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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
They earned...
What to see this week
6 Films to see, rent, or stream on the week of September 11-18, 2015.
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
IT’S BEEN some years since the end of...
Flash in a pan
By Noel Vera
Movie Review
Ricki and The Flash
Directed by Jonathan Demme
NOT A BIG FAN of the dramatic Meryl Streep. All that technical perfection, the precision,...
South Pacific: half theater, half concert
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater/Concert
South Pacific in Concert
Sept. 12 and 19, 8 p.m.
Newport Performing Arts Theatre,
Resorts World Manila, Pasay City
IN THE PHILIPPINES, when someone...
Snow White and the Evil Escalante
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Theater
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Presented by Repertory Philippines’
Theater for Young Audiences
Ongoing until Dec. 10
Onstage Theater in Greenbelt 1, Makati...
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...
Rate of global forest loss halved: UN report
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA -- The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of...
Native tribe fights to save Boreal forest in Quebec
“If my grandfather knew,” says the deputy leader of the Cree tribe, one of 11 indigenous ethnic groups present in Quebec.
The flyover of the...