Entertainment

Hard Rock Café, Pattaya, recently celebrated its ninth birthday under a ‘Super Star’ theme where guests, along with the staff, dressed up as famous characters. Captain Jack Sparrow, Star Wars Jedi and Dracula were seen bobbing their heads to the music being played live by American band Centric. The ‘famous’ guests along with staff, also known as the ‘rockers’, then later joined in to cut the massive hamburger-shaped cake.

Leading websites registered 1,000,000 page views about the Jan. 7 Pattaya Times newspaper exclusive police crackdown on foreign operated sex bars.

Making it big in Hollywood

Over one thousand Pattaya entertainment entrepreneurs and their employees recently gathered in front of Pattaya City Hall to submit their petition for extension of service hours, as their businesses have been severely affected by the economic and political crisis; with some asserting that they’ve lost over 50% of their income. They hope that staying open later will attract more customers.

For the past hour or so I have been sitting on the concrete steps that lead to the water’s edge overlooking the ocean. I have been motionless for several minutes watching the sun creep slowly behind the clouds that hang low in the Western sky. I have been thinking of how is it possible for a man to feel so much at home in a foreign country, that only a short time ago he knew so very little about.