Surviving Close Calls
YOU can be the victim or you could fight back. Armed with Krav Maga skills, Edwin Peng reckons your attacker might rue his decision to go on the offensive.
Real world...
The Bard On The Boards
FOR FOUR centuries, William Shakespeare has shaken everybody’s tree, and ideas have come tumbling out.
To celebrate the Bard’s ongoing relevance in a changing world, the folks in Siglap South...
The Comeback Kid
FROM cancer to boxing via death’s doorstep, Kumar Perumal has always been a trading blows to remain in the fight.
“It’s a gamble,” says Kumar Perumal, proprietor and Head Coach of...
Mounting A Hunt For Genius
LOVING back is the reason artist Tan Swie Hian is setting up a $10 million fund that will be the seed from which an award for artists will be...
The Philosophy Of The Fight
WE ARE turning into a society keen to fight, to vent our frustrations via combat sports.
Anything seems to be up for grabs, battering or bruising — from boxing to mixed...
Punch-Drunk Singapore Boxing
FROM 200 gladiators 50 years ago to just eight now. Can Singapore boxing recover from the TKO?
Bringing smelling salts to the sport is Alexander Shah. “In the next five years, I...
Roger Dean – Art To Music
IN THE mundane, Roger Deans sees the fantastic.
Dean's art has graced the covers of albums since the 1970s, developing a style that is dreamlike yet bordering on the imaginative as...
Moving Too Fast To Be Moved
CAN ART do more than just sit on a wall? Does art still have the ability to move people? Is art a force for change? And if art no longer...
The Route Less Travelled
WILL the large, bold figures clambering over the former military barracks at Gillman be enough to draw in an appreciative audience to this lonely art outpost?
Los Angeles based artist...
Artist Nan Qi’s Dot Matrix
For Chinese artist Nan Qi, building his art perspective took him along a pathway dotted with Chinese and Western ideas and ideology.
The opening up of China to the world...