The big bang
Musicians and artists will send off the Year of the Pig with lots of loud noises as the annual Freak Out Beast turns Shida park into a giant carnival
By Ron Brownlow
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Worth his weight in gold
By Noah Buchan
NT$250 million. That's how much accident insurance promotion company MN Wingman (大國翼星) took out on Canto-pop crooner Eason Chan (陳奕迅) for his one-off concert at Zhongshan Soccer Stadium (中山足球場) tomorrow.
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Cross-cultural festivities set to charm southern Taiwanese
By Ho Yi
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[POP STOP]
Compiled by Noah Buchan
The Year of the Rat is just around the corner and at least one Taiwanese celebrity is acting like a rodent, while the behavior of other celebrities suggests it will be a year of mother issues.
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Top Five Mandarin Albums
BY TAIPEI TIMES STAFF
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Double the fun on the bill at TSO
By Bradley Winterton
Information has reached the Taipei Times that the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (TSO) will present two one-act operas in September under the baton of its new music director designate, Martin Fischer-Dieskau. They'll be two comedies, Wolf-Ferrari's Il Segreto di Susanna (Susanna's Secret) and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi.
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THE VINYL WORD
By Queen Bee
His clean-cut GQ looks and well-mannered deportment may not shout hip-hop, but once he starts spitting out rhymes, it's clear that this charming rapper is the real deal. MC Shaman (玄武), aka Elliot Tsai, first drew attention with his mellow Chinese rap song Man Man Lai (慢慢來, Take It Easy) on MySpace Music. It's a soothing song for those stressed-out about life.
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[RESTAURANT REVIEW] Sankokuighi (三國一)
By Ian Bartholomew
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[RESTAURANT REVIEW] Tripod King (鼎王麻辣鍋)
By Blake Carter
Taipei residents have been heading south for years to experience the cozy "old Sichuan" ambience and salty Dongbei (northeastern China) flavor of Tripod King's (鼎王麻辣鍋) four branches in Taichung. Seventeen years after the first Tripod opened, Taipei finally got a branch of its own in October. Was it worth the wait?
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Early birds get the worms and books
By Ian Bartholomew
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Hong Kong comedy maestro goes head-to-head with Taiwan's slapstick wizard
'CJ7' and 'Kung Fu Dunk' compete for holiday audiences with the humor of comedy kings Stephen Chow and Chu Yen-ping, respectively
By Ho Yi
Two new movies promise to keep Lunar New Year's revelers in stitches. After a three-year wait, Stephen Chow (周星馳) returns to the silver screen with his sci-fi family comedy CJ7 (長江七號). Competing with him for holiday audiences is Taiwan's slapstick comedy whiz Chu Yen-ping (朱延平), who teams up with Jay Chou (周杰倫) and a top-notch production team for Kung Fu Dunk (功夫灌籃), a blockbuster-wannabe that mixes martial arts, sport and romance.
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When music mingles with movies ...
The Berlin Film Festival, which will open next week with Martin Scorsese's 'Shine a Light,' promises to show just how closely film and song are related
By Andrew McCathie
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No love for the romantic comedy
The audacity and charisma that this genre required during Hollywood's classical era has been replaced with pretty faces, little personality and insipid stories that pack no punch
By A.O. SCOTT
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[REEL NEWS]
AGENCIES
Oscar-winning US actor George Clooney, a newly-appointed Messenger of Peace of the UN, attended a briefing on UN peacekeeping missions Thursday, including one on strife-torn Darfur.
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[OTHER RELEASES]
Compiled by Martin Williams
Glory to the Filmmaker!
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Taipei's Top Five
City cinema weekend box office taking (Jan. 26 and Jan. 27)
Source: Group Power Entertainment Corp
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