Literary

By JESSICA MAUREEN P. GAURANO THE HUMAN eyes can only see as far as layers of colorful makeup and high-end clothing. With this truth written in modern day society, people tend to forget that beauty is not defined with every dab of lipstick and expensive shoes; rather, it begins with…

By KRIZIA MAICA B. MAGBITANG WITH THE resounding theme of probing into family relationships, Teatro Tomasino gives this main concept in Set C a twist as the characters in The Best Day and Higit Pa Dito plays around with the atmosphere and the audience throughout their entire act. The Best…

By ZYMON ARVINDALE R. DYKEE DECISIONS MEDITATE on every day in the landscape of exigency. When faced with a dilemma, one is required to arrive at a certain resolve. The arrival, however, at times violates the concepts of time and place. Regardless of the proportion of the endeavor, all decisions result…

IT IS time to rehash old wounds and point out the fresh, new ones in Victor Villanueva’s film, Patay na si Hesus. The title itself gives the impression of an atheist remark and even a support to Nietzche’s God is dead philosophy as Iyay (Jaclyn Jose) relentlessly mincing a porkchop…

By CORHEINNE JOYCE B. COLENDRES WHEN THE haze clears in a city, everything stays the same. There are the same high-rise buildings that are surrounded by traces of poverty, and the same densely-populated areas with their people either basking in their riches or wiping their tears with their rags. The fog…

INNOCENCE IS oftentimes associated with something that is clean, untainted, or untouched. One can represent it through fresh white bed sheets, or by the skin of a newborn. Yet it is a universal truth that they are unable to remain spotless, such as when women, while in their sleep, spill…