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Popcorn with a movie? Try truffles and foie gras
There’s popcorn and movies, there’s the infamous frozen TV dinner, and then, in one corner of New York, there’s getting a top chef to feed you delicacies that echo the story unfolding on the big...
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Spray for Change on the Move with Duracoat
*Wise2 creates an image of a new age, digital Kenya Kenyans will now be able to witness works of art while driving around the city courtesy of Duracoat’s Spray for Change initiative. The project,...
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A giant chocolate Easter Egg comes to Nairobi
Eggs have always been traditionally a symbol of fertility and rebirth. Pre-dating Christian traditions; a 60,000 year-old engraved ostrich egg has been found in Africa, and decorated eggs in gold and...
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Easter Monday Motor Hunt to flag off in Nairobi
Looking for a great way to discover new places, challenge minds, improve time management, partake in team building and most of all, have lots of fun this Easter weekend with friends and family? Enter:...
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Gallery: India celebrates Holi, festival of colours
From soldiers in the north to teenagers in the south, Indians of all hues threw water-filled balloons and smeared coloured powder on each other to celebrate the festival of Holi on Wednesday. The...
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The people and oak barrels behind Hennessy’s cognac
Caramel, vanilla, almond and toast. I filled my lungs full of the fragrant air around me. Thrilled by the cloud of aromas rising into my nose and the warmth emitting from the fire at the bottom of...
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Inspiring: Boy with Down’s Syndrome sets Everest record
A 15-year-old American has become the first teenager with Down’s Syndrome to reach Everest Base Camp, according to his father, in an attempt to inspire different attitudes towards disabilities. Eli...
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Chinese travellers: world’s biggest tourism spenders
Chinese travellers are the world’s biggest tourism spenders, splashing out a record $102 billion (78 billion euros) on trips abroad in 2012, the UN World Tourism Organisation said Thursday. The number...
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Man flies from Mandela jail to Cape Town using balloons
A South African man on Saturday successfully flew across the sea from Nelson Mandela’s apartheid island prison using helium-filled giant party balloons. The six-kilometre (3.7-mile) crossing, to raise...
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Stalking Nairobi’s pop-up restaurant Marley’s Kitchen
“Your jerk chicken is marinating as you sleep…” With a post like that on Facebook, who can say no to stalking the new pop-up restaurant in Nairobi – Marley’s Kitchen – definitely not me. After...
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‘World’s greatest’ Chef Ferran Adria goes digital
From foie gras noodles and liquid olives to air baguettes and mimetic peanuts, much of what elBulli chef Ferran Adria and his team created across their nearly 2,000 dishes defies transcription. Two...
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Fasten seatbelts for bumpier flights: climate study
Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilises air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday. Already, atmospheric turbulence injures hundreds of...
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Smirnoff reveals Dj lineup for Nakuru party
Smirnoff will at the end of this month take its ultimate nightlife experience ‘The Night’ to Nakuru, with a glow-in-the-dark themed party to be held at the Nakuru Athletic Club. This will be the first...
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The Angsana Spa wins at World Luxury Spa Awards
Who doesn’t love to be pampered? And who doesn’t want to be pampered very, very well? Sankara Nairobi’s Angsana Spa has been acknowledged as a country winner at the 2013 World Luxury Spa Awards – a...
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Beer taste alone triggers reward chemical in brain
The taste of beer, even without any effect from alcohol, triggers a key reward chemical in the brain, according to a study on Monday that explores how people become hooked on booze. Neurologists at...
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Restaurant review: Lal Qila in Parklands, Nairobi
Located on the second floor of Nakummat Highridge in the Parklands area of Nairobi, Kenya, Lal Qila brings a sense of regal novelty to otherwise, a neighbourhood known for typical South Asian...
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Sharing a kitchen with Moët & Chandon’s chef and winemaker
Fresh sea scallops, tiger prawns, julienned carrots, chives, cubed pears, fresh raspberries, lime juice, red chilli, soya sauce, honey and Moët & Chandon Imperial Brut Champagne – my selection of...
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Abramovich slips out of Russia Top 10 rich list: Forbes
Chelsea football club owner and superyacht enthusiast Roman Abramovich slipped out of the top 10 richest Russians in Forbes magazine’s 2013 ranking published on Thursday. The flamboyant steel, mining,...
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Roadside manicure services boom in Nigeria
A comfortable salon may be the ideal place to have a manicure-pedicure, but in Nigeria’s sprawling economic capital, the curb above a open sewer works just fine. The roadside ‘mani-pedi’ is something...
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Restaurant Review: Getting naked with Naked Pizza
It was on a chilly and wet December evening, the rains fell for hours, taking one of the electricity polls outside my compound victim – I picked up the phone to place my first order with Naked Pizza,...
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