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Combining blushing aesthetics with performance

by Cate de Leon - July 13, 2017 - 4:00pm

NikeWomen’s Fall 2017 Collection is perfect for femmes who wish to do more.

ON ASSIGNMENT: AFAMs, and why I tend to date them

by Cate de Leon - June 9, 2017 - 4:00pm

Most Filipino men are too conservative to understand me. This is my modern love story.

Bohol comes alive

by Cate de Leon - September 11, 2016 - 12:00am

The first and last time I flew to Bohol, it was barely a month after the devastating 2013 earthquake.

ON ASSIGNMENT:When Supreme mixes with Hennessy

by Cate de Leon - September 10, 2016 - 12:00am

Bes, ba’t ka nagpakan***?”

SUPREME ON ASSIGNMENT: Let your freak flag fly

by Cate de Leon - August 20, 2016 - 12:00am

We spent a night with sex toys, corsets, and nipple pasties — and Manila’s growing, throbbing kink community.

Why I run

by Cate de Leon - July 26, 2016 - 12:00am

I once deemed the huffing and puffing of cardio unnecessary — until I started traveling and needed a stronger body to maximize the experience.

Journey to the North

by Cate de Leon - June 12, 2016 - 12:00am

I opened my eyes at about 2 a.m. I had hopped on a 10-hour bus ride to Laoag, Ilocos Norte at the invitation of their provincial government’s media office earlier that evening.

Drowning the noise

by Cate de Leon - May 13, 2016 - 10:00am

A contemporary exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum challenges perceptions of Japanese culture and gets viewers into different head spaces.

Iloilo: From island hopping to snacking on P1 scallops

by Cate de Leon - May 7, 2016 - 10:00am

Nothing goes on there,” an Iloilo native who had left the country three decades ago quipped.

Taiwan and only

by Cate de Leon - April 29, 2016 - 10:00am

Compared to our other Asian neighbors, Taiwan has only recently broken into the consciousness of the Filipino traveler.

Have you taken the presidential compatibility test?

by Cate de Leon - April 1, 2016 - 10:00am

Meet the people behind PiPOLL, an app that matches voters with the candidates that share their views.

I deleted Tinder and tried meeting new people in person

March 11, 2016 - 9:00am

Why Millennials don’t believe in #forever

by Cate de Leon - February 12, 2016 - 9:00am

A week ago, I was watching Julia Roberts’ Pretty Woman for the first time. I found myself glued to the blossoming love between a rich, eligible bachelor and the golden-hearted hooker he had hired.

A case for free online comics

by Cate de Leon - February 5, 2016 - 9:00am

I’m gonna make comics where there are no words and I only have one panel per page, and I’m gonna see how it works,” comic artist Rob Cham told himself as he conceptualized Light, his first graphic...

The Philippines, according to Buzzfeed

by Cate de Leon - January 22, 2016 - 9:00am

Confronted by reminders that Filipinos used to be treated like monkeys by the West, we spoke to Buzzfeed about our changing global identity.

An atheist and a Muslim enter a bar

by Cate de Leon - December 18, 2015 - 9:00am

It has to be Halal,” he said as he perused the menu.

An explosion of Asian culture

by Cate de Leon - November 27, 2015 - 9:00am

Malaysia is a boiling pot of different cultures and energies.

Tennis, wine and ‘hipster’ literature in Singapore

by Cate de Leon - November 6, 2015 - 9:00am

It was a weekend of many firsts. Oddly enough, despite its proximity and non-requirement of visas for Philippine passport holders, it was my first time to fly into Singapore.

A growing up tale for the good girl

by Cate de Leon - October 23, 2015 - 10:00am

Will Netflix’s ‘Gilmore Girls’ revival catch up with the audience it left, or pull them back into quainter, more comforting times?

I’m tired of the Instagram race

by Cate de Leon - October 16, 2015 - 10:00am

I’ve come to see social media as a stage. And a stage is no place to live.

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