Don’t call yourself a hip hop head if you missed out on this event. Grandmaster Flash was here in Kuala Lumpur at Sultan Lounge and we saw a total of, what, less than 5 actual hip hoppers there. Admittedly this wasn’t anyone’s fault, there was barely any hype to the Grandmaster’s arrival here. Like mythical kung fu archetypes, it was almost like he came out of nowhere, kicked some *ss, and left just like that – with only a few truly appreciative of his brief presence.
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Rockstars and fashion have always had a symbiotic relationship, GUESS Watches understood this with the launch of their Fall 2011 Collection at 1Utama Shopping Centre. Going all out, their three-day event had a two-storey stage that was built around their new standalone store there that was erected as the pedestal on which the rockstars invited performed on.

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The Sepang Circuit was shaken hard last Saturday night. Massive 2011 lived up to its name. Yes, it was an enormous rave! As one of the biggest dance music festivals of the year, it really blew the party-lovers away!

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It’s hard to explain what Super Everything is to the uninitiated, especially when the title itself isn’t very self-explanatory (hell, it’s still a mystery to us even now). To borrow a term the makers use themselves, Super Everything is a live cinema experience – a non-traditional means of audio-visual entertainment where there isn’t a fixed edit, like the traditional wayang kulit the creators play their narrative live to the audience.
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Looked at my watch. 9.15pm. Tsk. 45 minutes late. (Expected I suppose, as they’ve started closing down roads for F1 happening that same week). Looked to my left, my boyfriend looks like a teenager about to go on his first date. He didn’t even look that nervous on OUR first date. Everyone’s anxious. Anticipation, as thick as the make-up on some of these girls’ faces.

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Since the first time mobile phones were given camera function, users have been given a hard time for using the device for photography. But that was a time when phones were still only good for, well, being a communication device. In the age of smartphones where some models can even shoot HD-quality videos, having a good built-in camera is a prerequisite for all mobiles. Zam Nayan, founder of mobile-photography collective TinPix, noticed this and wondered if there can be such a thing as gallery-worthy photography done purely using mobile phones. This idea was exactly what gave birth to Made in Phones: a Mophog Group Exhibition, held for the first time at Minut Init recently.
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If you had told us that a group in Melbourne, Australia could run a bigger and crazier Merdeka party than we do in Malaysia, we would not have believed you. That is, until we saw the videos and images from the biggest Merdeka celebration in Melbourne at Level 3, Crown Casino by the TANG group.
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Johnnie Walker is partyin’ it up like Sir Francis Light once did! That is, not so much colonialist takeover but island party paradise!

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Being the plebeians that we are, when it comes to drinking we are more content with getting drunk from downing unsophisticated beer. Never expanding our horizon to something a little more cultured. Thanks to Glenmorangie though, we feel slightly educated and all classy-like after their whisky tasting session.

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After an electrifying 3 state tour around the country, Freedom Voice Your Choice (VYC) ended with a bang at Fame, Penang together with turntablist champion Kid Fresh from Germany and local maestro DJ Def who churned out his signature style of mixing indie music, hip hop and dance tunes together.

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