Tis a lil sad that Poya falls on a Saturday, but stuff’s still going on in Colombo over the weekend, if you are looking for places to hang out.

If you are looking for charities to connect with this Christmas season, here’s just a few things a couple of people are up to make the rest of the world who can’t celebrate – special.

We love the Good Market. It is, as the name implies, very good. In two years the Good Market has grown from Thursdays in Battaramulla to add Saturdays at Racecourse and a permanent store. Now, starting today, they’re also becoming an Night Market, staying open from 3-11 PM on Thursdays.

YAMU supports no party or clique, but we would like to help you avoid election time traffic. To some degree it’s unavoidable, but you can at least know where the sensitive spots are for rallies, etc.

With NYE looming around the corner, here’s our round-up of the NYE parties.

This is just the preview of an upcoming NatGeo show, but it already looks beautiful. It’s called Wild Sri Lanka and it covers Sri Lankan wildlife focusing, as far as we can tell, on our rich marine life. Especially whales and dolphins.

The Mount Lavinia Hotel has a new app out. This season you can answer questions through the app and win prizes. You’ll need to install the app for that, so click the image below, or these text links

If you have no plans for the weekend or need more places to go, here’s just a few things that are going on from Friday to Sunday all over Colombo.