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Fr. Jason Dy: The Parable of Dead birds & The red umbrella
Jesuit priest and Ateneo professor Fr. Jason Dy discusses community art, walking Intramuros with a red umbrella, and his custom batik polo shirts.
Bigboy Cheng: At home with the crown prince of Fresh
A house tour with the crown prince of Secret Fresh, where sneakers, designer toys and Filipino contemporary art end up sharing the very same shelves.
Ang himig ni Pepe Smith
A farewell to Joey ‘Pepe’ Smith, father of Pinoy rock: Juan de la Cruz Band, the Jingle years, a shared film set, and the songs too hard to play now.
Charlie Brooker: On designing dystopia
The Black Mirror creator on robot dogs, dark timelines, and holding an Emmy like ‘a medieval soldier clutching the severed head of an enemy.’
Through the looking glass of doom
‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ has five main endings and a trillion permutations. Charlie Brooker: ‘It’s all a bit like a bloody Rubik’s Cube.’
If a Jackson Pollock painting were a drink, it would be single malt Scotch
Richard Paterson, the nose behind The Dalmore, holds court in Uptown Bonifacio on casks, memory, and why a great single malt behaves like a Pollock.
Agents of Culture
Cecile Licad, Mark Justiniani and more Filipino culture-makers on the simplest hard questions: what makes you happy, and what is your hope for the country?
A concise history of tomorrow: Patek Philippe launches its ‘Knowledge Series’
Deepa Chatrath tells people the best minds work in mechanical watchmaking: the astronomers, the mathematicians, the master craftsmen.
Inside the cube where art and healthcare meet
Cardiologist and collector Dr. William Chua once got Malang and Ang Kiukok into one room. Inside the clinic where medicine and Philippine art share a wall.
What races through Emerson Yao’s mind while running
Lucerne’s Emerson Yao on the ideas that arrive mid-marathon, from Roxas Boulevard to the Champs-Élysées, and why motion is when the mind goes quiet.
‘Black Mirror,’ mirror on the wall
Charlie Brooker returns with the year’s scariest monster already in your pocket: selfies, the Cloud, and technology gone clumsily, inadvertently evil.
Set the controls for the heart of Kyushu
Tokyo and Osaka hog the feed; Kyushu is the deep cut. Fukuoka to Nagasaki to Beppu, via hot-spring “hells” and a Dutch park with a Horror Toilet.