Evening Edition

It features an hour of live Aerosmith music including their 1978 Live! Bootleg album as well as the 1998 live album called A Little South of Sanity.

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This week we take a look at the “Bad Boys from Boston”, and “America’s Greatest rock and Roll Band”. Signed to Columbia records in 1972, Aerosmith have five platinum albums, charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, and etched their name as one of the most popular rock and roll bands in the world. We look at their journey, how drug addiction and internal conflict wreaked havoc from within, and of course, tell you the stories behind the music.

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Tonight in our studios, we’ve have the lady who was shot into TV fame by representing Malaysian on the premiere cycle season one of Asia’s Next Top Model, Melissa Th’ng!

It all started with a casual joke between Melissa and her friend, Bella, about joining in the auditions for the first Asia’s Next Top Model premiere season. From one thing to another, an interview in Singapore and multiple episodes later, Melissa gained fans as she reached to the Top 7, bringing many Malaysians proud of this Sabah born-Ipoh bred woman.

Melissa advocated strongly for positive body image as she wants to push the boundaries of what conventional beauty is for many young girls all over. Growing up thinking she was ugly, Melissa is now comfortable with herself as her confidence is a sign of a strong woman that she is.

Speaking of strong, Melissa is also a qualified tennis coach! Starting at the age of 15, Melissa turned to tennis after trying to become a professional swimmer didn’t work out. After training by her parents everyday till midnight, Melissa managed to secure a spot in the state team after a year of playing. She went all over to represent the states of Perak and Selangor, with also entering the SUKMA games twice.

Today, you can still find Melissa at the tennis court, keeping tennis serve sharp. She’s a fresh graduate in Marketing Communications in 2015, has a strong passion for emcee and hosting work where she aims one day to be the face of an E! News or MTV show one day.

For the record, Melissa scored 12!

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Paul Levitz is a legend in the comic book business. Writer. Editor. He was president of DC Comics from 2002–2009. He has been with the company for over 35 years. Along with publisher Jenette Kahn and managing editor Dick Giordano, Paul Levitz was responsible for hiring such writers as Marv Wolfman and Alan Moore, artists such as George Pérez, Keith Giffen, and John Byrne. He was a key player in the revitalisation of DC’s comic book heroes in the 1980s.

This week on When We Last Left Our Heroes, Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to Paul Levitz about his early years at DC Comics, about just how the comic book business has changed in 2015, and about how American myth-making has since gone global.

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Khairul Hizam Harun used to work for an NGO teaching art to underprivileged kids. As with most charitable efforts however, funding was never reliable. So he went in search of a better, more sustainable model - today he heads Karya, a social enterprise that funds art lessons for children in shelter homes, through private art classes, that people pay for. All the funds they make get ploughed back into the organisation. We speak to Khairul about this approach, and how well it’s been working since he started it up last year.

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As like any other Monday; tonight on That Time Of Night, we’ve got another comedian in the studio. He’s the only Malaysian comic who prides himself on lowering the vulgarity of his jokes and strangely enough, according to the Malaysian Guiness Book Of Records, the first comedian to perform on a flight, Andrew Netto!

Born and raised in Petaling Jaya, Andrew grew with a father who was sharp and quick-witted for him to learn to the ropes of one-liners. But it is only in school where his funny bone was honed. A particular event was an annual dinner at his school. Andrew’s batch realised they didn’t had a performing item for the evening, so they just threw Andrew on stage for his well-known impersonation of his teachers. Left everyone in stitches of course!

His foray into stand up comedy was sparked by a family tragedy. A cousin’s bucket list included stand up comedy on it, Andrew soon got a DVD copy of Russell Peters and wanted to do it too. His hard work paid off remarkably when during Peter’s Notorious World Tour 2012, he met up with Andrew and asked him to open his set.

Currently, Andrew is still up and strong on stage, doing public and corporate gigs.

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Blues dancing has been around as long as the music. With roots that combine elements of both African and European partnered dance, it’s slow, it’s often close, and it’s intense - in the 40s, people used to call ‘slow dragging’. In the studio today talking to us about the global Blues Dancing movement is Dave Madison. A resident of San Francisco in the US, he started Blues Dancing in 2001, and has been teaching Blues dancing since the beginning of the Bay Area Blues scene.

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Tonight in the studio, we’ve had the celebrated Malaysian actor playwright who is affectionately known as our own version of Oscar Wilde, Jit Murad!

For a man whose name is now synonymous with Malaysian theater’s growth, Jit never did any theater before and during his university days. It is only after that degree in Urban Sociology, Jit stepped in the limelight and never looked back. His first appearance was in Thor Kah Hoong’s Caught In The Middle in 1988.

The man was hooked on performing and by 1989, with Jo Kukathas, Andrew Leci and Zahim Albakri, the Instant Cafe Theater was born. Growing 26 years strong, Jit is still in it with productions and acting roles. In 1993, he founded the DramaLab with Zahim. Their first production, Gold Rain & Hailstones is also Jit’s first written string of successful plays throughout his career. Received accolades from everywhere and won grants from the Japanese Foundation, British Council and the Australian Arts Council.

Jit’s second play, The Storyteller in 1996 featuring Afdlin Shauki, Ning Baizura, Sean Ghazi and Paula Malai Ali. The play was sold out for it’s entire run. When 2002 came by, Spilt Gravy On Rice was written, sold out venues in Malaysia and Singapore, won two Cammy Awards for Best Playwright and Best Play.

Currently, Jit is still around and about with plays. Watching and educating the next batch of talented playwrights of Malaysia.

For the record, Jit scored 16!

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One and a half hour of Hari Raya music; Ezra, Azura and Ali take you through some of their favorite Raya songs on your drive home this Raya eve.

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Over 43 million copies sold worldwide. 12x platinum in the US alone. An average of 200,000 copies sold each year to this day. It topped the UK charts for 474 weeks. The musicians and performers on the record include: Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, Todd Rundgren, Phil Rizzuto, and members of the New York and Philadelphia symphony. This week on (Untitled), Ezra and Uma take on the fifth highest-selling album of all time - Meat Loaf’s Bat out of Hell.

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