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Erich Gonzales’ Rom-Com Moment Via Billboard Isn’t Cute for Other Reasons

Posted on July 4, 2017
Chryssa Celestino

When Mark flashed cue cards of his feelings to Juliet in an infamous scene in Love Actually, we cooed and nursed the butterflies fluttering in our stomachs in response to…

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Beat Your Holy Week Boredom With These 6 Podcasts

Posted on April 15, 2017April 15, 2017
Chryssa Celestino

Aside from a zombie breakout and a UTI scare from holding your pee in, the last thing you’d want when stuck on the road for hours completing your Holy Week…

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Fine, Fresh Lit You Need to Pick Up Today

Posted on February 16, 2017February 16, 2017
Chryssa Celestino

The last thing you’d want when making yourself interesting to people is inviting the crickets over as your conversations spiral to matters of the weather. Here’s when literature can save…

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Someone Made a Viral Rape Joke, But Why Am I Not Laughing?

Posted on February 8, 2017February 8, 2017
Chryssa Celestino

Hey, look, the killjoy is here! I’m not talking about myself, mind you, but this anonymous meme factory that cashed in on a tactless rape joke that reeked of bigotry…

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5 Newest Kooky K-Beauty Products to Try Today

Posted on December 26, 2016December 26, 2016
Chryssa Celestino

If you ever want to get ahead of the beauty game, find your cheat sheet in the library of Korean skincare. This little corner on Earth is chockfull of cosmetics…

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Bohol Is Not the Next Boracay, and I’m Glad It Isn’t

Posted on August 4, 2016August 5, 2016
Chryssa Celestino

It was five past 11 a.m. when we walked inside the renovated residence of an ex-president. The house of Carlos P. Garcia in Tagbilaran City has been turned into a…

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That One Time Beyoncé, Flawless Pop Queen, Did Something Questionable

Posted on February 15, 2016February 15, 2016
Chryssa Celestino

I woke up last week to the tune of Queen Bey’s resounding impact in pop history. Her music video for “Formation” came out of her Grammy-winning music den, getting many things…

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Meet The Love Club: Manila’s Answer to the Bling Ring, Minus the Theft

Posted on January 23, 2016March 4, 2016
Chryssa Celestino

Watching John James Uy play his ukulele, Janina Manipol sing Blackstreet’s “No Diggity,” and Sky Yang join them on the couch out of boredom and friendship felt like intruding on a sitcom moment. Unless your life’s patterned after Friends, Monday mornings don’t…

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NY-Based Filipino Designer Robert Cordero Is Tired of Fashion Trends

Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016
Chryssa Celestino

Robert Cordero is obsessed with the Instagram account fantasydressup. And in the morning that I met him a day after landing in his home country, he had to show me what…

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This 2015, AlDub Keeps Winning and Alma Moreno Breaks the Internet

Posted on December 30, 2015
Chryssa Celestino

You woke up, realized you’re just two days away from 2016, and asked yourself, “Where the hell did the year go?” Look at your browser history. That was where hours…

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Erich Gonzales’ Rom-Com Moment Via Billboard Isn’t Cute for Other Reasons

Beat Your Holy Week Boredom With These 6 Podcasts

Fine, Fresh Lit You Need to Pick Up Today

Someone Made a Viral Rape Joke, But Why Am I Not Laughing?

5 Newest Kooky K-Beauty Products to Try Today

Bohol Is Not the Next Boracay, and I’m Glad It Isn’t

That One Time Beyoncé, Flawless Pop Queen, Did Something Questionable

NY-Based Filipino Designer Robert Cordero Is Tired of Fashion Trends

This 2015, AlDub Keeps Winning and Alma Moreno Breaks the Internet

Self-portrait: How local artists are coping with the pandemic

Disinformation nation: The ABS-CBN shutdown is a suppression of truth

Is it just me or is the quarantine making you want to come out too?

Emotional labor during the pandemic and how women are (still) taking the brunt of it

A conversation with Manila, the newest thief in ‘Money Heist’

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