The Club Street Brasserie
From the outside it’s hard to miss the new red, white and blue pagoda that denotes the change in tenant at what used to be the home of Mozzaic. Sitting pretty at the start of Club Street, The Club Street Brasserie makes for a much more well-defined restaurant than its predecessor. Heading down the stairs, […]
Shiro Japanese Haute Cuisine
Shiro sets out to be a truly fine Japanese dining—there’s a buzzer to gain entry, capacity is extremely limited, you are specifically told when you make your reservation about the dress code (smart casual) and everything is über chic, from the glassware to the cutlery to the oval-shaped bathroom. One can choose to sit at […]
Design for Life
With the launch of the design campaign “10TouchPoints,” DesignSingapore hopes Singaporeans will care more about the importance of design in their everyday lives.
Ivan Heng in Jack and the Bean-sprout
Ivan Heng spills the beans about his role in W!LD RICE’s latest offering Jack and the Bean-sprout.
Visual Art Nominees of Motorola Street Style Awards 2006
The Motorola Street Style Awards are back. This annual event pays tribute to the finest of our local talents. We quiz the visual art nominees Chris Lee (from Asylum fame), Brian Gothong Tan and Ivanho Harlim, and see if they have what it takes. Motorola Street Style Awards is through Dec 15. Log on to www.style-asia.com/streetstyleawards06 for more information.
Rendezvous Restaurant
As one of Singapore’s oldest and most well known nasi padang restaurants, Hock Lock Kee needs no introduction. While the original pre-war coffeeshop is long gone, its modern version retains some old world charm in the wooden table with marble tops, classic wooden chairs, traditional porcelain crockery and antique photos on the walls. The assortment […]
Just Friends
It’s 1995 and Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds, Blade: Trinity) isn’t exactly hot stuff with the ladies in high school. Geeky and more than a little overweight, the only woman who was ever friendly to him is best friend Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart, Crank). Unfortunately for Chris, that’s all Jamie ever will be to him—his friend. […]
Isolation
In this past year, we’ve seen a few horror flicks that try to bring out the dark side of otherwise pretty mundane things (very badly in most cases)—the most recent of which was Stay Alive and its attempt to bring a sinister edge to playing video games. We thought this was already scraping the bottom […]
Sapori D’Italia Risotrante
With its emphasis on southern Italian favorites, restauranteur Alessandro Di Prisco’s second restaurant Sapori D’Italia promises its guests authentic Italian fare at pretty reasonable prices. The newly renovated interior above The Dubliner Irish pub has clean white walls, high ceilings and modern paintings making for a pleasant indoor dining atmosphere. Wines and freshly made pastas […]
Elaine Roberto-Navas’s exhibition, Plastic
Filipino artist Elaine Roberto-Navas turns the popular Blythe dolls into hypnotic works of at in the exhibition Plastic.