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Total immersion in the Great American Songbook
Life, James Keller, Published on 15/02/2018
» Sometimes complete saturation in a particular musical genre is quite the order of the day, and just such an evening was delivered by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra on Jan 31 inside the Main Hall of the Thailand Cultural Centre, as English conductor Martin Yates steered the musicians through an enormous 27-number set list. Some patrons may have begun to wonder just what time they would get home that night as Harold Arlen's Somewhere Over The Rainbow approached towards the end of the second half, but certainly nobody was complaining about the quantity of material covered. Such was the quality of performance.
Sunflower festival
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 15/02/2018
» Aditayadorn Agricultural Learning Center, Ban Ra Sai in Muang district of Surin, has announced a sunflower festival.
AWS: Cloud computing to skyrocket
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 14/02/2018
» Cloud computing services in Thailand are in the early adopter stage, with the market projected to grow exponentially in the next 4-5 years thanks to digital disruption, says Amazon Web Services Thailand (AWS), the local operating unit of the global cloud service provider.
Marrabenta, Mozambique's popular groove, is rarely heard
Life, John Clewley, Published on 13/02/2018
» The rise of post-independence popular music in Africa has unleashed a wide array of genres from many regions. A snapshot might show, from North Africa, Algerian Rai music, and street music like shaabi from Egypt; West Africa has gumbe, Malinke music, Tamashek, afrobeat and highlife and mbalax; the Congo region has its rumba Congolais and myriad dance forms, while South Africa has mbaqanga.
Dawn of a new you
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 13/02/2018
» On hearing the catchy chorus of Michael Bublé's Feeling Good, Athisin and Athiporn Poolsawaddi found an evocative name for their start-up, The Dawn, an English-language medical rehab and wellness centre located on the banks of the Mae Ping River, in Hang Dong, Chiang Mai.
Walk tall
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 12/02/2018
» Seeing your pet going under the knife is never an easy sight to watch. But when Panicha Banchongratsena found out last year that Boongky — her nine-year-old Pomeranian — was suffering from hip dysplasia, she swallowed the pain and waited outside the surgery room for six hours for veterinarians to perform total hip replacement surgery on her canine pal — the first such operation ever done in Thailand.
Borns this way
Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 11/02/2018
» During his 2011 TEDx Talk, the then 19-yearold singer-songwriter Garrett Borns regaled the audience with the story of when he went to perform in Paris and how he was nervous about the language barrier since he spoke no French.
(NOT QUITE) NAKED AMBITION PAYS OFF
Andrew Biggs, Published on 11/02/2018
» The story so far: Your columnist has enrolled himself in Thai university to learn the language. Fatal mistake! Upon opening his first textbook, he is overcome with a sudden desire to jump off Baiyoke Tower.
Just a couple of foodies
Guru, Eric E Surbano, Published on 09/02/2018
» It's that time of the year when couples come out in full-force, restaurants are jampacked, roses and chocolates are more expensive, and single people are more bitter than usual. Yes, St Valentine's Day is upon us and that means couples all over the place. We could have just given you a list of places you could go to for a special dinner (actually, we did -- check our Food listings). But in lieu of the upcoming "festivities", if you could call it that, we decided to round up a number of foodie power couples to get to know their favourite restos and what they do during on this romantic day. Perhaps we noobs could learn a thing or two from them.
Inspired seafood and more
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 09/02/2018
» Once upon a time, amid a fast-paced evolution of the Bangkok dining scene, Whale’s Belly - despite its Pinocchio-inspired title - was introduced to the city as a fine-dining establishment.