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Strange visions of Bangkok
Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 27/01/2018
» Bob Stratton is one of the few people who actually like Bangkok’s tangle of electrical wires.
DNCE the night away
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 15/08/2017
» You'd expect the crowd at DNCE to be younger -- I mean high-school young -- but it wasn't as young as many as expected. It's a school night, after all.
Swing the night away
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/09/2017
» The biggest swing party of the city returns this Saturday, so shine your dancing shoes and bring out your swirly skirts and suits. Hosted by Bangkok Swing, Diga Diga Doo! will be a roaring night out with spectacular shows, live performances and a swing floor on which to dance the night away.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 28/07/2017
» Even if you don't go with the fashion or art crowd, there's still a big chance that there is a Niagara of polka-dotted selfies all over your social media feed -- and this will probably continue until Sept 3.
Inner peace, thread by thread
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 24/05/2017
» Inside the intimate and cubic space of Nova Contemporary, a sense of serenity welcomes all visitors with monochromatic pictures of animals on the walls and clear plastic bunnies in the centre of the floor. The mild, seemingly plain artworks of animals on the walls don't beg to be photographed, but then again, pictures of them wouldn't do justice to the real thing anyway. They need to be seen up close through your own eyes.
The virtuous one
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 14/04/2017
» Liam Cunningham is quite a funny bunny -- a stark opposite of the character he is best known for portraying: Game Of Thrones' dependably virtuous knight, Ser Davos Seaworth. While in Bangkok earlier this month, he unflinchingly munched the head off fried insects at the street stall and gleefully admitted to nicking tiny props from the set every year, be it the small wooden stag or coins from Braavos. He asks the props man first of course, and most of it ends up on his daughter's "wall of awesome" in her bedroom.
Where art is a luxury
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 17/01/2017
» Ratchaprasong area's bastion of luxury retail, Gaysorn Shopping Centre, now joins the art plain with the opening of Duke Contemporary Art Space on the first floor. The small entrance can be misleading -- only upon entering do you realise that there is also a cigar bar and drinking hole enclaved within the art gallery.
Glossy READS
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 23/12/2016
» If you aren't going on a rampant shopping spree or jet-setting off anywhere for the holidays, escaping through the slow-burning medium of print can offer a glossiness and introspective calm that an iPad screen cannot. Skip the airfare and frivolous fashion clutter this season to instead feed the soul, by learning some style history and getting inspired by things pretty and edgy. Here are some recent releases by the big fashion houses that bring sheen and glamour to any table they sit on.
Happiness in a book
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 16/12/2016
» Can money really buy happiness? What factors in one's childhood ensure one's happiness in adulthood? Do sons or daughters make parents more happy? And why is stress such an enemy to trying to lose weight? Apparently, something as vague as feelings and happiness can be quantifiable and explained, thanks to Salmon Books' recent release How Happiness Works And Why We Behave The Way We Do. Packaged in a bright yellow hue with nothing less than a huge smiley face on the cover, Nattavudh Powdthavee explains the economics of happiness and our feelings in 32 easy-to-digest chapters.
Hearts and friendships
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/11/2016
» A Karan Johar film usually offers promises of glamorous locales, impossibly beautiful leads, cameos of his A-list buddies, over-the-top songs and what is supposed to be an atomic bomb of feel-goodism. He doesn't let you down within the departments of the first four, but Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (The Heart Is Complicated) is unlikely to stay with you the way his previous decade-defining works have. It's not as tear-jerking or heartwarming, but still does offer a great soundtrack that will cling to your mind unlike its messy plot. (Try keeping the waterworks in when Channa Mereya comes on. You won't.)