Cinema Paradiso David Smithson looks at the birth of the Cannes Film Festival and Bali’s place in the history of celluloid. There aren’t many things we can thank Mussolini for – but if it wasn’t for Il Duce we’d be stuck with the Oscars, and Brigitte Bardot would never have been tempted to dip her [...]
Stephanie Cornfield Stephanie Cornfield has shot some of the world’s biggest stars. She talks to Salvador Bali about access, adrenalin and fortuitous encounters. Stephanie, click away… I’m Stephanie Cornfield, I was born in Paris, but travelled frequently to America. I have dual citizenship – French and American, but with mixed origin, French-Italian on my mother’s [...]
Jazzy Jeff Lou Nietunz Talks With Grammy-Winning Hip Hop Legend Jeffrey A. Townes. Jeff, your first time to Bali – any first impressions? Well, you know, very beautiful. We just got in earlier and the plane touched down just as the sun was coming down and so, one of the best sunsets I’ve ever seen, [...]
Edge of Glory Katie Truman totters on the edge at Bali’s newest luxe playground, Uluwatu. Uluwatu translates as ‘head’ and ‘rock,’ and along the south-west coast of the Bukit, that’s pretty much what you’ll find: a wild natural beauty of rugged limestone cliffs, rolling waves and dazzling cliff-top vistas of a never-ending Indian Ocean (next [...]
Earth Calling Bowie David Bowie owes me three dollars, writes Sarah Douglas. CELEBRITY sightings are so common in New York that the natives have engineered a convincingly pseudo-cool façade for such encounters. Naturally there are some that excite more than others. It’s good if they are actually doing something – an underground show, falling on [...]
Northern Lights The traditional hill tribes of Vietnam – a richly diverse population of different beliefs and customs – defy the challenges of homogenous cliche. Text: Joe Yogerst. Photography: D.Hump. IT was one of the strangest things I have come across anywhere on the planet, hundreds of people arrayed along a muddy river searching for [...]
Shoe Inn Mike Pohorly visits French fine dining restaurant Tapping Shoes for a sensational bit of bird at Potato Head. It could be said that current taboos around food are like Victorian taboos around sex – both are ridiculous, yet potentially delectable when overcome. It was with this alluring, albeit slightly askew, anticipation of the [...]
Less Is More Daniel and Eva Oikari are Swedish-Finnish fans of all things Japanese. And it shows in their shop – Studio Sumo. Daniel and Eva, the shop is open… I’m Eva Oikari, from Sweden, 26-years-old. I first came here when I was 19 during a year off after high school. I spent two nights [...]
All I Can Mike Pohorly talks to Canadian filmmaker David Mossop about the genre-bending ski movie All.I.Can, currently the top downloaded documentary on iTunes. David, Bali is home to surfers and surf filmmakers, what are your thoughts on the relationship between surfing on water and boarding and skiing on snow? All board sports are intrinsically [...]
Dr Cocktail Mixologist Dee Cee – pints are for pansies, leave your tonic water in the hotel minibar. Cheers. Set ‘em up Dave. My nick name is Dee Cee, I’ve been called that since I was six years old Washington? No, more along the lines of AC/DC! Yeah, so my name is David Cade, 35, [...]
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