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The screaming started when Khadijah Shakir was asked to model for her favourite fashion magazine. She screamed again when her photo became the cover for the swimwear article in Nylon’s May/June issue. “My colleagues at work kept asking what was wrong...

Making a video can be difficult. Unless you are Emily Ross, Hannah Collins and Kelly Gilmour. Their parody of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back has achieved a cult status, of sorts. It received more than 6,000 views in the first 24 hours after it was po...

Brennan Watkins’s parents thought he had a mild case of the flu when he fell ill in April. The three-year-old had a low-grade fever and was sleepy. His mother, Denise, was away on business at the time. “His nanny called and said she thought he was ge...

Some people wonder how they will fill their days once they have retired. Not Leon Simmons. The former accountant has always loved photography. “It’s not unusual for me to pull the car over suddenly because I saw something interesting to photograph,”...

Portuguese man-of-wars have a way of slipping their tentacles into Katherine Summerville’s art. The 37-year-old painter loves the siphonophore’s delicacy and beauty. One of her pieces will go up for auction on Wednesday at a fundraiser for the Adult...

For Queena Cannonier, a passion for pastry arose out of a need to cook something new. “I was in the kitchen one afternoon and I had this brilliant idea to make something different for the children’s lunch,” she said. So she turned to her mother, She...

Zoe Lopes never expected to take the top prize in the BSoA student art competition. She’d actually created the winning portrait, of a young woman in watercolour, pen and ink, for her GCSE last year. Her former art teacher at Berkeley Institute, Chr...

Tina Laws’s boyfriend gave her a black eye; she told people she was hit by a golf ball. She’s sure no one believed her, but no one questioned her story either. “We talk about cancer, we talk about lupus, we talk about all kinds of things,” she said....

Every couple has that special something they like to whisper in each other’s ear. For Vivienne Lochhead and Chris Cabral that sweet nothing might be “eat my dust”. When they hit the Appleby Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby ever year they are serious comp...

Only chef Srinivasan “Srini” Nandagopal knew how to make chicken fried rice the way Mazahim “Maz” Shabdeen liked it — hot and spicy. For years, Mr Shabdeen ordered the dish from Traditions Restaurant in Sandys every Saturday afternoon on his way to ...