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Sumo comes to Siam

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

CentralWorld will play host to the country's first ever sumo competition called "The Grand Thailand Sumo Tournament to Celebrate HM The King's 84th Anniversary Birthday".

Rare show of japanese woodblock prints

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

River City shopping complex is home to "Ukiyo-e: Japanese Special Art", an exhibition showcasing, for the first time in Thailand, a rare collection of ukiyo-e woodblock prints belonging to Michael Smith, a British collector of Asian artifacts.

Cinema picnic with a historic film

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

A St Valentine's Day film screening cannot be more historic than this. Tomorrow on the lawn of Museum Siam, the French-Thai Cultural Festival, or La Fete, will treat singles and lovers to the Thailand premiere of a restored and coloured version of the 1902 film by Georges Melies,Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). This colour print of the legendary film had been thought to have lost...

Tales from the trees

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

The programme includes a number of Thai and international titles, feature-length and short, that aim to inspire the audience to live green and save the trees.

Keeping the spirit of the country

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

King Bhumibol Adulyadej: A Life's Work _ Thailand's Monarchy in Perspective is in the mould of official histories commissioned by democratic societies.

The scholar warrior

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

There are events and people in the history we are taught about in school that would fade from memory in the space age were it not for historical novels and cinema blockbusters. Even so, our minds are cloudy. Achilles? Oh, you mean Brad Pitt. Cleopatra? Elizabeth Taylor. Moses? Charlton Heston.

Celebrated violinist in action

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Mahidol University's College of Music presents the "Romeo and Juliet Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra Concert" at its Music Auditorium on Friday at 7pm and Saturday at 4pm.

Whitney Houston found dead in Los Angeles hotel

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:28:00 GMT

LOS ANGELES : Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.

Funky feline pounces in for a party

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Indie electro collective Kitsch Cat crank out a pop-centric collection with a healthy dose of nostalgia and synthesisers

The amazing race

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

'The Race" at HOF Art's A+789 studio at Silom Galleria is an exhibition featuring four emerging artists exploring the theme of human existence. They use different media and have contrasting styles and approaches in their aim to present portrayals of the human condition.

Sek on road to reform, Annie orphan saga ends, Fluke takes a chance

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Sek Loso on high road to recovery Rocker Sek Loso is back home with his family, after the hospital where he was being treated for drug addiction decided to release him as an out-patient.

Japan's Mr Fix It

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Starting off as a business consultant at the age of 27, Hasegawa Kazuhiro has helped more than 2,000 Japanese companies out of bankruptcy in 45 years of service.

Queuing up for khon

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Casting a brief glance at his classmates, Chaiyarin Banjongtad begins moving confidently to the vibrant rhythms of live music played by a pi phat (traditional Thai orchestra) ensemble.

All Fired UP

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

At stake wasn't a condominium, a car or even a sizeable chunk of cash, but Kantavich Poriyanont didn't care. For he was getting the chance to display his knowledge of a subject very close to his heart.

Feminine perspectives

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

In her smoky evocation of lost love, vintage romance and bewitching cello music, Madonna, at the helm of W.E., channelled Wong Kar-wai of the early millennium, doing that visual serenade of beautiful, distressing women who're in the mood for love. Wong sculpted melancholia out of gorgeous haze; Madonna's swirl of luxury and grainy jump-cuts merely drift, and then land somewhat in emptiness....

How far, how fast?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

We _ you and me, mankind _ come from mud. About four billion years ago, an explosive cocktail of bacteria and organisms, sparked into life and began to divide. Life began. There were tiny organisms, stupid bacteria that did not even know how to breed, but somehow reproduced anyway.

Worth the wait

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Put a flamenco fire duo from Spain together with a shoe-stomping fret-tapping virtuoso from Ukraine; throw the top tango trio from Argentina in with the best Bach player in the world, and you have the second annual Bangkok Guitar Fiesta 2012.

Magnificent four

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

The 4G Quartet gave a performance that was often fine and fun of Anton Dvorak's "American" String Quartet, and Mom Luang Usni Pramoj's own latest work for the genre.

Lethal trade

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Will Hayden and his team of gunsmiths at Baton Rouge-based Red Jacket Firearms are hired to do the impossible _ make an extremely rare Civil War cannon fire, 150 years after it last saw action; create a twin M16 gun mount that can fire hundreds of rounds a minute without changing magazines for a Navy special teams boat gunner; and restore a flamethrower as a tribute to a World War II Marine...

An evening of early music

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

D & M Music Studio presents "An Early Music Recital" sung by internationally acclaimed Belgian countertenor, Patrick Van Goethem, at Goethe Institute Bangkok on Feb 16 at 8pm.

In Full Bloom

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

It was the stare that always got you. The bold, direct, Cleopatran stare of a woman who knows that she holds the reins simply because she's very comfortable in her own skin. In the '80s, her fame came from posing for sultry, eroticised photos that steamed up the rooms of men, young and old. Now Penpak Sirikul is 51. She has a 30-year-old son. She has no beau at the moment ("I won't hide, I never...

Theatre of (losing) control

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

A man's life swerves out of control when a car hits and kills his daughter on her way to her piano lesson. The man behind the wheel is a stage hypnotist, whose ability to guide people's mind out of the realm of reality falls to pieces after the accident. Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree, which tells the story of these two men and their encounter three months after the tragedy, leads us out of the...

full In Bloom

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Pivotal point in Pacific War

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

No event in the 20th century had greater impact on the world than World War II. There were few sovereign nations that weren't involved in or affected by the war in some way, and millions of people lost their lives.

Thai classical music evening

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

The Sangkeet Pirom programme by students from Mahidol University's College of Music offers a variety of traditional music modes, from subtle mahori to various types of vibrant pi pat percussion, as well as krueang sai prasom _ string music that embraces the dulcimer and organ.