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Film Review: Pelé: Birth of a Legend ***
By Alexia Evripidou Pelé: Birth of a Legend: just the title sets the film up for a steep challenge. Any biographical attempt to capture the life, high, lows, failures and successes of any living...
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Film review: Inferno **
By Alexia Evripidou Inferno, the latest blockbuster in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series, is a bog standard popcorn movie that doesn’t disappoint, as long as your expectations are set to relatively...
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Bar review: Hustle Lounge Bar, Nicosia
If you like busy bars, eyefuls of beautifully dressed people, a no frills drinks menu and music reverberating from inside, outside and all around, then you’ll also like Hustle Lounge Bar. Hustle is not...
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Bar review: Banco Kitchen Bar, Nicosia
It is amazing the rate at which new bars pop up in Nicosia. Take a long weekend away and on your return you’ll find one venue has closed down and a new bar opened in its place. In May 2016 Banco...
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Bar review: Moon Cocktail Bar & Tapas, Nicosia
New York glamour has come to Nicosia! Snazzy, top notch and exciting, Moon Cocktail Bar & Tapas has recently opened. This impressively designed bar would struggle to look out of place in a US or...
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Bar review: Jigger, Nicosia
Named after the utensil used for a measure, Jigger opened in November. It’s a small rectangular bar with a big city feel. Seating up to 60 people, its goal is to serve purely as a specialised cocktail...
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Film review: Lion ****
By Alexia Evripidou Like its namesake, Lion is a gorgeous beast of a film – fierce, beautiful, elegant and incredibly powerful. Lion digs its claws into you from the offset and won’t let go till its...
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Film review: Nocturnal Animals****
By Alexia Evripidou The excellent Nocturnal Animals is dark, gritty and psychologically violent but also seriously stylish and intense; a modern-day film noir with David Lynch / Stanley Kubrick...
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Bar review: Frames, Nicosia
Frames Nicosia Espresso and Cocktails, is yet another new, all day lounge bar that’s recently opened in the capital, a movement that seems to define Nicosia’s burgeoning nightlife scene. Opened mid...
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Bar review: Tesla’s Pigeon Cocktail Bar and Kitchen, Nicosia
Tesla’s Pigeon Cocktail Bar and Kitchen is a spanking new bar in the centre of town that is very pretty, simple and effective. Working with naked wood, brushed brick, creams, browns, reverberating...
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Film review: Get Out ****
By Alexia Evripidou In today’s saturated market, truly original films are now a relatively rare occurrence. Most genres have been done to death and there’s an insistence within the industry to focus on...
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Bar review: Forty Two, Nicosia
Forty Two Bar opened only three months but is a definite ‘new popular bar’ contender. One thing Nicosia is not short of is good bars! Other than the great design, atmosphere and a barman that spins...
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Bar review: Ithaki, Nicosia
Ithaki, is a bar that has weathered the test of time. Thriving through the ever changing trends, crises and fads, Ithaki opened its doors to the thirsty public back in 1998 and has been busy ever...
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Film review: Wonder Woman ****
By Alexia Evripidou Wonder Woman in her latest form is a truly distinguished new competitor to the male-dominated world of superhero movies. Since her inception in 1941 in DC comic books with her...
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Film review: Baywatch*
Fans of the late 80s and 90s TV hit series Baywatch should prepare to be sadly disappointed by movie inspired by the show. It is a painful two hours and the film is its own worst enemy; although the...
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Bar review: Sarah’s Jazz Club, Nicosia
The long wait for an authentic jazz bar is finally over! Ladies and gentlemen please give a big jazz hands welcome to Sarah’s Jazz Club. Since it swung open its doors in April, the club has been sold...
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Bar review: Blooms, Nicosia
Set in a renovated single-storey house where two busy thoroughfares meet, Blooms Bar & Grill is a pleasant and surprising find. This recently opened American style bar (one of two, the other based...
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Bar review: Avenue, Nicosia
What to say about Avenue? It’s not the swankiest bar I have seen, nor does it boast award winning mixologists, artisan beers or cellars full of rare vintage wines. It is neither themed nor edgy, and...
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Bar review: Cellar 27, Nicosia
While all eyes in Nicosia are on the hubbub of the city centre, the suburb of Strovolos is increasingly burgeoning with cafés, restaurants and even more excitingly, fun new bars. Cellar 27 Wine and...
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Greenpeace’s war on plastic
By Alexia Evripidou In the wake of endless natural disasters, can we still keep our heads buried in the sand over pollution and climate change issues? And even if we do lift our heads momentarily will...
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