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Contest ends Mar 21, 2010.

UrbanWire is celebrating our 8th birthday this year, and we have a huge UrbanWire hamper worth more than $100, including a Manhattan Portage sling bag, to give away!

How to win the UrbanWire hamper:

Simply find any article on UrbanWire with the number ‘8′, copy the URL and paste it in an email with your full name, NRIC and contact number and send to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win UrbanWire 8th birthday hamper!’

Contest ends Feb 12, 2010 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). You may send as many entries as you like, but each entry must contain a link to a different UrbanWire article with the number ‘8′.

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In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, UrbanWire is giving away 5 pairs of movie passes and 5 notebooks for the upcoming thriller, Edge of Darkness.

How to win Edge of Darkness movie passes

Simply provide your answer to the following question and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win Edge of Darkness movie passes’.

Name any 2 actors starring in Edge of Darkness.

Contest ends Jan 25, 2010 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

About Edge of Darkness
Adapted from a television series of the same name in 1985, Edge of Darkness,reveals the shocking discovery of what lies behind the glass world of corporate concealment, government conspiracy and murder.

Academy Award winner Mel Gibson stars as Thomas Craven, a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his 24-year-old daughter, Emma, played by Bojana Novakovic is assassinated at the steps of his home, everyone assumes that Thomas was the initial target. But his suspicions tell him otherwise, and sets out on a pursuit to find out about his child’s secret life and her killing. The search leads to staggering revelations about high level cover-ups.

Release details
Opens: Jan 28, 2010
Running time: 108 mins
Directed By: Martin Campbell
Starring: Mel Gibson, Bojana Novakovic, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Frank J. Grillo

Taiwanese singer Rachel Liang Wen Yin will be in Singapore end of this month to promote her latest album Love, Always Exists.

UrbanWire is giving away 3 pairs of tickets to Rachel’s Love, Always Exists Music Showcase, courtesy of Universal Music Singapore.

Details:

Rachel Liang “Love, Always Exists” Music Showcase
梁文音 [愛一直存在] LIVE BAND音樂會
Date: Jan 30, Saturday
Time: 6.30pm (Doors open at 6pm)
Venue: Lunar Asian Fusion Bar

Rachel will also be holding an autograph session during this promotional trip:

Rachel Liang “Love, Always Exists” Photograph/Autograph Session
梁文音 [愛一直存在] 合影簽唱會
Date: Jan 29, Friday
Time: 7pm
Venue: Tampines One, Level 1 Atrium

How to win tickets to Rachel Liang’s Music Showcase:

Simply answer the following question, and email us the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject ‘Win Rachel Liang showcase tickets!’

Question: What is the name of Rachel Liang’s latest album?

Contest ends Jan 25, 2010 at 5pm. Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, UrbanWire is giving away 5 pairs of in-season passes for the comedy My One and Only.

My One and Only will only be shown at Shaw Lido Cineplex theatres.

How to win My One and Only in-season passes

Simply provide your answer to the following question and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win My One and Only movie passes’.

Who plays Ann Devereaux in My One and Only?

Contest ends Jan 20, 2010 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Oh Lye Choon
• Cho Cho Nwe
• Ang Ngee Lian
• Kevin Fang
• Goh Ai Cheng

About My One and Only
Loosely inspired by the episodes in the life of actor and Hollywood icon George Hamilton, My One and Only is set in 1953, New York City. Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger stars as the charming but temperamental Ann Devereaux who has just left her philandering husband Dan Devereaux, a society bandleader. Along with her adolescent sons, George (Logan Lerman) and Robbie (Mark Rendall), she’s taken to the road in pursuit of an affluent substitute partner.

Although Ann is confident that her girlish charms will be as adequate as it was 20 years ago, but 2 decades later, it seems that “the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors”.

Ann never loses hope, but their trip begins to lose its gleam with ever more modest accommodations, romantic misadventures and a succession of new education institutions for the boys.

With the varied personalities of the trio, the impetuous decisions that Ann makes and the downright extraordinary characters they encounter on the road, they travel down a “narrow highway between excitement and panic”.

Eventually, George finds out the resolution, self-respect and love beneath his mother’s narcissistic exterior. “And Ann makes a different future for herself and her sons than any of them had imagined.”

Release details

Opens: Jan 21, 2010
Running time: 109 mins
Directed By: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Chris Noth, Steven Weber, Logan Lerman, Robin Weigert

In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, UrbanWire is giving away 5 sets of movie hampers for the sci-fi thriller, Daybreakers.

Each set will include a pair of in-season passes, a movie poster and a notebook.

How to win Daybreakers movie hampers

Simply provide your answer to the following question and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win Daybreakers movie hampers’.

Name the directors of the movie Daybreakers.

Contest ends Jan 10, 2010 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Tang Pui Foong
• Mabel Chan
• Nay Oo Han
• Muhammad Azmi Bin Mohamad Aziz
• Zailan Bin Wakam

About Daybreakers

From the writers, producers and directors of Undead, the zombie hor-medy released in 2003, now comes the futuristic sci-fi thriller about vampires. Directed by Michael & Peter Spierig, Daybreakers is set in 2019, a future not too far to envisage.

In the movie, the world is dominated by vampires after a bizarre epidemic strikes the earth. Now, humans are looked upon as second-class species who are on the verge of being wiped out as they’re hunted down and farmed to fulfil the consumption of the bloodsuckers.

While the dominant population pushes the human race to a state of endangerment, a vampire researcher, Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) endeavours to “perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans”. Just when the fate of mortal beings seem bleak, Edward meets Audrey Bennett (Claudia Karvan), a human survivor who leads him to a shocking medical discovery that both men and vampires will kill for.

Edward must clash with his own kind in a deadly conflict with his own kind that’ll determine the destiny of human beings.

Release details

Opens: Jan 14, 2010
Running time: 98 mins
Directed By: Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Claudia Karvan, Willem Dafoe, Isabel Lucas, Michael Dorman

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UrbanWire is giving away 3 copies of Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, courtesy of Sony Music Singapore.

Read our review on Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream here!

How to win Susan Boyle’s debut album:

Simply answer the following question and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win Susan Boyle’s debut album!’.

Question: What is the title of Susan Boyle’s debut album?

Contest ends Dec 26, 2009 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Lee Chen Guan
• Lim Rui Hao
• Tan Xiang Wei

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UrbanWire is giving away 8 sets of David Tao’s DT in Space: The Rock & Talk Show concert premiums, which includes a limited edition notebook and a gorgeous A1-sized concert poster.

Details:
Date: Jan 8, 2010 (Friday)
Time: 8pm
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Tickets now available from SISTIC Singapore.

This show’s definitely not to be missed as this will be DT’s last concert tour in the recent future, as the R&B veteran takes at least a year’s break from making music to concentrate on his film career.

For more information about the concert, read our article here.

How to win David Tao concert premiums:

Simply answer the following question, and email us the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject ‘Win David Tao concert premiums!’

Question: What is the date of David Tao’s DT in Space: The Rock & Talk Show concert in Singapore?

Contest ends Dec 28, 2009 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Koh Hui Wen
• Kuah Ee Wei
• Thong Wei Jie
• Cheng Pei Sze, Joyce
• Teo Siok Leng
• Tan Yi Min
• Phoon Yao Zhong Ernest
• Lim Lay Koon Eileen

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In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, UrbanWire is giving away 5 pairs of preview tickets to the paranormal thriller, The Fourth Kind.

How to win preview tickets to The Fourth Kind

Simply provide your answer to the following question and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC, contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘The Fourth Kind preview tickets’.

What is the name of Milla Jovovich’s character in The Fourth Kind?

Contest ends Dec 16, 2009 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Preview Details

Date: Dec 23, 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Lido Cineplex

Congratulations to our winners!

• Lynn Seetoh
• Soh Hwee
• Zulaila Mohd
• Sonia Khoo
• Chan Yoke Hwee

About The Fourth Kind

Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil) stars as psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler in this sci-fi film, The Fourth Kind. Said to be based on case studies, the movie is set in the Alaskan city of Nome, where Dr. Tyler explores kidnapping of humans by extraterrestrial beings.

Directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, you’ll stumble upon unsettling footage and testimonies of alien abduction as you watch the videos of Dr. Tyler’s sessions with psychiatrically disturbed patients. The title is derived from a gauge that was created in 1972 to quantify otherworldly experiences. “When a UFO is sighted, it is called an encounter of the first kind. When evidence is collected, it is known as an encounter of the second kind. When contact is made with extraterrestrials, it is the third kind. The next level, abduction, is the fourth kind.”

Release Details

Date: Dec 31, 2009
Rating: PG (Some Disturbing Scenes)
Running time:  98 mins

Directed by: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Elias Koteas

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UrbanWire is giving away 5 pairs of tickets to Celebrate 2010, the star-studded countdown event of the year that promises 7 hours of non-stop music and partying!

Be entertained by performances of Taiwanese hip-hop group Da Mouth, touted as Asia’s Black Eye Peas, and regional & local celebs such as Dayang Nurfaizah, Singapore Idol Top 13, Sleeq, Bloco Singapura, John Molina & Krueger, Jack & Rai, Heregoesnoth!ng, The Great Spy Experiment, Stylez from Beyond and Juxtapose!

You’ll also be able to catch MediaCorp artistes Gurmit Singh, Adrian Pang, Michelle Chia, Michelle Chong, Nat Ho, Jade Seah, Dai Yang Tian and Pornsak!

Details:
Date: Dec 31, 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 8pm to 3am
Venue: The Float @ Marina Bay

Enjoy an elaborate display of fireworks at midnight and dance your hearts out to music by internationally acclaimed DJ Ko Flow, DJ George Leong and DJ Kennerve from ZIRCA!

How to win tickets to Celebrate 2010

Simply name 3 artistes who’ll be attending Celebrate 2010, and send an email with your answer and your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject of your email ‘Win Celebrate 2010 countdown party tickets!’

Contest ends Dec 7, 2009 at 11.59pm (GMT +08:00). Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Nancy Hidajat
• Gan Chee Wee
• Leong Yoke Ying
• Ng Hong Soon
• Belby Teo Siew Kek

UrbanWire is giving away 15 pairs of tickets to Angela Chang’s music showcase on Nov 21, courtesy of Universal Music Singapore.

Angela Chang “Fifth Season” Music Showcase
張韶涵 [第五季] 音樂會

Date: Nov 21, 2009 (Sat)
Time: 8pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Venue: The Max Pavilion

Angela will also be holding an autograph session on the same day for her latest album, Fifth Season.

Angela Chang Fifth Season Autograph Session
張韶涵 [第五季] 簽唱會

Date: Nov 21, 2009 (Sat)
Time: 2.30pm
Venue: IMM Garden Plaza Level 3

How to win tickets to Angela Chang’s Music Showcase:

Simply answer the following question, and email us the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject ‘Win Angela Chang showcase tickets!’

Question: What is the name of Angela Chang’s latest album?

Contest ends Nov 17, 2009 at 11.59pm. Each person is entitled to 1 entry only.

Congratulations to our winners!

• Chin Li Ying
• Lee Yu Ting
• Huang Huizhong
• Oh Tun Yi
• Ho Wai Leng
• Nelson Tan
• Tan Yi Jun
• Priscilla Tay
• Joreal Seah
• Tee Jia Leng
• Sng Ye Kai
• Toh Xin Ying
• Teo Yee Long
• Low Su Geok
• Huang Kailin

About Angela Chang’s Fifth Season

Since her last album Ang 5.0 was released in mid-December 2007, Angela Chang chose to take a break of 1 year and 9 months to rediscover herself. Now with renewed energy, she returns to the music scene, lighting up a fictional realm with her 6th album titled Fifth Season. Whether it’s genres that she’s never tried before, or exchanging her famous soprano vocals for a mezzo range to show her sincerity, Angela’s singing will be a whole new listening experience.

In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, UrbanWire is giving away these attractive prizes:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

1 set of The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiums, with 3 keychains and a 8-piece magnet set

Planet 51

5 sets of Planet 51 premiums, with a magic cube, a magnet set, and a highlighter pen in each.

How to win the premiums:

Simply provide the correct answers to both questions and email the correct answer with your full name, NRIC and contact number to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com. Indicate in the subject ‘Win Twilight 2 and Planet 51 movie premiums!’

1. Name the director of Planet 51.
2. Name the author for the Twilight novel series.

Contest ends Nov 26, 2009. Each person is entitled to 1 entry only. Your entry will entitle you to a chance of winning either The Twilight Saga: New Moon or Planet 51 premiums.

About The Twilight Saga: New Moon

In the sequel film of the hugely popular Twilight novels written by Stephenie Meyer, mortal-vampire love took to new heights with Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) uncovering more mysteries about the magical world that she longs so much to belong to. Unfortunately, her life is now in jeopardy as the desire to be with her immortal lover Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) multiplies hundredfold.

Release date: Dec 3, 2009

Directed by: Chris Weitz

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning, Nikki Reed

About Planet 51

Directed by Jorge Blanco, Planet 51 brings you to the animated world of its little green inhabitants through astronaut Captain Charles “Chuck” Baker, who thought he was the first living thing to step onto it. Chuck sparked off their innermost fear of invasion by “aliens” such as himself, and goes on an adventure with his robot friend “Rover” and new acquaintance Lem in order not to become a permanent specimen of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum!

Release date: Dec 10, 2009

Directed by: Jorge Blanco

Starring: Gary Oldman, Jessica Biel, Dwayne Johnson, Justin Long, Seann William Scott and John Cleese

Keeping up with current trends by remixing existing style icons, Nike presents the 2009 Fall/Holiday Collection!

Join our Nike Urban Street Style Contest!

We’re looking for a style icon who can give us their best ’street style’! Just send us your pictures and we’ll select the best of the best.

We’ve got Nike goods up for grabs, so what are you waiting for?

Prizes

Attractive prizes provided by Nike!

Entering is as simple as:

1. Taking a photo of yourself in your best “urban street style” outfit

2. Sending your photos to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com with the following details by Nov 1, 2009.

Subject: NIKE CONTEST
Full Name and IC Number

Check out the Nike Fall/Holiday Collection 09 for inspiration!

Things to take note:

1. No nudity is allowed. We reserve the right to reject your entry if it contains offensive material.

2. We judge based on outfits, not on appearance.

3. No unrealistic photo editing.

4. We reserve the right to blur out brand names/logos conflicting with the Nike brand, and any slogans that may be considered offensive/vulgar.

5. Contest is open to Singaporeans/ PR only.

Simply read HYPE magazine’s article on FIFA Online 2, answer the following question and stand to win a FIFA Online 2 game value card (worth 9000 points)!

How To Win

Answer this question correctly and stand a chance to win!

In which year was the first FIFA game released?

Email your contest entry to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com with your full name and IC number. Indicate “FIFA Online 2″ in the subject.

Contest ends Oct 20, 2009.

In conjunction with Shaw Organisation, The UrbanWire is giving away 3 pairs of preview tickets to the romantic drama, Love Happens starring Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston. An additional set of movie premiums (the set consists of a soup mug, a cosmetic pouch and an A5 notebook) will be given to the contestant with the best answer.

Simply tell us in 100 words or less, the ideal scenario to meet your true love.

Email your answers to contest.urbanwire@gmail.com together with your full name and IC number. Indicate in the subject “Love Happens Contest”.

Send in your contest entries by Oct 19, 5pm.

Preview Details

Date: Oct 21, 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 7pm
Venue: Lido Cineplex

About Love Happens

Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star in the romantic drama Love Happens. When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might finally be able to help him help himself.

Dr. Burk Ryan (Eckhart) is on the precipice of a major multimedia deal, but the therapist who asks his patients to openly confront their pain is secretly unable to take his own advice.

Eloise Chandler (Aniston) has sworn off men and decided to focus on her floral business. However, when she meets Burke at the hotel where he’s speaking, there is an instant attraction. But will two people who have met the right person at exactly the wrong time be able to give love another chance?

As each struggles with the hurt of love and loss, they realise that in order to move forward, they need to let go of the past. And if they can, they’ll find that, sometimes, love happens when you least expect it.

Release Details

Date: Oct 29

Directed by: Brandon Camp

Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Martin Sheen, Dan Fogler