Singapore Food Festival 2018: The 50 Cents Fest Is Back!

As part of the 2018 Singapore Food Festival, the hugely popular 50 Cents Fest is coming back for the third time! Inspired by the colonial era of 1930s Singapore, watch as the 100 metre long Chinatown Food Street takes on the glory days of its past and takes visitors back in time. And what happens in the past? Cheaper food of course, with the price of … Continue reading Singapore Food Festival 2018: The 50 Cents Fest Is Back!

Working Out Together: People’s Association’s Be the ImPAct – Project Social Wellbeing

Healthy lifestyles have never been more in vogue than today. But working out alone in a gym can be both terrifying and unmotivational. That’s why the People’s Association (PA) have launched Be the ImPAct – Project Social Wellbeing. The first event of the programme launched on Monday, 23 July 2018 with a mass workout seeing 500 participants get down and take part simultaneously in fitness activities … Continue reading Working Out Together: People’s Association’s Be the ImPAct – Project Social Wellbeing

Paris Saint-Germain – Road To ICC 2018: Celebrating Their Arrival and Official Launch of Regional HQ

This week, Singapore will see a gathering of champions as three of the world’s best football teams descend on our island city for the International Champions Cup Singapore 2018. Get ready for an epic showdown as Arsenal, Atlético de Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain take each other on in three exciting matches at the National Stadium on 26th, 28th and 30th July. In this article, we’re taking … Continue reading Paris Saint-Germain – Road To ICC 2018: Celebrating Their Arrival and Official Launch of Regional HQ

Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme to be Presented at the Singapore Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale

To be given a chance to represent Singapore at an international level is a rare and incredibly prestigious opportunity, be it in the realm of politics, sports or the arts. So to do so at one of the oldest and most renowned Biennales in the world is certainly a golden opportunity, and at the 58th Venice Biennale held from 11th May to 24th November 2019, that position … Continue reading Music for Everyone: Variations on a Theme to be Presented at the Singapore Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale

Review: Tuesdays with Morrie 《最后14堂星期二的课》 by Godot Theatre Company

Simple but powerful staging of a modern classic that through death, teaches one how to live. 20 years on from when Mitch Albom’s internationally bestselling biographical novel Tuesdays with Morrie was first published, the lessons imparted by an old college professor to his former student remain fiercely relevant even today, still teaching readers everywhere how to live a good life from the wise words between its covers. Based … Continue reading Review: Tuesdays with Morrie 《最后14堂星期二的课》 by Godot Theatre Company

Singapore Theatre Festival 2018: Faghag (Review)

The faghag is elevated to modern day superhero in Pam Oei’s hugely entertaining, big hearted origin story.  On their own, ‘fag’ and ‘hag’ are pretty derogatory words. But as Singapore’s biggest faghag puts it, two negatives make a positive, and Pam Oei celebrates the term in all its glory in her aptly titled cabaret show of the same name. Faghag opens in song as Pam confidently strides … Continue reading Singapore Theatre Festival 2018: Faghag (Review)

Singaporeans on Film: An Interview With Selena Tan on Being A “Crazy Rich Asian”

“I think it’s been about nine years since I last did a feature film,” actress Selena Tan confesses. “I always feel very awkward seeing myself or hearing my voice on screen, because all I see are flaws. I keep thinking to myself: I didn’t do it right, and I end up watching everything else but the scenes I appear in.” The last time we saw Selena on … Continue reading Singaporeans on Film: An Interview With Selena Tan on Being A “Crazy Rich Asian”

Review: Here and Beyond by Toy Factory

A Toy Factory triumph in this adaptation of the only O-Level Literature Singapore text. Adapting a piece of literature from one medium to another can be challenging. The language alone already poses difficulty, such as how translating prose to drama runs the risk of either being weighed down by the length of the text or losing the original essence of the language altogether. Toy Factory’s Here … Continue reading Review: Here and Beyond by Toy Factory

Singapore Theatre Festival 2018: An Actress Prepares (Review)

An Actress Prepares confirms the one thing we all already knew – Siti K is without a doubt one of the best actresses in local theatre today.  Siti Khalijah Zainal is one of the most recognizable and beloved actresses working in theatre today, by virtue of her name alone able to sell out entire runs. But it wasn’t always the case for her, as she delves … Continue reading Singapore Theatre Festival 2018: An Actress Prepares (Review)

Preview: Universal Studios Singapore’s Halloween Horror Nights 8

After seven years of bringing scares to thrill-seeking visitors from all around, Universal Studios Singapore’s Halloween Horror Nights is upping the ante further still as it lurches its way into town once again this September. Running from 27th September to 31st October, the 8th (or cleverly, the ∞th/infinite) edition of Halloween Horror Nights (HHN8) is here to bring Infinite Fear with five haunted houses, three killer live … Continue reading Preview: Universal Studios Singapore’s Halloween Horror Nights 8