American Crime: an introduction to race relations in the USA
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
IT STARTS with a phone call in the dead of night, then a visit to the morgue where the body of...
Grace note
By Richard Roeper
Movie Review
The Walk
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
You have to learn to run before you walk.
It also might help if you learn how to...
Shell launches ‘Do More’ campaign
Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco
DRIVING FROM MAKATI to White Plains nowadays takes an average of two hours at peak times. In the name of...
Fit for a King
By Victoria Mendoza Fritz
OURS is a land of kings.
But who knew that? Antonio Pigafetta did, apparently. In entry after entry of his diary, as...
Your weekend guide (October 16)
EVENTS
Ayala Museum holds an “Advanced Writing Workshop” with Jessica Zafra on Oct. 15, 22, 29, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The workshop fee is P6,800....
New Elvis album teams king with royal orchestra
LONDON — Priscilla Presley closes her eyes and bites her lip as she listens to a new album of Elvis songs, with the king...
Maribel Verdu charms Manila
By Susan Claire Agbayani
RENOWNED Spanish actress Maribel Verdu flew into town to attend last week’s opening of Pelicula-Pelikula, Manila’s Spanish Film Festival.
One of the...
Sitting no worse for health than standing: UK study
LONDON — Sitting down is no worse for you than standing up as long as you take regular exercise, a British study said on...
China’s new glass bridge tests courage of tourists
PINGJIANG, CHINA — China’s first glass suspension bridge, which dangles 180 meters over a canyon in the central Hunan province, has excited — and...
Building the cities of tomorrow
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
QUEZON CITY, the largest and the most populated city in Metro Manila, is now 75, and to mark the occasion,...
Women in cages
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Directed by Chantal Akerman
THE LATE Chantal Akerman’s best-known work and popularly acknowledged masterpiece...
Art, music, food, and yoga in one hub
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
ZUMBA, yoga, Pilates, juicing veggies and fruitsm these are just some of the many popular activities today that illustrate...