Bob Dylan says ‘not yearning for old days’ in latest cover album
Bob Dylan’s new album Triplicate explores American standards from the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, but the veteran singer-songwriter says that does not mean he...
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...
Arcade Fire takes indie outlook to dance floor
NEW YORK -- Few bands have straddled the divide between indie and mainstream quite like Arcade Fire -- eclectic in tastes and cerebral in...
Nine Inch Nails return with ‘impenetrable’ music
NEW YORK -- Industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails on Friday last week announced their first release in three years -- an EP that frontman...
Ed Sheeran back with two new singles
LONDON — British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran surprised fans by releasing two new songs last week, drawn from his forthcoming third album.
The 25-year-old, who won the...
Springtime for Hitler
ERNST LUBITSCH’s To Be or Not to Be opened to mixed reviews and so-so box office. A picture that poked fun at Nazism and Adolf Hitler? At a time when fascism threatened to swallow the world (Pearl Harbor happened a few months before)?
A treasure trove
IT’S NO COINCIDENCE that the birth and growth of Shin Nihon Kikaku (SNK) as a video-game developing, publishing, and manufacturing company coincided with the industry’s rise in popularity. The transition to the 1980s saw the proliferation of gaming arcades and the inevitable releases of home-console versions of popular titles, and it was determined not just to take advantage of the boom, but to ensure its sustainability through constant innovation. Soon enough, it became a major player in the coin-operated business, and it astutely leveraged its experience to penetrate the expanding home market.
Dangerous high school
By Alexander O. Cuaycong and Anthony L. Cuaycong
IT’S TO SPIKE CHUNSOFT’s credit that Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony manages to bring uniqueness and originality out...
Playing games while caught in traffic
Television
Cash Cab
Tuesdays, 8:50 p.m.
AXN
By Joseph L. Garcia, Reporter
IF YOU’VE ever raised your fist at the heavens when a cab driver has refused to take...
War games
By Noel Vera
DVD Review
Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers)
Directed by Janice O’Hara
(Belated tribute to Janice O’Hara, 1980-2016)
TO SAY Janice O’Hara’s Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers) is clumsy...
Better Call Saul: The moving story of an honest sleazeball
The Binge — Jessica Zafra
“YOU’RE the kind of lawyer guilty people hire,” the embezzler’s wife tells Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk). Even the most clueless...
Why the wealthy give
By Jasmine Agnes T. Cruz
Book
The Giving Way to Happiness
By Jenny Santi
Published by Penguin Random House
DONATING to charity can make people happy. This...