The Spy in the Sandwich Eats the Sun

Lately—for the past few years, to be honest—I have sensed a pattern to my TV watching, and it always goes like this: the first season of a s...

Last March 6, I read the terrible news I knew was coming. The Trump administration was cutting off its annual funding of the International W...

This always happens to me with subsequent seasons of a TV show I like after the first one gets me hooked [e.g., Game of Thrones , Severance ...

The Siquijor-based Italian visual artist Viviana Riccelli told me a few years ago that she actually did a portrait of me based on a photo ...

I used to be able to function well coming off only a few hours of sleep at night, but sometime ago, I became one of those people who only ha...

I’ve been in workshop mode for two [maybe three?] weeks now, and it has been exhausting, sometimes exhilarating. [I’m energized when a parti...

A pipe dream is comfortable. Indulging in pipe dreams is safe, because there are really no risks involved, only pronouncements. You can ju...

It is understandable why the color red suffuses much of the atmosphere—and the metaphors—of Pulang Langob , the restaging of the two-act mus...

Eleven years ago, before Bing Vee and Karl Villarmea became parents, we had our usual get-together at Hayahay, to do our usual pahungaw ...

Now that  I’m somewhat rested and have gotten my post-application massage [a combo of body and foot], and now that I’m about to eat my first...

Aside from the basic utilities—electricity, water, internet, and mobile phone—one cannot live without, I have some subscriptions I pay month...

It's the Oscars on March 2. Here is my ranking of the Best Picture nominees, and not a ranking of what I think will win. To be honest,...

Part 3 of the 2024 Oscar Shorts Considered It is quite telling that of the fifteen animated short films that were shortlisted for the Osca...

What a way to go, a mysterious death . It feels very dramatic, if sadly so. Gene Hackman will always be embedded in my young memory as a b...

Let’s be real—the gentleness of any city has its limits, even a city that takes to that quality as the essence of its popular tagline. But...