Tribal Africa Takes a Synthetic Turn Friday at 12×12
BANGKOK — Start the weekend by going tribal at a downtown hole-in-the-wall venue to Sub-Saharan African beats and synthesizers to produce trippy experimental music.
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Ice Age: See How Meth is Swamping Southeast Asia
BANGKOK — Homeless children carry bags of glue and crystal meth, Laotian prostitutes smoke ice for intensified sexual pleasure and Burmese sweatshop laborers get high to forget their brutal reality.
Fiesta Deliciosa: Have a One-Night Mexican Stand at Whiteline
BANGKOK — In Mexico City, Mariana Villalobos Torres ate her family’s cooking, such as rajas tamales, chicken mole and traditional guacamole. This wasn’t the typical guacamole found at the Tex-Mex style restaurants which have sprouted up in Bangkok.
Czech Out Animated Fairy Tales And More This Weekend
BANGKOK — A centuries-old fairy tale adapted into puppet animation by a legendary Czech filmmaker to oppose Soviet rule will show for free this weekend as part of a Czech animation festival.
BBC Symphony to Orchestrate 2 Nights in March
NAKHON PATHOM — From the Barbican Centre to metro Bangkok, the BBC Symphony Orchestra will bend their bows and trill their reeds in Thailand for the first time in March.
Test Your ‘Friends’ Knowledge at Trivia Night This Thursday
BANGKOK — Put your knowledge of Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross, and Joey to the test, and win prizes while doing it – there’s...
Achtung! German Filmapalooza Coming to Bangkok
BANGKOK — A Hamburg housewife seeking revenge on neo-Nazis will be among eight contemporary German movies to show around Bangkok later this month.
Terracotta Warriors To March into Bangkok This Sept.
BANGKOK — Envoys of the first Emperor of China’s ghost army will march into Bangkok next month.
The Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday that...
Not Just Nightlife: Pattaya to Host Bicycle Festival This November
PATTAYA — Pattaya will host a cycling festival in November in a bid to prove there’s more to the city than nightlife.
Dance to All the Top-Tier Trance at Transmission
BANGKOK — The month of March will prove fortuitous for trance-lovers, as renowned and rising DJs alike will come together for one night to submerge revelers in a hypnotic rave.