Amanda Watson

'My teacher was very like the one in Billy Elliot'

11 Feb 2006

My first memory of school in Yorkshire is of walking out of the place. My friend had decided there was a witch in our outside toilets and we got so scared we left at lunchtime and walked half a...

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Principal said: 'If you smoke . . . do it like ladies'

8 Oct 2005

Vicki Ooi, Founder and director of the Shakespeare4All charity

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Pics of the week

16 Feb 2001

We see some pretty odd press releases at 24/7, but the one for Linda Dennis' show Beautiful World is a challenge.

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Women to the fore

16 Feb 2001

Last year, the work of scores of world-class mainland contemporary artists went on display in the massive Inside Out exhibition at Hong Kong's Museum of Art. What was in short supply, in this...

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Zhang Yibo

3 Nov 2000

Exhibition: J Gallery, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 3 Connaught Road, Central. 10am-10pm Mon-Sat; 11am-7pm Sun and public holidays. Tel: 2369 9062. Until Nov 14.

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Topless

21 Oct 2000

Ah, how times change. One minute you're on a roll, singing the blues, your husband panting around after you. The next thing you know sex goes out the door, the divorce lawyers play you...

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Opinion

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

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Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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The Natural Landscape

The Rotunda, One Exchange Square, Central. 8am-8pm daily. Tel: 9487 0118. Oct 10-23 (with a free demonstration of watercolour painting by the artist, Oct 14, 2.30pm)

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The Ambivalence -life-world-pictures

Exhibition: Wurth Gallery, Goethe-Institut, Arts Centre. 10am-8pm Mon-Fri; 2pm-6pm Sat. Tel: 2802 0088. Aug 14-30. Meet the artist Aug 12, 4pm-6pm.

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Summer's cool

'We knew immediately what we wanted to do with the $2 million - no messing about here, I can tell you,' says Lindsey McAlister, Youth Arts Festival founder and director.

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Voila Voila

Voila Voila, Ea Sola, City Hall Concert Hall, March 6 Voila Voila, for all its sparse audience and ghastly venue, turned out to be a completely surreal event.

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Musicians may sue after Philharmonic cuts pay and perks

Hong Kong Philharmonic musicians are considering legal action after claiming they were forced into signing substantially altered contracts.

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Spirit Of The Dance

Spirit Of The Dance APA Lyric Theatre February 7 A voice intoned 'Danny Boy', coloured mist swirled across the stage, an evening of complete drivel had begun. Welcome to the critic-proof show:...

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