The migrant experience in art
By John L. Silva
GIVEN THAT聽immigrants and migrants these days are being demonized, made the pariah in many countries including the once immigrant friendly United...
Going old-school
By Zsarlene B. Chua
As the world moves inexorably towards the digital, with many analog processes replaced by their digital counterparts, it seems that handwriting...
There are no more patos in Pateros
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
It was a rare person who did not receive some sort of salted egg-flavored item over the recent holidays...
What a sex shop owner learned from her customers
By Joseph L. Garcia
According to some historians, vibrators were invented to cure insanity in females, under the obsolete umbrella term 鈥渇emale hysteria.鈥 With the...
Scams in the online dating world
GONE ARE the days when introducing oneself to prospective romantic partners required actual physical effort (and mental courage). Today it is so much easier...
Singapore is 鈥榦rganized as hell,鈥 but the Philippines is where the party is
By Sam L. Marcelo
Associate editor, High Life magazine
The pumpkins, polka dots, and anodyne abstraction displayed at Art Stage Singapore failed to inspire the frenzied...
Singapore is 鈥榦rganized as hell,鈥 but the Philippines is where the party is
By Sam L. Marcelo
The pumpkins, polka dots, and anodyne abstraction displayed at Art Stage Singapore failed to inspire the frenzied consumerism associated with art...
Still on in Singapore
ALTHOUGH Singapore Art Week is over, there鈥檚 still lots to see if you want to get your fix. Here are two 鈥 or is...
Alain Servais on cleaning up the art market
ALAIN SERVAIS is the kind of collector who finds himself in Art Basel Miami, peeing in a stall in with Leonardo DiCaprio to his...
Of bomber jackets and matcha: who decides what trends hit?
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
From choker necklaces and patched bomber jackets to matcha green teas and salted egg chips, the country鈥檚 biggest names...
Politics in the Year of the Rooster:If Roosters and Dragons are friends, why aren鈥檛...
By Camille Anne M. Arcilla, Reporter
If the zodiac signs are right, the President and Vice-President of the Philippines are actually meant to be allies,...
What you may gain when you quit social media: Career, friends, health
By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman
While Paraguay champions positivity and Papua New Guinea is best known for propagating diversity, the 鈥淚nternational Number Ones: because...