A walk through the village of the English bard in Stratford inspired this piece. Shakespeare is as relevant today as he was in his time, in our search for love in a world where people have grown cold and the climate is becoming abnormally and dangerously warm.
The Jim Thompson House is one of the top attractions of Bangkok. Every year, thousands of visitors come to see this lovely home which has been turned into a small museum.
As the Metro Manila Film Festival wraps up its run in theaters, the foreign invasion returns to movie houses. It used to be that the first three months of the year were reserved for flicks making last-minute runs at Oscars glory, but the recent past has seen some sneaky big releases, taking advantage of a lack of competition to rake in some major money.
New Year’s resolutions are so yesterday! Spice up your year by engaging in these daily projects, which are not only fun but will serve as your time capsule for the year ahead. Don’t be afraid to commit to these daily tasks, as you can always double up on days you are unable to complete.
While researching Dwayne Johnson on Wikipedia last Wednesday, I saw the banner announcing the twenty-four hour blackout of the English Wikipedia page to protest the Sopa (Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill being passed around in US Congress to help stop copyright infringement and piracy on the Internet. Other media giants like Google and Facebook are against the bill, claiming that the activities related to this bill should it pass will result in slower Internet, a violation of free speech and right to privacy and will ultimately change the essence of the openness of the Web.
Watching director David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” for the first time is quite similar to getting your first piercing. You go willingly, then are shocked by the violence of the act, before the residual pain leaves you swallowed by a sense of lingering beauty—as well as an additional hole somewhere in your body.
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