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Movies

Watch free Italian films at House Samyan this April

The Italian film industry doesn't do subtle. It rocks up like a Fellini fever dream – all sweeping gestures, crumbling palazzos and someone in outsize...

Things to do

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

10 movies to watch if you miss traveling in Thailand

These international films will scratch your travel itch until your next flight east, capturing Thailand’s multifaceted energy from neon-lit Bangkok...

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LGBTQ+

Meet the Thais behind the looks – and the craft that won RuPaul's stage

If you needed proof that Thai drag has arrived on the world stage, Gawdland just handed it to you. The first Thai queen to win RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the...

Art

Scent as memory, scent to dine for

Sometimes, moments of quiet sensory attention can feel almost radical. Yet scent has a strange way of interrupting that rhythm. A trace of jasmine drifting...

Music

Bangkok has a new saying: 'Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Tobii's shows'

A few weeks back, a new Afrobeats R&B Amapiano album dropped in Bangkok: Mr. Saxo Love. A genre the city is only just warming up to, Tobii – the...

Art

The best seat in any great city might just be at a Mahjong Palace table

In a world of apps and algorithms, Subhas Kandasamy is betting that four people around a square table – tiles clacking, strangers becoming friends...

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...

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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...

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...