December 2021 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Come Discover the Food Trail of Butterworth

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IN JANUARY, PENANG Monthly featured the gastronomic delights to be found in Bukit Mertajam. This time around, we encourage you to come eat as the locals do – in...

Pressure on Parents Rises as the Pandemic Drags On

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DURING COVID, PARENTS have been forced to assume full child-rearing duties, including playing the role of educator; these responsibilities used to be shared wit...

A Rush of Art Shows as the Flood Gates Open

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HERE THEY COME! After being completely shut up for so long, or showing only in spurts and shorts, galleries and artists are back with an avalanche of exhibition...

The Japanese Conquest of Penang: Part One

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THE OVERWHELMING FOCUS on the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 19411 as the start of the Pacific War means that the actual first shot is largely forgotten...

The Malaysian Film Industry in Numbers

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MALAYSIA’S FILM INDUSTRY has great economic potential. Between 2012 and 2019, the total gross collection for both local and foreign movies shown at local cinema...

Malaysia’s Heritage Landmarks on International Screens

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SECONDS INTO THE opening scene of Crazy Rich Asians (2018), eagle-eyed Penangites would have found the fictional Calthorpe Hotel in London to be suspiciously fa...

Claiming Right of Place in Malaysian Cinema for Indigenous Stories

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NADIRA ILANA IS doing it all. This Sabahan filmmaker, film programmer and activist of mixed-Dusun heritage, recalls in memory snippets her first encounters with...

A Very Brief Note on Entertainment Magazines in Malaysia

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FROM 1940s THROUGH to the 1980s, magazines were a promotional tool for the film industry in this part of the world. The Shaw Organisation dominated the movie ma...

Malaysian Cinema: An Intricate Tale of Pride and Prejudice

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THE YELLOWING FLYER bears the printed characters 檳城首都戲院. In English, this reads as Penang’s Capitol Theatre. An illustration of a scene from King Solomon’...