RESORTS World Sentosa (RWS) may have its rollercoasters and magic kingdoms but when the self-styled shrine to Las Vegas glamour - Marina Bay Sands (MBS) - opens later next month (April 27), the entertainment there is going to be pumped up to a totally different level.

GIVEN Singapore's squeaky-clean - to the point of being sterile - image, most people would not expect to see graffiti here, much less graffiti art.

WOMEN often wonder - what would men be without them? Then again, what would women be without men?

FOR years, Singaporean choreographers have grappled with the question of identity and how it is situated within the concept of what it means to be Asian. These issues have been compounded by three young choreographers from T.H.E Contemporary Dance Company.

WITH The Hurt Locker still basking in the warm afterglow of Oscar night glory, a new film about the war in Iraq is bound to raise certain expectations - especially one starring Matt Damon and directed by Paul Greengrass, his fellow Bourne alumnus and expert maker of taut action flicks.

IT'S only March, and chances are that the rest of the cinematic year will yield something worse than Cop Out, a criminally bad buddy-comedy with genre roots that can be traced back to Laurel and Hardy - but that would take some doing.

THE most interesting thing about the French movie LOL - an insipid vehicle starring Sophie Marceau - is the hairstyles of the teenage male characters. Mon dieu, is this what chic Parisian young men are now sporting?

JAZZ singer Melody Gardot might not seem like she has a great deal in common with Norwegian indie pop duo Kings Of Convenience, but both of them share a passion for musical improvisation.

IT isn't fashionable to like Kitaro's music any more than it's cool to be a fan of saxophonist Kenny G or pop group Air Supply.

ONE look at the back cover of Malaysian violinist Dennis Lau's debut album, Diversify, and you might assume that he's trying to sell sex appeal, but it turns out that it was his stylist's idea.

THIS preview of World Gourmet Summit Singapore 2010 is a month earlier than usual so that readers are given sufficiently early notice of forthcoming wine events to enable them to book early - right away in fact so as to avoid missing out.

GOOD evening, ladies and gentlemen, aunties and uncles. The Oscars may be over, but here in Singapore, the show has only just begun.

AS A kid, Efren Penaflorida was bullied on the streets of Cavite, where he grew up next to a cemetery and a garbage dump. Getting roughed up by gang members in a Filipino inner-city slum is quite common; what's uncommon was Penaflorida's response.

THERE are few games that truly deserve Mature ratings to keep them out of the hands of children. Mass Effect certainly isn't one of them. But parents should keep Dante's Inferno far away from anyone under 16.