The Wine Show: Getting to know the grape with Matthews Goode and Rhys

The Binge Jessica Zafra THE WINE SHOW answers the age-old question: good looks or personality? Specifically, would you rather spend time with two very attractive men...

Depeche Mode return with new album Spirit

DEPECHE MODE is back, releasing its 14th studio album which the British synth-pop musicians describe as “bleak.” The Syrian conflict and rise of nationalism in...

Indie games on sale offer great value for money

By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong Game Review Darkest Dungeon Cooking Witch Death Road to Canada PC via Steam IT’S STEAM’S SUMMER SALE! Held every year during summer,...

The payoff is nothing short of sensational

HAPPY BIRTHDAYS is nothing if not peculiar off the bat. And it wears its strangeness proudly, assured of its capacity to unveil a masterpiece from an empty canvas by handing you the brush. As a truly sweeping god game from the mind of Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada, it melds its ambition with seemingly simple presentations; the visuals are colorful, if childlike, and accompanied by soothing keyboard acoustics, but its demands are such that a 20-minute tutorial is required for you to get going, and much longer after to experience comfort and confidence in what you’re doing. Once you get the hang of it, however, the payoff is nothing short of sensational.

Why is Downton Abbey just like Walking Dead?

The Binge Jessica Zafra IT SEEMED that Downton Abbey, like the zombie apocalypse, would never end. And yet the series created and written by Julian...

Booker triumph ushers in new era for South Korean writers

By Giles Hewitt Hwang Sung-Hee SEOUL — South Korean writer Han Kang’s Booker prize marks a major victory for a decade-long effort to drag one...

Harper Lee created the Greatest American Hero

By Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg View SOME YEARS AGO, I added To Kill a Mockingbird to the syllabus of my course on Ethics in Literature....

FVR in XYZ

Book XYZ Files: An Anthology of Controversies and Issues, Anecdotes and Trivia about Fidel Valdez Ramos Published by the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation and...

Redefining sexy

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman Book Sexy at Any Age By Nadine Tengco Published by Century Tuna 142 pages HEALTH GURU to the stars, Nadine Tengco, whips up healthy...

The 10 books you need to read this summer

By Barry Ritholtz, Bloomberg View IF YOU are anything like me, you are probably looking forward to delving into several new and recent book releases...

Rocker Rod Stewart continues songwriting return with new album

LONDON — Singing about a soldier serving abroad or bedtime for his young son, rocker Rod Stewart continues his comeback to songwriting with new...

Joan unornamented

THE first film to come to mind watching this stony ground of a picture is Carl Th. Dreyer’s silent film, a wondrous series of gigantic closeups shuffled through at speed, arguably one of the most revered and the best-known version of the story.