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Classical CD and DVD reviews
By Bradley Winterton
The death of veteran UK conductor Colin Davis last month has led to many tributes, plus many assessments of his recorded legacy. How to choose from such riches? I used to proclaim the extraordinary beauty of his early version of Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ (TheFULL STORY
Book review: Who Owns the Future?: Making a case against big data
By Janet Maslin
As its title indicates, Jaron Lanier’s new tech manifesto asks, “Who owns the future?” But for many of those who will be captivated by Lanier’s daringly original insights, another question comes first: Who is Jaron Lanier? He is a mega-wizard in futurist circles. He isFULL STORY
Top Five Mandarin Albums
1. Aska Yang (楊宗緯) and First Love (初愛) with 19.84 percent of sales 2. Samuel Tai (邰 正 宵) and Ge Zhe 1 (歌者1) with 11.34% 3. FUN4 and Exit (出口) with 5.48% 4. JJ Lin (林俊傑) and Stories Untold (因你而在) with 3.06% 5. Harlem Yu (庾澄慶) and GuanbudiaodeyueguangFULL STORY
Fast and furious2013-05-13
By Preeti Jha
As night begins to give way to dawn, 40 high-performance cars pull up on an empty Hong Kong back street. While the city sleeps, their revving engines fill the air with a heavy smell of petrol. The drivers huddle together to set the route,FULL STORY
ART: Money mayhem2013-05-12
By Noah Buchan
Looking at Chang Jui-pin’s (張瑞頻) new series of gouache on polyethylene “bucket men” paintings, I was reminded of Oscar Wilde’s dictum: When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. New Taiwan dollars, Japanese yen,FULL STORY
Wine: Beware of “fruit bombs”2013-05-11
By Suzanne Mustacich
Do those New World Cabernets and Zinfandels make your head spin? Fed up with having to stop drinking after just one glass? Plenty of wine lovers around the world will have noticed their favorite tipples are getting stronger, and many of them are unhappy aboutFULL STORY
Restaurant review: Eat Together (饗. 食天堂)2013-05-11
By Enru Lin
Eat Together (饗. 食天堂) is a franchise buffet restaurant that brings together a reasonable number of foods commonly found in Taipei all on one floor. Japanese, Chinese, European and Taiwanese dishes were among those I spotted last weekend when I visited this minor miracle ofFULL STORY
Classical music2013-05-11
By Enru Lin
When she’s not on the concert stage, Hsieh Shih-yun (謝士雲) is a capris and T-shirt kind of violinist. She is ultra practical. In her student days, Hsieh took time to earn a teacher’s license at National Taiwan Normal University before pursuing violin performance. As a parent,FULL STORY
Movie review: Face to Face2013-05-10
By Ho Yi
Wrestling is a curious, if not entirely foreign, form of sport in Taiwan. Few people practice it, and most of us probably derive our notion of the spectacle from wrestling shows on TV that involve a bunch of macho guys wearing flamboyant costumes while slammingFULL STORY
Organic movement2013-05-10
By Diane Baker
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