Baybeats 2010: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Baybeats 2010 came and went with an a huge turnout last weekend. Here’s what we thought were the good, the bad and the ugly of this year’s festival.

Baybeats 2010

Happening over this weekend, the annual Baybeats event at the Esplanade promises some exciting line-up. Here’s some of our tip of who to catch at this year’s show.

Did he obstruct justice or did he not?

AN usual situation has developed between Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and the Singapore Police Force (SPF) concerning the arrest and subsequent handcuffing of Lianhe Wanbao photographer Shafie Goh while he was covering the flooding along Upper Bukit Timah road last week.

Upfront with: Ceriph

Ceriph is a non-profit project started by three local undergraduates — Hans, Weifen and Winnie — after they begun noticing friends and acquaintances freely creating poetry, prose and photography that they felt ought to be shared.

Mosaic Festival: Kings of Convenience

Norwegian indie pop-folk duo the Kings of Convenience took center stage last weekend at the Mosaic Music Festival, performing twice to a sell-out crowd at the Esplanade.

Malaysians up in arms for Anwar

In what the Malaysian media has dubbed as “Sodomy II”, the former deputy prime minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim finds himself defending a sodomy charge yet again, some 12 years after he was first accused in 1998.

The Killers cancel Singapore gig

Singapore — Two days before they were slated to kick off the Asian leg of their tour, The Killers have cancelled the Asian leg of the tour due to ‘unforseen circumstances’. The move is highly disappointing to fans in Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and particularly Singapore.

‘Surveillance’ in the Park

With photography, one perversion can segue to another. In the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki worked with a 35mm camera equipped with filtered Kodak flash and early infrared film to photograph couples during amorous trysts in the bushes and behind the trees of Tokyo parks.

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Running into its 18th successful year, the NUS Dance Ensemble is proud to present The Next Wave 2010 – Lights Off. The Ensemble is one of the university’s distinguished dance groups, and has developed an extensive repertoire both locally and internationally.

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