Explore the elegance and style of a bygone era. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how costume design is used to create riveting drama and character development
An elaborate piece of work can either test or arrest one’s attention. Such is the case with Repertory Philippines’ adaptation of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s The Secret Garden, a
There’s nothing funny about drugs, robbery, and running away. At least not if you had engaged in all these and are now looking at your transgressions from a comfortable distance.
By KATHY MORAN It may have been just one of many hashtags in the months-long saga of the AlDub fairy tale, but “Tamang Panahon” last Oct. 24 was exactly that
By KATHY MORAN By 12:01 a.m. of Oct 4, the total number of tweets for #ALDUBmeetsTVJ had reached 11.726 million, the third highest tweet record for the Aldub Nation. That’s
Because she’ll scare you first. At nine years old, she frightened her third grade class with her first-ever ghost story. And when she held a job in Makati, she was
Spoken like the accomplished author that he is, without a shred of sarcasm, R.L. Stine, King of goosebumps, really believes that the key to being able to write a book is
The first thing we can confirm is, yes, Arrow and Teen Wolf star Colton Haynes is one good-looking fella. We were about three meters away from him during his AsiaPOP
By COCO MACEREN Paul Bettany has been screwed over by Hollywood big guns numerous times. “If I had a dollar for every time someone told me my career was over,
Game of Thrones’ Nathalie Emmanuel, who plays Missandei, Daenerys’ strong, loyal and smoking hot bestie, was in Manila for the three days of Asia Pop Comic Con 2015. It was
I remember when Maroon 5 released Harder to Breathe in 2002, the first single off “Songs About Jane.” Burning CDs was a thing. Pop-punk rock or an amalgamation of sorts
By MARTIN YAMBAO No frills, no big production value, “Carly Rae Jepsen Live in Manila” was a show to remember. Last Monday at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Carly Rae Jepsen
It comes as a surprise when the man behind one of the most iconic characters to ever come to life within the pages of comicbooks turns out to be someone
It takes a certain kind of person to become a comicbook artist. Yes, one would need to have a certain level of proficiency in drawing and storytelling, obviously, but also,
You can’t separate boys from their toys, as that oft-repeated adage goes. Some scout through the aisles and shelves of the best toy stores in the world just to find
It’s been a year since I last interviewed Tokidoki founder Simone Legno, when he was promoting his collaboration with fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld. One of the highlights of his exciting
Adventure Time is one of those animated shows that perfectly grown men and women like to watch. Sure, it’s a little zany and ridiculous, but it’s got a sense of
Nothing sparks creativity so much than constraint. Take the Japanese haiku, where in 17 syllables and only three lines, an evocative picture is painted. Or the epitaph (pardon the gloomy
“I wasn’t always a writer,” Matthew Quick, 41, tells me not even five minutes into our conversation at the Writer’s Bar at Raffles Makati — a pretty bold, if conflicting, statement from
The first Imagine Dragons song I ever listened to was It’s Time — but they weren’t the ones performing it. I first heard the incredibly peppy song on the now-defunct TV
Literary figures have an air of mystique about them, perhaps brought by the many worlds and lives they’ve lived — besides their own — through the stories they’ve read and
Before yesterday’s arena show, Imagine Dragons woke up refreshed and effectively indoctrinated on Filipino culture by way of the previous night’s karaoke session and a nice dinner of our famed
Text by COCO MACEREN / Photos by MIKE REBUYAS Donning her signature body suit with matching kitten ears and knee-high sparkly black boots, and clutching an equally eye-catching bedazzled mic, Ariana Grande came out
Text by COCO MACEREN / Photos by MIKE REBUYAS It was an electrifying night — from the lights to the multi-colored paint on the faces of the fans in the crowd and
Walk the Moon named their second full-length album “Talking is Hard,” as if to take it upon themselves to say the things we couldn’t say. Shut Up and Dance, an
Photos by MIKE REBUYAS Korean supergroup BigBang’s concert at the 20,000-seater SM Mall of Asia Arena – their second concert in the country after 2012’s Galaxy Alive Tour – managed
It was August 2011 and I was caught between Jared Leto heaven and body-slamming-strangers hell. At Fort Canning Park in Singapore, there’s no such thing as assigned seating. You arrive
A musical adaptation of Bituing Walang Ningning (originally a Nerissa Cabral serialized comics strip made into a movie in 1985 and a TV series in 2006) is somehow inevitable. It
A colleague showed her teenage daughter a Backstreet Boys music video and her daughter “LOLed.” Or more like, “ROFLed” herself to tears. The song was “I Want It That Way,”
When I first heard Kitchie Nadal sing, I thought she sounded like nobody else. It was our senior year in high school and we had a band, practicing for our
Author of the modern classic, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan was recently in Manila for the Philippine Literary Festival organized by National Book Store and Raffles Makati. We got