Tracy Lawrence is revisiting and updating his catalogue with the Hindsight 2020 trilogy of albums and it turns out there's one song he never really cared for.
The pandemic practically destroyed the 2020 calendar year for the arts and culture scene in Malaysia.
Despite countless festival cancellations, months of theatre closures and art event postponements, we can still look back at how a new, resilient and different creative world has emerged to give arts and culture practitioners a path forward.
KLPac, a beacon in the dark
The arts will find a way. Despite catastrophic financial losses, the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) still stands, thanks to well-wishers, donors, sponsors, the #SaveYourSeat initiative and KLPac’s staff who took several rounds of pay cuts, reveals a grateful Joe Hasham, its co-founder/ artistic director.
Bruce Springsteen,
Ghosts
With an opening blast of guitar and Springsteen s grated voice reminding us with unfettered boldness on the chorus, I m alive, this is a stack of E Street Band comfort and nostalgia in a year when it was needed most. Count the band in and then kick into overdrive.by the end of the set, we leave no one alive – the Springsteen creed in action.
Run The Jewels,
Ooh La La
Killer Mike and El-P spout penetrating lyrics about class divisions and capitalism while the spongy beat propels their sardonic words. And isn t it time a current song name-dropped Ol Dirty Bastard and Jeru the Damaja?
The landslide behind the houses along Jalan Kelab Ukay 4 was triggered by heavy rain.
THIS year has seen Ampang residents dealing with their fair share of issues on top of the Covid-19 pandemic.
One problem was a case of tug of war between residents and the authorities on the overdevelopment of projects in the mature Ampang municipality.
While many realised that development could not be stopped, at the very least they kept the authorities and developers on their toes.
Two such cases involved high-rise residential and commercial projects, in what stakeholders and residents deemed to be risky areas.
Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) has approved the construction of several blocks of high-rise towers comprising office suites and a multilevel carpark in Bukit Antarabangsa near the Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2).