Strings on me
By Noel Vera
Television Review
Jessica Jones
Netflix
MELISSA ROSENBERG’s TV adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis’ R-rated comic book Alias, featuring one Jessica Jones (Kyrsten Ritter in the series),...
New Year Hugs
Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco
EXPRESSIONS OF love, affection, and goodwill — hugs and kisses are exchanged throughout the holidays, leaving both the sender...
All in the family
VETERAN pianist Cristine Coyiuto and her daughter Caitlin, a rising star-flute soloist, are the featured performers at the third concert of the Metro Manila...
You’re in good hands, Charlie Brown
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
The Peanuts Movie
Directed by Steve Martino
YOU’RE IN GOOD HANDS, Charlie Brown.
Some 65 years after the launch of the much-beloved Peanuts comic...
Tiniest chameleons have fastest tongues
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES -- The tiniest chameleons on Earth lash out their tongues with amazing speed, going from zero to 60 miles (97 kilometers)...
Sky high
A KILOMETER away from Tagaytay’s famous Taal Vista hotel sits a new entrant to the city’s growing hospitality market, one from a family who...
Nuts
By Noel Vera
FIRST you have that scribbled line -- halfway between a fluid streak and a crabbed scrawl. It’s an expressive line, able to...
5 books that put some life in the Dismal Science
By Noah Smith
ANYONE’s list of best books of the year is going to be incomplete and biased. Mine, for example, is weighted toward books...
Your weekend guide (January 8, 2016)
EXHIBITS
RE:VIEW 2015, a year-end group show, is on view at the BenCab Museum’s Gallery Indigo until Feb. 7. The show features the works of...
Australian giant monitor lizards trained to avoid eating toxic toads
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- Australian scientists on Wednesday said they had devised an “innovative method of conservation” through feeding giant monitor lizards small cane toads...
Need a last-minute hotel booking? There’s an app for that.
By Zsarlene B. Chua
HONG KONG-based last-minute booking hotel app, Hotel Quickly, formally launched its entry into the Philippine market last month, boasting of more...