Tami Jones – Velvet & Steel
Tami Jones’ music is a like a riveting mystery novel you can’t put down. With each song she sings, she reveals another clue to her soul. Wrapped in her voice is the sweetness and twang of country. The sorrow and guts of rhythm and blues. And the hope and reverence of gospel. When sewn together, […]
Meet the Artist: Hélène Le Chatelier
Contemporary Art, Culture, and her “Unspoken Truths” exhibition at the Alliance Française Bangkok French artist Hélène Le Chatelier (www.helenelechatelier.com) dishes about her November 21 – December 17 exhibition, “Unspoken Truths”, quirky cool Singapore life, and wonderful world of contemporary art. Hélène’s recent collaboration with the Alliance Française Bangkok (https://afthailande.org) and Ronewa Art Projects (Berlin/Bangkok) (https://ronewa.com) […]
Colourful Colombia: My 10 day trip to Colombia
From tropical beaches to colourful street art and coffee farms in the mountains, I absolutely fell in love with Colombia. We flew from Bangkok to Bogota and went to Medellin and Cartagena, the 10 days flew by so fast. There are so many things to see and do in Colombia, it was my first experience […]
The Merry Widow / Die lustige Witwe
Classical Voice Department at College of Music Mahidol University proudly presents one of the most famous Viennese comic operettas by the great Astro-Hungarian composers Franz Lehár. A comedy and a charming uplifting romance centres on a millionaire young widow Hanna Glawari, and her Pontevedro countryman’s ridiculous attempt to find her a Pontevedrian husband so to […]
Bangkok Madam (chapter 3) Fruit carving
The four ladies of the Bangkok Madam’s Club looked gorgeous at a late-lunch table in a trendy restaurant. Mitsuko wore a simple yet startling emerald-green sleeveless dress with a long pearl necklace. Asako was in a navy-blue collared shirt with pearl choker. Yurie wore a pale rose-pink frilly blouse that she said she had dyed […]
Reality as it isn’t.
Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew, has won many art awards in Thailand and internationally, such as Golden Medal of National Exhibition of Art in Thailand and the winner of the Sovereign Asia Art Prize in 2006. After all those years having shown works overseas including Europe, Canada, USA, and Singapore; now he comes back to show his distinctive […]
Cambodia’s other empire
Kampung Phluk known for its elongated, stilted houses by the side of a lake providing it a rustic charm that is Cambodia’s fishing empire. I tuk-tucked to Phluk from Siem Reap in an erroneous, one and half hour hither and thither movement. A sedan would have got me there in 40 minutes. But Vanna was […]
The Goethe-Institute Bangkok: A German institution in Thailand
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Most of us know how it feels to learn a new language. Looking back on our school days, language classes rated amongst the least popular. We were amazingly adept at finding ways to skip them. Vocabulary lists and spelling tests […]
Palermo, Sicily: A long walk in the clouds
by Arlene Rafiq I have been to most parts of Italy but that was thirty years ago. I haven’t been to Sicily because when I hear the name, I only think of the Godfather stories of crime, hate and revenge and Don Vito Corleone’s famous quote “Revenge is a dish best served cold” so it […]
Festival du Féminin
A transformative journey not to be missed. Asia’s fourth year to host an exceptional, women only, event in Bangkok at Swissôtel Bangkok Ratchada March 15-16, 2019. The participants who joyfully experienced it the previous years can’t wait to come again. They are bringing their friends and shouting from the rooftops to spread the word. The […]