Once an art form that is hidden in the dim lights of the night bars, drag has been a phenomenon that is taking nations by storm one amazing death drop at a time. Here in the Philippines, Filipino drag artists use their craft not only to bring to light the issues surrounding the LGBTQIA+ community,...
You’ll see the magic unfold right before your eyes The year I entered college was when dial-up modems were introduced, and when I started playing Dune—thanks to my younger brother who installed it in our personal computer with a pack of 3.5 floppy diskettes. It was my first taste of playing an...
A WORLD METAVERSALLY CONNECTED Will there be a need for ambassadors in a future without borders Back in November, the Caribbean nation of Barbados announced that they would be opening its first embassy in the metaverse, Decentraland. The island nation’s decision to build a digital diplomatic...
The Department of Education (DepEd) made an open call for the submission of studies on future learning spaces for Filipino students. JOJO RINOZA / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones invited experts and stakeholders to participate in creating an integrated...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid I guess it is either because I have been in isolation for so long a time, or because I have been spending more time than I should watching Netflix, that I find myself reflecting on questions of future survival. We all realize that even after Covid-19, we could...
Protecting communities and forests through coffee GREEN CAFFEINE Explore and wander Nespresso's limited edition Gifts of the Forest Nespresso partnered up with Colombian fashion designer Johanna Ortiz to introduce a limited-edition Festive coffee range this season. The collection, known as Gifts of...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid With the current challenges facing democracy and press freedom worldwide with trends towards autocratization and government manipulation of media, it is time to shift our attention to this continuing erosion of democracy. This is shown in the growing...
The Pasay City government received 5,000 doses of Moderna vaccines from two private companies in support of the city’s Vacc to the Future vaccination program. Jose Crisol, Jr., SVP and Head- Investor Relations and Communication representing GT Capital Holdings, Inc. and John Frederick Cabato,...
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid These days, we are given to doom saying or forebodings perhaps because of exposure to “Cassandras” who continually predict that our planet will no longer be able to survive the current onslaught on our environment. Climate change poses a threat, and society...
With a side of safety SAFETY FIRST Restaurant workers are still required to follow and enforce quarantine rules such as the wearing of face masks, face shields, and social distancing Restaurants are beginning to open with higher capacities as Metro Manila is downgraded into Alert Level 2. But even...
Utopia, dystopia, and everything in between FUTURE FOOD Lieutenant Riley having a 'futuristic' meal from the film Star Trek For as long as we have organic bodies, we’ll always have to eat to provide energy that our cells need. But as people have become more sophisticated and as civilization has...
Dear leader, As I write to you, leaders of all kinds are at Glasgow, oceans away in the United Kingdom for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. It’s dubbed as “the most important climate event of the century.” COP, for the readers, stands for the “Conference of the Parties.”...
