The Landmark Mandarin Oriental has a special package for all you Alicia Keys fans who want to keep the songstress’ music near them for a weekend.
The Alicia Keys ‘As I Am’ Hong Kong package will set you back HK$7488 and for that you get:
- 2 tickets to the Alicia Keys concert on July 29th at the AsiaWord-Arena
- 2 nights accomodation
- Daily breakfast for 2
- A copy of her CD “As I Am”
Too rich for your blood? Well, if you frequent Amber, MO Bar or The Oriental Spa and spend a combined HK$5,000 from now till July 25th, you can get a set of 2 complimentary tickets to the concert, too. Reservation hotline and more information here.
No surprise: counting blackjack cards isn’t fun to watch.
If you think the new movie 21 is going to teach you some tricks the next time you are in Macau, save the admission price for the slots.
21 is the story of a bunch of MIT students find a way to count cards playing blackjack with fast math on the brain, and an evil mentor (Kevin Spacey) that gives them all the tricks to play the dealers at the casino’s in Las Vegas. And it’s a true story. But of course since its a Hollywood 2-hour version of the truth, alot of it gets whitewashed over.
Gambling movies are rarely entertaining, so you already have a black mark against it. Kate Bosworth looks great, so you get sucked back in, then Lawrence “Morpheus” Fishburne shows up and you think it might be a good twist ending, but it never quite makes it there. Entertaining if you are sick of the superheroes and the big special effect movies, but easily something you’d catch on NowTV in a few months on a night when you’re recovering from a hangover.
21 opens in Hong Kong on Thursday. Order tickets online here. Trailer below:
The choice of Hong Kong as the venue for the new art fair was no accident. The city is the world’s third-largest art market in terms of auction sales, after New York and London. “Hong Kong is a perfect place to host an event such as this,” said Fair Director Magnus Renfrew. He said the city’s infrastructure and its proximity to Taiwan and the Chinese mainland, home to some of the region’s biggest collectors of contemporary art, make it Asia’s ideal arts hub. Aside from its international reputation as an established business centre, Hong Kong enjoys another trump card over Shanghai and other major Asian cultural cities: it has no tax on the import or export of art, unlike the Chinese mainland, which imposes a punitive 34 per cent tax on artwork.
Art HK 08 enlisted 102 contemporary and modern art galleries, showcasing the work of 850 artists from more than 20 countries. Art by Warhol, Picasso and Francis Bacon, as well as such established mainland artists as Zhang Xiaogang and Feng Zhengjie, were featured alongside the work of emerging artists. More than US$65 million worth of art was on display, including Bacon’s Man at a Washbasin, priced at about US$35 million, and Warhol’s Avanti Cars, valued at US$3.7 million. Four galleries, including Hong Kong’s Grotto Fine Art, reported selling out their displays.
Interesting to know that Hong Kong is the 3rd biggest city in the world for art buyers behind New York and London and the organizers have already tapped May 13-17, 2009 for the next one.
This is it, Hong Kong! Carrie and Co. return and we have picked a winner.
As you all well know, the Sex and the City movie opens today across Hong Kong, so skip out of the office early and catch a showing. Thanks to all who entered our contest, and thanks to Carat Emporium for supplying us with the tickets for the screening tonight.
The winner who has been randomly drawn from all the entries who will be at the Carat cocktail reception hanging out with other Hong Kong fashionista’s and jewelry mavens at the showing tonight is Ling from Mid-Levels. Have fun, and take some photos of the event so you can share with our readers.
If the streets seemed unusually devoid of women, that’s because they were likely lining up for “Sex,” the big-screen adaptation of the popular television series about the romantic and fashion dilemmas confronted by four Manhattanites.
Coming to theaters four years after they ended their six-season run on HBO, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her gal pals unleashed a frenzy among the show’s fans, who organized large gatherings to catch up with their heroines’ exploits.
Warner Bros. said women comprised 85 percent of the audience on Friday night.
“Women are great planners and they definitely wanted a girls’ night out,” said Dan Fellman, president of distribution at Warner Bros. He added that some women bought out an entire theater in Los Angeles’ Century City district for all their friends.
But anecdotal evidence indicated that Saturday’s screenings played more like date movies, with patient husbands and boyfriends perhaps making up a quarter of the crowd, he said.
And with the success of the movie, it didn’t take HBO long to announce a NEW series starring Kim Cattrall. Not based on her Samantha Jones character, but it sounds similar enough to attract a few SATC fans over. It’s called Sensitive Skin based on a UK-created series. Read more here.
On a musical note, and if you can’t wait till Thursday, HMV is having a special promotion for the soundtrack, if you purchase it now for HK$99 you can get 4 postcards from the movie. The track list is as follows:
Labels Or Love – Fergie
All Dressed In Love – Jennifer Hudson
Mercy – Duffy
The Look Of Love [Madison Park VS Lenny B Remix] – Nina Simone
New York Girls – Morningwood
All This Beauty – The Weepies
I Like The Way – Kaskade
It’s Amazing – Jem
How Deep Is Your Love – The Bird & The Bee
The Heart Of The Matter – India.Arie
Auld Lang Syne – Mairi Campbell & Dave Francis
Kissing – Bliss
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart – Al Green featuring Joss Stone
Walk This Way – Run D.M.C. featuring Steve Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith
Sex And The City Movie Theme – Pfeifer Broz. Orchestra
Also don’t forget that you can win tickets to see an exclusive VIP screening of Sex and the City in Hong Kong by entering our contest in conjunction with Carat Emporium.
Carat Emporium & Butterboom sex up Hong Kong. Carat Emporium is bringing a bit of NYC glamour to Hong Kong with an exclusive viewing of the most anticipated movie of the Summer: Sex and the City!
1 lucky Butterboom reader and guest will be invited to join in on the big screen adventures of Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha in our newest lucky draw contest. You know we wouldn’t forget our readers with a movie like this!
The private screening is on Thursday, June 5th at the Palace IFC with a fancy cocktail reception before the showing, and its extremely easy for you to enter.
All you have to do is tell us who your favorite Sex and the City character is and why!
Tickets for the new Alicia Keys concert on July 29th show at the Asia World Expo are on sale now. Seats are $380/$680/$980 and you can get them here at HKTicketing.
This summer, multi-platinum, nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys will be back in Hong Kong to give her live concert here. Alicia Keys As I Am Hong Kong 2008 will be held at the AsiaWorld-Arena on Tuesday, 29 July 2008.
Expect a truly fascinating, flawless performance where Alicia’s powerful voice, and amazing band, takes the audience through the songs from new album As I Am as well as favourite tunes and monster hits from the previous releases, such as “Fallinâ€, “If I Ain’t Got Youâ€, “You Don’t Know My Name†“Diary†“A Woman’s Worthâ€.
Watch her performance of “No One” live on Japan TV:
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