And writes about monks in Singapore, salt miners in Indonesia and the homeless in Mumbai. When he's not being a management consultant in Bugis, that is.
Local photographer Lavender Chang's work appears on the cover of our Mar 13 issue. Her series Block 12, My Territory, My Dignity investigated HDB's one-room studios.
The Japanese jazz keyboardist and long-time regular on the Singapore indie music scene believes Singaporean artists shouldn't be afraid of becoming someone else.
We've loved Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards since the eerily frenetic "Bizness" and the swoony-sexy "Powa". So it was hard to keep it together when we got to talk to her on the phone last week (she was cooking at home!). We managed, and chatted about her trick to learning new instruments, her (much poppier) new album and being one of the people who votes on the Grammy Awards.
Rocker turned author Joseph Pereira remembers when Bedok Corner was a village and when people got in fist fights at concerts. And he thinks bands today have it pretty bad.
