The Works

Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry where the works are judged by members of the audience. It's different from much traditional poetry in that the poems are written to be performed, rather than read off the page. Modern slam poetry originated i...

With land scarce in Hong Kong, and property fetching some of the most exorbitant prices in the world. There tends to be an emphasis on maximising space and maximising profit here. That doesn't leave much room for considering the finer points of archite...

Local musical group SIU2 produces music that's challenging and innovative, but that may combine such disaparate elements as bossa nova and Chinese instruments. They play two pieces for us tonight.

The artist Subodh Gupta was born in Khagaul, and is now based in New Delhi. He trained as a painter, but has since gone on to experiment with a variety of media. Now world-renowned, he's best known for incorporating everyday objects that are found thro...

The Hulahoop gallery is closing soon. It's final exhibition is called "The Lustfully Yours Porno Exhibition"

Charlie Kaufman wrote "Being John Malkovich", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Adaptation". "Synecdoche, New York" is his first film as a director. If you saw the films based on his earlier screenplays you'll know that Kaufman excels at tak...

A sandy beach in the middle of Central is not an everyday sight. Even less so when it is in a former Police Married Quarters that's been abandoned for over a decade. It's part of an event called Detour 2009. From last week, members of the public have b...

This coming Saturday, three talented young female players from the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra are performing interpretations of Chinese classics. The show' called, not too surprisingly, "Three in Concert", and with us in the studio are two of those th...

On Friday evening, Hong Kong concert-goers were able to experience a multimedia adventure across time, space, and cultures.The occasion was a performance of Tan Dun's "Map Concerto" by the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra with Lawrence Renes conducting...

Nora Ephron's "Julie and Julia" is based on the stories of two women. One is Julie Powell, a 30-year-old woman in Queens, New York, who created a blog about cooking 524 recipes in a year. The other woman is Julia Child, who collected those recipes in h...