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The violinist whose bow is a sabre
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 23/11/2017
» Attention Insurance Companies: Boris Belkin is coming to Bangkok on Nov 28, and nothing anywhere in the path of his knife-sharp bow is safe. Not the Bangkok Concert Hall, not Michael Tilkin, the conductor of the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra or any buildings in the area are liable to shake, rattle and roll.
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A Playmate and proud
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 30/10/2017
» Playboy's first transgender Playmate, a new TV show coming to Thailand and an award-winning Thai gay film feature in this month's round-up of LGBTI news
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Microsoft Paint might be fading
Life, James Hein, Published on 02/08/2017
» What is the one program you can count on to be in Windows, apart from say Minesweeper? Microsoft Paint. It's the poor man's drawing tool and screen capture tool where it is as simple as Alt-Printscreen, Start-Run MSPaint, CTRL-V, Crop Marquee Select Crop, CTRL-A CTRL-C, Switch to email and CTRL–V to get something from your screen into an email (or anything else).
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Brahms, Schumann and a royal tribute
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 06/07/2017
» On July 15, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra will feature two giants of 19th century musical history and one world premiere tribute to Thailand's late monarch.
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Renowned chef brings taste of Italy to Bangkok
Life, Published on 17/02/2017
» Classic Italian fare, simplicity and traditional homestyle comforts will be championed by Valentino Marcattilii, of Italy's two Michelin-starred restaurant San Domenico, at Wine Pub, Pullman Bangkok King Power hotel from Feb 22-25.
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A great British palaver
Life, Published on 21/10/2016
» In a big white tent nestled in the green fields of the English countryside, six bakers were putting their signature spin on dinner rolls.
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Denzel Washington rides high in The Magnificent Seven
Life, Published on 14/10/2016
» Denzel Washington looks just right high in the saddle, which makes sense given that he's become our John Wayne -- our point-and-shoot saviour. It's a funny business being a hero these days, and Washington has the resume to prove it, with characters -- a corrupt cop, a drug kingpin -- that would have been unthinkable for Wayne, who saved the day when the lines between right and wrong were more rigidly defined. Those lines have blurred, of course, and good guys went sort of bad and sometimes very bad, partly because we like it like that. (It feels so good.)
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Director Ang Lee is pushing the tech boundary
Life, Published on 14/10/2016
» In the action movies that Ang Lee grew up watching in Taiwan, it was perfectly commonplace and yet still thrilling to see rivals take to the air and fly at each other as they faced off in combat.
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Tana French's ingenious new murder mystery
Life, Published on 14/10/2016
» Tana French, the superb Irish novelist who happens to write avidly about crime, used to link her books by having a minor character in one become the beleaguered protagonist of the next. Since the books all involved the Dublin Murder Squad, the beleaguered part came easily. But in her sixth novel, The Trespasser, she breaks that pattern to reunite the same pair of detectives who waded through The Secret Place, her fifth. That one took place at a swanky private school, a grating milieu where the girls' teen language ("Um, duh?") wasn't easy for the detectives, Antoinette Conway and Stephen Moran, to take.
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Who is Elena Ferrante? Supporters say NOYB
Life, Published on 07/10/2016
» The readers of Elena Ferrante are devoted -- and fiercely protective -- of that anonymous Italian author. That much was clear from the swift and unforgiving backlash after an investigative journalist used financial documents to suggest in an article published on Sunday that Anita Raja, an Italian translator, was behind Ferrante's books.
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