What’s Happening?
Now – 10th April NATURAL SIX @ La Luna Gallery 053 306 678 From March 14th – 10th April La Luna will be celebrating its 6th anniversary with the ‘Natural Six’ exhibition. 2nd – 30th April TRADITION VIA CONTEMPORARY @ Chiang Mai University Art Center An art exhibition ‘Tradition Via Contemporary’ by Wattana Watanpun and collaborative artists Nusara Tiangket, Tasanee Yaja and Somsri Pewon. The openi … Continued
City Buzz
Situated in the grounds of the über-tranquil Ayatana Hamlet and Spa, on the foothills of Doi Suthep, is this elegant restaurant that would impress anybody with a penchant for fine dining. The menu mainly offers Thai and European dishes with some fusion items for the adventurous. Try the pad tai spring rolls, which taste delicious, or for the farang palette, the salmon steak with béarnaise s … Continued
Community Services
• 01 Care for Dogs – Dog of the Month for April – Max I’m small but I am also feisty! I would do well in a home where I can rule the roost. I’m a bit of a loner but love the attention of humans…just not so keen on other dogs. I’m getting on in years which doesn’t help although I am still very healthy and handsome! The slight corneal ulcers caused by dry eye mean I will need drops possibly for the … Continued
City Sport
This is the Chiang Mai community sports page. Please feel free to send your sports news, results and any announcements you wish to make to james@chiangmaicitylife.com. [right][/right] Kanoon and Kana (right) Vasupongchai Prem’s rising tennis star Kana asked to try out for Thailand’s Junior FED Cup Team Kana was invited to participate in a round robin try-out lasting three weekends in Bangkok and h … Continued
City Vibes
Artist: Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate Album: Ali and Toumani Rating: If you don’t own an Ali Farka Toure album your music collection is missing a vital organ. Toure’s music, often described as the DNA of the blues, is exquisitely beautiful and perspicuously orchestrated. On this posthumous release we are treated to the equally brilliant Diabate who joins forces with Toure for the second ti … Continued
A Retiring Attitude
Some people look forward to retirement while others plan to work forever. I have been luckier than most in that I have always loved my jobs. But I have always loved not working better. For various reasons, ranging from needing to support a new, young partner, and family, to taking a huge loss in the stock market crash, to just being bored and wanting to get back into the ‘game’, I have seen retire … Continued
Your Say
[right][/right] [right]Your say is an open forum for you the reader to express your opinions. Write to: editor@chiangmaicitylife.com, subject: Your say. Letters can be on any subject and priority will be given to letters under 200 words.Letters may be edited for clarity or conciseness. Name and contact details must be supplied[/right] • How Can We Win when the Game is Rigged? Thanks to you and to … Continued
This is Thailand
[right]For those of you with any questions regarding Thailand, Thai culture, history, tourism, laws, rules, food, nightlife, sub-cultures, dating; generally anything as long as it is relevant, we have a panel of three experts who will respond to your enquiries. Email: james@chiangmaicitylife.com.[/right] 1. I believe that there are more than three hundred temples in Chiang Mai, which I would like … Continued
Editorial
we must all have been, at some time or another, vexed by the lack, or uneven handedness, of law enforcement in this country, especially when it comes to blatant double standards between the haves and the have nots. Every time I saw an arrest of a gunman on television, read about the conviction of a hill tribe drug dealer, heard about a prostitution clampdown, I gnashed my teeth and wondered about … Continued
Party Pulse
Chiang Mai Pub Crawl It’s definitely a first for Chiang Mai, an organised pub crawl. Citylife joined Tuskers’ first ever crawl with a group of toga-wearing (the crawl had a toga theme) heavy-drinking party goers. The night was a raging success, but fortunately we could still stand at the end. To find out more about the different kinds of Chiang Mai Pub Crawls and upcoming events contact: www.chian … Continued
Seeing through the Haze
Towards the end of each winter here in the north of Thailand a silent and stealthy enemy arrives: a pall of pollution that smothers the city and its surrounds like a toxic blanket. It’s a foe that’s grown more menacing by the year, as dust and smoke have combined with other noxious gases to form a dangerous atmospheric cocktail. In 2007, smog reached such a critical level that northern Thailand ma … Continued
Still Got One…
The ‘Pulse’ issue…what’s new? What’s trendy? What’s Hot? What’s Not? My teenage daughter assures me that I do not fit into the first three, though am apparently quite suited to the last. I would argue that I am often in the ‘what’s hot?’ category but only in the slightly moist on a warm day kind of way. As far as a pulse is concerned, I am approaching the age where I am quite relieved to find that … Continued
Mae Chaem…the new Pai?
Now that Pai attracts caravans of hipsters and intrepid kids from the big smoke each weekend, it is losing its right to use the ‘serene’, ‘peaceful’ or ‘traditional’ labels. Commerce has replaced culture, and what was once a quiet, thrifty weekend getaway is now an all-out party experience where the countryside has been turned into a carnival, and pockets most likely turned inside out. That’s not … Continued
The Grand Strand
Our flight was delayed for six hours, we were informed, because a VIP needed use of the airplane. Tempers could have flown, but it was best to see the humour, and soon enough we landed in Rangoon after a swift 45-minute flight from Chiang Mai. The rest of the long weekend, thanks to one extraordinary hotel, was perfect. The slightly battered hotel Volvo picked my friend and I up at the airport, an … Continued
The Dawn of the Dude
2. Son of a Beach I have to confess that this article was submitted to Citylife way past the official deadline. But I have a great excuse: you see, I’d accidentally de-evolved by some 100,000 years. This is what happens when you stay on a cheap Thai beach for too long: aside from growing naked and hairy and eating a treeload of fruit, your brain invariably shuts down. Of course, confronted by the … Continued
A Great Plague: K-Ferver
By 2012 the outbreak of K-Fever is expected to be of such global magnitude it is perhaps conceivable that typical British armchair addicts may be considering substituting their daily fix of Coronation Street and Eastenders in favour of an altogether different kind of soap opera: drama arguably less heady, but whose propensity for reeling in punters is undeniable. These soaps are not only abominabl … Continued
Gecko Books for Book Lovers
Book lovers are spoilt for choice with the proliferation of secondhand bookshops in Chiang Mai. It seems every guesthouse has a bookshelf to pick or purchase from and the old city is papered with bookshops from hole-in-the-wall stalls stacked with tatty-eared block busters to specialist book stores run by eccentric bibliophiles. For the past decade, the name synonymous with secondhand books in Chi … Continued