Too shy to buy? Maybe the salesperson’s too hot.
HONG KONG — It’s a common assumption that physical attraction is an advantage in life. It should follow, then, that attractive salespeople increase shoppers’...
Construction is bustling at Florida’s first ‘sustainable town’
PUNTA GORDA, UNITED STATES -- With deep pockets and an environmentalist’s zeal, retired American football player Syd Kitson dreamed up a plan to build...
Twisted sister
By Noel Vera
Television
The Spiral Staircase
Netflix
Robert Siodmak’s The Spiral Staircase, an oddly neglected noir, begins with an act of shared voyeurism: people gathered together at...
Fitness Convergence
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
APRIL 16 was a good day for the local fitness and wellness scene as like-minded people converged to promote a...
Irish writer O’Connor and the strange music of unhappy families
TOULOUSE, FRANCE — When the Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor reads his books aloud he almost sings them. Like his sister, the singer Sinead O’Connor,...
Healthy aging by opting to be active
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
SOME people dread old age believing that they will feel “limited.” But health experts say that should not be the...
Climate: half-a-degree makes a huge difference
PARIS -- A jump in global temperature of two degrees Celsius would double the severity of crop failures, water shortages and heatwaves in many...
Neutrogena relaunches Hydro Boost, Ultra Sheer lines
THE SECRET to younger-looking skin, according to American skincare brand Neutrogena, centers around two concepts: hydration and sun protection. These are at the crux...
Control and conscience divides heroes in Captain America: Civil War
LOS ANGELES -- Marvel’s band of Avengers are usually a friendly bunch, but when faced with the destruction of their heroic efforts to save...
Trump Wine is real. Trump Champagne? Don’t pop that cork
NO, THE TRUMP Fence Company won’t build the big, beautiful wall that Donald Trump vows along the Mexican border. Trump Wine may be a...
Health for Juan and Juana
Medicine Cabinet
Reiner W. Gloor
A LANDMARK event is scheduled for May 4 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). The Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association...
Store offers travel needs
BOARDING GATE, a Singapore-based concept store meant to consolidate everyone’s travel needs under one roof and features luggage that is “born damaged” and other...