As the world marked World Men­tal Health Day on Sat­ur­day, writer Car­ol Quash took us on an un­ex­pect­ed jour­ney to a cat café, where the com­fort and com­pan­ion­ship of cats are help­ing to cre­ate a safe and wel­com­ing space for peo­ple deal­ing with men­tal health chal­lenges. It is a place where fur­ry friends, con­ver­sa­tion and com­pas­sion come to­geth­er to make a dif­fer­ence.

Have you ever seen a car dri­ving down the road where one door or fend­er is just a slight­ly dif­fer­ent shade than the rest of the body? It is a glar­ing eye­sore that im­me­di­ate­ly screams, “This car was in an ac­ci­dent!” When you take your car in for body­work and paint­ing, you ex­pect it to come back look­ing fac­to­ry new. But achiev­ing a flaw­less, in­vis­i­ble re­pair is ac­tu­al­ly a mas­sive sci­en­tif­ic chal­lenge.

Healthy eat­ing is of­ten as­so­ci­at­ed with ex­pen­sive in­gre­di­ents, spe­cial­i­ty prod­ucts and com­pli­cat­ed meal plans. Eat­ing well does not have to strain the house­hold bud­get. The truth is that these tips should help you bet­ter ap­proach a gro­cery shop­ping ex­pe­ri­ence to pre­pare nu­tri­tious, sat­is­fy­ing meals while spend­ing less.

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child; I un­der­stood as a child; I thought as a child, but when I be­came a man, I put away child­ish things.  For now we see through a glass, dark­ly, but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as al­so I am known.  And now abideth faith, hope, and char­i­ty, these three; but the great­est of these is char­i­ty."

Lo­cal artist Marin­na Sha­reef gave mem­bers of the pub­lic a peek in­side her mind at her re­cent ex­hi­bi­tion, Po­lar Mythol­o­gy. Through im­mer­sive art­work, she show­cased what it is like to live with and nav­i­gate bipo­lar dis­or­der.

For Nadeira Khan, the pres­sure placed on chil­dren by aca­d­e­mics has be­come a grow­ing con­cern, with young stu­dents ex­pe­ri­enc­ing stress from an ear­ly age.

Ba­cano Book­shop’s new St Au­gus­tine lo­ca­tion along the East­ern Main Road is as much a con­ven­tion­al out­let fea­tur­ing low-cost used books as it is an oa­sis of cre­ative pos­si­bil­i­ty. It re­cent­ly moved there from its long-stand­ing Ari­ma lo­ca­tion.

Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School marked its 50th an­niver­sary with a tea par­ty and fash­ion show, “Blush­es of El­e­gance”, at the Petrotrin Staff Club in Pointe-à-Pierre on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 26.

Some­one pelt­ed a bot­tle while Spar­row was singing at a Stu­dents’ Union event at UWI’s Mona cam­pus in Ja­maica in the ear­ly 1970s, dur­ing a vi­o­lent, volatile pe­ri­od.

In the heart of Bei­jing, Chi­na, thou­sands of miles from T&T, the fa­mil­iar sounds of so­ca have found an un­like­ly new au­di­ence. Be­hind the turnta­bles is dee­jay Kirt­ly Fran­cis, bet­ter known as Se­lec­tah Kir­tis, mak­ing the city’s nightlife his newest stage.

Six months af­ter earn­ing song­writ­ing cred­its on BTS’ chart-top­ping ARI­RANG al­bum, Trinidad and To­ba­go pro­duc­er, song­writer and artiste Kur­tis Wells has reached an­oth­er Bill­board sum­mit, this time as a record­ing artist in his own right.

For­mer so­ca and chut­ney en­ter­tain­er Car­lene Wells brought pa­trons to their feet and to the al­tar on Sep­tem­ber 26, as she staged her first ma­jor con­cert in ten years since ded­i­cat­ing her life to Christ.