Started in May by CEO Ankur Mehrotra, restaurant concierge website Abratable allows diners to make reservations at top eateries to earn points for free meals and exclusive event invitations.
Michael Angelakos, the founder and frontman of pioneering electro pop group Passion Pit, chats with Chin Hui Wen about his work process, the commercialism of music videos and taking time for himself on tour.
Rayann Condy is the director of Purple, a play about real life transsexual Maggie Lai’s relationship with her father. She chats with Chin Hui Wen about the rollercoaster script, being an outsider and the show’s circus theme.
Up-and-coming indie rock band Cashew Chemists performed for the first time at this year’s local music showcase Baybeats 2012. Its lead guitarist Brian Chia shares the inspiration behind the group’s name and their five-minute rule with Chin Hui Wen.
The veteran British actress, who plays an alcoholic orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in the musical Annie, talks to Chin Hui Wen about men’s clubs, her misunderstood stage character and a regime involving lots of fluids.
W!LD RICE’s first Broadway musical, La Cage Aux Folles, is a colorful tale of love and acceptance at a drag nightclub. Ivan Heng, who plays the club’s co-owner and resident cross-dressing diva, Albin/Zaza, tells Chin Hui Wen why the stars are aligned for the performance, about his body-contouring costumes and his favorite show tune.
Alila Villas Soori in Bali will offer a Tibetan Sound Treatment workshop from July 26-28. The classes will be taught by Patrizius Wolfgang, a noted sound therapy expert.
