Get Personal: Bob Vizard
Meet local freelance music photographer, Bob Vizard.
What do youth say?
By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my AFTER the cancellation of day three of Future Music Festival Asia 2014 due to several drug-related deaths, many questions are being asked about the rave culture in Malaysia. How common are drugs at raves? Are drugs essential to the rave experience? Will banning future raves reduce drug use among young […]
Behind the rave
By VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my LIKE most of the people at the last rave party he went to, Piaget Wong, 24, was there to listen to some good music and have a good time with his friends. But in the middle of the party, a guy approached him out of nowhere, brazenly asking him to sell […]
Breaking barriers
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my SHE has been the subject of a story by Time magazine, and touted by the New York Times as one of the pioneers of Asian women in the brutal, male-dominated world of mixed martial arts (MMA). And yet, Ann Osman’s professional MMA career is only just getting started. The 27-year-old Kota […]
Growing up online
By ANN-MARIE KHOR brats@thestar.com.my IN an era where our most mundane thoughts can be tweeted or turned into Facebook statuses, you’ve probably come across a bunch of thinkpieces written about our modern dependency on social media. Being a social media addict myself, I’m not one to judge. Yes, I, too, am guilty of posting the […]
Rapping for a cause
By CASSANDRA YEOH and HEMALA KANAGARETHINAM brats@thestar.com.my IT’S always nice when we meet someone at one of our assignments and find out that he or she is also a member of the BRATs family. But when that person happens to be doing something good for the community, and goes by the name of Altimet, it […]
Get Personal: Joanne Yew
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my JOANNE Yew is a lovely girl, that’s what you’d have felt after watching Malaysia’s highest grossing movie of all time, The Journey. In person, she is no different; the same sweet and sentimental lass, with less of a British accent, of course. “You might see me all pretty and prim, with […]
Lucky Rose
By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my TELL me if you love someone,” sang British singer-songwriter Lucy Rose Parton (best known as Lucy Rose) when she kicked off her gig at The Bee, Publika in Kuala Lumpur last Thursday with her song Lines. Love is a recurring theme when it comes to the 24-year-old’s music, which is ironic […]
Behind The Journey
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my IF you have watched The Journey, you’d remember the old tree at the Chinese primary school or the scenic vegetable terraces of Cameron Highlands. They were quaint, picture-perfect scenes, but securing these locations for shooting was an arduous task. Besides the pretty Joanne Yew, we also spoke to two members of […]
BijakPandai: Air pollution index
The haze is pretty much an annual problem here in Malaysia, due mostly to forest fires in Indonesia during the dry season (May-September). That’s when the air pollutant index (or API, rather ironically) readings become important for people to understand what precautions need to be taken. How is API measured? Since 1989, Malaysia’s API has […]