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...

Panel discussion, art activity mark World Thalassemia Day

DURING the 11th World Thalassemia Day celebration on Jan. 9, children with thalassemia and their families from Manila and nearby provinces will be converging...

Talking with Lorenzo

Excerpts from High Life's conversation with the Swiss art impresario INTERVIEW SAM L. MARCELO You’ve been quoted as saying that the problem with art fairs is...

The Fruit Juice Factory

"It might be unconscious, but this is what we are: dislocated, and translating the dislocation  of our everyday life into our art practice."  —...

Sight, taste | New Zealand wines

A visit to Waiheke Island’s Stonyridge Vineyard. Waiheke Island, a 30-minute ferry ride from Auckland, New Zealand, is an oenophile’s paradise. The island’s rolling hills...

Taste | Sear and dear

Carnivores and paleo dieters ought to make the trek to Newport Mall this month, in time for the opening of a New York legend:...