Archives: Aug 2007
Terror is a Man
If there’s any living artist in the Philippines today that can provide shock value of such blasphemous proportions, it’s Jose Legaspi. His work has elicited a variety of reactions—from a few
The Nuclear Glamazon
Helena Carratalá (most of you might remember her by her former married name Guerrero) could very well be one of the most colorful and flamboyantly fabulous women ever to have graced the Philippine
The Good Girl
Even though top fashion model Maike Evers calls herself a “conservative Asian girl,” the temperatures she’s raised in the hearts and minds of men are anything but conservative. So it didn’t
Ricky Carandang Reporting
From the sleepless world of high finance to the sleepless world of political journalism, Ricky Carandang’s career trajectory has been nothing but fast and furious. Now by exposing the “Hello,
Immortal Beloved
How much do you love your local sports team? Probably not nearly as much as the maniacal fans of Argentina’s Boca Juniors football club, who will set off thunder-rockets and scale fences every
Almost Communicating
It is the turn of the century, and the narrator is in Japan working as a translator when he meets Michiko. They establish a quiet relationship, but when he returns to a Manila in the midst of a
The Sea Less Travelled
Two months ago, a team of explorers decided to dive where no man has ever dived before—the pristine virgin islands of Tolokiwa, Umboi, Sakar, Ritter, and Borgen Bay around the northwest coast of
