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Lady In The Water
Across the seas, her cellphone signal blips then vanishes. During a wild journey, she meets those who intrigue, and those who unnerve. The Philippine Navy ferries Criselda Yabes to a trip of a
Clay House In The Clouds
Sculpted from sand and clay, and carved out of the natural contours of the land, Zeli and Joni Balao-Strugar built their self-sustaining Benguet
Mindanao Is Dying
Luzon, Visayas, and . . . who will now save the last limb of our already crippled archipelago? In Mindanao, the war escalates soundlessly (at least to us here in insulated Manila); daily
Ghosts And Ghouls
Hollywood’s got its big blood-and-guts flicks with ghastly finales. Asian cinema has its quiet, sinister narratives. Philippine horror, meanwhile,
The Fading Art Of Fang
An artistic crucible dwells in the spiritually energetic Cordillera Islands—an 87-year-old lady named Fang Oud. The last of the original artists
I Was Shot In Colombia
Columbia in the 80s: Bombings, kidnappings, and all sorts of mayhem reigned the country—and citizens had to wear bulletproof vests. Then college
Beast of Burden
If nothing is done in Laos, a land where countless herds of elephants once roamed, the greatest of the pachyderms will disappear during the lifetime of our children. Dwindling jungles and human
At Play In The Fields Of The Lords
The romance of the rural haciendero lifestyle lives on in Negros, a genteel province with a checkered past, whose fortunes (and misfortunes) were closely linked to the ebb and flow of the
The Summers of Silay
Although schooled and raised in Manila, Teodoro Locsin, Jr. spent the idyllic summers of his wonder years in the “Paris of the Orient”—
A Negros I Can Never Go Home To Again
Garages filled with Cadillacs and stables teeming with stallions, musty servant hierarchies and hushed, vast dining halls, hedonists and the
Fear And Loathing In Bacolod
At first, all he could talk about was the sugar. A few digressions, roundabouts, and imaginary opened and closed parenthesized tales later, Peque Gallaga maunders on how everyone walks “in a state
Meet the Titans
Rogue paints a portrait of power and ambition in the Philippines by featuring ten of its most dynamic corporations, which cover a range of industries - from retail and real estate to law,
The Porn Supremacy
From “Bomba” to “Bold” to “ST” to “Pene” to “TT” to “PP” to “scandals” to the present-day free-for-all, Tony Ty tracks
The Pleasure of Pain
Ate to her younger siblings, both mother and father to her fatherless son, this writer, notwithstanding, leads an intriguing double
Lock, Stock, and Barrel
The global financial crisis has caused paranoia-like panic in worldwide markets. Has the damage been done? Or is there light at the end of the dark
Freaks and Geeks
For 38 years, fans have trekked to San Diego to revere their heroes at the annual Comic-Con. Dismissed by the uninitiated as dorky zealots, they are, in fact, part of a vast and financially
Joke Lang
Pinoy humor is both self-deprecating and unrepentant at the same time. It stems from a love of wordplay (storefronts have signs that read
Flipping The Bird
Absurd business signage like “Cooking ng Ina Mo” and “Cooking ng Ina Mo Rin” elicit chuckles from ordinary folk, but no one will ever
Swag the Dog
After a bout of self-analysis, Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Tals Diaz concedes that the freebies showered on handpicked lifestyle
The Letter I Would Love To Read To You In Person
In 2006, Alexis Tioseco was named by The Philippine Star as one of the most important young people in the country today. Although not a filmmaker
School’s Out
“Turn on, tune in, drop out . . . ” became a mantra for the counter-culture in the 1960s. Upon the urging of Marshall McLuhan to come up with
Planet Earth Is Blue
Perhaps one of the most affecting essays published in Rogue last year, “Satellite of Love” was a painfully honest depiction of the author’s
Tropic of Kangkong
Ever since the Philippine Commonwealth, the debate about the national language has been standard academic fodder. But when President Aquino issued
Rogue Street
Located in Diliman, Maginhawa Street looks as unremarkable as any busy thoroughfare in the area. However, for those who once called it home or for
Paradise Lost
In May of 2004, four people were brutally murdered in a hilltop villa in Boracay known as La Dolce Vita. The media had a field day, speculating theories about botched burglaries, bloody love
Gold Digger 2.0
In the past, gold-diggers were defined by some mothers as that woman she caught your father with. But as style editor/columnist Celine Lopez writes
Strange Attraction
In the secret lair of a popular bookstore, Yvette Tan—one of the winners of the 2nd Philippine Graphic Fiction Awards—dines with her idol,
Chicken Soup For The Blog
In an age where every Tom, Dick, Harry, or Jane can put out a food blog on the Internet, restaurants’ reputations are made and broken in a click
The Wages of Speed
The seedy world of methamphetamine addiction—rife with crime, violence, sex, and despair—is darker than most people will ever imagine. But to
Pleasure Island
For many people, Bluefields, Nicaragua sounds like some kind of decadent heaven on earth: a Caribbean island paradise where bags of pure cocaine wash up on the beaches and the locals don’t have to
