This weekend, create your own bar!
This is coolest part of the house, where after a hard day's work you can kick off fatigue and enjoy some great drinks. This is the bar, where life takes a high, anytime and any season of the year. There is nothing like a dry season! A good look at your house will assist you in selecting a place where you can create a cool niche. This could be the place, your very own bar. Sinful, sophisticated, classic or regular, you can jazz up this section in whichever you want. Tingling glasses, imported beer-shakers, screw-drivers, ice-buckets, wooden wine rack, brass bottle holder - this is your place. This weekend give a shot at doing your own bar!

Gursimran Singh Walia

Flavours from Italy at Forno
Having taken the world cuisine by storm, pizza and pasta are used by restaurateurs as a sure shot bait for consumers. Second-best-liked cuisine after Chinese, Italian khana, especially pizza, is immensely popular in our country. Thanks to the (far-fetched) resemblance to our humble roti (the only difference being we eat the roti with a vegetable and they top it on), pizza has become a staple in every household, especially with the younger lot.

Chinese delicacies on platter
If you still don't know, this is the Chinese New Year of Rabbit. Talking about Rabbit, it is the most stylish creatures amid Chinese animal signs. And the 'stylish' factor applies well to the food being served at Mainland China, Sector-26, as part of the Chinese Food Festival. The assortment of enticing, soft and hot food served at Mainland China smells of authenticity. And if you are a food connoisseur, you just can't miss the subtle taste of Starannis and Schezuan pepper.

Good food guide
So, the weekend is here and you're at your best to find out what and where to eat. The options are galore but you are hooked to eating something typically Indian or we say Punjabi. This week we pick Punjabi's all time favourite Dal Makhani and get five places where you can get the best of the lot.

Dinner for two
The week is coming to an end and you want to treat your partner to an exotic dinner. Why go to a restaurant? We have executive chef of Zazen in Page 3, Swatantra Gautam list the recipe of Prawn Malay Curry for you.

Fight back girls!
It is about a simple funda in life, whether a commander gives it to a cadet or a mother to her daughter travelling all alone - attack is the best form of defense. This doesn't require profound thinking and cannot be ignored. All you girls who make a trip from home to office and back home, who walk down to their tutorials, who love to hangout with friends over the weekends, all you ladies immaterial of what you do…personal safety is definitely the thing to sit up and take notice of. 

Dud at box office, part of Oscar library
The Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone-starrer period film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey might have bombed at the box office but it will soon be a part of the prestigious Oscar library.

Rihanna’s single ruffles puritans
Rihanna's racy new single S&M has been deemed too raunchy for 11 countries. The music clip to accompany the single has provoked censorship bosses across the world - and the promo is banned in 11 countries. It has also been axed from the BBC's daytime radio playlist in Britain.

Nicole Kidman wants more kids
Hollywood actor Nicole Kidman has revealed her plans to expand her brood saying that motherhood has helped make her career more fulfilling.The 43-year-old actor, who announced the birth of her and husband Keith Urban's second daughter Faith Margaret via gestational carrier in December, said being a mother made her perform better in her latest Oscar-nominated role in Rabbit Hole."I want more children.

Is Eva dating Eduardo?
It seems that Eva Longoria already has a new man in her life and it turns out to be Penelope Cruz's brother Eduardo. The Desperate Housewives star, 35, has been spending time with the Spanish pop star soon after her divorce from Tony Parker was finalized on Jan 28. They "seemed to have a good time," a witness told the site, and even "held hands for a brief moment," a source said.

Scarlett Johansson in tears
Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson had a teary reunion with estranged husband Ryan Reynolds over drinks and dinner recently.The former couple were spotted at celeb hotspot Chateau Marmont and got drinks on the patio and chatted for an hour.The 26-year-old actor did most of the talking in what appeared to be a roller-coaster conversation, with her smiling and then gradually receding into tears.

Diane Kruger likes to dress up
Hollywood actress Diane Kruger has said she rarely uses a stylist and only takes the help of one when there is a major event like the Oscars.

Fergie of the musical group, The Black Eyed Peas, waves at the Super Bowl half-time entertainment news conference in Dallas, Texas. — Reuters

Miley doesn’t want to clean up
She was recently voted the worst celebrity role model but teen star Miley Cyrus seems in no hurry to clean up her image and has added another tattoo to her collection of body art.The once-squeaky clean star has been working overtime to shed her famous Hannah Montana image and was out and about in Hollywood showing off her new tattoo.The 18-year-old singer and actor wore a T-shirt with a conspicuous hole in the side that was conveniently placed over the tattoo on her rib cage.Miley has another etching on the opposite side of her rib cage that says

Aniston releases new perfume
Jennifer Aniston has released her new perfume line at Sephora stores. The actor's eponymous fragrance is reportedly heavy on floral scents, especially jasmine, which she names as one of her all-time favourites.

Who will be the Evil Queen?
Julia Roberts and Charlize Theron are vying to play the Evil Queen — who has the memorable line "Mirror, mirror, on the wall" - in separate versions of the much-loved children's tale Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs to be made next year. Charlize is being lined up for the role of the wicked stepmother in Snow White And The Huntsman.Meanwhile, Oscar-winner Julia is a favourite for The Brothers Grimm.Charlize is said to be about to accept the role with Murphy's Law star Michael Fassbender tipped to play the huntsman. — ANI

'Music is universal'
Music is like food. If we don't explore it, we can never understand it," says Shashank Subramanyam, renowned flute player, who is in the city for a show organised by SPIC MACAY. Even though his specialisation is in South Indian music, he also experiments with fusion music. "South Indian and North Indian music are same. The only difference is in the presentation," he says.

Tips for budding journos
The Art of Story Telling, is what Stephen Hall, former BBC journalist and a freelance trainer, is conducting workshop on at Chitkara School of Mass Communication. Stephen's second workshop in the city is about enhancing practical skills as a journalist. With over three decades of experience of working as a radio and TV journalist, and training workshops all over the world -Russia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia - Stephen shared what it takes to be a successful journo:

First Day First Show
Despite abuses, a likeable thriller
Sudhir Mishra's Yeh Saali Zindagi (YSZ) opened to a mixed response. With as many as 22 lip-locks shared by actors Arunoday Singh and Aditi Rao (who plays his wife in the flick), it stars Irrfan Khan and Chitrangada Singh as well. Set in Delhi, YSZ is a thriller that charts the course of love.