Life & Style
More News
-
A potter's life: The fire of creation
A potter's life is one of creation and reincarnation, just like the circle of life itself.
-
Hunter sues travel company after failing to find elephant
Travel company sends hunter on second trip during which he kills an elephant, still files for damages worth $130,000.
-
A handy hobby
Sumaira Ahsan is a designer who has chosen a very different path of design for herself.
-
Terry Pratchett: Out of this world
If you don’t know what Discworld is, then you’ve presumably been living in a bunker.
-
I appear worried when I’m not: Faizan Haque
Television anchor Faizan Haque on honesty, love, and a certain special someone.
-
Mumbai: the rise of the machines
The increase in market for “white goods” in India isn’t the only concern of the washerfolk of Dhobi Ghat.
-
Design 19
Expressing art in furniture with metal and leather lines.
-
Arieb Azhar joins the Azme Alishan campaign
Azhar also took this opportunity to reflect on the country.
-
30’s the new 20
The big 3-0 is no longer a problem for working women.
-
Cinema hoardings: Man versus machine
Comparing the lineage of hand painted hoardings with current passionless computer graphics.
-
'Rent-a-girlfriend' hoax causes stir in France
Bogus site gets 180,000 hits, 550 women offer their services as rental girlfriends.
-
In the dating game, speaking styles count: study
Researchers have found a new way to predict the success of a relationship -- compare the speaking style of a couple.
-
‘Kick Now’ kicks up a storm
Pakistan is kicking up a storm in the app development world, most recently with the Kick Now Windows Phone 7 app!
-
Singapore grannies take up ballet to stay healthy
Government encourages senior citizens to lead healthy lifestyles, elderly Singaporeans explore dance.
-
Pakistan’s youngest rock band
The Others stars 10-year-old Ali on drums and 15-year-old Zoya on guitar and vocals.
-
Behind the tunes of ‘Bijja Teer Bijja’
Composer Zahoor Khan Zeibi talks about the inspiration behind the song which sold 5.5m albums when Benazir returned.
-
Cyrus: ‘Cause I’m a creep
Cyrus is about a divorced middle-aged man whose relationship with the woman of his dreams is thwarted by her son.
-
10 things I hate about the joint-family system
The word ‘privacy’ does not exist in anyone’s dictionary.
-
Indian website offers bachelors a virtual wife
Bachelors receive automated telephone messages from their virtual wives to get a taste of married life.
-
Vegetable cultivation: Producers over-dependent on seed imports
Local researchers unable to provide hybrid seeds.
-
Twitter Alert: Hrithik Roshan and Amitabh Bachchan keep fans posted
Excited Ali Zafar updated his fans earlier with tweet that ran, “World cup songs released!”
-
US comic artist Spiegelman wins French prize
The 2011 edition of the four-day Angouleme festival drew 200,000 visitors to the southwestern French town.
-
Love and death conquer all at Sundance film festival
It follows terminally-ill patients who decide to end their lives in US.
-
Laatoo – documentary on dance shown at T2F
Documentary not only shows society's views on dance but also how it reflects upon classical dancers.
-
Annie’s new album
Annie plans to work with Pakistani legends, make as many videos as possible.
-
The fashion week that was
Taking a closer look at the daily events of the capital's first fashion week.
-
Most Pakistanis sleep well: survey
Study was released by Gilani foundation, carried out by Gallup Pakistan.
-
Assange 'dressed as old woman' to evade CIA
Passages from new biography also show that the WikiLeaks founder did not know his biological father until he was 27.
-
I Saw the Devil: True blood
I Saw the Devil is the fourth Ji-woon Kim film I have seen and loved but it is certainly not for the faint-hearted.
-
Does this make me look fat?
Doesn’t it bother you when a cute top makes your friend look skinny and alluring, but you 9 months pregnant?
-
World Fashion Organisation: Pakistan signs contract
The organisation’s aim is to use fashion as a tool for development.
-
Punk art rocks Rome in new exhibition
The Sex Pistols music blares out incongruously from Rome’s stately Villa Medici.
-
Adnan Sami Khan draws in 475,000 fans
Adnan Sami Khan recently recorded a live song and garnered 475,000 participants in the process
-
Turks avenge Israeli raid on the big screen
You cannot kill a Turk with impunity — this is the message to Israel from a Turkish film.
-
21st Century Craft
The Spring/Summer runways showcased garments adorned with craftsmanship.
-
Every woman has 22 useless items in her closet
We all have secrets and somehow closet belongings seem to be the most coveted of them all.
-
Souvenir condoms rolled out for UK royal wedding
Souvenir condoms urge lovers in the UK to "lie back and think of England".
-
Veena, Vida, Vici
Two types of people in Pakistan: those who adore Malik for her defiance and those who would like to see her lynched.
-
I’d like to be a ninja champion or a ballet dancer: Sabina Pasha
Model and L’Oreal Paris Spokesperson Sabina Pasha on leather, fur, and the invisible man.
-
Islamabad Fashion Week-Day 3: A fresh take by budding artists
The third day of Islamabad Fashion Week saw much more creativity than the first two days.
-
The lawn extravaganza
The summer of 2011 promises exclusive lawn collections.
-
YouTube unveils "Life in a Day" film at Sundance
Full length movie made by putting together several amateur videos by users to be released in July 2011.
-
Homeless play the homeless
Children’s Arts Festival concludes as ‘underprivileged’ win over crowd’s applause on last day.
-
Islamabad Fashion Week, another glistening day
The Islamabad Fashion Week trails onto the second day of the designer extravaganza, picking up several notches.
-
NCA degree show: Revving it up
Students of Product Design and Interior Design display their projects at the New Heritage Museum.
-
Faiz night: Songs, dances mesmerise audience
Celebrations of centennial of legendary poet and avowed Marxist Faiz Ahmed Faiz held at Pak-China Friendship Centre.
-
Napa dream cast returns triumphant from India
Napa graduates performed "Khwabon kay Musafir” at the 13th Bharat Rang Mohatsav in New Delhi
-
‘Please Mr Postman’ star dies
Horton released “Please Mr Postman” in 1961, it reached number 1 on Billboard Hot 100 in December that year.
-
Making films is about ideas, not equipment: Cameron
The cameras used on Sanctum include the same cameras developed for and used on Avatar: Cameron.
-
Animation in Pakistani feature films
In most Pakistani features animated work is usually not required, only comes in to play in film titles.