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Jacob Weiss has a daily struggle with Tourette’s: his eyelids twitch; his wrists flex repeatedly. Put him on stage with juggling balls and that all melts away. “I get into that zone and everything just flows,” said Mr Weiss, whose troupe Playing By A...

Heartbreak is a frequent companion for Thirdstory. It’s hard to maintain a romance when you’re constantly on the road. Ben Lusher thinks that is the reason nearly all of their songs are about failed relationships. “When we sit down to write, it’s th...

Khira-Milan Smith was overjoyed when she was chosen for a coding club at St George’s Preparatory School. There was only room for 20 students, so names had to be pulled from a hat. “I was like, I hope my name gets chosen. I hope it gets chosen,” the...

At parties, Tshepiso Makhafola doesn’t mention his job. “It’s a bit of a mood killer,” the biomedical researcher laughed. In his experience, people expect scientists to be boring, old, usually with a long white beard and nerdy. “I’m actually a bit o...

To Eugene O’Connor, there’s nothing better than the buzz of a Bermuda kite. He calls himself the Kite Master, because he’s been making and selling them for 76 years. These days, the skies have grown a little too quiet for his taste. “If I’m driving ...

Al Seymour has always been a compulsive sketcher. As a child, he’d draw on anything within reach; the white pine coffins at Cecil W. Frith Funeral Home proved “irresistible”. He said: “I started helping out there when I was very little. The workmen t...

As a young actor, Eric Bean was amazed by The Lion King. He couldn’t believe his luck when he was hired to tour the East Coast with the award-winning Broadway musical in June. Only two years earlier, the 33-year-old was turned down after his audition...

Three friends toured Bermuda schools hoping to inspire young people to dream big. After six weeks, Hannah Eggen, Gianluca Gibbons and Denzil Nelson were just as inspired as the 800 students they spoke with. Budding cardiac surgeons, singers, football...

Gloria Thomas started working at Elbow Beach Cycles never thinking it would become a full-time job. Her husband, Dudley, had run the store since 1945 and she jumped in to help after his death in 1984. Mrs Thomas expected it would take her about two ...

’Tis the season for man flu. Victims frequently go from a sniffle to death’s door, in an instant. Recovery can take weeks, and is only possible with lots of mollycoddling. Lifestyle spoke to readers about it. Peter Jovetic insists man flu laid him ...