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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.

Imagine a Mötorhead and Beach Boys collab and you might get “Dirty Water,” a track that convinces you it’s a soft beach-rock groove right before aggressive guitar riffs take it over halfway through.

BANGKOK —  After 15 formative years in Seattle and Los Angeles, Bird and Big returned to Thailand last year and unsatisfying, unhealthy office lunches of noodles and fried rice.

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.

BANGKOK — If there’s a soulful longing within you to stroll the wintry paths of Gorky Park before sharing a bottle – or three – of vodka with a comrade, then head to Charoenkrung neighborhood next week for a Russian feast.

SURAT THANI — The southern island known worldwide for lunar debauchery is getting a 12-day dance party next year.

BANGKOK — Celebrate the opening of a new shophouse-cum-bar and gallery with Japanese rope bondage and late-romantic French poetry.

BANGKOK — Pass through a French bistro, with its cheeses and breads displayed in glass cases, on the ground floor of the FooJohn building in Charoen Krung. Go upstairs, guided by the art-deco mirrored walls wrapping their way around the stairs. Walk up, past the second-floor prohibition-style cocktail bar – dimly lit and draped in velvet. The third floor is your destination.

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.