Return to the Granite Island
On Sunday, Prescott and I went with a group of Singapore American School science teachers and a handful of students for an educational morning visit to Pulau Ubin, a small […]
Monthly Archives: August 2018
When the Sun Goes Down
Singapore has multiple nighttime light festivals — i Light Marina Bay and Light to Night are two of the bigger ones — but the Singapore Night Festival is the largest […]
Beach Beasties
Everett, Anna, Prescott and I went to an exhibit at the ArtScience Museum called Wind Walkers: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests. I’m not sure I can describe how strange and delightful this […]
The Last Kampong Standing
Last weekend, Prescott and I visited Lorong Buangkok, the only remaining kampong (village) on the main island of Singapore. The cab dropped us off at 7 Lorong Buangkok, a short […]
Collecting a Collection
The National Gallery Singapore is hosting its last weekend of an exhibit called (Re)Collect, which is designed as a retrospective on the museum’s founding and how its collection has changed over […]
We’re 53!
Singapore turned 53 years young on Thursday, marking its 1965 expulsion from Malaysia (with whom it had had a brief and stormy marriage) and subsequent declaration of independence. Singaporeans love […]
Crooks and Kickbacks
We visited Singapore’s museum of corruption last week. Yes, Singapore has a museum of corruption, as do Thailand and the Ukraine (I’ve also read that they have one that will […]
Singing for the Gods
On our way to the wet market at Beauty World last week, Prescott and I stumbled upon yet another mysterious giant tent in the middle of a field. My querying […]
Towers of Glory
If you ever have the chance to go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on The Mall in Washington, DC, I would highly recommend it. The Smithsonian chooses anywhere from one […]
Wet, Wet, Wet
If you’re ever in Hamden, Connecticut, and the temperature starts rising, you might wonder why there’s so much water nearby and nowhere to swim. You can’t swim in Lake Whitney […]
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