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Dave Grohl has recalled taking mushrooms at his mum’s Christmas party when he was 15 years old.The Foo Fighters frontman said he then stayed up all night trying and failing to learn a Led Zeppelin song on the guitar.Telling the story to Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Grohl said: “I grew up in a house that was really small and every Christmas night people just knew to come over to the Grohl’s little house.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSingapore-based mini-conglomerate GHY Culture Media made its debut on the local stock exchange on Friday. In early trading its shares traded up by more than 6%.The company was founded and remains headed by screenwriter and producer Guo Jingyu and has significant mainland Chinese connections.

The Velvet Underground for the final instalment in their Hanukkah Sessions series.The Hanukkah Sessions saw Grohl team up with the Foo Fighters producer to cover eight songs by Jewish artists, one for each night of the holiday period.Prior to the pair’s Velvet Underground cover, they took on Drake‘s ‘Hotline Bling’, ‘Sabotage’ by Beastie Boys, Peaches’ ‘Fuck The Pain Away’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’, ‘Mississippi Queen’ by Mountain, Elastica’s ‘Connection’ and ‘Frustrated’ by The

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Gallery: The Crown’s royal property pretenders and the real palaces (Lovemoney)"These centres serve as 'community dining rooms' where people from diverse backgrounds gather and share the experience of dining over breakfast, lunch and dinner," UNESCO said. Celebrity chefs including Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay have effused over favourite hawker centre dishes such as chicken rice.

Lena Waithe is launching a mentorship program to give marginalized storytellers a boost. Waithe’s production banner, Hillman Grad Productions, has unveiled the Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab, a program designed to provide opportunities for marginalized storytellers to connect, grow, and accelerate their careers in television and film, according to today’s announcement.

“I've been wanting to do a menswear line for over a decade,” says Janie Bryant, the Emmy-award winning costume designer behind Mad Men. In collaboration with Inherent Clothier, the custom menswear brand with a focus on fighting mental health stigmas, Bryant released a line of suits on Dec.

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Sherwood has unveiled his next venture, almost two years after he stepped down as President of Disney-ABC TV Group and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks in March 2019, after Disney’s acquisition of key Fox assets was completed.

Vivienne Chow A virtual awards presentation ceremony honoring digital creators from the fast-growing gaming sector in Southeast Asia and a live streamed eSports championship concluded the inaugural edition of SuperGamerFest 2020.

During a barnstorming Investor Day presentation, the Walt Disney Co. said Thursday that its Disney+ streaming service will soon be adding Singapore to its footprint in Asia.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNegotiations are underway concerning a possible merger of the cinema exhibition operations of Golden Village and mm2. The companies say that the deal talks are spurred by the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic.Multi-territory cinemas group Orange Sky Golden Harvest said in a regulatory filing that it had signed a heads-of-agreement with Singapore-listed mm2 Asia, which operates the Cathay Cineplexes circuits in Singapore and Malaysia.

Vivienne Chow An intense weekend of live-streamed esports action, comprising a regional championship, kicked off the inaugural edition of SuperGamerFest 2020. The event is a new addition to this year’s Singapore Media Festival and taps into the region’s fast growing gaming industry.Spanning the first two weekend of the month (Dec.

Naman Ramachandran Cult Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red is deep in post-production on action thriller ‘Arisaka.’ The shoot was temporarily delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic and following COVID-safe production protocols, principal photography was completed in the third quarter of 2020.News of the film was first announced by Variety during the Singapore Media Festival’s Southeast Asian Film Financing Project Market in 2019.Variety has been given exclusive access to the first teaser for

Naman Ramachandran Key practitioners working across Southeast Asia and beyond unpacked the various processes and benefits that go into the creation of short films at the Singapore International Film Festival, part of the overarching Singapore Media Festival.Filmmaker Kan Lume, whose 2012 short “Libertas” won the NETPAC Award at the Tripoli Film Festival, described the process of how he was commissioned and executed projects from the German Embassy in Singapore, Asian Film Archive and National

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIndian drama film “Milestone” (aka “Meel Patthar”) was named the best film at the Silver Screen Awards, the closing event of the Singapore International Film Festival. The festival is a cornerstone of the Singapore Media Festival consumer and industry event.Directed by Ivan Ayr, “Milestone” recounts the foretaste of doom that follows a veteran truck driver when his vehicle passes half a million kilometers and he is asked to train a younger operator.

Vivienne Chow A live interview with an AI influencer and a virtual gathering of top internet personalities from around the world kicked off the inaugural edition of VidCon Now Asia on Thursday.Presented as one of the new additions to the Singapore Media Festival, VidCon Asia is the local, online version of the popular event for digital creators and influencers.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Singapore government is expanding its range of content industry support measures through two new partnerships. One is with Amazon offshoot Audible, the other with KC Global Media.The moves were unveiled on Tuesday Minister for Communications and Information, S Iswaran.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefEmily J. Hoe took over as executive director of the Singapore International Film Festival just as the world was waking up to the coronavirus as a full-on pandemic.