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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A creamy bowl of ice cream is the ul­ti­mate com­fort, but for health-con­scious con­sumers, it fre­quent­ly clash­es with fit­ness goals. Thanks to en­tre­pre­neurs Je­re­mi­ah Cruick­shank and Je­nae-Marie Price, dessert is be­ing trans­formed from a guilty in­dul­gence in­to a de­li­cious way to reach your dai­ly pro­tein tar­gets.

Star­bucks is fac­ing a con­sumer law­suit over claims that the pro­tein drinks la­belled “sug­ar-free” on its cafe menus may ac­tu­al­ly con­tain more sug­ar than a Reese’s peanut but­ter cup.

Crispy turkey and goat cheese em­panadas, a touch of pi­men­to caviar, and the rich deca­dence of ox­tail mac and cheese cro­quettes of­fered me­dia guests a first taste of what is to come when Dîn­er en Blanc re­turns to Port-of-Spain on No­vem­ber 14.

In keep­ing with the adage, “you’re nev­er too old to learn,” for­mer jour­nal­ism and busi­ness com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­fes­sor Mervyn Crichlow is a tes­ta­ment to the en­dur­ing val­ue of learn­ing at every stage of life.