Going Clear: How to make tax-free billions in the religion business

The Binge By Jessica Zafra L. Ron Hubbard was a prolific science-fiction writer of the 1940s and ’50s who wanted more than the dollar per word...

Vicious: Revered thespians behaving badly

The Binge By Jessica Zafra Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi are two of the most esteemed British actors of stage and screen. Theirs are...

The raw truths and heart-rending hilarity of Transparent

The Binge By Jessica Zafra In the Pilot of Jill Soloway’s amazing series Transparent, the former Mort Pfefferman prepares to come out as a trans woman to...

The Fourth Wall

https://youtu.be/sILneY5ZKqY In theater, “the fourth wall” is the artificial boundary that separates the actors from the audience. In this spread, fashion and film collide with...

Four poems

Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature. Art and War When I look at abstract art and think of the dead in the war in Iraq, things...

From fantasy to reality: 10 films from the Gallaga-Reyes tandem

The beautiful history of the Gallaga-Reyes tandem summarized in 10 films. Words FRANCIS JOSEPH A. CRUZ It was a decade marked by shifting tastes. From the hard-hitting socially...

Of stages and screens

“It takes a lot of heart and integrity to be a singer. It must be rough to be compared to somebody who just got...

PriMadonna

"She embraces every moment of her life and everybody else just watches her. ...  She’s a Renaissance woman, I find." — Cherie Gil on...

The unsung, ignored half of the Gallaga-Reyes movies

"No matter how highly I think of myself, it’s humiliating to be ignored." — director Lore Reyes, who has been accused of "ruining" Peque...

Science fiction: a ghetto

Real science fiction involves (quoting Brian Aldiss, who attempts to describe the literature): “the search for a definition of man and his status in...

Favorite Things | Settling the score

Film scorer Diwa De Leon talks about his hegalong. Interview POLA ESGUERRA DEL MONTE | Photography JONATHAN BALDONADO https://instagram.com/p/7KdiD8hDoM/?taken-by=bwhighlife   To the ear of film scorer Diwa de Leon, real life is...

The secrets of a successful partnership according to Gallaga and Reyes

"We keep our bullshit detectors very open for each other." — Peque Gallaga Peque Gallaga: Mutual respect. Patience. Lore Reyes: A lot of patience. Gallaga: Sophistication. We...