Rating: Welcome to Night Vale (WTNV) is your ordinary community radio show narrated by the eloquent host Cecil Gershwin Palmer (voiced by Cecil Baldwin). Just like any other small town radio, the station broadcasts and archives public service announcements, activities, traffic reports and live news updates of the Glow Cloud that rains animal carcass upon the […]
“What is sleep?” Many students often utter these words followed by a half hearted laugh, when sleep evades their grasp. Students staying up until the break of dawn accomplishing requirements announced weeks before or studying for important exams is nothing new to us. Cramming is a common lifestyle among students in modern society. We’ve all […]
Texting is arguably the prime example of the power of the peso, that is why it has ingrained itself into the life of an average Filipino who cannot survive a day without sending a text containing a barrage of emoticons, or a text pleading for more load. Thus, this phenomenon has caused economic authorities to […]
As students transition from high school to college, their emotions and stress can run very high due to the pressure, uncertainties, and homesickness. Cramming for exams, getting the grade that one deserves, falling in and out of love, participating in extracurriculars, or just hanging out with friends – these are only some of the things […]
Elections are over. After just a day of nearly forty million Filipinos lining up under the sun and rain, a new mayor was elected, everybody accepted the results and the faces of those who’ve lost, who have since been forgotten. You may be one of those who decided the fate of our country for the […]
From the producers of Ice Age and Rio comes another film of “epic” proportions that is simply (but not so aptly) titled Epic. The movie dives into the world of Leafmen and Boggans as described in the children’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce and features a star studded […]
With reports from Steph Pagdanganan Picture this: you woke up way past your usually-reliable alarm and are running late for school. You take the fastest shower of your life, skip breakfast and leap onto the soonest bus, FX or taxi and wish you could yell, “STEP ON IT!” and have the driver fly through the […]
Rating: 2.5 Deviating from productions like Spiderman and the Evil Dead, director Sam Raimi concocts fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful, which hit cinemas worldwide last March 8. It is a prequel to the book by Frank L. Baum, entitled The Wizard of Oz, which had a 1939 film adaptation of the same name. […]
If you have seen Wreck it Ralph in theaters, then perhaps you may have already watched Disney’s latest Academy Award nominated short film, Paperman. Disney brings us another heartwarming short film, now viewable from Youtube, receiving over four million views in a matter of three days. Set in 1940’s New York, this seven minute romance […]
Ever since the cultural critic Don Jaucian’s rather assaulting article, ‘OPM is Dead’, was published in the Philippine Star last August, the blogosphere exploded with irritated and disagreeing posts, creating a widespread debate between critics. Maybe because Jaucian said that the modern-day OPM has been “upstaged by Korean girlbands, cover albums, and bossa nova,” or […]