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Into the strange forest
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 09/09/2016
» The dirt road is dry and red, scorched by the Isan sun. The headmaster is wary, sardonic, and enervated by the heat. The students, or at least some of them, are bored and ironic ("What do you want to be when you grow up?" a teacher asks. "A bank robber," he deadpans.) Next to this poor state school is a forest, sun-dappled, mysterious and probably haunted. Girls are warned not to go in there because they may never come back out.
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An amazing guidebook
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/03/2015
» Go to any bookshop here and you will find a shelf full of guides to Thailand, many penned by farangs, several with lovely scenic photos. They cover much the same ground. The Thai people are nice in every respect, yet they have quaint practices you are expected to heed. But what can you expect? It's a foreign land, a third-world country, that needs catching up. Give it another century or so.
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False confessions
Life, Published on 06/04/2015
» Thieves have been around since Year One, nothing and nobody able to stop them. Not Hammurabi's Code nor curses in burial places. People are robbed, tomb raiders loot aboveground pyramids and subterranean mausoleums. Men are murdered, women raped, children kidnapped.
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Expressionist Coles changes tack for latest work
Life, Published on 14/01/2016
» American expressionist painter Chris Coles is better known in Thailand and Cambodia for his neon-like work featuring bar girls and their customers, but now he's gone green.
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Art in experiment
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 27/08/2014
» 'The Experimental Video Art Exhibition" on show at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) is certainly not something meant to be easily comprehended. Visiting the venue, even after a second or third time, is always a puzzling and exhausting undertaking.
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Hunger Games ends with a bang
Life, Kanin Srimaneekulroj, Published on 20/11/2015
» The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 marks the end of what has now become perhaps one of the most prolific young adult novel series ever, and holy heck is it good. While I wasn't a fan in the beginning, The Hunger Games is one of those series that seems to mature with its audience, now a far cry from the days Katniss was in the lush woods of the first Games arena.
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More old hat
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/09/2015
» Together with their military, British boffins played a major role in defeating their Teutonic foes. Their whizz kids -- scientists, academic -- came up with radar and opened up the Enigma machine. (During World War I they invented the tank.) Hitler's boast of winning the war with secret weapons was played down.
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The concept of theatre vs reality
Life, Kaona Pongpipat, Published on 14/05/2015
» Strictly speaking, this review of Between, a stage performance by Nikorn Saetang and Ben Busarakamwong that ended on Tuesday, can only be 50% legitimate. Staged both at Crescent Moon Space and B-Floor Room, as well as the interval space between the two theatres, the acting by Nikorn and Ben took place simultaneously in separate rooms, and the audience had to make a choice, through the show's 70-minute span, when and which actor they wanted to see.
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Gonna make ya sweat
Life, Onsiri Pravattiyagul, Published on 14/11/2014
» As Thais, we love to dance. Within a space of just one month starting on Nov 22, there will be four full-scale dance music festivals that, although similar in terms of musical genres and DJ line-ups, will be produced, presented and themed in a variety of different styles.
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New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 24-30
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/04/2024
» Looking for a title to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
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