Daring new art exhibit stomps into Causeway Bay.

Wow! We saw this exhibition the other day at Times Square in Causeway Bay and applaud the management for going such an avant garde artist to display in light of the Olympic games - we were really expecting a bunch of lame horse art, but kudos to the TS people to exhibit the New Disco-bolus, a giant rusted Mao-jacket and a huge red dinosaur in a cage - and that’s just in the piazza. The exhibition is on until August 19th.

And if you act fast, you can take a piece of this art home with you in the form of these cool limited edition “New Disco-bolus” graphic T-shirts! To get one all you have to do is donate HK$40 or above to the Community Chest, you can get one T-shirt for free. First come first served, available while stock lasts.

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Here is the rundown for Hong Kong’s big fashion extravaganza.

It has returned! Get ready for the MasterCard Luxury Week Hong Kong 2008, to be held August 26-30 at The Four Seasons Hotel in Central, Hong Kong.

MasterCard Fashion Ambassador Denise Keller added some extra glamour to the media launch, with the help of local super models Lisa S and Ana R. providing a sneak peek at the Fall/Winter 2008 collections that will be featured in the some of the participants’ runway shows of including BCBGMAXARIA, Jean Paul Gaultier, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Marc Jacobs and Donna Karen.

The schedule includes 14 runway shows over five days with state-of-the-art custom built venue featuring a reception/hospitality area and collection show room boasts a 26-metre long runway and a capacity of 420 seats for each show.

This is the big show for Hong Kong and we’ve planned to cover it live this year so stay tuned to Butterboom as we bring you photos, videos and live-blogging from the show floor later in August. Enjoy a slideshow of the press event that was held yesterday at The Four Seasons:

New spy comedy opens in Hong Kong on August 7.

Get Smart, the new Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway movie, finally makes it to Hong Kong on August 8th.

Some of you may remember the original TV series with Don Adams/Agent 86 and Barbara Feldon/Agent 99 that poked fun at the super-spy genre of the 1960’s. Definitely one of our favorite shows when we were kids - hey he had a mobile phone in his shoe - is now back starring the ‘40-Year Old Virgin’ and boss of ‘The Office’ in the role as Maxwell Smart and of course you all know the lovely Ms. Hathaway from ‘The Devil  Wears Prada’ and as the face of Lancome.

See the trailer below, and keep an eye out for more goodies from Warner Bros. Hong Kong that we will be posting as we work towards its opening in 4 weeks time:

Ready or not, like it or not, here it comes.

Time sure flies by, it seemed like only last week the Torch Relay was happening, and now the official countdown clock tells us the Beijing 2008 Olympics is only 30 days away.

Butterboom has questions: Will the streets be rife with tourists? How come we haven’t seen any crazy Olympics stuff in the city and only at the Hong Kong Airport? Will there be more security in public spaces? Will tourists be ripped off on their shopping? We’ll be following how this event affects the Hong Kong shopping scene as we head towards what will probably be a more crazy time than the 1997 handover for the people of our fair city!

In the meantime, links are here:
The Official Beijing 2008 Site
The Hong Kong Tourism Board
Hong Kong International Airport

Sting returns for a classical concert at the Jockey Club.

After visiting Macau last December with The Police, Sting returns this December to Hong Kong for a very special show at the Jockey Club Auditorium that seats only 1,000.

This tour is in support of the critically-acclaimed album, Songs from the Labyrinth – a personal tribute to late 16th-century Elizabethan composer, John Dowland - Sting will embark on a tour of Australia and Asia, joined by esteemed lutenist, Edin Karamazov.

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Here it is, what you’ll be spending on July 11th in Hong Kong!

UPDATE 2: AT&T has announced their prices in the US for the non-contract iPhones. 8GB model is US$599 (approx. HK$4800) and 16GB is US$699 (approx. HK$5600) respectively.

UPDATE 1: Hutchinson has released their official package information at their website here.

The Hutchinson 3G iPhone deal has just spread out on the web in Hong Kong, so upon further details from 3’s official channels, we’ll present you with the deal as we know it right now in the handy grid below on their contract deal which will span 24 months:

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