Interviews with the cast of Ang Larawan
Talking with Celeste Legaspi, Joanna Ampil, and Rachel Alejandro, who were all featured in our September fashion editorial.
NOW HIRING: Must be slim
By Nickky de Guzman
WE REGRET to inform you that you have not been selected for the position you are applying for, because you are fat. Or that is what your prospective employer must be thinking, after noticing a bulge form on your stomach when you sat on the chair in front of his desk for your interview.
The torogan house : Beyond the bahay kubo
By Carmencita A. Carilla
DAVAO CITY — The last remaining habitable torogan, a traditional Maranao abode for the village royal family, was declared in 1998 as a National Cultural Treasure.
Old-school narrative at Palanca Awards
By Juan EY Arcellana
MANY years ago a student dropped out of professor Gemino Abad’s poetry class at the University of the Philippines because he was in the midst of chasing a girl who later in the summer would drown in the sea off Vigan.
Amid traffic, airport woes, will you ‘Visit the Philippines Again 2016?’
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
THERE will be 10 regular holidays and nine special non-working days in 2016, the Palace recently announced. Are you planning a Holy Week sojourn in Siquijor? Or would you rather stay in bed, read, and do a TV series marathon instead, because, alas, you’ve had enough of a travel “ adventure” already — that is, the everyday traffic and exhausting LRT/MRT commute?
Mr. Robot: The show that hacked the news
The Binge
By Jessica Zafra
THE REVOLUTION is being televised, in the form of a cyber-thriller on the previously unheralded USA Network. Written and produced by Sam Esmail, Mr. Robot is so plugged into the zeitgeist that you could watch it instead of the nightly news.
The blues challenge
By Tony M. Maghirang
FILIPINO BANDS Bleu Rascals and Brat Pack have got the blues — and a globally competitive strain at that.
Snow White and the Evil Escalante
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Presented by Repertory Philippines’
Liver cancer must be dealt with
Medicine Cabinet
By Reiner W. Gloor
THE number of Filipinos dying due to liver cancer may double in the coming years from the present average figure of 20 deaths per day, according to health research statistics.