Insider Catch-Up: Creative Director Vince Uy on what to expect at Manila FAME’s 69th edition

Manila FAME, the much-awaited design and lifestyle event by the Department of Trade and Industry through the Center for International Trade Expositions and…

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MERCH REVIEW: Shawn Mendes The Tour

While the punks were creative DIY-ers, we, postmodern millennials, are more into readymade stuff. We’re Duchampian like that.

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What I learned from decluttering my wardrobe

I was one of the people who self-evaluated after bingeing on “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.”

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Native Son: The fault in our symbols and how cinema fails at impressionism

It’s cool that Bigger likes both punky screamo and Beethoven, but a character’s bipolar taste in music doesn't make him complex. Neither does…

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The Beauty Secrets Your Mom Swears By—And How they Got an Upgrade

Among the things my late mother left behind are empties of beauty products she used. It’s as if they serve as one of…

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Ukrainian arts enjoy surprise revival in conflict-riven east

In a grungy cellar bar, a young crowd sings along to a melancholy ballad in Ukrainian. Nothing unusual here — except...

‘A Game of Trolls’: Viewing martial law in 8-bit

The musical is where ghosts of the past become the beacon of the present.

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Can’t stand them online? Try ‘A Game of Trolls’

“Martial law is the best thing that happened to the Philippines in 1972. We won’t be the developing country that we are right now if it wasn’t for the Marcoses. Learn your history,” says the social media account without a real name

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Peta launches ‘Stage of the Nation’ season on martial law day

We purposely chose this day (Sept. 21, the infamous martial law day) so that we would not forget the lessons of history,” said CB Garrucho, president of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta). She spoke at the opening of the company’s 51st theater season, titled “Stage of the Nation,” at the Peta Theater Center in Quezon City.

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Maybe, to Enrile’s mind, Edsa never happened

Your mantra for the week: “Today I am ready for all kinds of wonderful surprises.”

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“Eto Na! Musikal nAPO!”

‘Eto Na! Musikal nAPO!’ is a sweet, sly bolt of joy

The original musical that's based on a repertoire of pop classics successfully surmounts the hurdle of preventing the show from becoming a concert.

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“Desaparesidos” 2018

In ‘Desaparesidos,’ a chance to ‘purge the dictator’s lies from our history’

The restaging of “Desaparesidos,” adapted from Lualhati Bautista’s novel, runs Aug. 17-Sept. 2, at The Doreen Black Box, Areté, Ateneo de Manila University.

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From martial law demos to social media comments, this veteran hotelier’s seen it all

Frank Reichenbach is not only a veteran hotelier, he is one who’s seen the Philippines go through it all.

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2018 Cinemalaya tackles travails of aging and horrors of martial law

Old age and its wages and the horrors of martial law are some of the significant themes that are tackled...

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A bountiful month of political theater

September was an especially bountiful month for theater, and a good portion of the crop was overtly political, spurred...

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