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Catching the third wave

Over the years, people have found new ways for them to get their daily dose of caffeine. From starting out as packed grounds on grocery shelves to becoming concoctions brewed by your local shops, coffee has now once again been recreated to suit the needs and demands of the many. Third wave coffee is coffee…

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Facing reality with Dante Leoncini

Casually sitting in the faculty lounge, with a newspaper on one hand and the other holding a cup of coffee, we meet Dante Leoncini, one of the most interesting Philosophy professors in De La Salle University-Manila. Here, we get to understand Leoncini as both a professor and an over-all thought-provoking individual, who not only understands…

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The vinyl revival

After a normal day at school, 80s kids would head straight to the vinyl store to ogle the fresh releases and rarities as if they were manna from heaven. Carefully holding the record in their hands, they would delicately remove its packaging and gawk at the album cover. Handling vinyl seemed to be an art…

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School of rock: How the youth took over Philippine music

The time is 1 am. Manila has long made the transition from bustling metropolis by day, to sleazy haven for creatures of the night.  While most of us might be sound asleep, some are just about to come alive. But go beyond the bourgeois youth who frequent posh clubs after school, or party animals looking…

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Reviving the Queen of Streets

Just an LRT ride to Carriedo station, right beside the Santa Cruz Church is a queen called Escolta waiting to be rediscovered for her history and unparalleled beauty.

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Plural, a new voice of prose

Deep into the hidden valleys of literature, past the forests of fiction and hills of poetry, lies a hidden gem called prose. Prose, which can be defined as a form of language characterized by its natural flow of speech, spans several forms of communication. With its origins tracing back as early as Shakespeare’s time, prose…