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NEWS IN FOCUS / February: Love and hate in the time of Digong

The first day of February turned Red with the arrest of National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Rafael Baylosis. It was the first demonstration of police compliance to President Duterte’s order to arrest NDF consultants after the cancelling of the peace talks last November. The...

Fifty Shades Freed: Finally free of this!

Three years ago, my best friend Mary Estrella called me on my cell, shrieking that the “Fifty Shades” trilogy of E.L. James will finally grace (or disgrace) the silver screen. She pulled all the stops to get me to agree to watch the...

Marvel opens new chapter with Black Panther

Fast paced and action packed, the latest installment to the Marvel Cinematic Universe certainly didn’t disappoint. According to the Disney’s official plot summary, the movie showed what happened to T’Challa after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, when T’Challa returned home...

NEWS IN FOCUS / January’s blasts: Dengvaxia, Cha-Cha, firings, Rappler, and Mayon Volcano

January opened with a growing frequency of reports on child deaths that the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) attributed to Dengvaxia—the first anti-dengue vaccine in the world developed by French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur. Dengvaxia translated into a P3.5 billion massive dengue immunization...

Classic PARE titos and titas of manila: A gleeful elegy for a bygone era

A strong sense of nostalgia set the internet ablaze in the last two weeks as Mike Del Rosario's Classic Pare Titos and Titas of Manila reached over 700,000 followers (as of this writing). The Classic Pare Titos and Titas of Manila on Facebook...

Review: The Mountain Between Us

AN UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD. Like many movies with promising trailers, you expect this one to soar. Academy award nominated director? Check. Bankable movie stars, with one having an Academy Award under her belt? Check. Musical score from the same composer of Game of Thrones. Check. The Mountain Between...

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THE MONTH IN REVIEW: April’s politics, political will & more politics

  April Fool’s Day came on an Easter Sunday and in the aftermath of pranks and the Lord’s resurrection, the first eight days of April...

News in focus / MARCH

Sereno’s march to impeachment, DOJ surprises, and other fantastic gambits by Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Ides of March, in the time of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, meant...

Blood, sweat, and political bluster heighten in raging July

A spree of violence contrasted with presidential attempts at religious peace-making as the first week of July rolled on the blood of two mayors,...

Tomb Raider: Yamatai Kudasai

As a child, I spent one too many sleepless nights playing the Tomb Raider franchise in PS1. From the first one all the way...