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Art on a huge scale
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/10/2016
» If Thailand was to get a 23-metre easel weighing 12 tonnes, where should it go? And what painting should it support? These are the questions Cameron Cross hopes to answer as he attempts to bring his international public art project to Thailand.
Standing his comic ground
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 28/08/2016
» When Comedy Central needed a Thai comedian for an Asian stand-up series, they had to hunt through the archives. And YouTube.
On the offence
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 28/08/2016
» The best defence is showing you're not offended, and for Jimmy Carr the easiest way to do that is to laugh. Carr knows a thing or two about offending people -- it's bound to happen when joking about everything from disability and dwarf shortages to car crashes. No subject is off limits for the English comedian and TV host who even called himself Roger Federer's weird little brother.
Renaissanceof the X-ray
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 29/05/2016
» While Peng Janthasorn's work looks like Rembrandts that have been X-rayed, there is a major difference between the young artist and the Dutch and Renaissance masters she loves. Peng cannot paint.
Don't lose your cool
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 10/04/2016
» When it's this hot and humid, Netflix and chill really does mean watching House of Cards with a cold drink in your hand and an ice pack on your neck. It's too sticky for anything else.
‘Nine comedians walk into a bar ...’
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 13/03/2016
» ‘I’m always introduced as a musical genius and a sex symbol, which is fairly accurate,” Earl Okin explains. “Music is what I’m about, I can’t help being a sex symbol. I didn’t choose it, but music I chose.”
Scales of greatness
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/01/2016
» Jazz musicians are accustomed to winging it, but Peter Martin really wasn’t sure what he was in for when he turned up at the East Room of the White House for a state dinner in 2011. He and a band had been engaged for a feature performance, “but that means different things to different people” and the details were surprisingly vague for such an event.
Grate expectations
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 01/11/2015
» The defence that cheese “smells funny” never really washed in a land famous for durian. But for a long time it was one of the standard excuses Thais would use when they were avoiding the stuff.
Eating a path through the golden land
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 26/07/2015
» When Robert Carmack and Morrison Polkinghorne first travelled to Myanmar in 1996, their $5 each got them five kilometres past the bridge at Chiang Rai for five hours. After some persuasion, they agreed to be taken on a tourist van.
The boys are back in town
B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/05/2015
» Well, he said it was jetlag, but that was clearly a joke. After all, they were five young men in a pop band who had been let loose in Bangkok while on their first major tour. The year was 1994, and Boyzone were still teenagers.