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If your weekend plans have been stuck on read these past few weeks, then good music and a glass of Monkey Shoulder might be just what you need right now. This August, Studio Monkey Shoulder LIVE has been moving through Singapore with a month-long music series built around independent venues, local selectors, global names and, naturally, whisky serves.

Singaporeans are experts at saying “next weekend lah” until there is, unfortunately, no next weekend left. Sadly, that’s where we’re at with Sentosa GrillFest 2026, which is heading into its final stretch from 14 to 16 August 2026 at Siloso Beachfront. If you’ve been meaning to go but somehow ended up in the usual cycle of “see first”, this is the time where you stop leaving your calendar – and appetites – hanging.

On 4 August 2026, Michelin dropped its tenth Singapore selection, and the timeline did what timelines do: screenshot the star list, argue about who got robbed, scroll on. One award from that same ceremony went to somebody who never touched a pan. Maryjoy Lim of JAG took the Service Award.

Twelve years is a long time to go without a new flatmate. That is how long River Wonders waited between red pandas, and the one who finally broke the streak spent his first weeks in Singapore doing exactly what you would do after being flown into a strange country by strangers: hiding in the high branches and refusing to make eye contact. His name is Yaffa.

Somewhere on your feed this week, someone is rolling a pea-sized ball of clay into a bowl of laksa with a toothpick. Miniature food is a whole genre now, and Singaporeans are deep in it. In Paya Lebar, about 100 residents took that same impulse, scaled it up to 2.1 metres, and iced the result with their own estate.

Losing the NDP ticket ballot used to mean watching the whole thing on a screen at home. On 9 August, roughly 5,000 people took the other option and went to Our Tampines Hub, where the National Day Parade played on a big screen, a full concert ran before it, and the night ended with fireworks going off over the estate itself. Not a borrowed view of Marina Bay. Tampines’ own. The concert was the centrepiece of Our Tampines: Beyond Heartbeats, a three-day run from 8 to 10 August at 1 Tampines Avenue 4.

The FIFA World Cup Final kicks off at 3am on 20 July for us in Singapore, which means everyone has two choices: attempt a dangerous pre-match nap and risk waking up in the 78th minute, or fully commit to the long night ahead. Like us night owls, QT Singapore clearly prefers the second option.

Asia Square has a new bakery, and judging by the bustling weekday lunch crowd I walked into, the CBD clearly has received the memo. MIMMO Bakery Singapore has officially opened its first permanent Singapore outlet at Asia Square Tower 1, bringing together European pastry traditions, Hong Kong-inspired flavours and the kind of lunch options that make office workers conveniently “forget” their reports due today.

If your idea of ballet still begins and ends with swans, tutus and everyone looking far too graceful for human biology, Dracula: Ballet At Its Darkest might be here to change the mood a little. Fresh from a completely sold-out season in London’s West End and blockbuster runs across Australia and New Zealand, BIG Live’s critically acclaimed production will make its Singapore debut at Esplanade Theatre from 15 to 19 July 2026. And no, this isn’t your polite, softly lit ballet evening.

If your family’s World Cup excitement has already reached “apologising to the neighbours for the loud cheers at 4am” levels, LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort may have a safer outlet for all that energy. BRICKFEST 2026: Football Edition is in full force at LEGOLAND® Malaysia Resort, turning the park into a football-themed playground filled with LEGO® builds, obstacle courses, live shows and stadium-style challenges for all ages.