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During the F8 conference on Thursday, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to introduce a host of new features that are rolling out to the social network. The major change is called “Timeline” and it takes advantage of existing pictures and status updates to create a more visual experience of “who you are.” As you scroll down your personal timeline, you’ll be able to view pictures and updates throughout the years. There is a new option in the upper right-hand side of your profile to quickly skip to a year in time too, and many of the features are also available on Facebook’s mobile applications. Read on for more, including a video of Facebook’s Spotify integration in action.

“This isn’t all of the stuff that I did in 2007,” Zuckerberg explained while showing off his own profile. “It’s just the most important stuff.” Timeline automatically hides information that Facebook doesn’t think is important, but if it is, you can easily switch it to show that content. In addition, users can click the Timeline and add photos to earlier points in time before Facebook existed, such as their childhoods. Apps can also populate the timeline.

Facebook also added a new “Reports” feature in Timeline. Reports can be compiled every month or every year, and they provide a summary of your Timeline including everything you’ve ever done with a Facebook application. Apps can be added directly from a friend’s Timeline, too. Timeline provides an ability to “highlight and curate all of your stories so you express who you really are,” Zuckerberg said. That means you can customize your homepage with a large photo, dubbed the “Cover,” in addition to your profile picture. Lastly, you can restrict access to certain parts of your Timeline if you choose.

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This month we reunite with Suede, The Corrs, Del Amitri and a Bichra Yaar, plus discover some super new tracks.

Download the podcast or hear online here. Enjoy!

Beautiful Ones - Suede
Bichra Yaar - Zoe Viccaji & Strings
The Understanding - Jones Street Station
Breathless - Corrs
Sleep All Summer - The National & St. Vincent (Crooked Fingers cover)
Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine
Roll To Me -  Del Amitri
Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
How Can I Say I Love You (Accoustic) - Girls

Special thanks to Sid Khanna and Sonjoy Basu for sharing their music. Have a favourite song? Send us your recommendations to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and if we love them, we'll add them to next month's track record!

What:  Filminute 2011 – the international online one minute film festival, visit http://www.filminute.com/2011/screeningroom to view and vote.

Why: Got a minute? Watch a film. Find 24 additional minutes and you can view all the final reels – from India, Columbia, Hungary, US - that made it to this year’s Filminute festival. These shorts feature fun takes on hair dye, home videos and human hares, too much coffee and way too much coffee.  No interval for popcorn! bpb’s voting for: Loop, Dot In the Line and Grassy Knoll Edge.

When: You need it to be gone in 60 seconds.

What: Everything vinyl at Nova Audio, 3 Fairlands, 314 LJ Road, near Sitladevi Road Junction, Mahim (W), start at Rs 600 for an LP.

Why: Because LPs might have made a comeback, but Chor Bazaar is so last decade. Here is a store where you can get current(ish) music (The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, latest Strokes album) in a clean, organised space and also shop for turntables, speakers and other accessories. Read more here.

When: A song, song time ago.

If Bandra lets its hair down this weekend, there’ll be a legion of aestheticians to comb, cut and crimp it. The suburb recently got two new salons – UK-based Saks at Waterfield Road and celebrity hairstylist Sapna Bhavnani’s latest Mad O Wot hair studio.

One Sapna, Many Dreams

Those who went to Sapna’s weekend launch saw stars, as well as a fun space (see image) with crazy lamps that the hairstylist crafted herself (order them here). Relocated from its previous Bandra address, Mad O Wot now sits atop Yellow Tree Cafe, which means you can get a yum glass of sangria on your way down. Would you like some wine with your manes?

Saks In The City

Saks on the other hand is more corporate, with a Jean Claude Biguine-ish look, feel and partly-poached staff. They offer a whole range of services and a plush two floor space separated by a claustrophobia-inducing elevator. On the ground floor, men and women can get their hair treated to pretty much anything, with pricey cuts ranging between Rs 800 to Rs 2,500. Upstairs, your body can either be waxed or massaged – S&Mers can mix the two up – in pretty, clean rooms.

Ape of Good Hope

The prospect of driving Bombay potty was enough for Bangalorean Thomas Louis to pack his wheel and move to our fair city. Here, the National Institute of Design (NID) graduate collaborated with Bhagyashree Patwardhan and Mubina Kachwalla to set up Monkey Business, a fun pottery and ceramics studio in Versova that retails a range of pretty and not-so-pretty bric-a-brac (see elegant leaf plate and fun fish tails that protrude from walls).

But what you should really care about is this: Starting September 16, Monkey Business will serve as a teaching studio where nerves will be relieved, stress sieved and sighs heaved. A place where the overworked who’ve been prescribed soothing activities and the unemployed who’ve been told to get a hobby, can sign up for beginner's sessions to learn basic pottery techniques like coiling, slabbing, glazing and firing.

The mud monkeys here also plan to loan out their workspace to other artists who are interested in sharing their crafts, so expect to get behind more than just the potter’s wheel.

Getting there: Monkey Business, 170, Aram Nagar 1, Versova, call  Bhagyashree on 9819486506 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to register for the beginner’s course in pottery, Rs 5,000 for four 2-hour sessions every Friday from 2 pm to 4 pm starting September 16. Saturday sessions start from October 1.

Lost all your honey? Make some more with Under the Mango Tree’s (NGO that works with farmers to make the yummiest artisan honey) new urban beekeeping program, which trains  Mumbai residents to generate and harvest their own  honey, right here in the  city. That’s the buzz!

A popular practice with hipsters in Brooklyn and Berlin, Paris and even the White House, bee keeping is legal (and viable) in Mumbai as well, we were assured. All you need is a hive box; bees; terrace, garden or backyard; and half an hour every week to look after your bees -the first two will be provided by UTMT (approximately Rs 6,000) who’ll also assign you a space at Maharashtra Nature Park at Dharavi if, like most  Mumbai residents, you live in a shoe box.

All the honey your box generates belongs to you and can be used as you please, for personal consumption, sourced to restaurants, and even sold through a collective you might form with fellow urban beekeepers. Sweet!

Drone Attack!

Curious but still unsure? Attend UTMT’s orientation session on September 25, where they’ll make their pitch (warning: these guys are pretty convincing), walk you through the basic steps and address all your questions.

Once sold, you’ll graduate to the Urban Beekeeping Training Course, which includes a two day introduction in mid-October and follow-up classes once a month for a year.  During these, you’ll learn how to maintain your hive box, from setting up to controlling honey flow, extracting honey, managing growth and covering up the hive in monsoon season.

Super Sad True Love Story

There are few reasons why a bookstore should make you feel sad: The realisation that there are too many great tomes to read in one lifetime; the place will eventually shut for the day and you’ll have to go home; you’re going to have to give away your television set.

While Bandra’s new bookstore Title Waves succeeds in getting you down, it’s not for the right reasons. The sprawling store has neither a good curator nor staff that can be relied on for recommendations (Oh how we miss the all-knowing Virat at Lotus Books, Bandra, who’d read every book imaginable). Personally we pouted because some of our favourite authors – Toni Morrison, Milan Kundera - have been assigned miniscule shelf space and other widely-read novelists like Haruki Murakami haven’t got a spot at all. Could it be the evil machinations of Lord Voldemort, sitting slyly across in the fantasy section?

What: Untitled Exhibition #1 with Padmini Chettur, G5A Laxmi Mills Compound, off Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, visit the website here, free.

Why: Because your weekend could do with a dance. Organised by the Clark House Initiative and held at a big old mill, this exhibition will feature performances by the uber-talented Padmini Chettur, contemporary dancer and choreographer. She’ll also be taking questions and interacting with the audience.

When: September 10 at 3 pm, 5 pm and 7 pm.

The new collection at Hermes goes beyond just horses, featuring monkeys, rabbits and a series of cool cats in the house (quite literally).

Last night, these included not only ladies in glittery dresses and dapper men, art mavens and society matrons, but also a vigilant leopard watching over the Maharaja’s Apartment at Udaipur City Palace.

He was part of American-photographer Karen Knorr’s “Transmigrations” exhibit, which opens at the Hermes gallery today, lined with blown-up prints of sumptuous interiors (museums in Chantilly, havelis in Rajasthan) invaded by animals and birds: here, antelopes graze on glossy wooden floors under the crystal chandelier at Chateau Chambor; a hump-backed cow meditates in peeling, sky-blue rooms and the serenity of Musee Carnavalet is shattered by a trio of flapping pigeons.

Organized by Tasveer Arts, the exhibit combines two series – Fables and India Song, both of which measure the distance and examine the interplay between nature and culture by taking animals out of their natural milieu and inserting them into museums, palaces, castles. And we mean “insert” not just metaphorically – that they have been Photoshopped in is apparent even to an untrained eye, with visible cut-outs and unconvincing drop shadows. In an age when Hi! Blitz magazine can make Neeta Ambani look like a new bride, these photos are surprisingly sloppy.

But that may be the point, another tool Knorr uses to demonstrate the incompatibility of culture and nature, and how far removed our histories, knowledge and social constructs are from the natural world. Or maybe she was just feeling lazy.

Go judge for yourself. And while you’re at it, check out the beige and caramel canvas-and-leather sling briefcase in the men’s section (approximately Rs 1,17,000). Strappingly handsome and lovingly detailed, it is the sexiest beast around.

Getting there: 15 A Horniman Circle, right next to Asiatic Library, Fort.