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Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan opens in cinemas on September 10

Hazel Orencio in Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan Confirmed theatres: Robinson’s Galleria and Robinson’s East. We will post the full list of theatres this week. Here are some of the reviews of Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysan in the foreign media. New York Times Guardian NPR Telegraph Independent Critics Roundup A.V. Club Grantland British Film Institute Film […]

Eponymous

This drink has our name on it, and so does this stuffed toy. It’s the Jessica Monster, available at La Pomme on the third floor hallway of Power Plant Mall in Rockwell, Makati. La Pomme sells stuffed toys outside of the stuffed animal range—they’ve got clouds, ships, mermaids, fruit, cupcakes and so on. They also […]

Proper shoes

Most of our footwear are sneakers and boat shoes, so we decided to get a pair of “proper” shoes for events attended by grown-ups and such. We searched high and low, and tried on dozens of pairs. The shoes had to be waterproof, with soles that would give us traction on rain-slick sidewalks because we […]

Bedtime story: The Thing read-along book

via the A.V. Club Where are our Star Trek fotonovels??

The Completist Chronicles: Christopher Priest

A few years ago we picked up The Separation by Christopher Priest and found we could not put it down until we had gotten to the very end. We do enjoy books that question what we know, what we remember, and what is real. Then we swore we would read everything Christopher Priest had ever […]

Binge-watching: Vikings

All photos from the History Channel site. We like swords, carnage, and medieval history, so we’re watching Vikings. It’s the first drama series from the History Channel, created by Michael Hirst who was behind The Tudors, The Borgias, and Camelot. The Vikings were a race of seafaring Nordic badasses who went on marauding expeditions to […]

Being tourists in your own city

We love weekend markets, the ones that sell crafts, hand-made objects, home cooking, stuff you can’t get at the mall. Someone recommended the Saturday market in Escolta. We googled the location and turned up bright and early one Saturday… only to find that the market happens on a Saturday once a month, in which case […]

“Easiest to use design program” launches Asian operations in Manila

Report by Deo Giga Canva is a free online design platform that launched in the Philippines on 8 August. The Australian company, whose roots go back to 2007, has established its Asian hub by opening an office in Manila where it focuses on graphic design, marketing, and customer service. Asked why the company chose the […]

Mat is 13! This weekend he is The Oracle.

Happy Birthday, Matthias Eomer! This weekend he will answer all your burning questions about your future. Post them in Comments.

The Super-Morphing GIF

Watch them all morphing into each other, superheroes and their nemeses. Nemesises. Nemesi. From I Raff I Ruse, via io9.