“We feel that climate science is, in the current situation, too important to be kept under wraps…” So begins a seemingly benign comment at a global warming skeptic’s website (the Air Vent) that blew open the scandal about ethical misbehavior (others...

I am excited about what’s going on in recent Philippine cinema. I have not been this excited about our cinema for the longest time. Let’s see… since Lino Brocka’s Kapit Sa Patalim (1983), Ishmael Bernal’s Himala (1982), Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s Karnal...

William Blake; left, The Ancient of Days (1794), right, Newton (1795). … cruel Works Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden: which Wheel within Wheel in freedom revolve...

Follow the typical signs, the hand-painted lines, down prairie roads. Pass the lone church spire. Pass the talking wire from where to who knows? There’s no way to divide the beauty of the sky from the wild western plains. Where a man could drift,...

Leaves have finally turned color! I had been waiting for this all summer, not having lived north enough before to see the four-season cycle. The streets are covered in opulent gold and red, and gleam in late afternoon light. Color changes first at the...