The LaSallianBenjamin Britten, magnum compositor, had never been more spot-on when he quipped that music weaves both the “cruel beauty of nature and the everlasting beauty of monotony” in its chords. Indeed, music, as with many other facets of life, runs parallel to time and trends. For something so painfully abstract yet harshly concrete – an…
Going to and from high school, there is this certain coffee shop that I would always pass by. It has always been there for as long as I can remember. I have always loved peering in from the outside, studying people either conversing with one another, reading a book, or listening to music, among other…
A new term has begun, and it is the last for this academic year. Where some are still beginning to feel, maybe even struggling, the realities of college life and culture, others are nearing the end of it all, the road to the world of work just a short distance away. The start of a…
Continuum: a continuous extent, succession or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from adjacent parts. One such phenomenon that constitutes a continuum: the curious, ambiguous matter of time. Since the dawn of their race, human beings have sought to study the measurement of time. The fascination began as early as 5,000 to 6,000…
Rating: 4.0 Piscine Molitor Patel and Richard Parker are two ordinary names that belong to two extraordinary beings. They may seem like best friends, or perhaps, acquaintances, but no one can really tell, for Richard Parker is a Bengal tiger, and Piscine Molitor – named after a swimming pool in Paris – is an Indian…
Rating: 3.0 Is your favorite band too mainstream? Blink-182 just provided a solution for that. The extended play entitled Dogs Eating Dogs was released last December 18 to the delight of the fans looking forward to the new sound of Blink-182, may it be for them to continue the approach they had in their reunion…
Time is, itself, the longest distance between two possible places – or so famous author Tennessee Williams supposed. This distance between now (Point A) and our goal (Point B) looms ever so daunting and imposing before us, such that we fail to grasp the whole thing. The idea of covering it all in one fell…
Rating: 3.5 Roughly two years removed from the death of Al-Qaeda Head Osama Bin Laden, Academy Award Winning Director Kathyrn Bigelow (Hurt Locker) explores the circumstances that led to his demise and the manhunt that preceded it in the Oscar-Nominated film (Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Screenplay) Zero Dark Thirty. Using first-hand interviews, news articles…
Many are aware of DC’s and Marvel’s spandex-clad heroes and heroines, the icons of the graphic novel medium. Unbeknownst to many, some of the world’s favorite characters, from Captain Marvel to Jonah Hex, have been illustrated by our homegrown talents, the likes of which include the late Alfredo Alcala and Tony DeZuniga. Even less known…
When the screenings of Les Miserables were pushed back from December to January thanks to the Metro Manila Film Festival, many die-hard fans who couldn’t wait one day more to see the musical-turned-film cried out in despair. In desperation, some left the country to catch the movie while others scoured torrent sites to find a…
