Family Fun
Are you bored with watching your children's boredom as they play boring video games? Do you send your children emails...
Arts/Entertainment
Casa Vintage
Anyone can walk into a department store and pick a mass-produced item of clothing and probably walk into a party...
Riding the Trade Winds
Welcome to Bali’s largest kite festival! On cue, as if summoned, in early July the trade winds arrive. One day...
Kite Surfing and Stand-up Paddle Fun
Looking for an exciting new sport? Before you go and buy new equipment, take a course at Rip Curl...
Ubud’s Museum Mile for Art Lovers
Neka Art Museum Setting out on a Sunday in the slow season, an unexpectedly ideal day to visit museums, the...
Meet Lawrence Blair
Born during the Blitz, swimming in the Mediterranean when it still had fish in it, schooled in Mexico and France...
Sexy Rio Sidik Jazz Quartet
Rio Sidik is Indonesia’s most famous jazz and fusion musician and singer, well known too on the International music scene....
Meet Fantuzzi
Meet Fantuzzi, the man who believes in changing the world through music. How long have you been bringing your talent...
Uncovering Sanur’s Hidden Treasures
Where to start? Sanur’s restaurants’, hotels’, and galleries’ walls are adorned with work from artists right across Bali, but where...
Hari Saraswati: In Praise of Books
With the islandwide celebration of Dewi Saraswati on August 10th, it’s only appropriate to offer a paean to Bali’s bountiful...
Art & Intellectual Property Rights – Who Owns What?
Although art is essentially useless (you can’t eat or drink it, it provides little shelter and makes bad clothing, and...
Earth Art
The word Earth is synonymous both with the Globe, the third planet in our solar system, and the stuff...
True Gluttons
In Bali the purist embodiment of Greed, one of the most ancient and reviled of the Seven Sins, is found...
Nyepi: Parade of the Demons
Work has already begun on a mysterious five metre tall creature hidden behind a huge tarp with Styrofoam shavings lying...
Anita Scheeres: Independent Bookseller in Bali
Anita Scheeres fell into bookselling. Each time she would visit her family in Sydney, she would lug books back to...
Rumble in the Jungle
The one thing that strikes me when you walk along the sidewalk of anywhere in Bali that sells clothes is...
Stars over Bali
From time immemorial humans have been transfixed by the heavens. The oldest map of the night sky, found in Germany...
The Ancient Puzzles of Borobudur
The Borobudur Temple is considered by many to be a wonder of the ancient world. We all probably have heard...
Cosmic Art
The Sun, Moon, Planets and Stars have served as the muses of artists, musicians, poets and writers since the beginning...
Art in Bali – Future Prospects
According to Naomi Samara, a young Indonesian artist and native of Sanur Beach, Bali, the island is brimming with young,...
Meet Bruce Granquist: Artist, Mapmaker, Writer, Bookseller
For half a decade Bruce Granquist travelled the hills, valleys and back roads of Bali on an old Honda 200cc...