Forget Taylor Swift, this will be a busy, busy month for you.

Yes, we're all excited about Potato Head but there are other soon-to-open places with equal parts of cool.

Host of risqué life drawing session Dr Sketchy, Eugene Tan is a magazine editor by day and theater performer and drag queen Becca d’Bus by night. Here, he tells Mrigaa Sethi about sewing his own clothes, returning to Singapore after nearly a decade in the US and what’s wrong with queer activism today.

Don't want to shell out an exhorbitant $125 for SingTel World Cup TV package? Catch the games for free instead at these bars. 

Keong Saik Road is getting the Indonesian food and nightlife mini-empire's first international outpost.

There'll be lots of shaking and zany drinks.

Janesuda Parnto, 31, has worked all over showbiz, from MVs to movies, as a VJ, actress, model and now fashion designer, inspired by her love of T-shirts. After releasing the first collection under her self-titled label, she opens up to BK about the business side of fashion, her love of music and how to survive being in the spotlight.

Thai-German actor Noppachai “Peter” Chainam, 40, won the Subhanahongsa Award for Best Actor for his role in Headshot in 2011. This week, perhaps his best known character, the warrior Boonting or Phra Ratchamanu from the blockbuster biopic King Naresuan (read our review), returns for its fifth installment. BK sits down with Peter to look back at his career, and the life lessons he’s learned along the way.

While fancy shopping malls are popping up in Bangkok like mushrooms in the rainy season, we still look to escape to enjoy the charms of traditional markets outside Bangkok. Here are six easily reached old markets that give you a more authentic shopping experience.