HAS BMW taken a step backwards with its latest flagship? The safe styling, the return to a console-mounted gear lever, the unpackaging of controls in its controversial iDrive system - they all seem to suggest so.
A CANTO club and an English live music nightspot will swop locations next month. The five-month-old Firefly Canto club in St James Power Station at HarbourFront is taking over the premises of the nightspot, Bar None, at the Singapore Marriott Hotel on Feb 23.
FRIENDS thought Madam Lyn Lee and her husband were crazy to fork out $500,000 to restore a 1920s prewar shophouse to its former glory. But the couple, who bought the rundown 1,300 sq ft corner unit along Tembeling Road in Katong eight years ago for $800,000, say it was money well spent.