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A tribute to Fellini
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 16/10/2020
» The annual Italian Film Festival Bangkok is back from Oct 16-25, and this year, it pays tribute to Italian cinema legend Federico Fellini.
Floral legends
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 25/09/2020
» Ken: My father had a small flower nursery, where he grew all kinds of orchids. As a child, I would sneak into the garden and often cut the orchids I liked and arranged them in a vase for the house.
The Last Meal on Earth
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 06/03/2020
» 'I am bummed I will be missing Mad Face this year," exclaims my colleague. This is how popular Mad Face Food Week is. Bangkok's disastrous air quality, COVID-19 and global warming, be damned.... MFFW is back!
New media theatre
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 18/10/2019
» The first bilingual podcast on the Bangkok performing arts scene, Bangkok Offstage Podcast is hosted by two Thai theatre critics: Amitha Amranand and Kaewta Ketbungkan. The podcast deals with discussions, reviews and interviews of local and foreign artists who perform on the Bangkok stage. Amitha is a writer, translator and language and writing teacher. She has been a theatre critic for the Bangkok Post since 2006 and teaches journalistic writing at Chulalongkorn University. She is on the artistic committee of the Bangkok International Performing Arts Meeting. Kaewta Ketbungkan is a writer, translator and content creator with strong knowledge in Thai cinema, theatre and culture from her nine-year experience in broadcast journalism. She has been an active member of the International Association of Theatre Critics — Thailand Center since 2016. Currently, she is developing her website www.annkaewta.com. Guru discuss the need for such a podcast and Thailand's theatre scene with Amitha and Kaewta.
The new black gold
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/08/2018
» Canadian Blake Dinkin is the creator and owner of the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, refined naturally by elephants — Black Ivory Coffee. Partnering with Ban Taklang in Surin and the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation, Dinkin produces "elephant dung coffee". However, production of Black Ivory Coffee provides valuable income for elephant care-giving families, as well as students who are taught how to wash and dry the coffee. The mission of Black Ivory Coffee is to take a negative situation, namely human-elephant conflict and turn it into a positive one by creating a luxury product that helps not hurts elephants, as Dinkin tells Guru.
Go global, eat local
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 01/12/2017
» To call Jock Zonfrillo a locavore would not be an exaggeration. The chef and owner of Australia's No.1 restaurant, Orana -- as voted by Gourmet Traveller for 2017 -- was in Bangkok in September.