It’s easy to see why “Backrooms” is often compared to “Blair Witch Project.” Both rely on ambiguity, audience imagination, and the disturbing strength of implication over spectacle. “Blair Witch Project” emerged in the 1990s from film students who broke away from traditional horror...
For generations, Nintendo has been part of countless childhood memories—moments spent racing through Mushroom Kingdom, exploring Hyrule, or catching Pokémon with friends. Today, they find a new home in Metro Manila, as the first Nintendo Authorized Store in the Philippines opened its doors at SM...
HUAWEI’s “Now Is Your Spark” event in Bangkok unveiled a new generation of smartwatches and a smartphone designed for active, connected lifestyles, with Philippine availability coming soon. HUAWEI has officially introduced its latest consumer devices at the Now Is Your Spark Innovative Launch...
There are artists who live off memory and then there is Joey Albert: still working, still searching, still finding ways to matter. Forty-five years into a career that has helped shape the sound of OPM, Albert returns to the stage not to revisit the past, but to continue a conversation she has never...
Nickelodeon just teased the first look of its upcoming series, "Avatar: Seven Havens." The series is a sequel to previous entries, "The Legend of Korra" and "Avatar: The Last Airbender." Its announcement comes in time for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the beloved animated show. Based...
By Bianca Ermac Valentine’s Day is also for the great love stories of time and legends, one of them the legend that gave birth to a volcano. Peeking through a sea of clouds in the heart of Negros is the mystical highlands of Mount Kanlaon. Known as the highest peak in the Visayas region at 2,465...
PBA legend Antero "Terry" Saldaña passed away on Wednesday, Feb.1, due to a lingering illness. He was 65. Terry Saldana (Photo from Terry Saldaña's Facebook) PBA commissioner Willie Marcial confirmed the sad news after talking to Saldana’s former teammate Ed Cordero. The PBA is set to honor...
The greatness and legacy of OPM (original Pilipino music) legend Danny Javier wasn't lost to the House of Representatives. Danny Javier (Instagram) On Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 9, the 312-stong lower chamber adopted a resolution expressing condolences to the family of the late Javier, a...
The office of Vice President Sara Duterte on Sunday, Aug. 14, highlighted the legacy of Philippine sports legend Lydia de Vega, who died of cancer at the age of 57. Lydia de Vega (Photo from Steph Mercado de Koenigswarter via Facebook) Duterte mourned the death of De Vega, once regarded as Asia’s...
PBA Party-list Rep. Margarita “Migs” Nograles is looking for ways to help current and past Filipino Olympians following the death of track and field legend Lydia De Vega on Wednesday, Aug. 10. Lydia de Vega (Photo from Steph Mercado de Koenigswarter via Facebook) De Vega, who was once dubbed...
A senior official of the Chinese Embassy was summoned by the Philippines over the alleged "harassment" done by the China Coast Guard (CCG) to a Taiwanese vessel conducting research with Filipino scientists in the West Philippine Sea. CCG 5203, CG 5001, RV Legend on March 26 (Photo courtesy of the...
Literature, movies, and series about the imagined apocalypse and the post-apocalypse to keep our minds off this one Apocalyptic fiction challenges us to think of a far-fetched world, somewhere entirely different from reality. In the Covid era, however, most of the horrific, imagined narratives...
