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By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my OKAY, so how many of you saw Justin Bieber’s arrest coming? Well, like most of you out there, I did as well. There was only one way the whole Bieber fiasco, that many fans and haters have tolerated for over a year, could come to a halt – with an arrest, […]
By KULJEET KAUR SIDHU BRAR and CH’NG KHER YEE brats@thestar.com.my IT’S been a roller-coaster ride for four foreign students who have been staying in Malaysia for six months now through an exchange programme organised by AFS Yayasan Antarabudaya Malaysia. Seventeen-year-old Roberto Colzani, who hails from Italy, revealed that some of his friends teased him about […]
By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my WITH their Christian Louboutin shoes, Hermes belts and Bell & Ross watches, national badminton players Goh V Shem and Lim Khim Wah turned out for the photoshoot better dressed than half the celebrities we’ve had in our studio. Then again, as heroic winners of the 2014 Maybank Malaysian Open men’s doubles […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my OKAY, so the winners of the 2014 Gatsby Dance Competition (GDC) Malaysia were the exact same dancers as last year. But does that mean our local street dance scene is slowing down? Not a chance. Fellest Yan, a Malaysian street dance pioneer and GDC judge since 2008, said the community has […]
By DANIEL SUBRAMANIAM brats@thestar.com.my IF 2013 was anything to go by, 2014 will see plenty of issues being discussed in the public sphere, be it face-to-face or, more likely than not, on social media. Last year, we saw our newsfeeds flooded with posts ranging from the 13th General Election to the raunchy antics of Miley […]
By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my NOT many people get to fly around the world doodling for a living. Bernie Quah does. And she does it for some pretty high profile companies and individuals. We’re talking heads of state, corporate big-wigs and some of the biggest multi-national companies. The 24-year-old from Petaling Jaya, Selangor took her knack […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my LET it be known that I was the person who spoiled Breaking Bad for Andrew Lincoln, the star of Fox International Channels’ other hit television show The Walking Dead. Lincoln and Norman Reedus, who respectively play Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead, were in Singapore last week as […]
By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my TRYING to get James McVey to share the personal stories behind the songs he writes is like trying to get an infant to speak – nearly impossible and quite frankly, a waste of time. When talking to R.AGE on the phone last week, the 19-year-old lead guitarist and back-up vocalist of […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my LISA Surihani may be known for her bubbly personality but these days, the popular actress is on a serious mission – to educate young people about fuel-efficient driving. This educational drive will certainly help in cost-saving as well as protecting the environment. The 27-year-old, who is appointed by Shell Malaysia as […]