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The evening gave us a chance to celebrate the talents of two Bermudian musicians on the brink of stellar careers: Kerri Dietz, mezzo soprano, and Leidy Sinclair, violin. The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts programme commenced on Monday with ...

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...

After 42 years, Diana Gilbert is used to the stares. People are curious about her skin, which constantly flakes, and her slicked-back hair, which is incredibly brittle. Although laid-back about it now, she wasn’t always so blasé. “When you’re young,...

Dear Heather, We don’t know whether to add on to our house or sell it and get a bigger one. How much more would our house be worth if we added an extra bed and bath, and how can we find out? House Too Small Dear House Too Small, It’s a question tha...

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...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous cases but even he might have been a bit bewildered by a breakneck comic production of the tale starring just five actors. The rapid shifts of scene on a simple set — and quick cost...

After more than 20 years in the music industry, Mishka is looking back. A remake of his 1999 track Give You All the Love came out on Valentine’s Day; he partnered on the single with 1970s soul group The Stylistics. Now the Hawaii resident is working...

All the players are now back from the Sun, Sea and Slams Bridge event put on by the Barbados Bridge League and from all accounts they really enjoyed themselves. As mentioned in last week’s column, Barbara Seagram, a born Bajan, played a big part in ...

Michelle Spenser cried three times before the end of the weekend. The first was in a department store; the third time, she struggled not to ruin her fresh face of make-up. They were all happy tears — she had won the “trip of a lifetime” to New York ...