Events

BANGKOK — Familiar names and new faces were among the finalists revealed Wednesday as five days of festivities get underway for The Bar Awards, which will soak the capital city with alcohol through the weekend.

CHIANG MAI — “I couldn't help crying,” Oraya Sutabutr said when she recalled seeing an ancient tree being felled near her home in Sukhumvit Soi 35, once open countryside but now in the very heart of commercial Bangkok.

BANGKOK — The rousing chorus as sith apprentice Darth Maul and jedis Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi duel. The powerful dirge that welcomes Emperor Palpatine to the second Death Star. Those poignant notes that accompany Han Solo leaving Leia’s side to pay his debt to Jabba the Hutt.

BANGKOK — In case an excuse was needed to go out Thursday and down one, two or three goblets of margaritas, here’s one to take with a grain of salt.

BANGKOK — Eat, watch, drink and dance the Brazilian way this weekend at an event to celebrate February’s carnival season.

BANGKOK — Gamers, techies and dance lovers will get an end-of-the-world party when a two-day festival comes to the capital next month.

BANGKOK — Concert halls aren’t the only setting for an orchestra performance. A park will do too.

BANGKOK — Prepare for a weekend of music under the sun at one of the capital’s biggest techno and house music festivals later this...

BANGKOK — Two of the the top three finalists of a popular drag queen competition, Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls will perform for the first time in Bangkok.

This weekend, give conformity and the mainstream the middle finger by checking out art exhibitions, dancing to Drum 'n Bass and techno music, and learning to make badass beats.