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Finding faith in few words

14/02/2012 : If God is great and benevolent, why does s/he cause pain and calamity to Earth in the form of natural disaster? Those who cannot find answers turn to the probable empirical evidence called science that to some certain extent demystifies natural phenomena.
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14/02/2012 : HP invites interested high-school students to enter the ''HP Smart Magazine Contest'' to vie for scholarships worth more than 200,000 baht and many other prizes.

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Politics meets theatrics
01/02/2012 : Starting tomorrow, H Project Space will be presenting Desert Camp, an installation by New York-based Dennis Balk which continues his exploration of the relationships between politics, ideology and theatrical rhetoric.
ART SCENE
Serindia Gallery
01/02/2012 : OP Garden Charoen Krung Soi 36 Tue-Sun, 11am-8pm Tomorrow-April 15 Call 02-238-6410
REVIEW
Furniture comes alive
01/02/2012 : The planet Earth and her strange inhabitants, a cinematic adventure of a dysfunctional family of apples, and a little girl's terrifying music lesson _ all these emerged from the confines of your standard set of a table and a chair.
Hoot property
01/02/2012 : Conducting interviews at a music festival must be the bane of any sane journalist's existence. Running from one stage to another is hard enough, but when thrown into a pressroom near the stage where it's too loud and stuffy, it can get even more frustrating. That's what happened during our short slot with US electronica act Owl City, aka Adam Young, at the recent Silverlake Music Festival in Pattaya. He was propped up on stage while I was fielding him questions from a chair off stage _ communicating through microphones. It looked like a scene from an Asian arthouse movie where, at any minute, Young might get off his high stage to bite off my head, and then butterflies would rise from the ground to eat my corpse.
Sterling Effort
01/02/2012 : The Silverlake Music Festival took its first baby steps last Saturday, transforming part of a vast vineyard in Chon Buri into a venue for Incubus fans, lovers of live music in the great outdoors and a sprinkling of curious tourists.
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Get in the habit of laughing
01/02/2012 : Who knew that nuns could be so much fun? Bangkok Community Theatre's latest offering, Nunsense, will make sure that you see nuns in a new light and a divine one at that.
Suu Kyi biopic wraps Hua Hin film
31/01/2012 : The first Hua Hin International Film Festival wrapped on Sunday evening with the screening of The Lady, Luc Besson's biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi starring Michelle Yeoh in the eponymous role.
Facing the camera
31/01/2012 : Campaigning for a good cause through his riveting photography has made photojournalist Ed Kashi a household name in the US.
Cultural fest commences this week
31/01/2012 : La Fete raises its curtain in Bangkok on Thursday and runs until March 29 at various venues around the city. As usual, the French-Thai cultural festival brings a variety of events which include performing arts, visual arts and cinema. Opening the festival is a Bangkok Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Jean-Paul Penin at the National Theatre on Thursday at 8pm. Other highlights include performing arts by Company Ieto at Sodsai Pantoomkomol Center; Cinema Picnic by Moonlight, outdoor film screenings at Museum Siam; art exhibitions by Philippe Ramette at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, by Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook at Museum Siam and by Pakitsilp Varamissara at the National Gallery; and a fine selection of films in the French Film Festival at CentralWorld. Selected films will also travel to cinemas in Khon Kaen, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Koh Samui, after the screenings at the main venue in Bangkok. Some shows are free and some need reservations.
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Lost souls
31/01/2012 : Two giants of popular music in the US, bandleader, drummer, disc jockey and talent scout Johnny Otis and singer Etta James, passed away recently, Otis at 90 and James in her eighties. Both were colossal figures in the development of r'n'b and soul music and both crossed over to international fame and, late though it came for James, success.