Thai Folk Arts Get 21st Century Makeover
OTOP. The word conjures countless tourist-trap shops and fairs selling authentic yet forgettable knick knacks. Stuff that’s only interesting to first-time visitors or those who must have everything silk.
India Going All Out to Celebrate 70 Years With Shows, Art and More
BANGKOK — See Indian dances, Indian art and shop for Ayurvedic products at a festival celebrating 70 years of independence on the subcontinent with events through the rest of the year.
Koh Phangan Gets Spendy 12-Day Music Fest
SURAT THANI — The southern island known worldwide for lunar debauchery is getting a 12-day dance party next year.
Art Pairs With Booze When ‘Figure 8’ Opens Sunday
BANGKOK — Celebrate the opening of a new shophouse-cum-bar and gallery with Japanese rope bondage and late-romantic French poetry.
Swiss Woman Passes Off Thai Photog’s Work, Wins Awards
BANGKOK — Two international photo organizations stripped a Swiss photographer of awards after it came to light she passed off a Thai photographer’s images as her own.
Poet in Hot Water for Comparing Yingluck’s Ears to Her Vagina
BANGKOK — A poetry laureate and national artist is facing pressure to have his title removed for composed what was seen as a lewd poem which compared fugitive former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra’s ears to her vagina.
Photog Sees ‘Hope’ in Bangkok From His Window Perch
BANGKOK — A stranded motorist ponders his situation. A shirtless man in a plastic chair waters his garden with a yellow hose. Bangkok buildings sizzle under the summer sun and an orange sky.
Hate ‘Girl From Ipanema?’ This Bangkok Jazz Club is For You
No city more than Bangkok has had a more acute thirst for jazz yet wasted its potential, a Harlem-seasoned jazz trumpeter sermonized at the recent reopening of his jazz club.
New Dawn or Letdown? Iconic Temple Makeover Gets Mixed Reviews (Photos)
BANGKOK — Nopparat Petchchai has watched over the Temple of Dawn for over two decades.
The 50-year-old security guard from Uttaradit province, who keeps a...
Find Hidden Treasures From Bangkok’s Golden Age of Cinema (Photos)
BANGKOK — Back in the golden age of cinema, more than 100 cinema houses beckoned audiences throughout the capital.
But decades ago, as viewing became...
