Fridae

There's a hunky new guy spinning at Taboo: DJ Shigeki, a Japanese deejay and music maker previously based in Sydney and now living in Singapore. Fridae interviews him about his life and career.

Mox, recently voted as Singapore's favourite gay bar at the Fridae �-List Awards, will soon be closing its doors, with a garage sale on Thursday 27 and a farewell party on Saturday 29 March 2008. Fridae reminisces with co-owner Toby Hui.

Fridae talks to Sydney photographer/writer/performer William Yang, currently featured in the gay Asian photography exhibition Men Like Me at Melbourne's Midsummer Festival.

The Singapore Lyric Opera presents Verdi's famed opera La Traviata from Jan 25 to 29, 2008 at the Esplanade Theatre. Fridae talks to gay Australian director Stephen Barlow about the work.

The Singapore Lyric Opera presents an evening of classical Christmas music by Prokofiev, Britten and Rutter - the perfect antidote to bad department store carols. Fridae interviews conductor Joshua Tan Kang Ming for more details.

Fridae talks to Leona Lo, a male-to-female transsexual writer and entrepreneur in Singapore. The author of From Leonard to Leona had recently made the news for offering to conduct gender diversity workshops for a club that had asked her to leave.

Fridae interviews Booker Prize-nominated Malaysian writer Tan Twan Eng on his first novel, The Gift of Rain.

Johann S. Lee, author of Singapore's first gay novel, Peculiar Chris, finally publishes his second work. Reviewer Ng Yi-Sheng confesses why he hates and loves the book.

Despite the National Parks Board's official ban on a gay picnic in Singapore, approximately one hundred queer people and allies turn up to relax and share food at the Botanical Gardens.

Singapore lesbian playwright Ovidia Yu talks about her hard-hitting play, Hitting (on) Women, to be staged by Action Theatre, 10-19 August 2007.