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By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my It’s almost impossible to believe right now, but the four members of London-based indie rockers The Vaccines were awkward kids growing up. As you would imagine, music was their only form of emotional escape.| Speaking to R.AGE before their first ever show in Malaysia, guitarist Freddie Cowan and drummer Pete Robertson […]
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my It’s almost impossible to believe right now, but the four members of London-based indie rockers The Vaccines were awkward kids growing up. As you would imagine, music was their only form of emotional escape. Speaking to R.AGE before their first ever show in Malaysia, guitarist Freddie Cowan and drummer Pete Robertson […]
A photo branding a 13-year-old from Malacca as a rapist went viral last week, complete with the boy’s full name, MyKad number and home address. Thousands upon thousands of bloggers and Facebook users shared the photo even before the incident was verified, and most of them took no effort to conceal the boy’s face or […]
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my WILL there ever be a week during which we don’t get any celebrity news? Nope, don’t think so. Here’s a round-up of the things that have happened recently in Tinseltown. Not dating … yet Bradley Cooper recently broke up with his girlfriend Zoe Saldana and around the same time, Jennifer Lawrence […]
Much has changed since singer-songwriter Nick Davis was first featured in R.AGE in 2008, but if there’s one thing that has stayed the same, it would be his passion for film and music.
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my WALKING with blogger Danny Choo through the crowd at Comic Fiesta 2012 was a little like being at Woodstock with Jimi Hendrix. Okay, maybe not exactly like that, but in the world of anime, manga and Japanese culture, Choo is nevertheless a bona fide rock star. As we made our way […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH and SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN alltherage@thestar.com.my TRY asking Dia Frampton a random question, or just hit her up with a leaf from your past, and you just might have a song written up about you. A lot of songwriters start out with a tune or a rhythm, but the 24-year-old American of Korean-Dutch descent […]
In between waiting tables and cleaning the lavatory every night at a restaurant, Lim Kuo Yang persevered to make cheesecakes in between working hours for a year, despite his fatigue. And it paid off!
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my WE love reading about celebrities and their antics, don’t we? Well, they didn’t fail us this week as they’ve given us plenty of things to gossip. In trouble? Just in case you didn’t know, there were several photographs leaked online showing current teen sensation Justin Bieber indulging in an unhealthy activity […]
We don’t often use personality pieces as our cover stories, but last week was one of those rare occasions. Mohd Hafiz, 26, born deaf and with cerebral palsy, overcame the odds to graduate with a degree in software engineering a few weeks ago. And he didn’t just graduate – he got a perfect 4.0 GPA […]