Dogs’ best friend
Malaysian youth are helping to turn the tide in the fight against animal abuse in the country, thanks to their savvy use of social media.
Sky’s the limit
PETE McLeod has always been the youngest pilot throughout his flying career. In fact, he was the youngest rookie pilot when he made his debut at the 2009 Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Now, the 30-year-old Canadian is still the youngest to race, though competing in the Master Class category this time around. […]
Arty articulations
IT’S never easy articulating personal problems, but the final year students of Diploma in Performing Arts at Sunway University have found a novel and artistic way of doing so. They’ve chosen to address serious issues like sexuality comfort, interracial relationships and the physical abuse of women in their upcoming production, Tic-Tac-Toe. Being in an industry that […]
Turning heads
NEW local reality talent competition, The BAND, has been under considerable scrutiny since it hit the small screen this year. In part, that’s due to its unique format – one that is expected to challenge the more conventional mechanics of its peers. The BAND, in its pilot season, has an incongruous mix of America’s Next […]
Get personal: Ashley Chan
The latest voice on Capital FM, Ashley Chan has danced, sung and talked her way through plenty – including a wrecked dream.
Youth got the power
LAST weekend’s Putrajaya Youth Festival 2014 was one epic event, occupying almost the entire main city area of the administrative capital. With activities and events at every corner throughout the three-day event (which started on Friday), the festival was divided into four zones for easier navigation. And still we managed to get ourselves lost several […]
Acting out
By CARLOS RUBEN DOURADO Photos by DAROLD WONG brats@thestar.com.my GROWING up in a family of actresses, it seemed only a matter of time before 20-year-old Sharifah Aleysha got into acting herself. But despite being the younger sister of actresses Sharifah Amani and Sharifah Aleya – and the daughter of veteran actress Fatimah Abu Bakar – […]
Run, zombie, run
By VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my THOUSANDS of zombie jokes were hurled at him and he suffered the ignominy of being shot down by almost every corporate, fitness and telco company in town. It sure wasn’t an easy start for Charanpirabu Mayachandrapirapu, better known as ChaCha Charan, when he pitched the idea for a zombie run in […]
TAPAU-ing youth culture
By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN asked about his previous job as a newsreader on Astro Awani, Ahmad Faris said with a laugh: ”I had seven suits, one for each day of the week!” Faris, 28, has since banished the suits from his daily wardrobe, grown a beard (#hipster) and is now the creative […]
Learning to look up
By ROXANNE LOW brats@thestar.com.my “WE are a generation of idiots, smart phones, and dumb people, too busy looking down at an invention that we miss out on beautiful things.” That’s a line from a video titled Look Up, which was uploaded (ironically) to YouTube by British writer and director Gary Turk. In the three weeks […]