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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 […]
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 […]
By JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my Buying a compact camera is a lot easier and simpler compared to buying a DSLR. Buying your first DSLR will require spending more time and research as you’ll be splurging a few thousand ringgit on a gadget that you would probably be using for the next few years. To help you […]
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 […]
Yesterday I blogged about the LOTR Deck-Building Game (DBG). DBGs by the way have been picking up in momentum, especially in the last few months, with some big name franchises making the simple yet fun “cardboard” transition. Wait a minute, a card game about Lord of the Rings? Now where did I hear that […]
Has everyone caught The Hobbit yet? Well, I have, and I have to say that while it was a decent movie, I’m still more of a Lord of the Rings fan (yes, that earlier trilogy). Looks like Cryptozoic made the smart move to cash in on all things Middle Earth, with an LOTR game, […]
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 […]
By CHEE YIH YANG alltherage@thestar.com.my AS I grow older, the lure of trading card games (TCGs) and boardgames that clock longer than one hour (I’m talking “official” play times that game companies quote, so actual set up and gameplay is closer to two hours), has all but vanished. However, gone are the days when I […]
By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my ENGINEERING student Lee Kha Sheng, 18, is either a really generous, philanthropic guy, or just terrible at maths. He spent RM20,000 producing a promotional video for a welfare home, to enter a short film competition where the total prize money for all the winners was RM18,000. But since he’s in engineering, […]