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Like most teenagers, Tiye Holmes hates having to clean. So when she was forced to tackle the bathrooms at the Salvation Army emergency housing centre, she wasn’t exactly thrilled. “I don’t even clean at home,” the 14-year-old said. “And the bathrooms...

When Jeanette Burchall sings, she gets a little carried away. She had to stop singing in church; her voice was just too loud. “I’d be singing with the congregation when suddenly everyone else would be quiet and you’d only hear my voice,” she said. “M...

The America’s Cup did not bring Nadanja Bailey fame or fortune but, a year later, the comedian beams as he recalls how much fun he had as emcee. Lifestyle spoke with him about his experience. Nadanja Bailey’s biggest complaint about the America’s Cup...

This time of year, it is all about the colours. Even, it seems, when it comes to sprinkles. Allison Smith could not believe the reactions she got when she started selling the decorative sugar strands in Cup Match colours three weeks ago. “I’ve had s...

Mustapha Rasheed will never forget February 25, 1969, the day he learnt he would spend the next three years in a US prison. He was 21 and had been caught smuggling 40lbs of marijuana into the United States from Jamaica. “I knew, being honest with my...

Mandy-Suzanne Wong thought the e-mail claiming someone wanted to publish her novel was a hoax. She’d sent copies of Drafts of a Suicide Note to at least 100 publishing companies — not one was interested, but then Regal House weighed in. “I stopped co...

Jennifer Haworth will always be grateful to her brother-in-law, Simon. With kidney failure looming and no donor in sight, he offered his own. “I had assumed that the donor had to be a blood relative, but it doesn’t,” the 37-year-old said. “A match is...

Vernon Clarke always had an urge to create. He would spend class time sketching elaborate landscapes in the back of his notebook, and his family really didn’t understand his interest. “My father, Cecil, was determined to make a better life for us,” ...

Torrey Tacklyn was excited about getting on stage at the America’s Cup last year. He had never had the exposure that comes with performing before a crowd of thousands. A year on, Lifestyle asked him what he got out of it. Being chosen for the Americ...

For a month last year, Jesse Seymour’s life was one long adrenalin rush as he sang lead in 4-Forty-1, the eight-member band of the America’s Cup. Then it was all over. “At that point, I asked myself, ‘What now?’” the 29-year-old said. The end of the...