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Backstreet Boys DNA World Tour Live in Macau – 19 October, 2019

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The Backstreet Boys returned after four years to Macau’s Cotai Arena on the 19th October, 2019 with their DNA World Tour – a concert packed full of hits that were thoroughly enjoyed by a sold-out crowd.

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Setlist:

I Wanna Be With You
The Call
Don’t Want You Back
New Love
Get Down (You’re The One For Me)
Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
Incomplete
Undone
More Than That
Chances
Shape Of My Heart / Drowning
Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)
As Long As You Love Me
No Place
Breathe
Don’t Want To Lose You Now
I’ll Never Break Your Heart
All I Have To Give
Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)
We’ve Got It Goin On
It’s Gotta Be You
That’s The Way I Like It
Get Another Boyfriend
The One
I Want It That Way
Encore
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
Larger Than Life

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Backstreet Boys – DNA World Tour
Date: 8pm, 19 October, 2019
Venue: Cotai Arena
Tickets: $2,488, $1,488, $1,088, $988, $888, $688

Photos: Live Nation HK / Kennevia Photography

Great Food Hall ReOpens to Intoxicate Your Taste Buds

The Cheese room is open again! After an extensive cosmetic makeover, Great Food Hall in the basement of Pacific Place has reopened. The new upmarket concrete with hints of bronze design fits with Pacific Place’s attempt to position itself a premium location, despite the resultant drop in foot traffic.

The renovated store features a lot more ready to eat options, there’s salads, cooked meats, sushi, Korean etc all with portion sizes and prices surprisingly competitive compared to other options. You can also preorder your salad (sadly not any of the other lunch options, maybe that’ll come in the future) on the new Great-to-Go app that hopefully will make getting lunch a quicker and less stressful experience.

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Thankfully the cheese room remains, stocked full of tasty fromage from across the globe including France’s Mons Comte and Italy’s Artigiana. There’s sustainable Italian caviar from Calvisius at the ‘Luxury’ counter. As well as a range of fresh smoked salmon from H Forman & Son, the UK oldest salmon curlers. Meat lovers will find the beef, lamb and pork from across the globe including  US Brandt Beef from California,  Tasmanian Cape Grim Beef and English Yellow Longhorn from The Ginger Pig. This wide selection offers you the chance to buy the same cut from different producers, cook them together and compare the flavours and textures. All are delicious – but also quite unique.

At a US Beef organised meat tasting in the old Great, an artisan butcher from California offered this advice on buying meat – and it’s worth repeating again. “Decide how you are going to cook your meat first, then ask your butcher which cuts are best suited for that cooking method.” Great also still offers a dry-aging and a cooked to order service.

Also along the back wall next to the meat counters, Cosro Italia offers freshly made pasta, pizza and ready to eat meals. For vegetarians, there’s a wide range of salads and many products on the shelves. While Tai Pan Pies offers sweet and savoury options.

Triple O’s remains and there’s a new coffee counter One Shot offering freshly made coffees. Sadly while there’s lots of tea on the shelves we didn’t find a nice cup to ‘lai cha’ to enjoy with our lunch.

The remodelled store looks a lot ‘fancier’, but also feels as though it’s more expensive to shop there. Take a look, there’s a lot to intoxicate and excite your taste buds.

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Shawn Mendes – The Tour @ Cotai Arena, Macau – 13 October, 2019

Shawn Mendes’ The Tour hit Macau’s Cotai Arena on the 13 October where a packed audience enjoyed a twenty song set.

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Shawn Mendes – The Tour
Date: 7pm, 13 October, 2019
Venue: Cotai Arena
Tickets: $1,280, $880, $680, $480 from Cotai Ticketing

Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 12 October, 2019

Lam Pours Fuel on the Fire

The Hong Kong government’s bypassing of Legco to unilaterally introduce a ‘mask law’ is an insult to all HongKongers and a violation of our rights under both the Basic Law and Hong Kong law.

Carrie Lam has ignored millions of HongKongers marching peacefully, she has ignored the input of the people invited to attend the community discussions that she instigated.

Instead of listening to the people she claimed to represent when elected, and looking to attempt to defuse the volatile situation she created with the Extradition Law, Lam has instead trampled over the rights and freedoms of all HongKongers.

There was no violence or masks at the original protests against the  extradition law. 

The violence was instigated and initiated by the HK Police who actively and deliberately choose to use excessive force to disperse peaceful protestors and who allowed triads to attack the public.

Masks arrived because of the police’s excessive, indiscriminate and illegal use of tear gas and pepper spray. 

The ‘mask law’ does not affect those Lam labels as ‘violent’ protestors, the penalties for ‘unlawful assembly’ far exceed those of the ‘mask law’. 

The newly instigated law looks to intimidate and shutdown the peaceful protestors who are freely expressing their opinions as enshrined in the Basic Law and allowed under HK Law.

It also appears to be worded to suppress and interfere with the Freedom of the Press and the media’s ability to cover the protests and the excessive violence of the HK Police against protestors and members of the public. It is after all hard to film and report when you have a faceful of tear gas and/or pepper spray.

The protestors violence directly stems from the police’s own actions.

The damage to the MTR stems from it’s own injunction turning passengers into criminals and from picking sides rather than remaining neutral and simply moving people around.

The only way ‘healing’ and peace can come is from the government and the new ‘mask law’ shows Lam has no interest in resolving the violent situation she created. Beijing only understands force, subjugation and repression of freedoms.

Lam will go down in history as woman who destroyed Hong Kong, we can only hope that the blood on her hands gives her nightmares for the eternity.

Women’s Rugby Fixtures – 5 October, 2019

Women’s Rugby Results – 28 September, 2019

Premiership

Valley Black 55-0 Kowloon
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 16:30

CWB Phoenix 10-22 Gai Wu Falcons 
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 16:30

HKFC Ice 37-0 Tai Po Dragons
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 18:00

HK Scottish Kukris 5-58 USRC Tigers 
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00

National League 1

USRC Tigers 10-10 Gai Wu Fawkes
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 13:30

HK Scottish Kelpies 0-27 Tin Shui Wai Pandas  
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 15:00

HKFC Ice 20-19 Sandy Bay Storm
@ HK Football Club, Kick-off: 16:30

City Sparkles 10-33 Revolution SRC
@ KG V, Kick-off: 18:00

Kowloon 0-44 Valley Red
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00

National League 2

Gai Wu Hawks 20-20 City Twinkles  
@ KG V, Kick-off: 16:30

Tai Po Dragons 57-5 University 
@ Tai Hang Tung, Kick-off: 16:30

CWB Lammergeier 40-0 Police Sirens 
@ tbc, Kick-off: 18:00

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LMF Announce 20 Year Anniversary Festival

Hong Kong’s rap, metal, hip hop ‘super group” LMF will host a 20 year anniversary festival on the 28-29 December featuring Matt Force, Dough Boy, Future, Seanie, Tommy, KZ, Akiko, JB, 黃禍, Heyo, Phoon, Josie and The Uni Boys, R.O.O.T, 逆流, My Little Airport.

Before any of the ‘made for TV’ Kpop and Jpop supergroups, there was LMF (Lazymuthafucka) – an amalgam of musicians from various local bands who simply wanted to play together and have fun. In doing so, they found a massive audience at home and across Asia.

LMF’s lyrics are full of slang and profanity-laced political and social messages that still resonate today. As Dagger‘s Riz Farooqi put it “some issues should not be sung in a sweet melody, but screamed and yelled at the top of your lungs.”

LMF – XX Anniversary Festival
LMF (Lazymuthafucka), Matt Force, Dough Boy, Future, Seanie, Tommy, KZ, Akiko, JB, 黃禍, Heyo, Phoon, Josie and The Uni Boys, R.O.O.T, 逆流, My Little Airport
Date: 28-29 December, 2019
Venue: Kitec, Star Hall
Tickets: $880, $680, $480