Star Wars’ filming tempts Dark Side of tourism in Dubrovnik
WITH DUBROVNIK’S medieval promenade choked with floodlights, camera booms and a downed spaceship parked against a stone pillar, Desiree and Roger Hamilton had to...
On climate change and air conditioners
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
AS TEMPERATURES rise and the city begins to feel like one of Dante’s nine circles of hell, air conditioner...
Gotta dance!
Theater
Stepping Out
Presented by Repertory Philippines
April 1 to 24
OnStage, GreenBelt 1, Ayala Center, Makati City
REPERTORY PHILIPPINES presents the final play of its 79th season, a...
Now out on DVD
By Angela Dawson
SISTERS
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been bringing their goofy brand of girl-power humor to audiences since their days at Saturday Night Live...
BPI online film goes viral
Ads & Ends — Nanette Franco-Diyco
This bank’s digital material is able to so effectively communicate with its target market without resorting to the conventional...
Road trip to Davao Oriental
Text and photos by Marifi S. Jara, Mindanao Bureau Chief
WHEN I WENT to Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental province, for the first...
Hope for depression
IT IS ESTIMATED that for every 90 depressives, only one-third are expected to seek help, one-third will suffer silently, while the other one-third will...
Fast Facts on Climate Change
EXTREMELY hot days are the new normal thanks to climate change, said former US vice-president and climate change advocate Al Gore, Jr., before an...
Paris to revamp main squares to make way for bikes, pedestrians
PARIS -- Paris authorities on Tuesday approved a plan to give seven major squares in the French capital a massive makeover to make way...
By popular demand…
PRODUCER Cameron Mackintosh has announced that due to the overwhelming response of the audiences in Manila, Les Misérables will be extending its run for...
Kanye goes Gospel with Easter prayer track
NEW YORK -- Rap superstar Kanye West is showing his religious side by releasing a prayer in the form of a Gospel track to...
Slick trash
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
London Has Fallen
Directed by Babak Najafi
IT’S YOUR FAULT I had to endure London Has Fallen.
Well, maybe not YOU, specifically, but because...