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Director Raymond Yip dishes up a tested recipe that nourishes but with extra ingredients of Hong Kong’s property development and the city’s crumbling architectural heritage

Film review: Cook Up a Storm – Nicholas Tse heads culinary comedy

Director Raymond Yip dishes up a tested recipe that nourishes but with extra ingredients of Hong Kong’s property development and the city’s crumbling architectural heritage

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A still from Liu Jian’s gritty Have A Nice Day, which screens at this year’s Berlin film festival. Photo: Berlin International Film Festival

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Dalena Benavente’s memoir-cum-cookbook describes, with lots of Southern charm, how she saw off the bullies in her Tennessee hometown

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An Asian girl remembers growing up in a very white US town

10 Feb 2017 - 11:45am

Donald Trump impersonator Dennis Alan and a Kim Jong-un impersonator who just wants to be called Howard act up on Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Pictures: Miguel Candela

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Five impersonators of political leaders, from Trump to Mao, tell all

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan return for the erotic film sequel Fifty Shades Darker (category: III), directed by James Foley.

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Film review: Fifty Shades Darker – E.L. James sequel just as cold

9 Feb 2017 - 1:09pm

Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 2.

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Top five films to watch in Hong Kong this week: February 9-15

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Aretha Franklin to retire after one more album

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Iconic singer Aretha Franklin to retire after one more album

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Subay, a 20-something Hongkonger, has been visiting Japan for several years to learn shibari – the art of using ropes to restrain and bind – from masters of the craft. She says the practice isn’t necessarily about sex, but about trust, humility – and shame

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In pictures: Japanese art of rope bondage as practised in Hong Kong

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Foley returns to the big screen after 10 years directing for TV, with the sequel that could prove to be even bigger than Fifty Shades of Grey

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Director James Foley talks S&M and shooting Fifty Shades Darker

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Cookieboy founder Ryan Zimmer at his workshop in Aberdeen. Pictures: May Tse

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Irene Rich (left) and May McAvoy in Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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Director Raymond Yip dishes up a tested recipe that nourishes but with extra ingredients of Hong Kong’s property development and the city’s crumbling architectural heritage

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Hot air balloons take tourists on a sunrise tour over Bagan’s ancient temples. Pictures: AFP; Jamie Carter

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1 Feb 2017 - 12:40pm

An American heads to Taiwan – a must-visit for any adventurous foodie – in search of the holy grail of Taiwanese eating

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A foodie’s stinky tofu tutorial in Taiwan

3 Feb 2017 - 1:43pm 2

Joshua Wong in a still from the documentary Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower. Photo: courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Film & TV

Joshua Wong on human rights, the CIA, and his Sundance winner

1 Feb 2017 - 5:40pm 28

Lunar New Year lai see packets from Fashion Walk. Photos: Antony Dickson

Culture

Five of our favourite lai see envelope designs this year

25 Jan 2017 - 8:02am

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling shine in La La Land (category IIA), directed by Damien Chazelle.

Film & TV

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25 Jan 2017 - 12:08pm

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A still from Tomb Raider 2013.

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Final Fantasy publisher working on a Marvel game

Square Enix sets its sights on The Avengers as part of a multi-year licence to develop video games based on the giant comics company’s superhero roster

10 Feb 2017 - 5:27pm

The first major hybrid console-and-hand-held game device, the Nintendo Switch, goes on sale March 3.

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Nintendo promises two to three smartphone games a year

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Suhanya Raffel, head of M+, says she will not allow interference with the work of its curators when the museum of visual culture opens in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District in 2019. Photo: Jonathan Wong

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Hong Kong’s M+ museum head vows to fight off political interference

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Play a freshly recruited MI7 agent searching for spies in Mainlining

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Arts & Entertainment

The power of Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, Hong Kong Arts Festival highlight

8 Feb, 5:49pm

Dita Von Teese has five different giant martini and champagne glasses in which she performs her burlesque act.

Arts & Entertainment

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese achieves a greatness of her own

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A Normal Lost Phone throws you into the middle of someone else’s life as you navigate their texts and apps.

Arts & Entertainment

A Normal Lost Phone – a teen’s mobile reveals a mysterious story

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Donald Trump impersonator Dennis Alan and a Kim Jong-un impersonator who just wants to be called Howard act up on Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront. Pictures: Miguel Candela

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan return for the erotic film sequel Fifty Shades Darker (category: III), directed by James Foley.

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Berlin film fest gets into swing with Django Reinhardt biopic

9 Feb 2017 - 5:45pm

From haunted-flat bargains to nude hikers, daredevil Russian model to Hong Kong’s best local snacks: we round up some of our favourite lifestyle stories of the year, and the ones you liked most

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Property, sex, nudity, the MTR - your top 10 stories of 2016, and ours

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Chance the Rapper made music history with seven Grammy nominations for a stream-only release. Photo: AFP

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10 Feb 2017 - 5:27pm

Aretha Franklin to retire after one more album

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Iconic singer Aretha Franklin to retire after one more album

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Hong Kong talent Da Silva shows off his Brit rock chops with this debut release from his new quartet, Still Minds

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Adrian Da Silva’s Still Minds won’t disappoint Audiotraffic fans

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Dalena Benavente’s memoir-cum-cookbook describes, with lots of Southern charm, how she saw off the bullies in her Tennessee hometown

Books

An Asian girl remembers growing up in a very white US town

10 Feb 2017 - 11:45am

Ira Levin’s satanic bestseller kicked off a horror boom, but this anniversary audiobook is a bit let down by inconsistent accents

Books

Rosemary’s Baby anniversary audiobook suffers from dodgy accents

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If Japan needed a Lewis Carroll, Kawakami would be it, with her bewitching stories

Books

Hiromi Kawakami leads us down rabbit holes

9 Feb 2017 - 6:00am

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Dining experience ‘An Evening of Meat’ comes to Hong Kong

10 Feb 2017 - 5:02pm

Side-lace high-polish shoes by Normal Vilalta.

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Must-have shoes by Barcelona-based Norman Vilalta

10 Feb 2017 - 4:00pm

The heated indoor pool of the Meixi Lake Hotel in Changsha.

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