B and Nothingness
By Lourd De Veyra / Photographs by / Art by Bryce Krol
Posted on Jul 15, 2007 / 1217 Views

Ronald Gan Ledesma and Carlo J. Caparas were veritable champions of crappy Philippine cinema, making movies that were so bad you had to appreciate them. Lourd De Veyra looks back on the nature of their work and those of their peers, and comes to understand the true value of pinoy B-movies.

Confessions of a Spice Boy
By David Pardo de Ayala / Photographs by Elena Moiseeva / Art by
Posted on Jul 15, 2007 / 715 Views

It all began with his mother’s hot chocolate, back when he was a kid growing up in Colombia. Since then, Chef David Pardo de Ayala has had a lifelong education on the finer spices of life.

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Searching For Borges Jul 17, 2009

Argentine poet and Surrealist Jorge Luis Borges is buried somewhere in the heart of Geneva, and four intellectually curious and well-traveled Filipinos are determined to find out where. Victor Peñaranda weaves a roving tale through the magic histories and literature of Europe and Latin America.

Making 2010 Count Jun 16, 2009

Quintin V. Pastrana proposes three ways to hold the “presidentiables” accountable during the campaign period leading up to next year’s general elections. The proposals will strike some as clear-cut, others as quixotic. For the former group, the choice is clear: stand up and be counted in 2009, or lose the right to whine after May 2010.

The Unmaking of a Coup Jun 15, 2008

In the years following the first EDSA, Ferdinand Marcos’s successors—from Cory Aquino to Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo—have had to deal with uprisings from the military as well as the usual suspects from the Left. Since the overthrow of Joseph Estrada, the current president has had to contend with numerous attempts to unseat her government by forces composed of the unlikeliest of allies. Veteran journalist Patrick Paez investigates the recent failed coups and its shadowy game of generals.

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