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After watching tourist after tourist “deck out” on rental bikes, Michael Paynter started thinking about another option. The solution came eight years ago on a trip to Brooklyn. A scheme there allowed people to swipe a credit card, take a pedal bike f...

The Oxford Dictionary defines frank as being “sincere or honest, even if it may be awkward”. It could be argued that I feel a bit awkward as I have let December 4 slip by with nary a mention. I intend to make it up to you and suggest that you just ...

Teddy the Lost Dog doesn’t have a busty dame or a fairy godmother; there won’t be people yelling, ‘He’s right behind you!’ — over and over and over again. In other words, it’s not a pantomime. The Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society’s Christmas Musi...

To capture the energy of a Gombey, try freezing the moment. It is how photographer Andy Detzer managed to bring his shots of Gombeys to life. Eight of his “extraordinarily colourful and vibrant” images are now on display at Gallery One Seventeen. The...

It is not unusual for certain abilities to run in families, and the visual arts are no exception. In the history of art, such artistic families abound. I think of the Breughels — that notable 16th-century Flemish family — or, fast forward to more re...

Ruby Sampson packed as much as she could into her life, assuming it would not be a long one. Although her father Leonard Trott had lived to be 92, her mother, Beatrice, had died at 39. That she is turning 100 tomorrow is a bit of a shock for Mrs Samp...

Familiar, but not so much. As the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts kicks off next month Shakespeare will play a huge part. A Midsummer Night’s Dream will run over two days at Earl Cameron Theatre, launching the festival’s inaugural Shakespeare...

Debre Evans likes to push herself. A few months ago she sprained her ankle. Doctors told her to stay off of it for two weeks but within days she was back in classes at In Motion School of Dance. “I know my body,” the 18-year-old insisted. “I felt li...

Almuriel Simons-Busby has always had a weakness for chocolate peanut clusters. Ten years ago, frustrated because she could not always find them in stores, she tried to make her own. “I couldn’t do it,” she said. “It wasn’t right.” The heat and humid...

I believe that the Wine Spectator’s list of top 100 wines for 2018, that I wrote about last week, is possibly the most read. However, Wine Enthusiast Magazine claims to have tasted 23,000 wines this year, publishing the following lists: 100 Best Buys...