Scream at Pop Bites
On Friday, July 31st, a new night called Scream launches at Pop Bites in Soho. DJ Asim Fiction plays a range of new electronic…
Soho Hong Kong
The DevilCLOT shop opens!
Last week I stopped by the opening of the new DevilCLOT store in Soho. It’s a temporary boutique, only open for a month and…
DevilCLOT shop – spotted in Soho!
[photopress:Devil_Clot_Soho_Hong_Devilc.jpg,full,pp_image] DevilCLOT is a collaboration between the Japanese brand Devilock and Hong Kong’s CLOT label. The shop is actually a temporary store that opens…
Finding the new Nike art gallery!
[photopress:Metalwing_Stephen_Holding_a.jpg,full,pp_image] Nike has a new exhibition space named 26 Degrees opening on July 27th. The address is 5 U Lam Terrace in Hong Kong’s…
A brief history of Soho, Hong Kong
Yesterday I stopped by my friend Nadia’s new shop, Select 18, in Hong Kong’s Soho neighborhood. As the proprietor of a clothing shop, and…
Joe Clausell at Dragon-i, Uptown Rockers at Yumla
[photopress:JoeCausellatDragon_i.jpg,full,pp_image] Saturday was another busy night and I was feeling a little under the weather. After playing at Volar I still managed to catch…
Umbrella Repair – going, going, almost gone…
The problem: What do you do when you purchase a fancy umbrella, only to have it de-spoke on you in a sudden gust of…
Simon Birch, Six Keyz, & Hong Kong’s hipster art scene
I can’t comment on the entire local art scene, but for the hipster circle I can offer a few insights. Recently people have been…
New in H.K. – more American fast food!
There have been two notable new arrivals from America in the last few months. Krispy Kreme, the infamously tempting doughnut shop, and Burger King…
Chancery Lane Gallery Annex
Before the Nike shop event, I headed out to the far east side of Hong Kong Island to a neighborhood called Chai Wan to…
Victoria Prison decommissioned
In Hong Kong’s Central neighborhood, above the famous nightlife area Lan Kwai Fong and on the fringe of the Soho neighborhood lies Victoria Prison….
Vanishing Dai Pai Dongs
If you’re walking around Hong Kong and you see what looks like an improvised food stall built into a ramshackle little hut, you’ve just…
Faux Graffiti Alley?
I ran into a friend on The Escalator the other day, and he mentioned a project he was working on that was creating an…
Nadia’s exhibition
My good friend Nadia just finished a collection of 100 cards titled – The Diary of Destiny. I guess it’s more like a ‘deck’…
Garbage Picker or Sanitation Provider?
Was on my home from a long night around 3 or 4am. It’s typhoon season here and it started pouring rain. I walked up…
Waiting for egg-tarts…
Here you can see people ‘queing’ (as the British say) at the re-opening of the famous egg-tart store on Lyndhurst Terrace. The lines were…