Stretch out for better digestion
Clockwise from top left, Extended Side Angle, Half Bound Lotus Standing Forward Bend, Locust and Wind-Relieving poses. Whether a busy lifestyle leads to skipping meals or munching on fast food along...
View ArticleMind the Krush!
DJ Krush — a Japanese hip hop innovator — will make a comeback after his previous sell out show in Bangkok in 2012. This time “DJ Krush Butterfly Effect Album Tour” will take place this Saturday and is...
View ArticleOrgasms all round
NARS best-selling blushers. Not only about recreating baby-like rosy cheeks, blushers come in a multitude of colours to deliver a flattering flush. Hailing itself as an authority in blush, NARS...
View ArticleJill Stuart takes Paragon
Mayumi Sato. A phenomenal long and winding queue of customers led to the Jill Stuart counter, which opened at Paragon department store last Friday. Brand manager Mayumi Sato wasn’t surprised at the...
View ArticleAuspicious gala dinner
To celebrate the auspicious occasion of HM the Queen’s 7th cycle birthday anniversary on Aug 12, the Support Foundation of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand, with the support of Siam Sindhorn Co,...
View ArticleHollywood mourns 'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin
LOS ANGELES – Co-stars, friends and fans added their voices on Monday to a chorus of tributes from Hollywood for “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin, after he was killed in a freak accident. (From left)...
View ArticlePhotographic preservation
Sirachai Arunrugstichai. Underwater photography is all about otherworldly charm; the deep-blue opacity and aquatic animals can transport us into another realm. But those exquisite images are not the...
View ArticleRooms with a view
Hotel Art Fair 2014. Art and gallery are definitely a proper match. For a change, now we have Hotel Art Fair, which will be held at Ad Lib Hotel this weekend from 11am till 11pm, and which will...
View ArticlePicture the words
Nawapol interacts with visitors with live screenwriting. What’s not to like about director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s debut solo exhibition “I Write You A Lot”, which just opened last weekend at...
View ArticleTentacles
A piece from ‘Memories From A Rainy Season’. “Memories From A Rainy Season” features sculpture and material experiments made by Danish artist Ane Fabricius Christiansen during her residency at...
View ArticleEU Film Festival offers a rich mix
A scene from Tale Of Tales. June has been a very busy month for film festival enthusiasts. We’ve so far had the LBGT Film Festival, the Bangkok Silent Film Festival (ending today at Scala), the...
View ArticleGetting your karmic wires crossed
A mouse has bitten through the router cable at my office. My accountant says she’s heard scurrying noises of late in the ceiling, not that she thought to do anything about it for reasons about to...
View ArticleSexy line chat, Too much to see, Hong kong intrigue
Actress Arisara “Due” Tongborisud is brushing off signs her boyfriend, a former politician, is straying, after a leaked chat emerged in which he appeared to be chatting up a Chiang Mai socialite’s...
View ArticleDark secrets of the man who opened architecture to the light
His ideas about utilitarian concrete buildings have altered the face of cities across the planet and have had an equally profound influence on urban planning. From his modernist masterplanning of...
View ArticleWhere life jackets bloom
Visitors to Vienna’s Belvedere Palace were confronted Wednesday with 1,005 refugees’ life jackets drifting in the baroque pond – courtesy of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. The installation,...
View ArticleIn Tianjan, lessons in love
Chinese university tutor Xie Shu’s core subject is communist ideology, but he has diversified from the dry annals of political doctrine for a more hands-on subject: seduction. His “Theory and Practice...
View ArticleSomtow’s chariot halfway to Heaven
Ii seems to have happened overnight, but Somtow Sucharitkul is at the halfway point in composing his 10-opera epic “DasJati” (“Tossachat – Ten Lives of the Buddha”), collectively touted by trade...
View ArticleIn Nepal, life sours under tin ceilings
Phurba Jyalmu has been telling anyone who’ll listen that the village of Gatlang in Nepal’s Rasuwa district must be rebuilt the way it was. Now that the aftershocks from last year’s earthquakes have...
View ArticleDocumenting euthanasia
A composer acquaintance of mine passed away recently. His younger sister was at his bedside in the hospital and she and her husband, also a composer, then took it upon themselves to put the finishing...
View ArticleMai Iam’s modern marvels
The art scene in the northern capital has received a massive boost with the opening of the private Mai Iam Contemporary Art Museum, whose remarkable permanent collection features some of the country’s...
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