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NANJING • There have been reports of chopsticks and wet wipes supposedly used by celebrities that were later put up for sale. Now, even a drip bag – said to be used by Singapore singer JJ Lin – has been offered for sale online. Lin, 38, who was in Zhenjiang city in China’s Jiangsu province […]

1 MARABU – THE FIRST RIPPLE Dance and theatre come together in Marabu – The First Ripple, the first part of a trilogy by Bhaskar’s Arts Academy. The production is set during the height of the Srivijayan empire and traces the passage of the Indian community from India to the Malay peninsula. Veteran artist Santha […]

FICTION THE WATER DANCER By Ta-Nehisi Coates One World/Paperback/406 pages/ $29.96/Books Kinokuniya 4 stars There has been a lot of debate of late over whether Marvel movies count as cinema. Now, American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has produced a novel that combines the slave narrative with the superhero genre – and the result is unquestionably spectacular […]

He has conjured demons and dark fates in his creepy tales, but Malaysian horror writer Tunku Halim is scared of dogs. “I’m not talking just about big dogs which might bite, but cute little poodles too,” says the self-avowed cynophobe in an e-mail interview. The 55-year-old, who has been described as “the Stephen King of […]

FICTION SUPERNOVA ERA By Liu Cixin Translated by Joel Martinsen Tor Books/ Paperback/ 348 pages/$29.95/ Books Kinokuniya 3.5 stars In a flash of blinding light, a supernova showers the planet with radiation that deals irreversible damage to all human beings. Only children, whose chromosomes still retain the ability to repair themselves, will survive the event. […]

When Chinese science-fiction writer Stanley Chen Qiufan was growing up in Guangdong province, there was a town near where he lived that existed solely on trash. The town of Guiyu was the world’s dumping ground for electronic waste. An army of workers, mostly poor migrants from other parts of China, stripped computers, circuit boards and […]

There is a party going on in the rehearsal studio of the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT). Dancers are grooving to the strains of 1950s jazz singer Dinah Washington’s Such A Night, taking turns in the centre as if in a dance-off at a club. “Make it wild,” calls Australian choreographer Lucas Jervies as they fling […]

I’m not a big fan of horror movies. I admit I’m a bit of a wimp – you won’t find me riding on a roller coaster or going bungee jumping either. Blood and chainsaws turn me off and I can’t bring myself to sit through South-east Asian tales of vengeful spirits and pontianak – vampiric […]

Loneliness is as wide as space and as small and close as the human heart in The Far Side Of The Moon. The dream-like play by Canadian auteur Robert Lepage makes its Singapore premiere on Friday at the Esplanade Theatre. Amid its many technical marvels – a moving mirror as wide as the stage, a […]

Disney’s highly anticipated animated film Frozen II will be released only on Nov 22. But fans can get a sneak peek at its concept art and animation drawings at Disney: Magic Of Animation. Some 15 never-before-seen works are among more than 500 archival artefacts on display here at the ArtScience Museum till March 29 next […]