Two beer festivals to drink at
[Time Out Singapore] Two major beer festivals, Maifest and Beerfest, are hitting town in the next two months. Zul Andra gives the lowdown.
Interview: Simon Reeve
[Time Out Singapore] The celebrated writer and BBC TV presenter has been around the world three times. He’s already been arrested by the KGB, shot at by rebels and almost been eaten by sharks, but Zul Andra finds the down-to-earth, often humorous traveller’s most astounding journey has only just begun.
Creative cocktails from three bartenders
[Time Out Singapore] Zul Andra picks out three of the city’s most exciting bartenders, who’ll whip up anything from classic cocktails to Guinness concoctions.
Bar Review: B28
[Time Out Singapore] After Malt Vault’s closure, serious dram-sippers are no longer stranded. The Vault’s owner, Mike Soldner, has moved a few blocks south-east to the basement of The Club hotel at 28 Ann Siang Road (hence the name). The result: a whisky encyclopedia of a bar.
Bar Review: Tree
[Time Out Singapore] We got lost trying to find Tree, and no wonder – the signage is way above eye level on the pillar next to the establishment’s black-matted front, and the windows are so small you wouldn’t realise a restaurant and bar reside within. There are two entrances to the establishment – it’s the red door you want to open for the bar.
Interview: Lamb of God
[Time Out Singapore] Metal madness descends on Fort Canning this month as leather-metal pioneers Judas Priest arrive for their farewell ‘Epitaph’ world tour (‘This is the end of the long major world tours,’ says the band, now in their fourth decade. ‘We never said it was the end of Judas Priest!’), with long-standing thrash-metal scene leaders Lamb of God in tow for the Singapore appearance. Zul Andra talks to bubbly LoG bassist John Campbell, 39, as the band releases its seventh album Resolution.
Eastern aphrodisiacs for Valentine’s Day
[Time Out Singapore] Your sexual prowess comes from what you drink. Zul Andra researches several outlandish Asian preparations that could help men rise to the occasion on V-Day.
Interview: Low Kay Hwa
[Time Out Singapore] The 26-year-old Singaporean novelist Low Kay Hwa had a rocky start in the publishing world. First he was duped into paying over $6,000 to get his launch book Destiny’s Cries published, after which only five out of 1,000 copies were sold. Then he received criticism for what detractors saw as over-simplified writing and cheesy plots. Now, with ten books published, 33,000 copies sold to date, over 110,000 Facebook fans and his own publishing firm to boot, Low is truly paving his own destiny.
Time Out Singapore Bar Guide 2012
[Time Out Singapore] I was very fortunate to be given the chance to work with Time Out Singapore and assume the role of Guide Editor for their first ever bar guide. Look out for it on newsstands island wide together with the January issue of Time Out Singapore.
