Console classes
With no schools to teach you DJing, the city’s DJs share notes on lessons in remixing

Mix it right: Dj KK

Live music! That’s it. No other qualification is required to pursue a career as a DJ. The eating, drinking and sleeping part of music that people often talk about wouldn’t matter. Living music comprises it all. So mix, remix, recreate, play with different notes and make people fall in love with music. But there’s more to responsibility; it gets bigger after every acclaim and success. “It’s to share knowledge and teach nuances of Djing to anybody who’s interested”, says DJ Vishal, one of the first few from the city to take to Djing in the mid 90’s.
More than passion

City connection
I haven’t seen a city as good and well planned as Chandigarh,” says Raj Kumar Gupta, director of Rajeev Khandelwal- starrer Aamir. In the city on Tuesday to hunt for locations, he says, “I seem to fall in love with the greenery and the structures every time I come here.” Rest assured, we see him setting up shots for his next movie in Chandigarh pretty soon. He laughs. “Yes, I would start shooting pretty soon in the city and Delhi for my upcoming movie No One Killed Jessica (working title and nothing to do with Jessica Lall).”

 Bunch of creators
This Bunch is a group of artists, most of them in their final year at the Government College of Art and a few pass outs. If you ask the members, eleven in total, why the name Bunch, the justification does come with a creative feel. They just liked the casual sound of the word. However, their works are not casual, a little amateurish in execution though, but based on ideas, which only young minds sans cynicism can conceive.

Different strokes

An artisan paints a sculpture at the Craft Bazaar-09, an exhibition-cum-sale of handicrafts, fabrics, home accessories and furniture at Lajpat Rai Bhawan-15.Lifestyle photo:S. Chandan

Back to school
It is a back to school experience for 15 fine arts teachers of different schools in the city. The six-day workshop organised at the State Institute of Education, aims at upgrading painting skills of teachers. R.P. Verma coordinator of the workshop says, “Teachers usually are constrained by the school syllabus, thus have to teach accordingly. The workshop will see several renowned artists from the city guiding these teachers as to how to teach students.”

Vivel victory
Vivel is all set to charm women. The ITC-launched Vivel WOW,  Women on Wednesdays, as a celebration that makes women feel special by bringing the magic world of cinema to them. A special movie offer for women has been announced for the first time by Vivel. With Vivel WOW, every woman who walks into Cinemas on Wednesdays can avail fabulous discounts on her movie ticket.

Spice up
Mane bulletin
Long hair actually need more care. This is more so if one wants to leave the hair loose. Long hair left loose should look healthy, soft, smooth and silky. While washing, combing and oiling long hair, one has to take more care and give more time. A question that is always asked is how often one should wash the hair. I have found that women with long hair tend to think that washing of the hair is a problem. So, they tend to neglect it. However, how often the hair should be washed depends on individual needs. For oily hair, in hot, humid weather the hair should be washed more often. Generally speaking, three or four times a week for oily hair and twice a week for dry hair would suit most people.

More than manifestoes
No political talk, here. Manpriya Khurana chats up PU politicos on all things non-electoral: Facebook, friends & fun

Hey Mr. President! PUSU, SOPU, SOI, INSO, NSUI…permutation, combination of a few alphabets and a whole new ideology emerges. Of course, all the guys will promise the sun, moon, stars, asteroids; say how they laid the foundation stone of the university, made it brick by brick, even held it together when the sky was going to fall! Only one gets to rule the campus corridors this session…The 'best-est' part? We see a lot of girl power. May be, this close encounter helps decide who to go for somehow, anyhow.