The four-day tomb sweeping weekend kicks off tomorrow, and while the more dutiful of us will be sweeping graves and offering fruits to the dearly departed, others will be heading down to Kenting to celebrate life by partying nonstop at the three-day Spring Break on the Beach taking place at Kenting Chateau Beach Resort.
“There is really something magical about Kenting on the first weekend of April,” party organizer and DJ Marcus Aurelius tells the Taipei Times. “Whether it’s getting out of rainy Taipei or seeing friends that you haven’t seen in a while, it’s always a blast.”
Aurelius, who has been involved with Spring Break on the Beach for the last five years, says that it’s gone from a pool party with 500 people to a beach party with over 18,000 people attending in three days.
Photo courtesy of Kyroman
“We start the days off with Latin and reggae music and when the sun goes down, the music gets crazier,” Aurelius says.
More international DJs have been headlining each year, and this year, DJ Kyroman (real name Andrew Moore) will dress up as an eight-foot tall transformer and shoot lasers and smoke from his transformer suit while spinning EDM tunes.
Another event that Aurelius is looking forward to is the bikini competition.
Photo courtesy of Danny Chu
“Each night, 10 or so men and women wearing bikinis get about 30 seconds to shake what their mamas gave them and get a chance to win NT$10,000.”
You heard it. Men. In bikinis. Shaking their asses.
Aurelius says that they will try to keep it “PG 13-ish” so it doesn’t get “too wild.”
As for those with safety and noise concerns, he adds security guards will be “working tirelessly” to make sure that the party doesn’t get too crazy or dangerous.
■ 2017 Spring Break on the Beach (2017夏都春宴) is tomorrow through Monday from 3pm to midnight at the Kenting Chateau Beach Resort (墾丁夏都沙灘酒店), 451, Kenting Rd, Hengchun Township, Pingtung County (屏東縣恆春鎮墾丁路451號)
■ For more information including ticket prices, visit: www.facebook.com/events/1798482887071546
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Approaching her mid-30s, Xiong Yidan reckons that most of her friends are on to their second or even third babies. But Xiong has more than a dozen. There is Lucky, the street dog from Bangkok who jumped into a taxi with her and never left. There is Sophie and Ben, sibling geese, who honk from morning to night. Boop and Pan, both goats, are romantically involved. Dumpling the hedgehog enjoys a belly rub from time to time. The list goes on. Xiong nurtures her brood from her 8,000 square meter farm in Chiang Dao, a mountainous district in northern Thailand’s
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist