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Once upon a time Disco 40 had the hippest boogie in town. The line outside stretched for blocks down Front Street. Inside, Harvey Wallbangers flowed and cool cats like John Lennon and Burt Reynolds made appearances. The doors are closed now, but fa...

If you’re looking for a new way to get fit, you might want to dig out your high heels. Geisha Chin’s classes show how to use stilettos to “feel the burn”. “Dancing in heels is not as difficult as people think,” she said. “We spend a lot of time break...

Sedona-Sky Duffy loves everything about being on stage: the nervous excitement, the lights, the clapping. The 13-year-old is singing her first solo in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Magic of the Musicals next month. Surprisingly, she wasn’t always quite so en...

Jane Bothello was surprised the day her father gave up driving. Out of the blue he announced he wouldn’t renew his driver’s licence and refused to say why. “He was really evasive,” Mrs Bothello said. “We thought maybe he’d gotten lost on the way home...

Jakob Leeuw fell madly in love with Maria Cabral the first time he saw her. She was at work, selling souvenirs in Riihilouma’s, and wasn’t at all impressed by the Dutchman’s sense of style. Plus, at more than 6ft tall, he towered well above her 4ft 9...

Barbara Lambert had always loved children and prayed for a big family. Still, she wasn’t quite expecting to have 13. “When I prayed I didn’t mean that many,” the 90-year-old laughed. As it turned out, however, having a large family was a blessing for...

Christine Whitestone’s biggest thrill about being cast in Back Words, was that she was playing an actual human. She played a parrot in last year’s pantomime, Treasure Island. Although she moved around a lot, her time on stage was brief and she didn’t...

In high school, Kristen Carreiro was teased endlessly about her thinness. The other children called her “Toothpick”. It was only as she grew older and started modelling that she learnt to love her body. “It’s our quirks that make us unique,” said th...

The nursery was filled with junk, unnecessary plastic toys that served no purpose. Forty children, all between the ages of 3 and 6, had the rule of the roost. They were having the time of their lives, running around and screaming; their teachers stru...

Jacqueline Murray-Hall is really proud to see her artwork hanging on the wall at Masterworks and even prouder to see her son’s artwork hanging next to it. The 80-year-old and her son Miles Murray-Hall are making Masterworks history as the first mothe...