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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.
The sad, extraordinary tale of a general in the Revolución exiled as a ‘leper,’ as told by a Spanish artist
Spanish artist Ginés Serrán on sculpting a bronze monument in Iloilo for General Martín Delgado, the revolutionary hero exiled to Culion.
Even further adventures in hi-fi: Or ‘You zombie be born again, my friend’
Speakers heavy as a monolith, vinyl drops at six in the morning, and a Hong Kong audio show where Jeff Buckley never really died
The day I got high at the Himalayas
A Himalayan sunrise from a windy hotel terrace in Nagarkot, thangka brushes of a single hair, and an open-air cremation on the Bagmati.
A shot of Basi with Bob Feleo
‘I don’t believe in inspiration,’ says master sculptor Bob Feleo, on the Basi Revolt of 1807 and why art should provoke thought.