15 Jesse James Outlaw Garage 06:05 Mega Builders

09:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 10:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 10:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 12:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 12:45 Cross Country Skiing: World Cup Switzerland 14:15 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 15:15 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 17:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 19:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 02:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

05:40 Tough Love Miami 06:30

Desperate Housewives 10:20 Modern Family 11:10 Last Man Standing 12:00 Happy Endings 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 12:50 Masterchef 14:30 The Listener 18:30 Who Do You Think You Are 19:20 Tough Love Miami 21:00 Once Upon A Time 21:50 Revenge 22:40 Raising Hope 23:05 New Girl 23:30 Glee 00:20 Bones 04:25 Modern Family 05:15 Melissa & Joey

07:15 Gossip Girl 08:00 Friends 08:30 Big Bang Theory The 09:00 According To Jim 09:55 Two And A Half Men 10:45 Bones 11:30 Mentalist The 12:30 Hawai Five 13:15 Closer, The 14:15 Fringe 15:00 Necessary Roughness 18:00 Five Days 23:45 Weakness 01:30 St. Elmo’s Fire 03:30 Supernatural

07:30 Hollywood Buzz 08:00 Mumford 10:00 Greenberg 12:00 Yogi Bear 13:30 Double Jeopardy 15:30 The Fighter 17:30 Action Zone 18:00 Deception (2008) 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Sleepless In Seattle 23:00 Groupie 00:30 Hustler Tv 02:45 True Crime 05:00 Elder Son, The 06:30 Ltv Sports News

08:15 Dragonslayer 10:00 Action Zone 10:30 Flipped 12:30 Operation: Daybreak 14:30 Underbelly Files - The Man Who Got Away 16:15 Peggy Sue Got Married 18:00 Ticking Clock 20:00 Eye Of The Dolphin 22:00 Just Go With It 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 Incendiary 05:45 Secret Pact, The

07:00 Kids TV 13:40 Max Adventures 14:05 2011 Figure Skating Championships 16:00 Planet Speed 16:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 17:00 2011 American Le Mans Series 19:00 Liga Bbva 201213 21:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 (Live) 23:00 E-60 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 02:30 Three For The Show 03:30 Nba 2012-13 (Live) 06:00 E-60

05:40 Meskada 08:05 First Daughter 09:10 To Tango Ton Christougennon 10:55 Cine News 11:35 12 Dates Of Christmas 13:05 Jumping The Broom 15:00 Ncis 16:40 Cine News 17:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 19:05 Monte Carlo 22:00 Chronicle 23:35 The Avengers 02:05 The Following 02:55 Death Race 2 04:35 Strange Crime

an Tour Africa Open Sdd 19:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 22:00 Tba 06:45 The Beaver 08:15 Cine News 08:55 Manhattan Murder Mystery 10:50 Beastly 12:20 Puss In Boots 13:55 My Life So Far 15:30 Thor 17:30 Mad On Novacinema 18:10 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 20:00 Five Minarets In New York 22:00 Dream House 01:55 The Ides Of March 03:40 Underworld: Awakening

05:00 Paranormal Activity 3 06:30 Breaking Wind 09:55 Cine News 10:35 Doctor Dolittle 12:05 Captain America: The First Avenger 14:15 Love To Kill 15:50 Hanna 17:45 Certain Prey 19:20 The Hit List 21:00 Page Eight 22:45 Cine News 23:00 Love Crime 00:55 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:10 The Ward 04:40 Choose

05:05 La Fille De Monaco 06:45 The Client List 08:20 Les Emotifs Anonymes 09:40 Hop 11:20 Melancholia 13:40 Alfie 15:30 Mpilompa 17:15 Beginners 19:05 Welcome To The Sticks 21:00 Treasure Buddies 22:40 Le Divorce 00:45 My Future Boyfriend 02:05 Hud 03:55 Room In Rome

06:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV World Stage 13:00 McCafé Music Project 13:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 14:00 MTV Daria 14:30 MTV Daria 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 15:30 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Mission Lydia 16:30 MTV Everyday Girls 17:00 MTV Movies & Stars 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 2012 UK Hosted Countdowns 20:00 Pure Local 22:00 Only Hits 00:00 S7S Lockdown Top10 00:30 MTV Party Zone 04:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

01:30 Courtside Jones 02:00 Big Ten Wrestling Iowa At Illinois 04:00 Sports Unlimited 05:00 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 07:30 Courtside Jones 08:00 Feherty Graeme Mcdowell 09:00 Golf Central International Sdd 09:30 Being John Daly - The New John Daly 10:00 Being John Daly - Aloha, Pga Tour 10:30 Golf Now – New York City 11:00 Tba 13:00 Golf Central International 13:30 Nhl: Dallas Stars At Vancouver Canucks 16:00 Europe-

07:00 , The Swan 08:45 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10:15 Travels With My Aunt 12:05 In This Our Life 13:40 Ivanhoe 15:25 Texas Carnival 16:40 , The Biggest Bundle Of Them All 18:30 Kismet 20:25 Agatha 22:00 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 23:45 Captains Courageous 01:40 Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid 03:35 , The Naked Spur 05:05 Mr: Imperium 06:30 TCM Presents Under the Influence: John Leguizamo

By Preston Wilder

Eye of the Dolphin (LTV3, 20.00) What would you say to a dolphin, if you could communicate? Dogs are easy; you can ask why they keep fetching sticks, or engage them in a deep conversation on the evil nature of cats - but dolphins live in the sea, which is handy for combating shark attacks but limits the options for general chit-chat. Angry teen Carly Schroeder is ‘troubled’, at least she goes to the Bahamas to live with the father she never knew; Dad studies dolphin communication - but it’s Carly who turns out to have a knack for talking with the smiley cetaceans, so much so that Dad is initially upset. “I forbid you from having any more contact with that dolphin!” he says hilariously, trying to play the heavy

father - but dolphins are wise, and can help Dad out when his research operation is threatened by a tourist attraction. Flipper-y family fun, with Jane Lynch (of all people) among the cast; maybe she can entertain the dolphins with her “Know what I had for breakfast?

Cocaine!” speech from Role Models. Made in 2006.

Chronicle (Novacinema1, 22.00) Did you follow our advice last night? Did you refrain from watching The Devil Inside? If you did (and even if you didn’t), here’s your reward - a similar but far superior entertainment, sci-fi rather than horror but sporting the same grungy ‘found-footage’ look. Andrew (Dane DeHaan) is a high-school kid with problems, a

Chronicle

dying mother and a drunken, abusive father - so Andrew starts filming everything, initially as a weapon against his dad, and is still filming when he and two friends explore a strange cave in the woods during a late-night party and discover they’ve become ... well, superheroes. The boys develop special powers, like telekinesis and the ability to fly, and have fun playing football up in the clouds - but Andrew’s personal issues soon lead to more sinister thoughts, turning him from superhero to incipient supervillain. A very clever low-budget film which also makes a virtue of the found-footage gimmick, the tunnel-vision of holding a camera rhyming with the tunnel-vision that leads to megalomania. Good stuff; made in 2012.

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CYBC 1 07.30 10.30

Church Service Savvato Ki Apovrado (rpt) Variety show, with wellknown guests pretending to have a good time for the benefit of You At Home.

12.30

07.00 08.00 12.35

I Ypaithros Local farming programme.

13.00 13.30

CYBC 2

13.00

Kypros Ena Taxidi Eimaste Edo News Me Kali Parea Live local talk-show, with news segment, interviews, live music and more hosted by Vivian Kanari.

16.30

13.25 17.05 17.30

To Tmima (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

18.20 19.20 19.30 19.40

23.05

Ego Ki Esi Local Sketch TBA News Presidential Elections 2013 Results from the fifth poll.

00.00 00.15

News Repeats

Series spin-off in which Zack and Cody Martin enroll in a semesterat-sea programme.

Dubbed in Greek.

07.20

Hannah Montana (rpt)

More Kid’s TV Euromaxx Passage To Malaysia

23.50

07.50 08.20 09.10 10.00 10.50

13.50 15.10

I Kypro Konta Sas News In English News In Turkish The Four Continents Figure Skating Championships (R) Ghost Whisperer (rpt)

Repeats

Aliki (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) Cheek To Cheek (rpt) Oi Men kai oi Den San To Skilo Me Ti Gata (rpt) 40 Kimata (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Litsa.com (rpt)

MEGA 07.00 09.40 10.00 10.30 11.20 12.10

16.10

Tihi Vouno Exairetika Afieromeno (rpt) Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt) Tha Vreis To Daskalo Sou (rpt) Niose Me (rpt)

13.00

14.30

20.15 21.00

Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) News Dancing With The Stars Celebrities and pro dancers train and compete in a ballroom dancing competition.

00.45 00.50 01.00

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

02.00 02.40 04.00 04.40

Pano Apo To Nomo Doureios Ippos (rpt) News Eftyhismenes Meres (rpt)

SIGMA 06.50 07.50 09.30 10.00 14.00 15.15

FILM: The Karate Kid III

17.00

Annita SoS

19.00 20.20 21.30

The Cooking (rprt) News FILM: Crime & Punishment

Anonymous (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt)

In contemporary Moscow a law student goes on the run and struggles with a guilty conscience after he has murdered an old pawnbroker. Drama, starring Crispin Glover.

2002.

22.50

01.40 02.20 03.20 04.00 04.30

Oi Vasiliades (rpt) News Anonymous Mousiko Kouti - Live Kleise Ta Matia (rpt) Mila Mou Vromika (rpt) Big Bang Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi, Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) More Repeats

07.50 11.35 12.05 13.00 13.40 15.10 16.40

00.10 00.20

17.30

01.00 03.20

07.00 12.25 13.35 14.05 14.20 15.45 16.15

19.00 19.20

Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: American Pastime A Japanese-American family forced into an internment camp during World War Two try to find common ground with the guards through a shared love of baseball. Drama, starring Aaron Yoo. 2007.

21.00

FILM: Batman Tim Burton’s thriller, starring Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger and Jack Nicholson.

1989. See Pick Of The Day.

22.50 23.40 00.30 01.05

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) LTV Sports News News Repeats

Kids’ TV Telemarketing Kouzina Me Apopsi (rpt) Kipotehnia Greek FILM: Yiati Me Engateleipses Star Stories FILM: Tornado Warning A scientist develops a means of predicting tornados, but the powers-that-be refuse to heed his warnings of disaster for a town.

Disaster movie, with Gerald McRaney.

2002. With News at 17.30.

Mila (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life.

Las Vegas (rpt)

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

Kids’ TV Exelixeis Sti Showbiz LTV Sports News Star News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt)

CAPITAL

Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

Drama, starring James Caan as a leader of a security outfit protecting one of Sin City’s biggest casinos.

With News at 18.00.

18.40 20.20 21.10 22.20 00.10 01.00

PLUS TV

With News at 18.00.

The teenage martial arts expert falls under the influence of a crooked teacher as he struggles to retain his championship title.

Adventure sequel, with Ralph Macchio. 1989.

15.20 16.30

Oi Takkoi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) UEFA Champions League Magazine Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Barbie Pame Paketo (rpt) Popular talk-show, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people.

Master Chef (rpt) Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

With News at 18.00.

18.30

Church Service Kid’s TV Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Klemmena Oneira Proino Mou (rpt) Chuck A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.

Greek comedy series, about a beautician that blogs.

11.20 12.10

Fifth and last ever season of paranormal drama, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.

‘Excessive Forces’. The ghost of a high school boy thought to have died in a tragic skateboarding accident contacts Melinda, and accuses a Grandview cop of murdering him.

Local comedy series.

19.30 20.00 21.30

05.30 06.20 06.50

Documentary that explores some of the threads that weave the rich fabric that is modern Malaysia.

Local drama series.

17.30

NRG Zone Kid’s TV The Suite Life On Deck (rpt)

Adventures of a teenage pop star who keeps her identity secret. Dubbed in Greek.

Local talk-show aimed at youths.

14.00 14.30

ANTENNA

18.00

Remington Steele With News at 18.30.

19.05 19.55 20.05 21.00

Acapulco HEAT News O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: The Desperate Hours An escaped psychopath invades the home of mild-mannered man and his dysfunctional family. Thriller, with Mickey Rourke. 1990.

23.00

FILM: Virus The crew of a salvage tug board a deserted ship at sea - not realising aliens have infected the vessel’s machinery with a virus. Sci-fi thriller, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. 1999.

00.45

FILM: Officer Down Crime thriller, starring Sherilyn Fenn and Casper Van Dien.

2005.

Just Go With It (LTV, 21.00)

01:40 Last Of The Summer Wine 02:10 Live At The Apollo 02:55 The Weakest Link 03:40 Twenty Twelve 04:10 Last Man Standing 05:00 Live At The Apollo 05:45 Last Of The Summer Wine 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 The Weakest Link 10:15 One Foot In The Grave 10:45 Keeping Up Appearances 11:15 Gavin & Stacey 11:45 The Old Guys 12:15 Blackadder Goes Forth 12:45 After You’ve Gone 13:15 2 Point 4 Children 13:45 The Weakest Link 14:30 One Foot In The Grave 15:00 Bleak House 16:00 Doctors 18:30 Keeping Up Appearances 19:00 Gavin & Stacey 19:35 Carrie’s War 21:05 Friday Night Dinner 21:30 Come Fly With Me 22:00 Zen 23:30 Waking The Dead 00:20 Kiss Of Death

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 How Do They Do It? 08:15 Twist The Throttle 09:10 Mythbusters 10:05 Destroyed In Seconds 10:55 Extreme Engineering 11:50 American Guns 12:40 Rattlesnake Republic 13:35

Auction Kings 14:30 Auction Hunters 15:25 Gold Rush 16:20 Gold Divers 17:15 American Chopper 18:10 Ultimate Survival 19:05 Man, Woman, Wild 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Outback Truckers 22:00 Ultimate Survival 23:00 River Monsters 00:00 Aircrash Confidential 01:00 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 01:55 Outback Truckers 02:50 Ultimate Survival 03:50 River Monsters 04:50 How It’s Made 05:15 Man, Woman, Wild 06:05 American Chopper

09:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 09:45 Ski Jumping: Women’s World Cup Japan 10:45 Nordic Combined Skiing: World Cup Kazakhstan 11:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 13:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 13:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 14:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 16:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 18:00 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 18:15 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 19:00 Luge: World Cup African 19:30 Luge: World Cup African 22:00 All Sports: Watts 22:15 Boxing: Wbo World Championship Super Middle Weight Contest In Germany 00:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:15 Luge: World Cup African

05:40 The Gates 06:30 Last Man Standing 07:45 Modern Family 08:10 Scandal 08:55 Castle 5 09:40 Grey’s Anatomy 10:25 Private Practice 11:10 Jane By Design 12:00 Revenge 12:50 Raising Hope 13:15 New Girl 13:40 Glee 14:30 Bones 18:30 Masterchef 20:10 Happy Endings 20:35 Don’t Trust The B...

In Apartment 21:00 Scandal 21:50 Castle 5 22:40 Grey’s Anatomy 23:30 Private Practice 00:15 Modern Family 01:55 Masterchef 03:35 Last Man Standing

07:30 Lost In Space 09:45 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, The 11:30 Man Of The Year 13:30 Mirror Has Two Faces, The 15:45 Running With Scissors 18:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Just Go With It 23:00 Grind House: Planet Terror 00:50 Hustler Tv 02:30 Agora 04:45 Dead Calm 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 14:05 Dropped 14:35 Liga Bbva 2012-13 16:30 Best Premier League Games 17:00 Pre-Game 18:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 201213 (Live) 20:00 Barclays Premier

League 2012-13 21:45 Nba Action 22:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 (Live) 00:30 Liga Bbva 2012-13 02:30 Planet Speed 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships

07:15 According To Jim 07:40 2 Broke Girls 08:35 Friends 09:05 According To Jim 10:00 Chuck 10:45 Bones 11:35 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 12:25 Hawai Five 13:15 Harry’s Law 14:15 Fringe 15:00 Pan Am 18:45 Southland 21:00 Luck 00:05 Case 39 02:00 Shattered Silence 03:30 C.S.I. New York 05:45 Five Days 2

08:00 Midnight In Paris 10:00 Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen 12:30 Eva 14:30 Cash 16:30 Stand

By Me 18:00 Next Three Days, The 20:15 Solitary Man 22:00 City Heat 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:00 Blindness 06:15 Simon Birch

05:35 Cowboys & Aliens 07:35 The Tempest 09:25 La Chance De Ma Vie 11:00 Cars 2 12:50 We Bought A Zoo 15:00 How I Met Your Mother 15:30 Split Decisions 16:20 Flesh And Blood 17:10 A Little Bit Of Heaven 19:05 Rise Of The Planet Of

La Fille De Monaco 11:35 Larry Crowne 13:20 The Adjustment Bureau 15:10 Beginners 17:00 My Geisha 19:05 Korkoro 21:00 My Future Boyfriend 22:25 Melancholia 00:45 Mrs. Brown 02:35 Room In Rome 04:25 Conviction

The Apes 21:00 Person Of Interest 22:00 The Avengers 00:35 Gone 02:15 Transit 03:45 Martha Marcy May Marlene

05:35 127 Hours 07:10 Malena 08:45 Mi Mou Aptou 10:20 Jack And Jill 11:55 Cine News 12:40 The Romantics 14:20 Thor 16:20 Nisos 2: To Kinigi Tou Xamenou Thisavrou 22:00 Bad Teacher 23:40 The Story Of Us 01:20 Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas 03:20 The Girl Next Door

05:20 Shark Night 06:50 Love To Kill 08:25 O Elias Tou 16ou 21:00 Encounter With Danger 22:35 Point Blank 00:05 Phone Booth 01:30 Adult Zone 03:25 Traffic

05:45 Onirevome Tous Filous Mou 07:40 Hop 09:15 Cine News 10:00

01:30 Courtside Jones 02:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Michigan State At Purdue 04:00 European Tour Joburg Open 07:00 Road Trip - Myrtle Beach 07:30 Road Trip - Myrtle Beach 08:00 The Golf Fix 08:30 Golf’s Amazing Videos The Good, The Bad & The Barkley 09:00 Golf Central International Sdd 09:30 Golf’s Amazing Videos - Dancing With The (Golf) Stars 10:00 Nfl Game Day 10:30 Courtside Jones 11:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Northwestern At Iowa 13:00 Golf Central International 13:30 Nfl Game Day 14:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Michigan State At Purdue 16:00 European Tour Joburg Open Final Sdd 16:15 Pre Game 17:00 Championship 201213: Apollon Vs Alkh 19:00 Post Game 19:45 Nhl: Los Angeles Kings At Retroit Ed Wings 22:00 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Michigan At Purdue Sdd 24:00 Sports Unlimited

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 14:30 MTV Daria 15:00 MTV Crash Canyon 15:30 MTV Crash Canyon 16:00 MTV Wake Brothers 16:30 MTV Wake Brothers 17:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 2012 UK Hosted Countdowns 20:00 MTV Paris Hilton my new BFF 21:00 MTV Paris Hilton my new BFF 22:00 MTV Paris Hilton my new BFF 23:00 MTV Underemployed 00:00 MTV Teen Mom 4 01:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 Northern Pursuit 08:35 It Started With A Kiss 10:15 Doctor Zhivago 13:25 They Drive by Night 15:00 Stay Away, Joe 17:00 Billy The Kid 18:35 Dial M For Murder 20:20 Party Girl 22:00 The Fixer 00:20 Some Came Running 02:35 April in Paris 04:10 Lovely To Look At 05:55 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Joan Allen 06:25 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Sydney Pollack

By Preston Wilder

Batman (PlusTV, 21.00) Comic-book heroes, Part 1: it might seem strange nowadays, when everyone with a cape and a colourful back-story gets a film made about them, but superhero films were still a novelty 25 years ago - which is why this one caused such a stir, being the first time the genre had been taken seriously by Hollywood. It wasn’t full of cartoon ‘BIFF’s and ‘POW’s like the 60s TV Batman, it wasn’t even clean-cut and family-friendly like Superman: it looked dark and gloomy, and raised the possibility that Batman (Michael Keaton) might be a crazed vigilante battling childhood traumas instead of an old-fashioned hero (it even had a theme song

by Prince, for goodness sake!), so comic-book fans ea-

gerly embraced it, and chose to ignore how sloppy it was. The baroque look remains impressive - but plotting is terrible, the film feels disjointed, and Jack Nicholson’s hammy Joker (whose fiendish plan to destroy Gotham City involves chemically-altered hygiene products) is a long way behind Heath Ledger. Watch for an hour, then zap to The Avengers. Made in 1989.

The Avengers (Novacinema1, 22.00) Comic-book heroes, Part 2: currently the third-biggest film of all time (unadjusted for inflation), though it’s hard to say why. Maybe it’s because of the hype, literally four years of hype introducing the members

The Avengers

of the titular team in separate movies - Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America (plus Hawkeye and Black Widow, who didn’t get their own films) - before finally bringing them together. Maybe it’s because the film is enjoyably light-hearted, the dream-team bickering among themselves before joining forces to fight the evil Loki, meaning it can appeal even to those (e.g. women) with no interest in sci-fi action. Or maybe it’s because the comic-book genre has now come of age, having gone as dark as it could (with The Dark Knight) and come out the other side: it’s not just for comicbook geeks anymore. Look for Avengers 2 in 2015, with Thor and Iron Man sequels due this year and Captain America next year. There’s no escape! Made in 2012.

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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00

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

12.00

Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs show.

15.30

Entehnos Local cultrual show.

16.00

Mazi Sto CyBC Local talk-show.

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Bob The Builder Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, etc. Shown till 12.30, then repeated till mid-afternoon.

Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

11.00 11.30

ANTENNA

16.30

Euromaxx

Live cookery show.

UEFA Europa League

18.45

Paizoume Kypriaka

Pre-game analysis.

20.00 21.15

22.00

20.00

Live coverage of Levante vs Olympiakos.

UEFA Europa League

News Patates 8

22.15 22.45

Motor Sports Kati Psinetai (rpt)

News Repeats

18.40 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10

Post-game analysis.

Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

00.00

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

06.00 06.15 07.00 10.00 12.45 14.00 15.00

23.00 00.00 00.05 00.20 01.40

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Presidential Elections 2013 Castle News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Repeats

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Eheis Meson Local investigative show.

16.00 18.00 18.20

Yia Sena News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10

Oi Vasiliades News Klemmena Oneira FILM: Collateral Damage

00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00 04.20

News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

07.00 08.20 10.00 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.00 16.00 18.00 18.05 19.00 19.30 20.20 21.15 23.20

Repeats

Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To’ Xeres Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Pame Paketo Las Vegas First season. ‘Family Jewels’. A guest is robbed of $5million in diamonds, prompting Mike to go after the thief. A high-roller arrives at the Montecito with his new fiancee - who shocks Ed by announcing her beau will never gamble again. Meanwhile, the team’s mental health is assessed by a psychologist.

00.00 00.05 01.20 02.10 03.00 03.10 04.30

UEFA Europa League Highlights from the best matches in the round of 32.

23.00

SIGMA

A heroic firefighter travels to Colombia seeking revenge after his wife and child are killed in a terrorist attack. Action thriller, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Francesca Neri. 2002.

With News at 18.00.

22.00

Presidential Elections 2013

15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

UEFA Europa League

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

Three days to go! no details supplied but presumably a studio dabate or discussion.

00.00 00.15

19.30

Moiraia Fengaria

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

14.50

Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

News Kaftes Piperies

19.20

12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00

Kati Psinetai (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Candid Camera

18.00 18.15

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

09.30 10.25 11.15

DW-TV’s magazine show, bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

06.30 06.50 07.00 07.50 08.40

MEGA

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.35

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

12.30 13.00 15.30 16.15 17.00

Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons More Kid’s TV To Kleidi Greek comedy series.

17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

Fotis Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fringe FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, a scientist, Walter Bishop, and his son Peter investigate unexplained events with paranormal or terrorist connections.

22.45

FILM: License To Wed An eccentric vicar puts a couple through a course of gruelling challenges to prove they are ready for married life. Comedy, starring Robin Williams, Mandy Moore and John Krasinski. 2007.

00.10 01.00 03.00

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 08.25 08.55 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.30 15.10 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15

Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models S’Agapo 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: See Jane Date A publishing assistant endures a series of romantic misadventures to find the perfect date to escort her to a family wedding. Comedy, with Charisma Carpenter. 2003.

22.45

FILM: Anything Else An aspiring New York writer struggles with his professional and romantic relationships.

Romantic comedy, directed by and starring Woody Allen. 2003.

00.50

FILM: Blessed A woman becomes pregnant with Satan’s spawn after she visits a fertility clinic. Horror, starring Heather Graham. 2004.

I Don’t Know How She Does It (Novacinema1, 15.00)

01:25 The Weakest Link 02:10 EastEnders 02:40 Doctors 03:10 Casualty 04:00 My Family 04:30 Getting On 05:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 05:45 One Foot In The Grave 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 My Family 10:00 One Foot In The Grave 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 Bleak House 14:05 Outcasts 14:55 The Weakest Link 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 Casualty 17:30 Bleak House 18:30 The Weakest Link 19:15 EastEnders 19:45 Doctors 20:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Blackadder Goes Forth 23:20 Taking the Flak 23:50 Friday Night Dinner 00:15 Last Man Standing

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Rides 14:30 Wheeler Dealers

15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Extreme Fishing 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Off The Hook 00:00 Trouble In Paradise 01:00 Kidnap And Rescue 01:55 Extreme Fishing 02:50 River Monsters 03:50 Off The Hook 04:50 Trouble In Paradise 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 10:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 10:45 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 12:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 13:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 14:05 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 15:30 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 18:15 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 19:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Poker: European Poker Tour 01:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 02:15 All Sports: Watts

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate

Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Scandal 12:50 Castle 5 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Who Do You Think You Are 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Tough Love Miami 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Scandal 21:50 Castle 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Scandal 00:20 Castle 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Tough Love Miami

07:30 Things That Hang From Trees 09:30 Five Days One Summer 11:30 Witches Of Eastwick, The 13:30 Action Zone 14:00 Kings Of Mykonos, The 15:45 Nick Of Time 17:30 How Do You Know 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Butterfly On A Wheel 23:00 Serious Man, A 01:00 Hustler Tv 02:45 City Of Angels 04:50 Summer Of ‘42 06:30 Ltv Sports News

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 K9 Nation 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Hawai Five 09:15 Hawai Five 10:00 Friends 10:30 Gossip Girl 11:15 Fringe 12:50 Supernatural 13:40 According To Jim 14:30 Hawai Five 16:05 2 Broke Girls 16:30 Chuck 17:15 Bones 18:10 Borgias I, The 19:05 Supernatural 19:50 Two And A Half Men 20:35 Friends 21:00 Closer, The 22:00 Harry’s Law 22:45 C.S.I. Miam 23:30 Bones 00:15 Fighting 02:15 Secret Life 03:45 2 Broke Girls 04:10 Chuck 04:50 Bones 05:35 Borgias I, The 06:30 Supernatural

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Railway Station Man, The 09:45 Good Guy,

The 11:15 Seven Minutes In Heaven 12:45 Before Sunrise 14:30 Before Sunset 16:00 Bachelor, The 17:45 Twilight (2008) 20:00 Letters To Juliet 22:00 Cairo Time 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 Switch 05:50 50/50

05:20 Recoil 07:00 The Lincoln Lawyer 09:00 A Little Bit Of Heaven 10:50 Action Zone 11:20 Five 12:55 Largo Winch 2: The Burma Conspiracy 15:00 I Don’t Know How She Does It 16:35 Cine News 17:00 Real Steel 19:10 Mad On Novacinema 22:00 This Means War 23:50 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 01:55 Poker Face 03:40 The Woman In Black

05:10 Bad Teacher 08:40 Sling Blade 10:55 The Shadow 12:50 Efapax 14:20 Billy Madison 15:50 Moneyball 18:00 Hollywood 1 On 1 18:35 The Company Men 20:20 Malena 22:00 Notting Hill 00:00 America’s Sweethearts 01:50 The Change-Up 03:40 What’s Your Number?

19:10 Along Came A Spider 21:00 Unthinkable 22:30 Cine News 23:00 The Following 23:50 C.S.I. 00:40 Cine News 01:00 Adult Zone

05:45 Something Borrowed 07:40 Kate And Leopold 09:40 Penelope 11:30 Hitch 13:30 Serendipity 17:15 The Story Of Us 18:55 There’s Something About Mary 21:00 The Vow 22:50 One Day 00:45 The Romantics 02:25 The Edge Of Love

01:00 Golf Central International 01:30 Courtside Jones 02:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Nebraska At Indiana 04:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Purdue At Illinois 06:00 Phuket Asia Pacific Ironman Championships 2013 07:00 Playing Lessons 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Academy: Greg Norman - Bunker Play 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 The Golf Fix 10:00 Sports Unlimited 11:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Nebraska At Indiana 13:00 Pass Time 13:30 101 Cars You Must Drive Playin’ In The Dirt 14:00 Pinks All Out Bristol 15:00 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 15:30 Courtside Jones 16:00 European Tour Africa Open D. 1 Sdd 18:00 2nd Division Championship 2012-13: Arhs Vs Apep 20:00 2nd Division Championship 2012-13: Apep Vs O. Aradippou 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 22:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Nebraska At Indiana 24:00 Big Ten Men’s Basketball Purdue At Illinois

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 08:30 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 15:30 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 17:30 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 McCafé Music Project 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 21:00 MTV Teen Mom 4 22:00 MTV Peak Season 22:30 MTV Peak Season 23:00 MTV Ridiculousness 23:30 MTV Ridiculousness 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 To Have And Have Not 08:40 Hell Divers 10:30 , The Cabin In The Cotton 11:50 North By Northwest 14:05 Gone With the Wind 17:40 Kelly’s Heroes 20:05 Breakfast At Tiffany’s 22:00 Death In Venice 00:10 Period Of Adjustment 02:05 Penelope 03:40 , The Last Time I Saw Paris 05:35 Many Rivers To Cross

By Preston Wilder

Malena (Novacinema2, 20.20) Period setting, check. Picturesque village, check. Child interest, check. Spurious message about Beauty killed by sexual repression and hypocrisy, check. They made quite a few of these films in the early 00s - Chocolat was another - but this one is at least unabashedly vulgar, the kind of movie that breaks up a shot of Malena sashaying down the street with a close-up of the bulge in our young hero’s pants. She is Monica Bellucci, a beautiful outsider who moves to a small Sicilian town at the outbreak of WW2; her husband goes off to war, leaving her trying to fend off the attentions of every repressed male in town - very much including 12year-old Renato, who goes through adolescence lust-

ing after La Malena. The result hopes to snag Cinema Paradiso fans (it was made by the same director) but in fact it’s a lot more vulgar, a crude cartoon filled with fart sounds and boobs falling out at inopportune moments. Once you accept that, it’s quite fun - and probably more authentic than a genteel, politically-correct film like Chocolat. In Italian; made in 2000.

This Means War (Novacinema1, 22.00) I like Reese Witherspoon. I like Tom Hardy. I’m not mad about Chris Pine, but he has his moments (he made an amusing Captain Kirk in Star Trek). I like McG, the whiz-bang director of Charlie’s Angels. I even like the

This Means War

plot of this airy action comedy, with Tom and Chris as deadly CIA agents - inseparable partners and best friends - turned romantic rivals when they both fall in love with the same girl. All the signs are positive here yet the film is somehow less than the sum of its parts, watchable and fizzy without being especially funny or smart or provocative (or anything, really). Tom and Chris use their CIA skills against each other, spying on Reese to find out what she thinks of them; James Bond heroics - shoot-outs and high-wire acrobatics give way to rom-com cuteness, with Chelsea Handler as the inevitable bad-girl best friend; the plot sags, roping in an action climax with generic baddies. This means war? No. This means nothing. Made in 2012.

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

11.00

Kaftes Piperies (rpt)

11.30

Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

Cookery show.

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 16.30 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

Apo Mera Se Mera

15.30

Entehnos

Current affairs show.

Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15 18.45

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

19.20

20.00 21.00

22.50

News Vimata Stin Ammo

00.00 00.15 00.45

Presidential Elections 2013 News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) More Repeats

07.50 08.40

NRG Zone FILM: The Ring 2

Desperate Housewives Seventh season.

‘Everything’s Different, With Beth on life support, Susan’s chances of receiving a new kidney look set to improve, but Paul is determined that the donation will never take place. Tom turns down a lucrative job offer to continue working with Carlos, and Bree tricks Andrew into attending an AA meeting - but he disrupts the event.

Moiraia Fengaria

New season of local period drama, based on true events.

22.00

05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00

A journalist and her son are once again tormented by vengeful and malevolent spirits.

Sequel to the horror remake, starring Naomi Watts. 2005

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

20.00 21.15

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Kati Psinetai (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Doctor Who (rpt) Fifth season. ‘The Big Bang’. The Daleks, Cybermen and others have imprisoned in the Pandorica the most dangerous creature in the universe - the Doctor, who they say will in the future destroy the universe.

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

12.00

ANTENNA

23.40

Repeats

09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.40 16.40 17.30 17.40

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiaitera Yia Klamata (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

MEGA 06.30 07.00 10.00

Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kolokairi Castle

00.00 00.05 00.30 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

News Sports News Radio Arvila Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

American crime drama.

06.10 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.20

12.45 14.00

Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Greek drama series.

15.00

15.00 16.00 18.00 18.20

Eheis Meson Yia Sena News Master Chef (rpt)

16.15 18.00 18.20

Reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.20 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.10

With News at 18.00.

18.40 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.00

Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou

SIGMA

Oi Vasiliades News Klemmena Oneira Presidential Elections 2013 Mousiko Kouti Live (rpt) Greek game show testing contestants on their music general knowledge.

00.00 00.50 01.30 03.30 04.20

News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

19.00 19.30

Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To’ Xeres Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites

PLUS TV 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15 10.45

Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50

00.20 00.25 01.20 02.00 02.40 03.00 03.30

News Aspra Balonia Al Tsantiri News Best Of News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

Local drama series.

20.20 21.15 22.20

Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores

19.40

Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

21.15 22.15 23.15

Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Presidential Elections 2013 Eleventh Hour (rpt) First and only season.

‘Miracle’. A boy’s kidney tumour miraculously disappears after he drinks from a natural spring, and Jacob rushes to the scene to debunk what he believes is a fraudulent medical cure.

00.00 00.50 01.50

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 06.45 08.25 08.55 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.30 15.15 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Capital Sports Milagros Kids’ TV Telemarketing Top Models S’ Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue News Sports News Igeia & Zoi FILM: Sonic Impact When a dangerous criminal seizes control of a passenger aircraft high above the United States, former Navy Seal is forced to improvise a daring rescue.

Action adventure, starring James Russo.

2000.

23.00

FILM: Gone But not Forgotten A defence attorney wrestles with her conscience while representing a multimillionaire who may be a serial killer.

Drama, starring Brooke Shields. 2005. Part 1 of 2.

00.40

FILM: Moscow Chill Drama, starring Norman Reedus. 2007.

One Day (Novacinema1, 15.00)

01:30 Come Fly With Me 02:00 The Weakest Link 02:45 EastEnders 03:15 Doctors 03:45 Zen 05:15 Ideal 05:45 As Time Goes By 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Little Prairie Dogs 08:25 Nina and the Neurons 08:40 Gigglebiz 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Me Too! 09:30 Dinnerladies 10:00 As Time Goes By 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Carrie’s War 13:45 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 14:30 Dinnerladies 15:00 Fawlty Towers 15:30 The Weakest Link 16:15 EastEnders 16:45 Doctors 17:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 18:00 Dinnerladies 18:30 The Weakest Link 19:15 EastEnders 19:45 Doctors 20:15 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 21:00 Fawlty Towers 21:30 Come Fly With Me 22:00 Walter’s War 22:50 Last Of The Summer Wine 23:20 Twenty Twelve 23:55 Kiss Of Death

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Overhaulin’ 14:30 Wheeler

Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Mythbusters 22:00 You Have Been Warned 23:00 How We Invented The World 00:00 Curiosity 01:55 Mythbusters 02:50 You Have Been Warned 03:50 How We Invented The World 04:50 Curiosity 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 09:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 10:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 11:30 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 12:30 Luge: World Cup African 13:30 All Sports: Watts 13:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 15:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 17:15 Alpine Skiing: World Championship Austria 19:00 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 19:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 20:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 00:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:15 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Who Do You Think You

Are 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Raising Hope 12:25 New Girl 12:50 Glee 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Raising Hope 21:25 New Girl 21:50 Glee 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Raising Hope 23:55 New Girl 00:20 Glee 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Masterchef

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Up In The Air 10:00 Father Hood 11:45 Greetings From The Shore 13:45 All Roads Lead Home 15:45 Brooklyn’s Finest 18:00 Heist 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Brideshead Revisited 23:15 Another Year 01:25 Hustler TV 03:00 Beautiful (2009) 04:45 Love Child 06:30 LTV Sports News

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 201213 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man

Out Sonoma 22:30 NHL: Los Angeles Kings At St. Louis Blues 19:20 Happy Gilmore 21:00 After The Sunset 22:45 Cine News 23:00 How I Met Your Mother 00:20 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 21:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 E-60 01:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

Stone 14:20 All Good Things 16:15 Easy A 18:00 Tootsie 20:00 Flypaper 22:00 Two Tickets To Paradise 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 03:40 Run 05:15 Expendables, The (2010)

07:15 Chuck 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Bones 09:25 Borgias I, The 10:20 According To Jim 10:45 2 Broke Girls 11:15 Hawai Five 13:00 Supernatural 13:45 Chuck 14:30 Bones 15:15 Borgias I, The 16:10 Friends 16:35 Two And A Half Men 17:25 Closer, The 18:10 Harry’s Law 19:00 Supernatural 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 Big Bang Theory The 21:00 Mentalist The 21:45 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 22:35 Five Days 2 23:40 Top Boy 00:35 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-L 02:10 Guitar, The 03:45 Friends 04:10 Two And A Half Men 05:00 Closer, The 05:45 Harry’s Law 06:30 Supernatural

05:05 Cine News 05:50 The Veteran 07:30 Bloodworth 09:05 Mr. Popper’s Penguins 10:40 Films And Stars 11:10 Courageous 13:25 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 15:00 One Day 16:50 Cine News 17:15 Chicken With Plums 18:50 Hollywwod 1on1 19:25 The Client List 21:00 C.S.I. 22:00 The Grey 00:05 Albert Nobbs 02:05 Passion Play 03:45 Street Kings 2: Motor City

07:30 Dangerous Attraction 09:15 I Am Slave 10:45 Beetle Juice 12:30

05:05 Killer Elite 07:00 Hemingway & Gellhorn 09:35 Cheri 11:10 My Week With Marilyn 12:50 The Tree Of Life 15:10 Hollywood Buzz 15:45 Abduction 17:35 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 19:40 He Got Game 00:00 The Game 02:20 The Vanishing 04:15 Cine News 04:55 Animal Kingdom

19:05 Alfie 21:00 Footloose 23:00 Happythankyoumoreplease 00:45 Barney’s Version

01:00 Golf Central International 02:00 Super Bowl Highlights: I: Green Bay V Kansas City 02:30 Super Bowl Highlights: II: Green Bay V Oakland 03:00 America’s Game: 1966 Green Bay Packers 04:00 Nhl: Los Angeles Kings At St. Louis Blues 06:30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 07:00 Feherty - Donald Trump 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 Sports Unlimited 11:00 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Oklahoma St. At Oklahoma 13:00 Drag Ace High 13:30 My Ride Rules 14:00 Pinks All Out Sonoma 15:00 Sea Master 15:30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 16:00 Ringside Boxing Ik Yang V Mario Padilla 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Aep Vs Doxa 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 21:45 Pinks All

06:00 Only Hits 08:00 MTV Disaster Date 08:30 MTV Disaster Date 09:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 10:00 Only Hits 11:00 Pure Local 12:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 12:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 13:00 MTV Made 14:00 MTV Big Time Rush 14:30 MTV Victorious 15:00 MTV Daria 15:30 MTV Daria 16:00 MTV Hollywood Heights 17:00 MTV Pimp My Ride 17:30 MTV Pimp My Ride 18:00 Only Hits 19:00 MTV VHI Pop up Video 19:30 MTV VHI Pop up Video 20:00 MTV Wake Brothers 20:30 MTV Wake Brothers 21:00 MTV Underemployed 22:00 MTV Plain Jane (Commissioned Version) 23:00 MTV The Inbetweeners 23:30 MTV Beavis & Butthead 00:00 MTV Jersey Shore 01:00 Only Hits 05:00 Pure Local

07:00 Gone With the Wind 10:35 The Night Of The Iguana 12:40 Clash By Night 14:25 The Brothers Karamazov 16:50 Bombshell 18:25 The Merry Widow 20:10 The Big Sleep 22:00 Brass Target 00:05 Wild Rovers 02:15 Splendor In The Grass 04:00 Across The Pacific 05:35 Stars In My Crown

By Preston Wilder

Flypaper (LTV3, 20.00) What did you think of Flypaper, Mr. Wilder? Well, it seemed to have some bugs, but it stuck with me.

(Thank you, I’ll be here all week.) Actually I haven’t seen this fun-sounding crime comedy - it went straight to DVD in most places - but it stars Patrick Dempsey as a man who finds himself caught up in not one but two simultaneous bank robberies. Two gangs of crooks happen to attack the same bank at the same time - but it seems there’s enough to go round, the hi-tech gang going for the vault while the bumbling hayseeds rob the ATMs, meanwhile taking hostages until the robberies are over. Mr. Dempsey’s among the hostages, ditto Ashley Judd as a buxom

bank teller; Tim Blake Nelson does his drawling hillbilly routine, while Octavia Spencer does the sassyblack-momma routine that won her an Oscar for The Help. Sounds amusing, in a stupid kind of way, and of course you’ve got Dr. Shepherd from Grey’s Anatomy.

There’s no flies on him, right ladies? Made in 2011.

Brideshead Revisited (LTV, 21.00) I know this is hard to accept, but maybe the British should just stop making period dramas altogether. It made sense when the country still had remnants of the old pre-war England - as in the early 80s, when the famous mini-series version of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited came out - but now it’s changed too

Brideshead Revisited

much, and filmmakers seem unable to put themselves in the place of early-20th-century Britons except to mock them for being so hidebound. Matthew Goode is Charles, a rather bland painter who gets involved with the Flytes, a dysfunctional family of aristocrats; Ben Whishaw is the tragic Sebastian (now reduced to a guilt-ridden “sodomite”), Hayley Atwell his sister Julia, Emma Thompson - wildly miscast - the smothering matriarch who destroys her children’s lives with her rigid Catholicism. The film is handsome (if you like stately homes) but shallow and simplistic, a tale of silly people ruining their lives with repression and religion; you’d never guess that it’s based on a (fabulous) book written by a Catholic convert. Made in 2008.

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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

Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs show.

15.30

Entehnos

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 16.30 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

20.00 21.00

19.20

22.45

News Vimata Stin Ammo New season of local period drama, based on true events.

22.00 00.00 00.15 00.45

07.50 08.40

Nikos Anastasiadis Rally FILM: Love Story

Desperate Housewives Seventh season.

‘Moments in the Woods’. Susan is convinced she is on a winning streak following her successful kidney transplant and starts to gamble. Felicia moves back into the neighbourhood and tries to persuade Paul she is prepared to make amends, Bree hopes to prevent Andrew from telling Carlos his big secret and Renee introduces Lynette to the world of high-class shopping.

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

20.00 21.15

06.30 06.50 07.00

Two students at Harvard University fall in love, but their romance is doomed to be cut short by the discovery that one of them has a terminal illness. Romantic drama, starring Ali MacGraw.

1970.

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

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Kati Psinetai (rpt) Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Dogs 101 (rpt) A guide to different types and breeds of dog featuring expert opinions from trainers, groomers and vets.

Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15 18.45

ANTENNA

Presidential Elections 2013 News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) More Repeats 23.30

Repeats

09.30 10.25 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45 16.40 17.30 17.40

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Idiatera Yia Klamata (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras Eleftheros Ki Oraios Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Metrita Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.10 23.00

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Presidential Elections 2013 Castle Mystery novelist Richard Cadeling helps police om search for killer who is modelling his crimes after scenes from Castle’s novels.

00.00 00.05 00.20 01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

MEGA 06.00 06.30 07.00 10.00

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Nea Mera Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

Hosted by real-life couple Giorgos Liagas & Fay Skorda.

12.45 14.00 15.00

Enimerosi Tora Irthe Ki Edese Eheis Meson Current affairs show.

16.00

Yia Sena Local talk-show.

18.00 18.20

News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amateur chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.30 20.15 21.15

Oi Vasiliades News Klemmena Oneira Greek drama series.

22.10 23.10 00.00 00.20 01.00 03.00 04.20

Presidential Elections 2013 Anonymous (rpt) News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA 06.10 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.00 16.15 18.00 18.05 19.00 19.30 20.20 21.15

Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Siga Min To Xeres Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News UEFA Champions League Last-16 showdown between Real Madrid CF and Manchester United FC at the Bernabeu.

00.40 00.45 01.20 02.10 02.40 03.00 04.30

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Yia Tin Anna (rpt) Erotas Kleftis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 08.35 09.05 10.15

Classic Cartoons Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Mila (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life.

10.35 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Classic Cartoons To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Dead Man’s Hand’. Brenda investigates the case of a female police officer who denied being a victim of spousal abuse prior to her husband being shot by a cop answering a domestic disturbance call.

22.45

Vathi Kokkino

23.30

Nistikoi Praktores (rpt)

CAPITAL 08.25 08.55 09.30 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 15.20 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

An assistant district attorney tangles with a sinister Mob boss. Factbased crime drama, starring Lorraine Bracco. 1994.

22.45

00.15 01.15 02.20

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

FILM: Gone But not Forgotten A defense attorney wrestles with her conscience while representing a multimillionaire who may be a serial killer.

Drama, starring Brooke Shields. 2005. Part 2 of 2.

Greek drama series.

Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

Magikos Kosmos S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Igeia & Zou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’ Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue News Sports News Epi Topou FILM: Getting Gotti

00.30

FILM: Graves End An FBI agent investigates a town that provides ex-convicts with a second chance - only for many of them to disappear suspiciously. Thriller, with Eric Roberts. 2005.

Match Point (LTV3, 18.00)

01:25 Getting On 01:55 The Weakest Link 02:40 Come Fly With Me 03:10 EastEnders 03:40 Doctors 04:10 Last Of The Summer Wine 04:40 Getting On 05:10 Come Fly With Me 05:40 Fawlty Towers 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Little Prairie Dogs 07:10 Nina and the Neurons 07:25 Gigglebiz 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Me Too! 08:15 Nina and the Neurons 08:30 Gigglebiz 08:45 Forget Me Not Farm 09:00 Me Too! 09:15 Fawlty Towers 09:45 Twenty Twelve 10:15 The Weakest Link 11:00 EastEnders 11:30 Doctors 12:00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 12:45 Last Of The Summer Wine 13:15 Walter’s War 14:05 Twenty Twelve 14:35 Fawlty Towers 15:05 The Weakest Link 15:50 EastEnders 16:20 Doctors 16:50 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 17:35 Walter’s War 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 Getting On 22:00 Outcasts 22:50 One Foot In The Grave 23:20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:05 Waking The Dead 00:55 Taking the Flak

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50

How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Fast N’ Loud 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Gold Rush 22:00 Gold Divers 23:00 Jungle Gold 00:00 Deadliest Catch 01:00 Swords: Life On The Line 01:55 Gold Divers 03:50 Jungle Gold 04:50 Deadliest Catch 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 09:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 10:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 10:45 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 11:45 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 13:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 14:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 16:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 18:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 19:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 20:00 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom 00:00 Biathlon: World Championship Czech Republic 01:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Germany 01:45 Snooker: Welsh Open Un. Kingdom

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25

Bones 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Last Man Standing 08:00 The Listener 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Bones 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Last Man Standing 12:00 Grey’s Anatomy 12:50 Private Practice 13:40 The Listener 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Bones 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Last Man Standing 17:40 The Listener 18:30 Who Do You Think You Are 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Bones 21:00 Grey’s Anatomy 21:50 Private Practice 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Last Man Standing 23:30 Grey’s Anatomy 00:20 Private Practice 01:10 Bones 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Last Man Standing 03:35 Friends With Benefits 04:00 The Listener 04:50 Who Do You Think You Are

07:30 Sucker Punch 09:30 Secret Life 11:00 50/50 13:00 Shutter Island 15:30 Fast Freddie, The Widow & Me 17:00 Majestic, The 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Watchmen 23:45 Rudo Y Cursi 01:30 Hustler Tv 03:00 And Soon The Darkness 04:35 Hall Pass 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Kids TV 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super He-

01:30 Adult Zone

roes 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 2012-13 00:00 La Liga Review 201213 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Big Bang Theory The 08:30 Mentalist The 09:15 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 10:05 Friends 10:35 Two And A Half Men 11:25 Closer, The 12:10 Harry’s Law 13:00 Supernatural 13:45 According To Jim 14:35 Mentalist The 15:20 Underbelly Nz: Land Of The Long Green Cloud 16:10 Friends 16:35 Gossip Girl 17:20 Fringe 19:00 Supernatural 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 2 Broke Girls 21:00 Hawai Five 22:30 C.S.I. Miam 23:15 Top Boy 00:10 Another Year 02:20 Dangerous Attraction 03:50 Friends 04:15 Gossip Girl 05:00 Fringe 06:30 Supernatural

07:00 Hole, The (2009) 08:45 Officer And A Gentleman, An 11:00 Machete 13:00 King Solomon’s Mines 14:45 Nobody 16:30 Cleopatra Jones

18:00 Match Point 20:15 Another 48 Hrs 22:00 Dark City 00:05 Daring! Tv 04:05 Beautiful (2009) 06:00 Kardia

05:20 Jude 07:25 Manuale D’am3re 09:35 Chalet Girl 11:15 Hollywood 1on1 11:45 The 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards 13:30 Marley & Me: The Puppy Years 17:05 Cine News 17:50 The Stone Angel 19:50 Action Zone 20:25 The Cake Eaters 22:00 What Love Is 23:35 The Way Back 01:50 Cine News 02:15 Walled In 03:50 Transit

06:50 Fame 09:10 Cine News 09:55 Oranges And Sunshine 11:40 Golden Globes 13:50 Larisa Empisteftiko 15:30 Films And Stars 16:05 Guess Who 17:55 The Conspirator 20:00 The Debt 22:00 The River Wild 00:00 Middle Of Nowhere 01:40 The Resident 03:10 The Skin I Live In

19:25 Apollo 18 21:00 Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost 22:35 Cine News 23:00 Person Of Interest 23:50 Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star

18:20 Cold Mountain 21:00 Patch Adams 23:00 White Material 00:55 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word

01:00 Golf Central International 01:30 Sports Unlimited 02:30 Nhl: New York Angers At Boston Bruins 05:00 Nhl: Minnesota Wild At Vancouver Canucks 07:30 Rolex Spirit Of Yachting Sydney Hobart Yacht Ace 08:00 Morning Drive 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Academy: Greg Norman: Driver 10:00 Golf Fitness All Around Fitness 10:30 Golf Fitness - Adam Scott 11:00 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Penn State At Nebraska 13:00 Lucas Oil On The Edge Demolition Derby 13:30 Wrecked Dominating The Market 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 Super Bowl Highlights: I: Green Bay V Kansas City 15:30 Super Bowl Highlights: Ii: Green Bay V Oakland 16:00 America’s Game: 1966 Green Bay Packers 17:00 Big Ten Women’s Gymnastics Penn State At Nebraska 18:00 Pre Game 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Apollon Vs Alkh 20:45 Post Game 21:30 Stigmiotipa Kypriakou Podosferou 21:45 Nhl: Minnesota Wild At Vancouver Canucks 24:00 Sports Unlimited

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07:00 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 08:40 , The Human Comedy 10:40 Stars In My Crown 12:10 , The Merry Widow 13:55 , The Big Sleep 15:45 Hell Divers 17:35 North By Northwest 19:50 Bells Are Ringing 22:00 , The Night Of The Iguana 00:00 Splendor In The Grass 01:45 Death In Venice 03:55 Breakfast At Tiffany’s 05:50 The Cabin In The Cotton

By Preston Wilder though there’s nothing to celebrate, ladies’ man Matthew Lillard bringing some girls he met in a bar along with him. These people talk and talk (“they talk fast so you‘ve got to be sobber [sic] to catch everything,” warns a comment on YouTube), sharing ‘witty’ insights like “Most women think monogamy is a type of wood”. But do they know what love is? Made in 2007.

What Love Is (Novacinema1, 22.00) “I want to know what love is,” sang Foreigner back in the 80s - but it’s unlikely they were thinking of badmovie magnet Cuba Gooding Jr in this little-known comedy. “This Valentine’s Day, Tom Riley is about to tie the knot!” chirps the trailer, raising the suspicion that Nova planned to show it tomorrow but somehow got the dates wrong - but Tom (that’s Cuba) gets a nasty shock when his girlfriend decides to leave him on the very night when he plans to propose (walking out on your man on Valentine’s Day, that’s pretty harsh). It gets worse, because he’d invited friends to help him celebrate - and the friends turn up even

Dark City (LTV3, 22.00)

What Love Is

Sometimes all you need is a concept. In a dark futuristic city, the night never ends and people’s lives are not their own - because, on the stroke of midnight, a mysterious group called ‘The Strangers’ cause everyone in the city to black out, change the urban

landscape (in effect creating a whole new city), then allow the inhabitants to wake up with collective amnesia and no memory of their previous incarnation.

This superb sci-fi concept, reminiscent of The Matrix which actually came out a year later (existential angst was madly trendy around the turn of the millennium) is blended with a neo-noir plot - Rufus Sewell as a fugitive wanted for murder, helped by scientist Kiefer Sutherland - that doesn’t always work, ending on a rather lame explanation, but the moody visuals just about keep it going. “A great visionary achievement,” wrote Roger Ebert, naming it the best film of the year; 15 years later, its lustre has faded and it looks like an MTV clip - but the concept still works. Made in 1998.