Category: Lifestyle

When Bill Burke retired from practicing corporate law in 2003, he craved an activity that would indulge his passion for travel and challenge him mentally and physically. He had already been hiking in the mountains around his home in Costa Mesa, Calif., and learning the art of alpinism had more […]

Singapore – This is a new regular series featuring the latest news in watches and all things horological. It helps when your head honcho is a 26-year-old avid gamer. Under chief executive officer Frederic Arnault’s stewardship, Swiss luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer has teamed up with Nintendo to come up with […]

LONDON – K-pop mega boy band NCT’s Taeil has broken the record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram. According to the Guinness World Records website on Tuesday (July 13), the 27-year-old, whose full name is Moon Tae-il, reached seven digits worth of followers in just […]

SINGAPORE – After it was cancelled last year due to the pandemic, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival returned to the French Riviera for its 74th edition on July 6. It marked the first major film festival to return in a fully physical format since Covid-19 struck – aside from a […]

CANNES, FRANCE (AFP) – A biopic of Canadian singer Celine Dion offered some light relief from the usual gritty arthouse fare at Cannes. Aline: The Voice Of Love is one of the least pretentious music biopics in memory, presenting Dion, 53, as a gawky nerd who nonetheless sailed from child […]

This article first appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Singapore, the leading fashion glossy on the best of style, beauty, design, travel and the arts. Go to harpersbazaar.com.sg and follow @harpersbazaarsg on Instagram; harpersbazaarsingapore on Facebook. The July 2021 issue is out on news-stands now. SINGAPORE – With her art history background and past experience assisting at the South-east Asian Paintings […]

Staunch Food The first time I heard about Staunch Food was when a friend texted me last week to say he would be gifting me a lunch from the online purveyor. I checked out its website and was surprised to find that it is run by two teenage siblings, Claire […]

My Birthday Wish  David Tao711 Birthday Live Concert Taiwanese singer-songwriter David Tao turned 52on Sunday (July 11), but his fans were the ones who got a present instead. To celebrate the occasion, the Golden Melody Award winner performed an online concert that lasted almost two hours, singing hits such as […]

LOS ANGELES—Britney Spears retained a new lawyer, Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Mathew Rosengart, Wednesday who promised to petition the court to remove Ms. Spears’s father, James Spears, from his role as her conservator. At the hearing, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Judge Brenda Penny accepted the resignation of Ms. Spears’s […]

NEW YORK (AFP, REUTERS) – The new attorney for Britney Spears, Mathew Rosengart, told AFP on Wednesday (July 14) that he would ask a Los Angeles court “as soon as possible” to have the pop singer’s father removed from his key role in the conservatorship that handles her personal life […]