IT’S ALWAYS A GOOD TIME Andy Warhol (leftmost) and Diana Vreeland (second to the right) in Studio 54 I’m not exactly in the mood to baby-sit my inner child, but it’s Christmas Eve and on the tree the little stars are a-twinkle and at its feet the gifts demand I recall how I used to have my...
Prompted by wanderlust and inspired by a memorable all-Filipino birthday and thanksgiving dinner at The Maynila Ballroom of The Manila Hotel FINDING FILIPINO The Eiffel tower Fresh Spring Roll of Heart of Palm Traditional Lumpia Sauce Chimichurri Sauce In Paris, I walk the length of Lafayette,...
Zombies are the perfect metaphor for human greed, our tendency to devour everything in our path because we want more, more, more and we can’t help ourselves IN DUE CORPSE Movie poster of Filipino zombie film Block Z by Mikhail Red I don’t know why I am obsessed with zombies. I’m not a zombie...
SHY AWAY The loneliness of Gen Z is perceived as a result of the decline in physical interactions with neighbors, co-workers, and friends Before I gave up trying to understand why a lot of today’s kids behave the way they do, I was thinking that maybe unlike my generation, in whose time shyness...
There might be formulas, techniques, or tricks in writing. But every time you buckle down to write, you start from zero BLEED WORDS Leonid Pasternak's 19th century painting The Throes of Creation It’s a complicated thing, writing is. All you need is the truth, but it’s hard to do. No matter how...
The Peninsula Manila celebrates its 45th anniversary with an unbelievable rooms offer starting at ₱4,545 a night with a chance of a room upgrade WORK IT OUT The Peninsula Manila Fitness Center Until Nov. 30, 2021, the Peninsula Manila is marking its 45th anniversary milestone from its address on...
DOUBLE EXPOSURE World-renowned writer Sylvia Plath known for credited advancing the genre of confessional poetry How does one write? People ask me. Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe it’s as simple as putting words together, one after the other, but I think that devalues the work of many exceptional...
I often refrain from joining the conversation when they’re ranting about social media. I mean it’s so, like, 2009, over 10 years ago. I must have first joined Facebook in the mid-2000s and, by 2010, I might have had enough time trying to decide exactly what I felt about Mark Zuckerberg’s...
CL and her sister with their mother (Courtesy of Very Cherry) K-pop star CL, former leader of girl group 2NE1, is paying a tribute to her late mother Hong Yoo-ra by releasing her new single “Wish You Were Here.” The song arrived following her mother’s tragic passing due to heart...
The politics of Sadness Illustrations by Ariana Maralit And in the remote capital of our wildest imagination, one day, to our collective shock, the government ceased all operations, focused only on the one thing none of us ever imagined would deserve its full attention: Sadness. “What...
And the punctuation marks are convoluting the arguments Art by Ariana Maralit It is mayhem on Roxas Boulevard and, with all the blind love trying to one up the blind hate, the Exclamation Point is all over the place. “!!!” scream the detractors of the errant white sand. “!!!!” its adherents...
Scene from 'Here, Here' (Facebook) Joanne Cesario is lone Philippine representative to the upcoming Locarno Film Festival's Pardi di domani international competition. Her short film "Here, Here" is one of 43 short films selected from over 2,200 entries from all over the world. "Here, Here"...
