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Why people are going nuts about a video game about a goose

by Don Jaucian - October 5, 2019 - 12:00am

‘Untitled Goose Game’ is the most popular game on Nintendo’s arsenal right now.

Can we still be ‘Friends’?

by Don Jaucian - September 7, 2019 - 12:00am

I have a confession to make: I still watch Friends almost every night. It’s part of a routine after a long day at work: I sit down to eat a very late dinner, I turn on Netflix and and cast Friends from my...

The prophecies from 1999

by Don Jaucian - August 24, 2019 - 12:00am

During the ’80s, partying like it’s 1999 sounded like a dream out of science fiction.

Not Just Another Love Story

by Don Jaucian - November 17, 2018 - 12:00am

We talk to female filmmaker Dwein Baltazar about her work, her distinct woman characters, and making different ‘love’ stories.

Meet you in the middle

by Don Jaucian - October 27, 2018 - 12:00am

‘Hintayan ng Langit’ explores what happens when you’re released from the vow of “til death do us part.’

Living in the land of ‘Twisted’

by Don Jaucian - October 20, 2018 - 12:00am

In one of my copies of Jessica Zafra’s Twisted books, I find one of my business cards from four years ago. “Editorial assistant,” the title reads under my name, the lowest rung in the publishing...

Julia Fordham is actually cool

by Don Jaucian - July 14, 2018 - 12:00am

First, the basis of cool, which should have been blown wide open in an age where the borders of highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow are gradually being eradicated.

Notes on Being Queer

by Don Jaucian - May 12, 2018 - 12:00am

There was something about Ghost Fighter — or Yu Yu Hakusho, its original Japanese title — that appealed to the queerness of my sixth-grade self.

Storm of the century

by Don Jaucian - March 3, 2018 - 12:00am

In this year’s Art Fair Philippines, it is the photographs, perhaps tellingly, that resonate with much more urgency than any other image.

Simply no place like Manila

by Don Jaucian - December 8, 2017 - 4:00pm

A Manila guidebook made by locals for ‘tourists and tourists in their own country.’

A farewell to a Man at his Best

by Don Jaucian - August 11, 2017 - 4:00pm

‘Esquire Philippines’ just put out its last issue after seven years of publishing. Here, a few notes on ‘Man at his Best.’

POSTCRIPT:7 potential gay icons from the Filipino horror movies

by Don Jaucian - June 23, 2017 - 4:00pm

There was a mix of surprise and glee when the internet put the Babadook in the pantheon of gay icons.

ON ASSIGNMENT :The photographs that capture the world

by Don Jaucian - May 26, 2017 - 4:00pm

I burned my eyeballs out looking at too many paintings at the Louvre.

ON ASSIGNMENT: Learning to swim

by Don Jaucian - April 28, 2017 - 7:24pm

In high school, our values professor asked us to make a Book of Life, a chronicle of our life’s trajectory and how we foresee ourselves in the future.

Charmed by Cuenca

October 23, 2016 - 12:00am

It’s very easy to fall in love with Cuenca, a medieval city in the autonomous region of Castilla-La Mancha in central Spain. Its location is both strategic and stunning as it sits on a promontory that is the...

REVIEW:The case for literary festivals

September 10, 2016 - 12:00am

Dispatches from encounters with bestselling authors, ambassadors of literature, and a Pulitzer Prize winner at this year’s Philippine Readers and Writer’s Festival

With DOTA, a gay boy’s initiation

by Don Jaucian - May 28, 2016 - 12:00am

Where I grew up, having queer interests cast me aside. So I learned to play World of Warcraft.

Wanderlandticism

by Don Jaucian - March 11, 2016 - 9:00am

Music swelled at Wanderland until our hearts and heads could feel no more.

We need to talk about ‘gaycism’

by Don Jaucian - February 19, 2016 - 9:00am

With labels like ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ and stigma against ‘chubs’ and ‘effems’, gays face discrimination within their own community.

Beyonce and the pleasures of monogamy

by Don Jaucian - February 12, 2016 - 9:00am

Pop culture owes much of its success from its relentless commodification of sex.

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