November 5, 2016 | Lifestyle.INQ

Brace yourselves for the gigs of 2016-2017

Read on if you’re ready for some ’90s nostalgia and indie/pop/EDM goodness (Plus some new announcements for next year!) TLC and SWV When: Nov.

Facial expressions, food, jobs and gestures to take your emoji game to the next level

How did we express ourselves online before the emoji? Of course, there were emoticons, the emoji’s prehistoric predecessor, but why send a “:)” when you can now express your happiness in over five different ways?

Go girls: These girl groups should get together and hold a concert in the Philippines

Girl groups TLC and SWV are going to have a one-night-only concert tonight at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, proving that even if you haven’t been

Lauren Kate and Amy Ewing in Manila

Lauren Kate, author of the fallen angels series that starts with “Fallen,” is back in Manila to sign books and to attend the premiere of

Lazada’s Inanc Balci hits the street to sell fishballs

Inanc Balci knows all about selling. As cofounder and CEO of Lazada Philippines, Inanc has led his team of over 2,800 employees in their quest to get more and more Filipinos to shop online since 2012. And he’s been successful, coming up with innovative solutions to hurdles that are unique to the country. Not a lot of people use credit cards? Give cash on delivery as a payment option. People are afraid of taking shopping risks? Offer a returns policy through LBC. “We started with no sales and in a very short amount of time, we made Lazada the largest e-commerce company in the Philippines at the same time reaching quite impressive sales numbers.”

Even When I Hold Your Letter In My Hands, I Am Not Touching You

Night folds and folds itself like envelope seams to some imagined center. Like envelope seams, night folds and folds. I want to be slit

Three poems

Seven Kinds of Stories Nothing tonight but the lovesick churr of sudden crickets. I sling dark thoughts across the room, see where they

Stranger things about ‘Doctor Strange’

Everyone’s favorite Sorcerer Supreme has taken a long and eventful astral trip from the comic book page to the movie screen. Here are some things that you may not know about “Doctor Strange” before Benedict Cumberbatch took up the mystical mantle:

Super sulit

Who’s not down for a good deal, especially when it comes to food?

Reggae for Sunday

We were eating chicken wings at Malugay when we heard the ocean. Not the gentle rush of waves on a beautiful night smelling of saltwater and vacation but the sound of reggae emanating from the walls of The Collective. It was late but our hearts thudded with the music and decided to check where the music was coming from. A party was in full blast in B-Side, no door fee, and we were welcomed by the piercing cry of the trumpet, a voice persuading us to dance to Bob Marley challenging the calm of a Sunday night.