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Perkins leads Archers against Knights

After his debut in the Green Archers’ win last Sunday against Ateneo’s Team B, Fil-Am rookie Jason Perkins delivered a clutch performance to turn back the Letran Knights, 70-62, in a game that was marred with double fouls and ejections. Perkins poured 15 of his 18 markers in the fourth quarter to fend off attacks…

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Created, controlled and consumed

Aptly named Think of Me As Evil? Opening the Ethical Debates in Advertising, it wrote, “while the evidence is not conclusive, it seems that advertising may be encouraging society to save less, borrow more, work harder and consume greater quantities of material goods.” That may seem obvious, but its effects run deeper than that, transforming…

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Wandering and Wondering: The Mind Museum

This month I tour you around The Mind Museum, one of the most awaited sites of its kind in the country. Five years in the making, it stands along J.Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City, less than an hour away from De La Salle University.The Museum’s architecture sets it apart from the rest; it…

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Run of the undead

Fun runs have been sprouting in every corner of the Philippines for many different causes. Some aim to save the Pandas or Dolphins, while others are organized for someone with a terminal illness – all good causes, of course. Motivation, however, is still a big problem as sometimes, the thought of doing good is not…

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Surviving Agno 101

The sun rises and sets – day after day, time after time – splashing its little avenue of camaraderie with shades of amber and mauve. The haze of aromatic smoke wafts through the whistling russet leaves of shady boughs –carrying with it the intoxicating scent of freshly-cooked food and of caramelized nicotine. Footfalls stir up…

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A trope addiction

It looks simple and harmless, but little did I know that clicking a link as inconspicuous as thousands of other links I encounter online a few months ago would change the way I see fiction forever. And the scary thing is that it really did. Tropes are, simply put, elements authors add to their works…

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Rant and Rave – Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral

Book  ★ ★ ★ ☆ Often, the only excuse novel haters need to convince them to throw a book back in the shelf is, “they’ve got no pictures in them.” To the verbally challenged or the outright lazy, looking at pictures is easiest way to grasp a story. A picture is worth a thousand words, after all. If…

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Rant and Rave: Magnum Ice Cream

Food  ★ ★ ☆ ☆ The Magnum fever has hit the Philippines. And no, it is not from the heat, but from a sweet frozen treat. Selecta’s “must-buy for the in-crowd” epic marketing attempt, tided over by a short-lived social networking craze, has whipped up a mid-summer storm for its Magnum bar. At fifty pesos a stick,…

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Rant and Rave – Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

Book  ★ ★ ★ ★ Bookshelves are chockful of love stories with the same plotline of ‘boy meets girl and they fall for each other. Love is everywhere – or so the cliché goes in every song, story, poem, and work of art since man first found words to express a malady so painful “and yet so fair”. But…

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Lady Spikers: academics, injuries reason for Shakey’s V-League tilt

Coming off from a remarkable UAAP championship season, the DLSU Lady Spikers stood still after withdrawing from the invitation to participate in the 9th Shakey’s V-League first conference. Tending to academics and nursing injuries appear to be the main issues besetting the Lady Spikers in their declining yet another V-League stint. “Na-invite kami ng Shakey’s…