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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.

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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.

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‘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.”

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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.

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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.

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A spice odyssey

B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 26/04/2015

» There they were, nobody’s idea of the perfect cocktail ingredients, lined up on the bar in five beautiful little brass bowls: cardamom, cloves, maize, black peppercorns and butterfly pea. A deft hand picked from two, dropped the spices in the bottom of a cocktail shaker and crushed them with a pestle. Out came a bottle of gin, one already infused with Assam black tea. Lemon, passion fruit and honey followed, each measured precisely, shaken and strained into a teapot.

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Six degrees of Songkran separation

B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 12/04/2015

» Songkran officially starts tomorrow, which means it really started on Friday evening or even a little earlier to beat the traffic. There really is nothing like Thailand’s unique new year water festival, so long as you discount coincidentally similar events and traditions in places like Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. It’s a chance to let off steam in the hottest month of the year by brushing up against a thousand clammy, clay-covered bodies in Silom Road and stumbling from beer station to beer station in hope of a cold can.

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Back to the future

B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 01/02/2015

» Nostalgia apparently is what it used to be. With new Star Wars and Mad Max films coming, AC/DC and Giorgio Moroder releasing albums, and K-pop hairstyles that look like A Flock of Seagulls, you could be forgiven for feeling like Marty McFly stepping out of the DeLorean in Back to the Future II. There is more than a bit of 1985 about 2015, even though there are no flying cars and only Tony Hawk has managed to get his feet on a hoverboard.

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Hating Thailand ... and loving it

B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 07/12/2014

» We've all been there. You come to Thailand, get your bag/passport/shirt stolen and you are left wandering the streets shouting at policemen, throwing rocks at cars and sulking at a cute girl who hands you an orange juice and a phone charger. It's essentially a rite of passage all young men have to endure on their first weekend in the country. Right?

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The canvas is his world

B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 23/03/2014

» His mouth is a river of phrases and run-on sentences flowing over tongue and teeth. His eyes, below straggly brown curls, bristle with energy and ideas. For Henri Lamy, art is all about the face. So when his palette knife plops white into blue and smears the new shade across the canvas, he leaves an impression of a nose to explain a point.