How the city’s massive shopping centers have evolved from retail destinations into mandatory, indoor public parks for escaping the heat, traffic, and reality. The Existential Cooling Station The average Quezon City resident does not go to the mall merely to shop; they go to survive. The QC Mega-Mall is no longer a retail establishment; it …
Swift suspension of a dancing motorcycle rider’s license leaves motorists wondering whether their own long-pending concerns could be filmed and set to a song QUEZON CITY – The Land Transportation Office has issued a show-cause order to a motorcycle rider whose viral video showed him performing stunts on a moving bike fitted with an illegally …
New rules aim to make riding safer, while the e-bike itself remains the only vehicle in America that is simultaneously a bicycle, a motorcycle and a personality California has introduced three new e-bike safety laws, and the early verdict from the state’s riders is that they are very important, very sensible and probably meant for …
As Manila’s gala season peaks, a logistics chief with 31 trophies confronts a shortage of shelf space, adjectives and people left to thank MANILA – The capital’s business awards season reaches one of its high points Tuesday, when the 17th Asia CEO Awards stages its grand finale in a Manila hotel ballroom under the theme …
Husband with a diesel pickup and wife with a gasoline hatchback divided by a four-peso gap and one man’s inability to stop mentioning it PASIG CITY – A married couple in Barangay Kapitolyo has entered a second consecutive week of domestic tension after oil industry sources indicated that diesel prices would fall while gasoline prices …
An examination of the gigantic shopping centers that serve as the city’s true public squares, offering controlled temperature, existential dread, and 500 choices for milk tea. The Air-Conditioned Public Square In Quezon City, the gigantic shopping center is not merely a place of commerce; it is the Air-Conditioned Public Square, the true social, political, and …
Bronze in Nagoya, the country’s first esports medal at the Games, forces a generation of parents to revisit the phrase stop playing that MANILA – Filipino parents spent the weekend reconsidering several decades of household policy after the national esports team won bronze in Pokemon Unite at the Asian Games, the country’s first medal in …
News that Heart Evangelista and John Prats will share a film for the first time in two decades sends a generation back to 2002, where it intends to remain MANILA – Employers across the capital are reporting a measurable drop in output among staff in their mid-thirties to early forties following confirmation that Heart Evangelista …
With snow maps and swell models both promising a historic winter, Southern California board owners brace for the best season they will ever complain about MALIBU – Forecasts of a potentially record-breaking El Nino have reached the Southern California surfing community, which responded this week with its traditional mixture of excitement, dread and early complaints …
Local craftsman says the wellness community deserves a hollow board of its own, concedes that it rides like a refrigerator VENICE – A local surfboard shaper has unveiled a hollow board filled with 40 liters of cold-pressed celery juice, in what he calls a necessary California response to the news that Australian pro Jack Robinson …