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If noise is a prerequisite for every Filipino celebration or fiesta, as one cultural observer posited, then anthropology gives us a basis for the barrage of campaign-related jingles during election season. As candidates entice and woo the electorate with promises of prosperity, it’s clear that politics is—and has always been—mass entertainment. Tracing its lineage from “Mambo Magsaysay” to “Boom Tarat Tarat,” Bert Sulat Jr. puts a coin in the pop culture jukebox and reminisces about them oldies but not necessarily goodies.

Rogue breaks bread with Kitchen Confidential scribe Anthony Bourdain during his frying pan-tastic Manila dinner. In this exclusive interview with Paolo R. Reyes, the jet-setting celebri-chef spills all the nasty bits on balut, bloggers, and man’s best friend.

Ate to her younger siblings, both mother and father to her fatherless son, this writer, notwithstanding, leads an intriguing double life—duty-bound by day, exploring the Eros of subjugation by night; bound by responsibilities, fettered by a dominatrix (or is it a dominant man?); seemingly typical, but wildly experimental.