Sea to summit

September 11, 2015 | 7:06 am

MOUNTAINS AND SEAS are the country’s top eco-tourism drawers for both mountaineers and beach lovers. Over at Agusan del Norte, its capital, the City of Cabadbaran, is taking the lead in protecting and nurturing the “sea to summit” ecological balance of the province.

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Sight | Secret suite

September 10, 2015 | 4:12 pm

1101 is an innocuous enough number, but whisper this room number to staff members of the Crown Towers Manila in the City of Dreams and they will come running to fulfill your every need.

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Night of the power trio

September 10, 2015 | 10:26 am

By Juaniyo EY Arcellana

The band is called Lagkitan and the last Friday night of August belonged to them at the Bar@1951 in Malate (at times called “the former Penguin”), the power trio named after a type of cannabis playing until the wee hours a set that ranged from Jimi Hendrix Experience to Cream to Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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A Disney extravaganza

September 10, 2015 | 10:21 am

Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival
Sept. 1 to 6
Kia Theatre

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Importance of de-worming school children

September 10, 2015 | 10:08 am

Medicine Cabinet
by Reiner W. Gloor

On July 29, “Oplan Goodbye Bulate,” or the National School De-worming Campaign, was launched with the ambitious objective of de-worming in one day about 14 million school children studying in the public elementary schools.

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How will climate change affect your livelihood?

September 10, 2015 | 9:45 am

By Marlowe Hood, AFP

PARIS — As the reality of global warming starts to hit home, people may ask: “How will it affect my livelihood?”

Well, that depends.

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Cinemagraphs feat. the cast of Ang Larawan

September 9, 2015 | 4:37 pm

The High Life team has been experimenting with cinemagraphs, defined as still photographs with minor moving elements. Take a look at the ones we made during our Ang Larawan fashion editorial. Enjoy!

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Going Clear: How to make tax-free billions in the religion business

September 9, 2015 | 9:36 am

The Binge
By Jessica Zafra

L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific science-fiction writer of the 1940s and ’50s who wanted more than the dollar per word he was paid for his pulp novels. It occurred to him that the fastest way to gain fame, fortune and power was to start his own religion.

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Vicious: Revered thespians behaving badly

September 9, 2015 | 9:31 am

The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi are two of the most esteemed British actors of stage and screen. Theirs are the careers that young thespians aspire to. Between them they have played Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, Uncle Vanya, Cyrano, Alan Turing, Magneto, Claudius, and Gandalf. They have played just about every great role we can think of, and now that they’re in their 70s, what is left for them to do? Well, they can play two flamboyant old queens who have carried on a love-hate relationship for 50 years.

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The raw truths and heart-rending hilarity of Transparent

September 9, 2015 | 9:21 am

The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
In the Pilot of Jill Soloway’s amazing series Transparent, the former Mort Pfefferman prepares to come out as a trans woman to his three grown children, Sarah, Josh and Ali.

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The Fourth Wall

September 8, 2015 | 1:05 pm

In theater, “the fourth wall” is the artificial boundary that separates the actors from the audience. In this spread, fashion and film collide with the help of Ang Larawan’s stellar cast.

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Four poems

September 6, 2015 | 5:54 pm

Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature.

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