Singapore’s stance on language is highly paradoxical. On the one hand, we seem to be proud of Singlish. Indeed, our country is, on...

“Don’t play play, use Shopee. Best in Singapore, just like me!” Earning Shopee over 2 million Youtube views with his 2020 endorsement...

Whether you are ultimately looking to impress your new artsy significant other or to show your artistically-inclined child some support...

The anti-vax, speak-to-the-manager, pseudoscientist caricature, better known as the “Karen”, has evolved from a harmless meme into a...

Generation Z – born after 1996 and before the early 2010s – are no strangers to disruption. Raised in the age of the internet and social...

Warning: Potential spoilers ahead! Commissioned by Mediacorp, TheSmartLocal’s new series The Algorithm follows a dystopian society in...

With a sequel to this year’s Cruella already getting the greenlight at Disney, we once again see villain origin stories garnering lots of...

Those of us who’ve lived through the primary school system in Singapore know how ridiculously stressful it can be, and that expectations...

“American kids don’t want to room with their grandmas” “He’s not like that. He’s a Korean kid” Through this conversation between...

Annyeong (안녕)! That’s the Korean word for ‘hello’ but it can also mean ‘goodbye’. It thus comes as no surprise that IU used the word...

Nowadays, it's not uncommon for us to see our favourite books, comics, webtoons, stage plays and musicals translated onto the big screen...

Many of us Singaporeans who grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s likely remember Kids Central and Okto in its earliest days - the local...

In celebration of this year’s World Theatre Day🎉, and for our very first guest feature, we’ve got a brief interview with Scratching...

Whether you are new to Kpop or not, you might be aware of the term “7 year curse”, since it is so often thrown around. This phrase came...

While scouring Netflix, especially around the Valentine's and Christmas seasons, you may find a greater influx of romance films being...