Every family has one: the one who fills the silence, laughs the loudest, and finds a reason to celebrate an ordinary Tuesday. The one who insists that everything is fine, and almost makes everyone believe it. But what happens when keeping up appearances becomes a way of...

The gripping drama “Silenced Nights” will be the first Filipino feature to compete at the Skopje International Film Festival. The 26th edition of the festival will run from November 4 to 9. Director Lawrence Fajardo is slated to fly to North Macedonia to personally represent the film, engage...

A box of 1990s-era dishwashing paste and two empty spice jars were among the oddest of odds and ends—junk of the greatest variety—that her late Daddy Tirso had collected over the years. Editor-in-chief Lourdes “Chuchay” Fernandez of the BusinessMirror recalls how a box of “basura” (trash) turned into...