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Top 5 comedy shows to catch in Bangkok

They don't call Thailand the Land of Smiles for nothing. In Bangkok though, those smiles graduate into real laughs when punchlines are attached to mics. The...

Movies

Thailand’s 10 greatest movie posters of all time

Photograph: Exotic Originals The interview wrapped, but Dave Milligan of Exotic Originals stuck around to drop his personal poster hall of fame on...

Movies

6 top documentaries for Thai food lovers

Every dish carries a world within it: community, people, whole nations served up in flavour and tradition. Food documentaries do something vital here, showing...

Movies

House Samyan welcomes back 10 iconic movies to the big screen

On Sunday July 6, House Samyan hosted a special surprise screening event where movie lovers gathered to find out which classic film would make its grand return...

Movies

A Useful Ghost takes Grand Prize AMI Paris at 2025 Cannes International Film Festival

feature debut by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, emerged from the Critics’ Week sidebar with the Grand Prize AMI Paris in hand. It’s the sort of win...

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Art

Listen to the mushroom

Just recently, at a whisky event that promised the usual swirl of ice and polite applause, something else cut through the room. Not a saxophone – it was...

Comedy

Dressed for dinner, ready for the mall

Bangkok is evolving into a city where pets can come along for the ride. Cafes are setting out water bowls, shopping centres are relaxing rules and public...

Art

The Big Mango glimpses Jesper Haynes’ Big Apple decade

New York has been photographed to death. Every alley mythologised, every night flattened into attitude. What Jesper Haynes offers instead is something quieter...

Bars

Never seen a blue sky, yet turns colourful art into cocktails

‘I only see red, black, white and a scale of grey.' Fabio Brugnolaro – the Italian-born head mixologist at Penthouse Bar and Grill – tosses...

LGBTQ+

Gagging for GAWDLAND: the only Thai queen at RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs. the World S3

GAWDLAND is loud, proud and RuPaul-approved. The Northern-born, Bangkok-based queen stormed Drag Race Thailand season 3, became a Silom staple and is...

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Art

Bangkok’s alphabet of frustration, affection and survival

Coming back to poke Bangkok where it already aches is perhaps not how most creative projects like to announce themselves. Yet that is precisely how Bangkok...

Restaurants

London's only Michelin-starred Thai restaurant doesn't serve rice and here's the story

Thai-British chef John Chantarasak is sitting at the back of the ceremony hall in Glasgow at the Michelin Guide Ceremony 2025, 'stomach in knots, looking...

Music

All the beats of NOTEP's journey

There is a certain cruelty to early fame in Thailand. It sticks, fossilises and refuses to move on even when the person inside the image does. We know NOTEP or...

Museums

Meet the man archiving Bangkok’s fading history, one YouTube video at a time

If you have ever found yourself deep in a YouTube wormhole researching Bangkok’s history, chances are you have stumbled across a man in a wig playing a...

Music

Da Minot, the Shillong band bringing Khasi folk to Thailand

There are many ways to unpick a person's listening habits. Some people journal, others overanalyse dreams, but most of us simply wait for that neon billboard...