Jazz, faith, and inspiration
Music Review
Solid Ground
By Jireh Calo
EP
AT AGE 17, Jireh Calo was the keyboardist of the band Mann Atti, and together with her eldest sister Nicole,...
Iggy Pop turns 70, sings on experimental jazz album
NEW YORK — Punk legend Iggy Pop has turned 70 with news he is singing on an experimental jazz album, saying the genre’s bare...
Moral choices lead to unexpected ends
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...
Trump-era Handmaid’s Tale presages totalitarian future
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 —...
Love never dies
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...
For Honor is at the mercy of one’s Internet connection
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Videogame Review
For Honor
Ubisoft
WITHOUT a doubt, For Honor can be an immersive experience. Boot up the game and...
Fourway
I REMEMBER watching Takaw Tukso (directed by William Pascual, written by Armando Lao) in a wretched 16 mm print years ago: the film would...
Part-biography, part self-help book
Book
My Journey: The Story of an Unexpected Leader
By Maria Rosario “Charo” Santos-Concio and An Mercado-Alcantara
ABS-CBN Publishing
By Zsarlene B. Chua, Reporter
Actress and former TV executive...
Murakami calls for fight against history revisionism
TOKYO — Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author perennially pegged as a contender for the Nobel literature prize, has called for a fight against historical...
Good JRPG but lovers of story-driven games should stay away
By Alexander O. Cuaycong
and Anthony L. Cuaycong
Video Game Review
Atelier Firis: The
Alchemist and the
Mysterious Journey
PlayStation 4
THE ATELIER SERIES has always had a soft spot in...
Jazz, faith, and inspiration
By Gideon Isidro
Music Review
Solid Ground
By Jireh Calo
EP
AT AGE 17, Jireh Calo was the keyboardist of the band Mann Atti, and together with her eldest...
Iggy Pop turns 70, sings on experimental jazz album
NEW YORK -- Punk legend Iggy Pop has turned 70 with news he is singing on an experimental jazz album, saying the genre’s bare...