Celebrating Beauty | Agnes Arellano

May 1, 2017 | 6:00 am

Favorite Things | The matchy-matchy dandy

May 1, 2017 | 3:00 am

Philippe Charriol on loving prune and being chic.

Adult joblessness rate

April 30, 2017 | 11:17 pm

THE COUNTRY marks its first labor day under the administration of President Rodrigo R. Duterte with steady joblessness and a slightly lower — though “high” — net optimism on job availability in the year ahead, according to results of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. Read the full story.

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts

April 27, 2017 | 11:35 pm

By Zsarlene B. Chua

How to fasten your seat belt, how to operate a life jacket, and how to use the oxygen masks — these (and more) are standard information given whenever one boards an airplane. So standard and often tedious that people tune out once the captain says “presenting the safety features of this airplane” monologue and then turns on the safety video or the flight attendants perform the shtick for the thousandth time.

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Moral choices lead to unexpected ends

April 27, 2017 | 11:33 pm

Video Game Review
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness
PC (via Steam)

By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong

At first glance, PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness does very little to distinguish itself from other Visual Novels. Lacking English voices and sporting confusing default configurations, booting up PSYCHO-PASS did not leave a very good first impression. On PC, especially, playing around with the settings should be a player’s first priority in order to have a comfortable experience.

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Guardians 2: ‘Not as funny’ but eyeing box office jackpot

April 27, 2017 | 11:32 pm

LOS ANGELES — Three years ago, Guardians of the Galaxy arrived as a breath of fresh air, a smart corrective to the self-important pomposity of many superhero movies, and proved a box office smash.

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Cases of hepatitis B and C hit 325 million: WHO

April 27, 2017 | 11:32 pm

GENEVA — An estimated 325 million people are living with hepatitis B or C and few are aware of their condition, with death tolls from the viruses rising, the UN said last week.

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Families considering themselves mahirap

April 27, 2017 | 11:32 pm

THE RANKS of Filipinos considering themselves poor increased last quarter as all geographical areas saw slight increments, according to a new Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey. Read the full story.

Recipe for sexy: lean meat and an active lifestyle

April 27, 2017 | 11:32 pm

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

WHAT DO ACTORS Gerald Anderson, Paolo Avelino, and Matteo Guidicelli have in common, aside from their profession? Thanks to their pretty faces and chiseled bodies, the three men are the newest Century Tuna endorsers.

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Trump-era Handmaid’s Tale presages totalitarian future

April 27, 2017 | 11:31 pm

LOS ANGELES — Decades after the release of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s dystopian sci-fi fable and foundational feminist text arrives on television — with critics noting its enduring resonance in Donald Trump’s America.

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Summer billboards that appeal to Millennials

April 27, 2017 | 11:31 pm

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

Before the long Holy Week holiday of descended on us, I sadistically instructed the 49 students in my advertising class at the Ateneo to go around the metropolis and photograph what billboards truly stood out as the most striking and appealing to each of them. At the very beginning of the semester, they had been grouped into six workshop teams named after advertising agencies, and had been competing with one another and pitching for ad jobs “here and there and everywhere.”

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Love never dies

April 27, 2017 | 11:31 pm

By Noel Vera

Richard Abelardo’s Mutya ng Pasig (Pearl of the Pasig, 1950) at first glance plays like a musical version of Wuthering Heights (Doña Sisang’s LVN Pictures was known for its many musicals): the star-crossed lovers separated (this time due to a false accusation and a prison term); the woman marrying another; the death in mid-narrative; the man haunted by ghosts of memories past.

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